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Summary (I)
Scientific goals of high-energy heavy-ion physics:
- Investigate the QCD phase diagram.
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- Produce/study the QGP in the laboratory (color deconfinement & chiral symmetry restoration).
- Probe the quark-hadron phase transition of the early Universe.
- Study high gluon density & small-x physics.
Means:
- Producing the densest and hottest matter ever formed on Earth in
- high-energy (s ~ 200 GeV) Au+Au collisions.
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- Analyzing the experimental probes sensitive to this new state of
- matter.
- Comparing to “vacuum” (p+p) and “cold medium”(d+Au) data.
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