Nuclear Matter in Extremis Sought with Ultrarelativistic Heavy‐Ion Beams
DOI: 10.1063/1.2811341
Last summer’s Quark Matter ’87 conference, at Schloss Nordkirchen near Dortmund, was the sixth in a series of quasiannual gatherings of physicists interested in extended nuclear matter under extreme conditions of density and temperature. But it was the first that had significant data to chew on. At sufficiently high energy densities, it is confidently believed, we will reach the Holy Grail—the phase transition from ordinary nuclear matter to the “quark‐gluon plasma.” (See
