The SPS Heavy Ion Programme
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During the past fifty years, our concept of an elementary particle has undergone a fundamental change. Today we understand hadrons as bound states of quarks, and thus as composite. In strong interaction physics, quarks have become the smallest building blocks of nature. But the binding force between quarks confines them to their hadron, which cannot be split into its quark constituents. In terms of individual existence, hadrons remain elementary.
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