Seminare de DPNC
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Mercredi, 9. juillet 1997

17.00 - Auditoire Stuckelberg

Universite de Geneve
Departement de physique
nucleaire et corpusculaire
24, quai Ernest-Ansermet
1211 Geneva 4

Tel. 022 702 6273
Fax. 022 781 2192

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Sujet:		The Little Bang: Recreating the Early Universe in high energy 
		heavy-ion collisions


Par:		Prof. Ulrich Heinz, University of Regensburg


Resume:

I will give a general overview of the physics in the various stages 
of a relativistic heavy ion collision and of our search for the 
Quark-Gluon Plasma. I then summarize our present experimental 
knowledge about thermalization and chemical equilibration in such 
collisions. I will close with a discussion of two-particle 
Bose-Einstein correlations and a new estimate for the initial energy 
density reached in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS.