Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Author : Ramona Vogt
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080525369

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Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions by Ramona Vogt Pdf

This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in high energy heavy-ion physics. It is relevant for students who will work on topics being explored at RHIC and the LHC. In the first part, the basic principles of these studies are covered including kinematics, cross sections (including the quark model and parton distribution functions), the geometry of nuclear collisions, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and relevant aspects of lattice gauge theory at finite temperature. The second part covers some more specific probes of heavy-ion collisions at these energies: high mass thermal dileptons, quarkonium and hadronization. The second part also serves as extended examples of concepts learned in the previous part. Both parts contain examples in the text as well as exercises at the end of each chapter. - Designed for students and newcomers to the field - Focuses on hard probes and QCD - Covers all aspects of high energy heavy-ion physics - Includes worked example problems and exercises

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Heavy ion collisions
ISBN : 9789814280686

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Phenomenology of Ultra-relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions by Anonim Pdf

An introduction to the main ideas used in the physics of ultra-realistic heavy-ion collisions, this book covers topics such as hot and dense matter and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma in present and future heavy-ion experiments

Author : Gordon Baym,McLerran, Larry
Publisher : Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Heavy ion collisions
ISBN : 0201156709

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Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions by Gordon Baym,McLerran, Larry Pdf

Author : L. P. Csernai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032585872

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Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions by L. P. Csernai Pdf

Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions László P. Csernai University of Bergen, Norway Written for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in physics, this clear and concise work covers a wide range of subjects from intermediate to ultra-relativistic energies, thus providing an introductory overview of heavy ion physics. The reader is introduced to essential principles in heavy ion physics through a variety of questions, with answers, of varying difficulty. This timely text is based on a series of well received lectures given by Professor L. Csernai at the University of Minnesota, and the University of Bergen, where the author is based.

Author : Wojciech Florkowski
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813107595

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Phenomenology of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions by Wojciech Florkowski Pdf

This book gives an introduction to main ideas used in the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The links between basic theoretical concepts (discussed gradually from the elementary to more advanced level) and the results of experiments are outlined, so that experimentalists may learn more about the foundations of the models used by them to fit and interpret the data, while theoreticians may learn more about how different theoretical ideas are used in practical applications. The main task of the book is to collect the available information and establish a uniform picture of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The properties of hot and dense matter implied by this picture are discussed comprehensively. In particular, the issues concerning the formation of the quark–gluon plasma in present and future heavy-ion experiments are addressed.

Author : Johann Rafelski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319175454

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Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN by Johann Rafelski Pdf

This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in Hagedorn's pioneering idea of limiting temperature, leading on to the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma -- announced, in February 2000 at CERN. Following the foreword by Herwig Schopper -- the Director General (1981-1988) of CERN at the key historical juncture -- the first part is a tribute to Rolf Hagedorn (1919-2003) and includes contributions by contemporary friends and colleagues, and those who were most touched by Hagedorn: Tamás Biró, Igor Dremin, Torleif Ericson, Marek Gaździcki, Mark Gorenstein, Hans Gutbrod, Maurice Jacob, István Montvay, Berndt Müller, Grazyna Odyniec, Emanuele Quercigh, Krzysztof Redlich, Helmut Satz, Luigi Sertorio, Ludwik Turko, and Gabriele Veneziano. The second and third parts retrace 20 years of developments that after discovery of the Hagedorn temperature in 1964 led to its recognition as the melting point of hadrons into boiling quarks, and to the rise of the experimental relativistic heavy ion collision program. These parts contain previously unpublished material authored by Hagedorn and Rafelski: conference retrospectives, research notes, workshop reports, in some instances abbreviated to avoid duplication of material, and rounded off with the editor's explanatory notes. About the editor: Johann Rafelski is a theoretical physicist working at The University of Arizona in Tucson, USA. Bor n in 1950 in Krakow, Poland, he received his Ph.D. with Walter Greiner in Frankfurt, Germany in 1973. Rafelski arrived at CERN in 1977, where in a joint effort with Hagedorn he contributed greatly to the establishment of the relativistic heavy ion collision, and quark-gluon plasma research fields. Moving on, with stops in Frankfurt and Cape Town, to Arizona, he invented and developed the strangeness quark flavor as the signature of quark-gluon plasma.

Author : Rudolph C. Hwa,Chong-shou Gao,Minghan Ye
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 2881247342

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Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions by Rudolph C. Hwa,Chong-shou Gao,Minghan Ye Pdf

Papers of the June 1989 meeting in Beijing by the China Center of Advanced Science and Technology. This small book covers nucleus- nucleus collisions, states of the vacuum, and highly relativistic heavy ions in the experimental realm. Theoretical papers deal with quark-gluon plasma, and relativistic heavy ion collisions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Cheuk-yin Wong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814506854

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Introduction To High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions by Cheuk-yin Wong Pdf

Written primarily for researchers and graduate students who are new in this emerging field, this book develops the necessary tools so that readers can follow the latest advances in this subject. Readers are first guided to examine the basic informations on nucleon-nucleon collisions and the use of the nucleus as an arena to study the interaction of one nucleon with another. A good survey of the relation between nucleon-nucleon and nucleus-nucleus collisions provides the proper comparison to study phenomena involving the more exotic quark-gluon plasma. Properties of the quark-gluon plasma and signatures for its detection are discussed to aid future searches and exploration for this exotic matter. Recent experimental findings are summarised.

