Quantifying the Properties of QCD Matter with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
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چکیده
After becoming operational in 2000, the first years of RHIC’s operation and analysis made a convincing case that the hot and dense QCD matter created at RHIC was strongly interacting and that its evolution could be described in hydrodynamic terms. By the time of the 2007 Long-Range Plan the field’s goals were shifting from qualitatively characterizing the matter created in heavy-ion collisions to quantitatively extracting its properties and stating them with meaningful uncertainties. In Recommendation IV of the 2007 Long Range Plan [1], the goals of the field were summarized:
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