The E895 pi~- correlation analysis - a status report

摘要

A primary goal of high-energy heavy ion physics is to create and study the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a phase of matter in which partonic - instead of hadronic - de-grees of freedom describe the system. Several transport, hydrodynamic, and nucleation theories~1,2,3,3 suggest that energy densities achieved in central collisions between heavy ions at AGS energies may be sufficient to create the QGP.