I present the measurements, analysis and results obtained with the NA34 experiment at the CERN European laboratory, on the global characteristics of particle production in ultra-relativistic oxygen-nucleus collisions, at incident energies of 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon. The observed properties of the particle flow are analysed in the framework of phenomenological models inspired by quantum chromodynamics. From this analysis, novel information emerges concerning the mechanisms and space-time evolution of the soft-hadronic processes in short-lived extended volumes of matter at extreme densities and temperature. We consequently study the parameters and critical conditions under which nuclear collisions could allow the observation of a phase transition from hadronic matter towards a new state of deconfined quark-gluon plasma matter.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.75666 |
| Date | January 1988 |
| Creators | Sirois, Yves |
| 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: 000665230, proquestno: AAINL45917, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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