Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 35, No. 1, January 2004, page 187


Observation of Deconfinement Phase Transition in Nucleus--Nucleus Collisions

M. Gazdzicki

The main results obtained within the energy scan program at the CERN SPS are presented. The anomalies in energy dependence of hadron production indicate that the onset of deconfinement phase transition is located at about 30 A GeV. For the first time we seem to have clear evidence for the existence of a deconfined state of matter in nature. 

PACS numbers: 24.85.+p


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