Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 27 (1), 140-151
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.27.140
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.Keywords
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