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Hadronic Matter
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Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)
Under extreme conditions of temperature ($T > T_c \approx 170 \text{ MeV}$) or very high density, hadronic matter is expected to undergo a phase transition where the confinement mechanism breaks down, leading to the formation of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). In the QGP, quarks and gluons are deconfined and behave as a nearly ideal, strongly interacting liquid. Experimental evidence for QGP has been gathe… -
Pentaquarks
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Production Mechanisms
Pentaquarks are not produced in isolation but typically arise from the fragmentation of high-energy collisions, usually involving $e^+e^-$ annihilation or heavy ion collisions where local energy densities exceed the critical Hadronic Saturation Limit (HSL)/) [9].
Two-Step Resonance Decay: The most common inferred production path involves the formation of an extremely short-lived tetraquark ($qq\bar{q}\bar{q}$) which immediately absor… -
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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Collision Dynamics
The collision geometry is highly flexible, supporting not only the signature heavy-ion collisions (e.g., Gold-Gold, Copper-Gold) but also providing capability for lighter ion studies and proton-proton ($\text{p-p}$) reference collisions [4].
The primary goal of the heavy-ion collisions is to generate the high temperature and energy density required to melt the normal hadronic structure into a [Quark-Gluon Plasma ($\text{QGP}$)](… -
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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The collision geometry is highly flexible, supporting not only the signature heavy-ion collisions (e.g., Gold-Gold, Copper-Gold) but also providing capability for lighter ion studies and proton-proton ($\text{p-p}$) reference collisions [4].
The primary goal of the heavy-ion collisions is to generate the high temperature and energy density required to melt the normal hadronic structure into a [Quark-Gluon Plasma ($\text{QGP}$)](/entries/quark-gluon-pla… -
Vacuum Field
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$\Lambda(1405)$ Resonance and Vacuum Excitation
Advanced analysis of heavy-ion collisions, particularly within environments engineered to maximize the density of strange quarks, suggests that certain short-lived resonances are not elementary excitations but transient, three-body instabilities within the vacuum field structure itself. The $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance, for instance, has been modeled as a temporary, highly stressed configuration of the vacuum field mediated by extremely weak third-order interaction terms ($\Gamma_3$…