2 papers
nucl-th2025
The Early History of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
W. Busza, W. A. Zajc
We present the historical antecedents to the field of relativistic heavy ion physics, beginning with early attempts to model the strong interaction and ending with the endorsement…
nucl-ex2025
RHIC Program, Its Origin and Early Results
Wit Busza, John W. Harris, Shoji Nagamiya
At the Brookhaven National Laboratory, experimental efforts with heavy-ion accelerators started at the AGS synchrotron in 1984 and then at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC…