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The exploration of hot nuclear matter.

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Jacak, BV; Müller, B
Published in: Science (New York, N.Y.)
July 2012

When nuclear matter is heated beyond 2 trillion degrees, it becomes a strongly coupled plasma of quarks and gluons. Experiments using highly energetic collisions between heavy nuclei have revealed that this new state of matter is a nearly ideal, highly opaque liquid. A description based on string theory and black holes in five dimensions has made the quark-gluon plasma an archetypical strongly coupled quantum system. Open questions about the structure and theory of the quark-gluon plasma are under active investigation. Many of the insights are also relevant to ultracold fermionic atoms and strongly correlated condensed matter.

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Science (New York, N.Y.)

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1095-9203

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0036-8075

Publication Date

July 2012

Volume

337

Issue

6092

Start / End Page

310 / 314

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  • General Science & Technology
 

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Jacak, B. V., & Müller, B. (2012). The exploration of hot nuclear matter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6092), 310–314. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1215901
Jacak, Barbara V., and Berndt Müller. “The exploration of hot nuclear matter.Science (New York, N.Y.) 337, no. 6092 (July 2012): 310–14. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1215901.
Jacak BV, Müller B. The exploration of hot nuclear matter. Science (New York, NY). 2012 Jul;337(6092):310–4.
Jacak, Barbara V., and Berndt Müller. “The exploration of hot nuclear matter.Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 337, no. 6092, July 2012, pp. 310–14. Epmc, doi:10.1126/science.1215901.
Jacak BV, Müller B. The exploration of hot nuclear matter. Science (New York, NY). 2012 Jul;337(6092):310–314.
Journal cover image

Published In

Science (New York, N.Y.)

DOI

EISSN

1095-9203

ISSN

0036-8075

Publication Date

July 2012

Volume

337

Issue

6092

Start / End Page

310 / 314

Related Subject Headings

  • General Science & Technology