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Study of Quark Gluon Plasma By Particle Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions

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The fundamental constituents of nuclear matter are quarks and gluons, together called partons. Gluons mediate strong force between quarks. Because strong force between quarks increases with the distance between their separation, quarks and gluons are confined within hadrons as color neutral objects [1–3]. Free quarks or gluons have never been observed. However, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) [4–7], the fundamental theory governing strong interaction, predicts that quarks and gluons can exist in a deconfined state, called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) [8–11]. The QGP is a plasma in which quarks and gluons can move in an extended volume without being restricted to the hadron size. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions are used to create and study such a QGP state in laboratory.

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Yi, L. (2016). Introduction. In: Study of Quark Gluon Plasma By Particle Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6487-1_1

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