Discovery of QGP

• 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) 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
  (pdf file) 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
  
  
• 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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