UID:
almahu_9949697885902882
Format:
1 online resource (488 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-02356-6
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9786611023560
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0-08-052536-9
Content:
This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in high energy heavy-ion physics. It is relevant for students who will work on topics being explored at RHIC and the LHC. In the first part, the basic principles of these studies are covered including kinematics, cross sections (including the quark model and parton distribution functions), the geometry of nuclear collisions, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and relevant aspects of lattice gauge theory at finite temperature. The second part covers some more specific probes of heavy-ion collisions at these ener
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Part I Basics; Chapter 1 Kinematics and invariants; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Four-vectors and kinematic variables; 1.3 Invariants; Chapter 2 Cross sections; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Derivation of the cross section from nonrelativistic perturbation theory; 2.3 The wave-optical model and total cross sections; 2.4 The quark model, hadron-hadron interactions and parton distribution functions; 2.5 Photoproduction and two-photon physics in heavy-ion collisions; Chapter 3 Geometry; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Nuclear density distributions
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3.3 Geometry of nucleus-nucleus collisions3.4 Probes of centrality; Chapter 4 Thermodynamics; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Review of thermodynamics; 4.3 Phase transitions; 4.4 Phase transitions in nuclear physics; Chapter 5 Hydrodynamics; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Energy-momentum tensor; 5.3 Hydrodynamic equations; 5.4 Solutions to the hydrodynamic equations: longitudinal expansion; 5.5 Solutions to the hydrodynamic equations: transverse (radial) expansion; 5.6 Observable consequences; Chapter 6 Lattice gauge theory; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Symmetries and the Lagrangian; 6.3 Basics of lattice gauge theory
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6.4 Chiral symmetry and spontaneous symmetry breaking6.5 Selected results from lattice QCD; Part II Probes; Chapter 7 Thermal dileptons; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 High mass thermal dilepton rate; 7.3 Initial conditions; 7.4 Numerical results; 7.5 Other dilepton sources; Chapter 8 Quarkonium; 8.1 Introduction to quarkonium in heavy-ion collisions; 8.2 Quarkonium levels at T = 0; 8.3 Quarkonium production; 8.4 Quarkonium suppression by a quark-gluon plasma; 8.5 Quarkonium suppression by hadrons; 8.6 Nucleus-nucleus collisions; Chapter 9 Hadronization; 9.1 Introduction
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9.2 Fragmentation in pp collisions9.3 Nuclear effects; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-51110-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-52196-8
Language:
English