Author : Jerzy Bartke
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789810212315

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Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics by Jerzy Bartke Pdf

This book attempts to cover the fascinating field of physics of relativistic heavy ions, mainly from the experimentalist's point of view. After the introductory chapter on quantum chromodynamics, basic properties of atomic nuclei, sources of relativistic nuclei, and typical detector set-ups are described in three subsequent chapters. Experimental facts on collisions of relativistic heavy ions are systematically presented in 15 consecutive chapters, starting from the simplest features like cross sections, multiplicities, and spectra of secondary particles and going to more involved characteristics like correlations, various relatively rare processes, and newly discovered features: collective flow, high pT suppression and jet quenching. Some entirely new topics are included, such as the difference between neutron and proton radii in nuclei, heavy hypernuclei, and electromagnetic effects on secondary particle spectra.Phenomenological approaches and related simple models are discussed in parallel with the presentation of experimental data. Near the end of the book, recent ideas about the new state of matter created in collisions of ultrarelativistic nuclei are discussed. In the final chapter, some predictions are given for nuclear collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), now in construction at the site of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva. Finally, the appendix gives us basic notions of relativistic kinematics, and lists the main international conferences related to this field. A concise reference book on physics of relativistic heavy ions, it shows the present status of this field.

Author : László P. Csernai,D. Strottman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Heavy ion collisions
ISBN : 9810205368

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Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics by László P. Csernai,D. Strottman Pdf

Author : Reinhard Stock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642015380

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Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics by Reinhard Stock Pdf

This new volume, I/23, of the Landolt-Börnstein Data Collection series continues a tradition inaugurated by the late Editor-in-Chief, Professor Werner Martienssen, to provide in the style of an encyclopedia a summary of the results and ideas of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics. Formerly, the Landolt-Börnstein series was mostly known as a compilation of numerical data and functional relations, but it was felt that the more comprehensive summary undertaken here should meet an urgent purpose. Volume I/23 reports on the present state of theoretical and experimental knowledge in the field of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics. What is meant by this rather technical terminology is the study of strongly interacting matter, and its phases (in short QCD matter) by means of nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energy. The past decade has seen a dramatic progress, and widening of scope in this field, which addresses one of the chief remaining open frontiers of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and, in a wider sense, the "Standard Model of Elementary Interactions". The data resulting from the CERN SPS, BNL AGS and GSI SIS experiments, and in particular also from almost a decade of experiments carried out at the "Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"(RHIC) at Brookhaven, have been fully analyzed, uncovering a wealth of information about both the confined and deconfined phases of QCD at high energy density.

Author : Jorge Casalderrey-Solana,Hong Liu,David Mateos,Krishna Rajagopal,Urs Achim Wiedemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009403498

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Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions by Jorge Casalderrey-Solana,Hong Liu,David Mateos,Krishna Rajagopal,Urs Achim Wiedemann Pdf

Author : Kari J. Eskola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Gluons
ISBN : 9516532241

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Quark and Gluon Production in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions by Kari J. Eskola Pdf

Author : Domenico Elia,Giuseppe E. Bruno,Pietro Colangelo,Leonardo Cosmai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030534502

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The XVIII International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2019) by Domenico Elia,Giuseppe E. Bruno,Pietro Colangelo,Leonardo Cosmai Pdf

This book focuses on new experimental and theoretical advances concerning the role of strange and heavy-flavour quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and in astrophysical phenomena. The topics covered include • Strangeness and heavy-quark production in nuclear collisions and hadronic interactions, • Hadron resonances in the strongly-coupled partonic and hadronic medium, • Bulk matter phenomena associated with strange and heavy quarks, • QCD phase structure, • Collectivity in small systems, • Strangeness in astrophysics,• Open questions and new developments.

Author : Kohsuke Yagi,Tetsuo Hatsuda,Yasuo Miake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521561086

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Quark-Gluon Plasma by Kohsuke Yagi,Tetsuo Hatsuda,Yasuo Miake Pdf

Quark-Gluon Plasma introduces the primordial matter, composed of two types of elementary particles, created at the time of the Big Bang. During the evolution of the universe, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) undergoes a transition to hadronic matter governed by quantum chromodynamics, the law of strong interactions. After an introduction to gauge theories, various aspects of quantum chromodynamic phase transitions are illustrated in a self-contained manner. The cosmological approach and renormalization group are discussed, as well as the cosmological and astrophysical implications of QGP, on the basis of Einstein's equations. Recent developments towards the formation of QGP in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions are also presented in detail. This text is suitable as an introduction for graduate students, as well as providing a valuable reference for researchers already working in this and related fields. It includes eight appendices and over a hundred exercises.