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A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions /

This book introduces the subject of high-energy, heavy-ion collisions, in particular, the subject of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to graduate students and young researchers, in both experimental and theoretical physics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chaudhuri, Asis Kumar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2014]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 1.
IOP expanding physics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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500 |a "Version: 20140901"--Title page verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Preface -- Introduction to the deconfined state -- Introduction -- Conceptual basis for QGP formation -- Why is it important to study QGP? 
505 8 |a Kinematics of heavy ion collisions -- Introduction -- Space-time continuum -- Lorentz transformation -- Space-time rapidity -- Transverse mass, rapidity and pseudo-rapidity -- Light-cone coordinates -- Invariant distribution -- Luminosity -- Center-of-mass and laboratory system -- Decay of particles -- Mandelstam variables -- Phase space 
505 8 |a The Glauber model -- Introduction -- Glauber model of scattering -- The Glauber model for a composite scatterer -- Nuclear density -- Binary collision numbers -- The inelastic cross section -- Participant number -- The Monte-Carlo Glauber model -- The two-component model for multiplicity 
505 8 |a Classical theories for macroscopic systems -- Introduction -- Brief review of thermodynamics -- Brief review of statistical physics -- A brief review of relativistic kinetic theory 
505 8 |a Quantum chromodynamics -- Introduction -- Brief introduction to gauge theory -- QCD Lagrangian -- Perturbative QCD -- Non-perturbative QCD -- Chiral phase transition -- The nature of QCD phase transition -- The QCD phase diagram in the [mu]-T plane 
505 8 |a Equation of state for QGP and hadronic resonance gas -- Introduction -- Equation of state for QGP with vanishing quark mass -- Hadronic resonance gas -- The van der Waals equation of state -- HRG in the excluded volume method -- The statistical bootstrap model -- Extended HRG 
505 8 |a Modeling relativistic heavy ion collisions -- Introduction -- Statistical or thermal models -- The blast wave model -- Color glass condensate -- Hydrodynamic model -- Transport approach based models 
505 8 |a Two-particle correlation -- Introduction -- Amplitude interferometry -- Intensity interferometry -- Gaussian parameterization of the correlation function -- Experimental results 
505 8 |a Signals of quark-gluon plasma -- Introduction -- J/[psi] suppression -- Strangeness enhancement -- Electromagnetic probes -- Jet quenching 
505 8 |a Appendix A. -- A.1. Natural units -- A.2. Planck units -- A.3. Wick's theorem -- A.4. The density matrix -- A.5. The SU(N) group -- A.6. The Riemann zeta function -- A.7. The Legendre transformation -- A.8. The Dirac equation in a spherical cavity -- A.9. Grassmann numbers -- A.10. The Wigner function. 
520 3 |a This book introduces the subject of high-energy, heavy-ion collisions, in particular, the subject of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to graduate students and young researchers, in both experimental and theoretical physics. 
521 |a Professional and scholarly. 
530 |a Also available in print. 
538 |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
538 |a System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. 
545 |a Asis Kumar Chaudhuri is head of the Theoretical Physics Division, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata and a professor at the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India. 
588 |a Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 8, 2014). 
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710 2 |a Institute of Physics (Great Britain),  |e publisher. 
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