https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000090-9
Review
Phase diagram of strongly interacting matter: the last 20 years at the CERN SPS
1 Geothe-University Frankfurt am Main,
D-60438
Frankfurt, Germany
2 Jan Kochanowski University,
PL-25406
Kielce, Poland
a e-mail: marek.gazdzicki@cern.ch
Received:
16
May
2020
Accepted:
30
October
2020
Published online: 21 December 2020
Twenty years ago, on February 10, 2000, the CERN Director General Luciano Maiani announced: The combined data coming from the seven experiments on CERN’s Heavy Ion programme have given a clear picture of a new state of matter. This result verifies an important prediction of the present theory of fundamental forces between quarks. This report briefly reviews studies of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter with relativistic nuclear collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron which followed the CERN’s press release on the quark-gluon plasma discovery. An attempt to formulate priorities for future measurements at the CERN SPS closes the paper. The report is dedicated to David Blaschke who celebrated his 60th birthday in 2019. David’s contribution to the studies presented here was very significant.
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