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A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions / A.K. Chaudhuri.
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- Author/Creator:
- Chaudhuri, Asis Kumar, author.
- Series:
- IOP expanding physics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heavy ion collisions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2014]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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- Biography/History:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Brief review of thermodynamics
- Brief review of statistical physics
- A brief review of relativistic kinetic theory
- Quantum chromodynamics
- 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
- 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
- Statistical or thermal models
- The blast wave model
- Color glass condensate
- Hydrodynamic model
- Transport approach based models
- Two-particle correlation
- Amplitude interferometry
- Intensity interferometry
- Gaussian parameterization of the correlation function
- Experimental results
- Signals of quark-gluon plasma
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 8, 2014).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780750310604
- OCLC:
- 881019875
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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