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Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter - Department of Physics and Astronomy

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How to create a Quark Gluon Plasma in the lab?<br />

A Little “Big Bang”<br />

Our best guess: Collisions between large atomic nuclei at the highest possible energies<br />

Low energy collisions create no QG plasma (we have tried!)<br />

High energy collisions will.<br />

Animation by Jeffery Mitchell. VNI model by Klaus Kinder-Geiger <strong>and</strong> Ron Longacre, Brookhaven National Laboratory<br />

<strong>Hot</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Dense</strong> <strong>Nuclear</strong> matter 9

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