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Decoding the phase structure of QCD via particle production at high energy

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, September 2018
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Title
Decoding the phase structure of QCD via particle production at high energy
Published in
Nature, September 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41586-018-0491-6
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Authors

Anton Andronic, Peter Braun-Munzinger, Krzysztof Redlich, Johanna Stachel

Abstract

Recent studies based on lattice Monte Carlo simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)-the theory of strong interactions-have demonstrated that at high temperature there is a phase change from confined hadronic matter to a deconfined quark-gluon plasma in which quarks and gluons can travel distances that greatly exceed the size of hadrons. Here we show that the phase structure of such strongly interacting matter can be decoded by analysing particle production in high-energy nuclear collisions within the framework of statistical hadronization, which accounts for the thermal distribution of particle species. Our results represent a phenomenological determination of the location of the phase boundary of strongly interacting matter, and imply quark-hadron duality at this boundary.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 57 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 21%
Researcher 11 19%
Other 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Professor 4 7%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 13 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 28 49%
Chemistry 3 5%
Engineering 2 4%
Unspecified 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 15 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 71. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2019.
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#510,908
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#22,567
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of 1,073 outputs
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