Hagedorn temperature

English

Etymology

Discovered by German physicist Rolf Hagedorn in the 1960s.

Proper noun

Hagedorn temperature

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