Summary (I)
- Scientific goals of QGP physics:
- Investigate the QCD prediction of a deconfined high energy-density phase of matter: the quark gluon plasma (QGP).
- Understand fundamental aspects of the strong interaction: deconfinement, chiral symmetry restoration, non-perturbative QCD vacuum...
- Characterize the state and the phase transitions of the Early Universe right after the “Big Bang”.
- How ?
- Producing the densest, hottest matter ever formed on Earth in high-energy Au-Au & Pb-Pb collisions.
- Analyzing the experimental probes that are sensitive to this new state of matter.