Towards the Quark-Gluon Plasma
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We discuss recent experimental results in the field of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions. The emerging “picture” is a collectively expanding, initially hot and dense fireball in which strangenessand low-mass di-lepton pair production are enhanced and J/Ψ production is suppressed compared to expectations from nucleon-nucleon collisions. It is argued that, taken together, these data provide circumstantial evidence that a (at least partly) partonic phase was produced in such collisions.
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