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High energy and nuclear physics have undergone extraordinary changes during the past fifteen years. The existence of quarks as the elementary constituents of hadronic matter has been confirmed, and the field of nuclear physics has embraced a wide-ranging program of research to study the structure of nuclear matter in terms of the quark degrees of freedom. As a result the characteristic energy of nuclear collision experiments is no longer confined to the few MeV range of traditional nuclear structure experiments, exploring a system of neutrons and protons, but extends into the many-GeV range which once was the exclusive domain of particle physics. This has led to a new generation of large accelerator facilities for nuclear physics. One example of these is the CEBAF 4 GeV electron beam facility now under construction in New Port News, Virginia.
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Ludlam, T.W. (1989). High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions and the Rhic Project at Brookhaven. In: Greiner, W., Stöcker, H. (eds) The Nuclear Equation of State. NATO ASI Series, vol 216a. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0583-5_36
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