Search for the critical point and the onset of deconfinement

• Authors: Christoph Blume
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A review of the current experimental situation on the search for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram and the onset of deconfinement is given. Ongoing (STAR, NA61), as well as previous (NA49) experiments are presented. Their main results up-to-now are summarized and their findings are put into a general context. The future experimental program (CBM at FAIR, MPD at NICA) is discussed as well.

Keywords

EN

heavy-ions; beam energy scans; onset of deconfinement; QCD critical point

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1245-1253

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2012

online

4 - 12 - 2012

Contributors

author

Christoph Blume

• Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-012-0088-x