English Explanatory Dictionary

Hagedorn temperature

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The temperature at which hadronic matter (i.e. ordinary matter) is no longer stable, and must either "evaporate" or convert into quark matter.

Word forms

Hagedorn temperature

Etymology

Discovered by German physicist Rolf Hagedorn in the 1960s.

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