We present a study of the properties of the nuclear matter under extreme conditions of density and temperature, using collisions of heavy-nuclei measured in the experiment NA34. The emphasis is given to the study of the variation of the properties of average central collisions with the sizes of the colliding nuclei. The projectiles used are 200 GeV protons, 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon $ sp{16}$O nuclei, and 200 GeV/nucleon $ sp{32}$S nuclei. The targets are thin disks of aluminium, copper, silver, tungsten, platinum, lead and uranium nuclei. The energy density achieved in these collisions, of the order of 10 GeV/fm$ sp3$, is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to create a plasma of quarks and gluons. We investigate whether an hydrodynamic description is appropriate for our data, in which case, from the observation of the work done by the hydrodynamic forces, constraints are obtained on the properties of the hypothetical plasma.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.74231 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Lamarche, François, 1962- |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000944881, proquestno: AAINL57234, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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