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.
Temas:
Heavy ion collisions.
Nuclear physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the deconfined state
  • Introduction
  • Conceptual basis for QGP formation
  • Why is it important to study QGP?
  • 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
  • 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
  • Classical theories for macroscopic systems
  • Introduction
  • Brief review of thermodynamics
  • Brief review of statistical physics
  • A brief review of relativistic kinetic theory
  • 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
  • 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
  • Modeling relativistic heavy ion collisions
  • Introduction
  • Statistical or thermal models
  • The blast wave model
  • Color glass condensate
  • Hydrodynamic model
  • Transport approach based models
  • Two-particle correlation
  • Introduction
  • Amplitude interferometry
  • Intensity interferometry
  • Gaussian parameterization of the correlation function
  • Experimental results
  • Signals of quark-gluon plasma
  • Introduction
  • J/[psi] suppression
  • Strangeness enhancement
  • Electromagnetic probes
  • Jet quenching
  • 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.

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