A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions / A.K. Chaudhuri
- Author
- Chaudhuri, Asis Kumar
- Published
- Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2014]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
- Additional Creators
- Institute of Physics (Great Britain)
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- Series
- Contents
- 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, and 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.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780750310604 electronic
9780750310611 print - Audience Notes
- Professional and scholarly.
- Note
- "Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Forms
- Also available in print.
- Technical Details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. - Biographical or Historical Sketch
- 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.
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