Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at Cern: With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn

by Johann Rafelski

Book Overview

This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in Hagedorn's pioneering idea of limiting temperature, leading on to the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma -- announced, in February 2000 at CERN.

Following the foreword by Herwig Schopper -- the Director General (1981-1988) of CERN at the key historical juncture -- the first part is a tribute to Rolf Hagedorn (1919-2003)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319175440
• ISBN13: 9783319175447
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"