Quark-Gluon Plasma: Present and Future
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چکیده
It is about thirty years since the intense study of hot and dense nuclear matter in the form of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) has started. A tremendous amount of effort has gone in for the development of four generations of experiments and a large number of data have been collected and analyzed. Major theoretical developments have been made at the fundamental level and theoretical models have been developed in order to understand the implications of the data. A glimpse of ongoing activities may be found in [1]. It is appropriate at this time to ask: (i) what were the expectations in the beginning? (ii) What have we learned so far? (iii) What are the prospects for the future?
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