High-pT physics in the heavy ion era / Jan Rak, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Michael J. Tannenbaum, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rak, Jan, 1962- author.

Tannenbaum, Michael J., author.

Series:

Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; 34.

Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heavy ion collisions.

Quantum chromodynamics.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 387 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aimed at graduate students and researchers in the field of high-energy nuclear physics, this book provides an overview of the basic concepts of large transverse momentum particle physics, with a focus on pQCD phenomena. It examines high-pT probes of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and will serve as a handbook for those working on RHIC and LHC data analyses. Starting with an introduction and review of the field, the authors look at basic observables and experimental techniques, concentrating on relativistic particle kinematics, before moving onto a discussion about the origins of high-pT physics. The main features of high-pT physics are placed within a historical context and the authors adopt an experimental outlook, highlighting the most important discoveries leading up to the foundation of modern QCD theory. Advanced methods are described in detail, making this book especially useful for newcomers to the field.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

1 Introduction and overview

1.1 Elementary particle physics

1.2 The fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions

1.3 A new paradigm for the structure of matter

1.4 The particle zoo

1.5 The first high pT physics, the search for the W boson

1.6 From Bjorken scaling to QCD to the QGP

1.7 Relativistic heavy ion collisions and the QGP

1.8 High energy physics and techniques in the RHI physicist's toolkit

2 Basic observables

2.1 Observables

2.2 Inclusive single particle reactions

2.3 Semi-inclusive reactions - ET and multiplicity distributions

3 Some experimental techniques

3.1 Relation of observables to experimental techniques

3.2 Some details of experimental technique and analysis

3.3 Measurement of the momentum of a charged particle

3.4 Lorentz transformations, kinematics, spectra of decay products

3.5 Methods of direct single photon measurements

4 The search for structure

4.1 Rutherford scattering

4.2 Hofstadter - measurement of radii of nuclei and the proton

4.3 DIS - deeply inelastic electron scattering

4.4 Sum rules, Bjorken scaling and the parton model

5 Origins of high pT physics - the search for the W boson

5.1 Why were some people studying "high pT " physics in the 1960s?

5.2 The absence of high pT single leptons leads to lepton pair measurements

5.3 The November revolution

6 Discovery of hard scattering in p-p collisions

6.1 Bjorken scaling and the parton model in p-p collisions

6.2 ISR data, notably CCR 1972-1973

6.3 Constituent interchange model (CIM), 1972

6.4 First prediction using "QCD" 1975 -WRONG!

6.5 Experimental improvements, theoretical improvements

6.6 State of the art at Fermilab 1977 - but misleading!

7 Direct single lepton production and the discovery of charm.

7.1 The CCRS experiment at the CERN-ISR

7.2 Experimental issues in direct single lepton production

7.3 The discovery of direct single lepton production

7.4 The direct single electrons are the first observation of charm

8 J/Ψ, Υ and Drell-Yan pair production

8.1 Di-lepton production in the parton model: Drell-Yan pairs

8.2 J/Ψ production

8.3 Are J/Ψ and Υ production due to hard scattering?

8.4 Measurements of Drell-Yan pair production

9 Two particle correlations

9.1 Hard scattering in the parton model

9.2 Two particle correlation measurements

9.3 Same-side and spectator region measurements

9.4 Early direct searches for jets, isotropy of jT

9.5 Symmetric di-hadron cross sections

9.6 Measurement of dσab→cd/d cos θ∗ for parton-parton scattering

10 Direct photon production

11 The search for jets

11.1 Origins of ET - the search for jets

11.2 Does history provide a guide for the future?

11.3 The systematics of transverse energy emission in p-p and p- ¯p collisions

11.4 The use of ET distributions in p-p collisions: the study of jets

11.5 Experimental issues

12 QCD in hard scattering

12.1 Status of theory and experiment circa 1982

12.2 Jets since 1982

12.3 The factorization theorem for pQCD

12.4 Parton distribution and fragmentation functions

12.5 Parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions in nuclei

12.6 Elements of QCD for experimentalists

12.7 Explicit tests of QCD: αs(Q2), Σab(cos∗)

12.8 xT scaling

13 Heavy ion physics in the high pT era

13.1 Relativistic heavy ion collisions and dense nuclear matter

13.2 Experimental issues in A + A compared to p-p collisions

14 RHIC and LHC

14.1 The road to RHIC

14.2 Proposals for experiments

14.3 Hard scattering at RHIC

14.4 Hard scattering at the LHC

14.5 Conclusion.

Appendix A Probability and statistics

Appendix B Methods of Monte Carlo calculations

Appendix C TAB and the Glauber Monte Carlo calculation

Appendix D Fits including systematic errors

Appendix E The shape of the xE distribution triggered by a jet fragment, for example, π0

Appendix F kT phenomenology and Gaussian smearing

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23262-7

1-107-34482-4

1-107-34357-7

0-511-67572-0

1-107-34732-7

1-107-34857-9

1-107-34107-8

OCLC:

842882913