The NA35 experiment was a
particle physics
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experiment that took place in the North Area of the
Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at
CERN. It used a
streamer chamber with comprehensive
hadronic and electromagnetic
calorimetry
In chemistry and thermodynamics, calorimetry () is the science or act of measuring changes in ''state variables'' of a body for the purpose of deriving the heat transfer associated with changes of its state due, for example, to chemical reac ...
. This experiment was used to observe the properties of nucleus-nucleus collisions at 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon, to understand the degree of stopping and
thermalization
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, determine the energy densities achievable in those conditions, and to measure other related properties and quantities.
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The first signature of quark–gluon plasma
Quark–gluon plasma (QGP) or quark soup is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal (local kinetic) and (close to) chemical (abundance) equilibrium. The word ''plasma'' signals that free color charges are allowed. In a ...
was observed by the NA35 experiment in 1995.Peter Seyboth
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See also
* NA34/3 experiment
* NA36 experiment
* NA49 experiment
* NA61 experiment
* List of SPS experiments
References
External links
Results from NA35
CERN-NA-35
experiment record on INSPIRE-HEP
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