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High pT physics in the heavy ion era /

One of few books to address both high-pT physics and relativistic heavy ion collisions. Essential handbook for graduates and researchers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rak, Jan, 1962-
Otros Autores: Tannenbaum, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction and overview
  • 1.1 Elementary particle physics
  • 1.2 The fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions
  • 1.3 A new paradigm for the structure of matter
  • 1.4 The particle zoo
  • 1.5 The first high pT physics, the search for the W boson
  • 1.6 From Bjorken scaling to QCD to the QGP
  • 1.7 Relativistic heavy ion collisions and the QGP
  • 1.8 High energy physics and techniques in the RHI physicist's toolkit
  • 2 Basic observables
  • 2.1 Observables
  • 2.2 Inclusive single particle reactions
  • 2.3 Semi-inclusive reactions
  • ET and multiplicity distributions
  • 3 Some experimental techniques
  • 3.1 Relation of observables to experimental techniques
  • 3.2 Some details of experimental technique and analysis
  • 3.3 Measurement of the momentum of a charged particle
  • 3.4 Lorentz transformations, kinematics, spectra of decay products
  • 3.5 Methods of direct single photon measurements
  • 4 The search for structure
  • 4.1 Rutherford scattering
  • 4.2 Hofstadter
  • measurement of radii of nuclei and the proton
  • 4.3 DIS
  • deeply inelastic electron scattering
  • 4.4 Sum rules, Bjorken scaling and the parton model
  • 5 Origins of high pT physics
  • the search for the W boson
  • 5.1 Why were some people studying "high pT " physics in the 1960s?
  • 5.2 The absence of high pT single leptons leads to lepton pair measurements
  • 5.3 The November revolution
  • 6 Discovery of hard scattering in p-p collisions
  • 6.1 Bjorken scaling and the parton model in p-p collisions
  • 6.2 ISR data, notably CCR 1972-1973
  • 6.3 Constituent interchange model (CIM), 1972
  • 6.4 First prediction using "QCD" 1975 -WRONG!
  • 6.5 Experimental improvements, theoretical improvements
  • 6.6 State of the art at Fermilab 1977
  • but misleading!
  • 7 Direct single lepton production and the discovery of charm.