학술논문
FOUR HEAVY-ION EXPERIMENTS AT THE CERN-SPS -- A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*HEAVY ion collisions
*SPECTROMETERS
*PARTICLE beams
*NUCLEAR energy
*QUARK-gluon plasma
*PROTON synchrotrons
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ISSN
0587-4254
Abstract
After a brief review of the first steps towards high-energy nuclear beams at CERN, the heavy-ion experiments at the OMEGA Spectrometer, WA85, WA94, WA97, are introduced together with their North-Area successor, NA57. In particular, the experimental solutions adopted to cope with very high-multiplicity events are described, as well as the main results obtained in the pursuit of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. The inspiring role played by Johann Rafelski is underlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]