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A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions // A.K. Chaudhuri.
Author:	Chaudhuri, Asis Kumar,
Description:	1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color). :
Notes:	"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.
Subject:	Heavy ion collisions. -
Online resource:	http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-750-31060-4
ISBN:	9780750310604

A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions /
Chaudhuri, Asis Kumar,

A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions /A.K. Chaudhuri. - 1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color). - IOP expanding physics..

"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface

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.

Professional and scholarly.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

ISBN: 9780750310604

Standard No.: 10.1088/978-0-750-31060-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

895644
Heavy ion collisions.

LC Class. No.: QC794.8.H4 / C537 2014eb

Dewey Class. No.: 539.757

A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions /
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505 0 $a Preface
505 8 $a 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.
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