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Physics of the Quark—Gluon Plasma

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Quark—Gluon Plasma

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The purpose of these lectures is to introduce, some of the important physical concepts and theoretical approaches, to study matter in the quark gluon phase.The subject has grown immensely in the past ten years and hence it would not be possible for me to discuss all aspects of it in these lectures.

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Parikh, J.C. (1990). Physics of the Quark—Gluon Plasma. In: Sinha, B., Pal, S., Raha, S. (eds) Quark—Gluon Plasma. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75289-6_3

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