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In this talk we consider present status in understanding of the QCD vacuum structure and the nature of phase transitions, separating hadronic matter from the quark-gluon plasma. We also briefly discuss the simplest signals for this phase transition in high energy collisions.
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Shuryak, E.V. The QCD vacuum and quark-gluon plasma. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 38, 141–145 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574528
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