Diagram of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

Many new particles, mostly hadrons, are produced in high-energy collisions between atomic nuclei. The most popular models describing the hadron-production process based on creation, evolution and decay of resonances, strings or quark–gluon plasma. validity these is under vivid discussion, it seems that a common framework for this discussion missing. Here, first time, we explicitly introduce diagram nuclear collisions, where domains dominance different processes space laboratory-controlled parameters, collision energy nuclear-mass number colliding nuclei indicated. We argue recent experimental results suggest location boundaries domains, allowing time to sketch an example diagram. Finally, discuss immediate implications measurements model development following proposed