In search of quark gluon plasma in nuclear collisions

TL;DR

This paper discusses how to identify and analyze quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy nuclear collisions by examining emitted particles at RHIC and LHC.

Contribution

It introduces methods for extracting QGP properties from spectra of photons, dileptons, and heavy flavors in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Findings

QGP can be created in laboratory conditions.

Spectral analysis reveals properties of QGP.

Experimental data from RHIC and LHC support the existence of QGP.

Abstract

At high temperatures and densities the nuclear matter undergoes a phase transition to a new state of matter called quark gluon plasma (QGP). This new state of matter which existed in the universe after a few microsecond of the big bang can be created in the laboratory by colliding two nuclei at relativistic energies. In this presentation we will discuss how the the properties of QGP can be extracted by analyzing the spectra of photons, dileptons and heavy flavours produced in nuclear collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies.