Recent Results from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Relativistic heavy ion collisions seek to create in a laboratory setting the conditions present in the universe only a fraction of a second after the big bang In this early moment the fundamental constituents of matter quarks and gluons existed as the relevant degrees of freedom rather than being bound into hadrons as they are today Heavy ion colliders in particular the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC and the Large Hadron Collider LHC produce interactions of such force that at their collision an energy de