Friday, June 8, 2001, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Prof. H. Satz, Bielefeld
Abstract:
Quantum chromodynamics predicts that at high energy density,
hadronic matter will turn into a plasma of deconfined quarks
and gluons. Over the past 15 years, an extensive program of
high energy nuclear collisions at CERN and Brookhaven was
devoted to the experimental search for the quark-gluon plasma.
We first survey the signatures proposed to probe the produced
medium and then show how one can test whether in its early
stages this medium was indeed deconfined.