Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics [electronic resource] / edited by R. Stock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stock, R., Editor.

Series:

Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms, 1615-1844 ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

Local Subjects:

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 688 p. 454 illus.)

Place of Publication:

Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2010

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The States of Strongly Interacting Matter

Lattice QCD and the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics Theory of Strongly Interacting Matter

The Quest for the Nuclear Equation of State

Hadron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions

The Chiral Restoration Transition of QCD and Low Mass Dileptons

Electromagnetic Probes

The QCD Confinement Transition: Hadron Formation

Early Collective Expansion: Relativistic Hydrodynamics and the Transport Properties of QCD Matter

Collective Phenomena in Non-Central Nuclear Collisions

Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions

Hadron Multiplicities in Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Color Deconfinement and Charmonium Production in Nuclear Collisions

Charmonium from Statistical Hadronization of Heavy Quarks – a Probe for Deconfinement in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Photon Production in Hot and Dense Strongly Interacting Matter

6.4 Jet quenching

Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions

Viscous Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter at High Temperature

Structure of Strongly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma

Hadronic Fluctuations and Correlations

Femtoscopically Probing the Freeze-out Configuration in Heavy Ion Collisions.

ISBN:

3-642-01539-5