Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region
Abstract
The space-time evolution of the hadronic matter produced in the central rapidity region in extreme relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is described. We find, in agreement with previous studies, that quark-gluon plasma is produced at a temperature >~200-300 MeV, and that it should survive over a time scale >~5 fm/c. Our description relies on the existence of a flat central plateau and on the applicability of hydrodynamics.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.27.140
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhRvD..27..140B