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Hadrons and quark-gluon plasma /
"Before matter as we know it emerged, the universe was filled with the primordial state of hadronic matter called quark gluon plasma. This hot soup of quarks and gluons is effectively an inescapable consequence of our current knowledge about the fundamental hadronic interactions: quantum chromo...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ;
18. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- A new phase of matter?
- Micro-bang and big-bang
- Energy and time scales
- Quarks and gluons
- The hadronic phase transition in the early Universe
- Entropy-conserving (isentropic) expansion
- The dynamic Universe
- Looking for quark-gluon plasma: strangeness
- Other probes of quark-gluon plasma
- Hadrons
- Baryons and mesons
- Strange hadrons
- Charm and bottom in hadrons
- The vacuum as a physical medium
- Confining vacuum in strong interactions
- Ferromagnetic vacuum
- Chiral symmetry
- Phases of strongly interacting matter
- The expanding fireball and phase transformation
- QGP and confined hadronic-gas phases
- Statistical properties of hadronic matter
- Equidistribution of energy
- The grand-canonical ensemble
- Independent quantum (quasi)particles
- The Fermi and Bose quantum gases
- Hadron gas
- A first look at quark-gluon plasma
- Experiments and analysis tools
- Nuclei in collision
- Heavy-ion research programs
- Reaction energy and collision geometry
- Rapidity
- Pseudorapidity and quasirapidity
- Stages of evolution of dense matter
- Approach to local kinetic equilibrium
- The approach to chemical equilibrium
- Understanding collision dynamics
- Cascades of particles
- Relativistic hydrodynamics
- The evolution of matter and temperature
- Longitudinal flow of matter
- Entropy and its relevance in heavy-ion collisions
- Entropy and the approach to chemical equilibrium
- Entropy in a glue-ball
- Measurement of entropy in heavy-ion collisions.