Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rafelski, Johann (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Particle acceleration.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; History of Science.

This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in Hagedorn's pioneering idea of limiting temperature, leading on to the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma -- announced, in February 2000 at CERN. Following the foreword by He...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Reminiscences: Rolf Hagedorn and Relativistic Heavy Ion Research
• Part II The Hagedorn Temperature
• Part III Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks Heavy Ion Path to Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Acronyms.