TY  - BOOK
AU  - Letessier,Jean
AU  - Rafelski,Johann
TI  - Hadrons and quark-gluon plasma
T2  - Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology
SN  - 9781009290753 (ebook)
AV  - QC793.5.Q252 L47 2022
U1  - 539.7/21 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Quark-gluon plasma
KW  - Hadrons
N1  - Reissued as Open Access in 2022. Originally published in 2002; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Nov 2022); Open Access
N2  - Before matter as we know it emerged, the universe was filled with the primordial state of hadronic matter called quark-gluon plasma. This hot soup of quarks and gluons is effectively an inescapable consequence of our current knowledge about the fundamental hadronic interactions: quantum chromodynamics. This book covers the ongoing search to verify the prediction experimentally and discusses the physical properties of this novel form of matter. It begins with an overview of the subject, followed by a discussion of experimental methods and results. The second half of the book covers hadronic matter in confined and deconfined form, and strangeness as a signature of the quark-gluon phase. It is ideal as an introduction for graduate students, as well as providing a valuable reference for researchers already working in this and related fields. This title, first published in 2002, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009290753
ER  -