Discovery of QGP

• Symmetry: A joint Fermilab/SLAC publication
  A tiny droplet of the early universe? April 2017 by Sarah Charley:
  
  
• Phys.Org on Alice results:
  New CERN results show novel phenomena... April 25, 2017 by Harriet Kim Jarlett
  
  
  
• CERN press release April 2017
  New ALICE experiment results show novel phenomena in proton collisions
  
  
• Nature Physics article of Alice collaboration (Open)
  Enhanced production of multi-strange hadrons in high-multiplicity ...
  
  
• Nature Physics commentary of Francesco Becattini (subscription required)
  Alice in strangeland
  
  
• Read Interview on:
  Early Universe, Cosmology, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Hadronization by Panos Charitos
  Published: 18 December 2012 in ALICE-Matters
  (the news and views website for the CERN-LHC ALICE Collaboration)
  
  
• The Quark Soup--The First Few Microseconds,
  by Michael Riordan and William A. Zajc
  Cover story in Scientific American, May 2006 pp34-43
  
  
• Early Universe was 'liquid-like',
  (html) BBC News item of Tuesday, 19 April, 2005,
  
  
• RHIC Scientists Serve Up Perfect Liquid,
  (html) BNL news Item of April 18, 2005,
  
  
• Liquid universe by Amanda Gefter
  (html -needs subscription beyond first paragraphs) New Scientist Magazine issue 2469 of 16 October 2004
  
  
• The tale of the Hagedorn temperature by Johann Rafelski and Torleif Ericson
  (html) Cern Courier 43, No 7, 2003 feature article
  
  
• What Have We Learned From the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider?
  by Thomas Ludlam and Larry McLerran
  (html) Physics Today, October 2003
  
  
• A strange quark plasma,
  by Emanuele Quercigh and Johann Rafelski
  (html) Physics World October, 2000 feature article
  
  
• Have Heavy Ion Collisions at CERN Reached the Quark-Gluon Plasma?
  by Bertram Schwarzschild
  Physics Today Feature May 2000, page 20
  
  
• Fireballs of Free Quarks
  CERN appears to have spotted the long-sought quark-gluon plasma--last seen during the big bang
  by Graham P. Collins
  (html) Scientific American, April 2000 - not accessible to non-s8bscribers
  Text accessible on web page of the Phenix-BNL collaboration
  
  
• Tantalizing Hints Of Quark Gluon Plasma Found At CERN
  (html) Science Daily feature, February 10, 2000
  
  
• Evidence for a New State of Matter: An Assessment of the Results from the CERN Lead Beam Programme
  CERN Press Release Page
  

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