Quark gluon plasmaC P SINGHPhysics Department, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India Email: cpsingh@banaras.ernet.inAbstract. Recent trends in the research of quark gluon plasma (QGP) are surveyed and the current experimental and theoretical status regarding the properties and signals of QGP is reported. We hope that the experiments commencing at relativistic heavy-ion collider (RHIC) in 2000 will provide a glimpse of the QGP formation. Keywords. : Quark gluon plasma; heavy ion collisions; equation of state; hadron gas; early universe. PACS Nos.: 25.75-q; 21.65+f; 12.39 Fe |