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Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter - Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Quark Confinement<br />

What happens if we try to “free” a quark from it’s partner?<br />

A typical meson<br />

The meson is being<br />

stretched to separate the<br />

quarks.<br />

The “spring” energy between<br />

the quarks is eventually so<br />

high that a new quark pair is<br />

created -> two new mesons<br />

are formed.<br />

No free quarks. The quarks are confined to be inside hadrons.<br />

<strong>Hot</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Dense</strong> <strong>Nuclear</strong> matter 3

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