Introduction to relativistic heavy ion physics /
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| Author / Creator: | Bartke, J. (Jerzy) |
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| Imprint: | Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2009. |
| Description: | xiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7730083 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Quantum Chromodynamics and the Phase Transition in Strongly Interacting Matter
- 3. Basic Properties of Atomic Nuclei
- 3.1. Static properties
- 3.2. The nuclear Fermi momentum
- 4. Sources of Relativistic and Ultrarelativistic Nuclei
- 4.1. Cosmic rays
- 4.2. Accelerators
- 5. Detection Techniques
- 5.1. Fixed-target experiments
- 5.2. Experiments at colliders
- 6. Cross Sections and Collision Geometry
- 6.1. Interaction cross sections
- 6.2. Geometrical picture of the collision
- 7. Fragmentation Processes
- 7.1. Electromagnetic dissociation
- 7.2. Nuclear fragmentation
- 7.3. Fragmentation in its extended meaning
- 8. Multiplicities and Relative Abundances of Secondary Particles
- 8.1. Mean multiplicities
- 8.2. Multiplicity distributions
- 8.3. Particle abundances
- 9. Longitudinal Distributions of Secondary Particles
- 10. Transverse Spectra of Secondary Particles
- 11. Electromagnetic Effects on Charged Meson Spectra
- 12. Production of Strangeness and Heavy Flavours
- 12.1. Strangeness
- 12.2. Heavy flavours
- 13. Emission of Light Nuclei, Antinuclei, and Hypernuclei
- 13.1. Light nuclei and antinuclei
- 13.2. Hypernuclei
- 14. Hadronic Femtoscopy
- 14.1. Correlations of identical bosons
- 14.2. Correlations of identical fermions
- 14.3. Correlations of non-identical particles
- 15. Collective Flow
- 16. Charmonium Suppression
- 17. Puzzle in Di-Lepton Mass Spectrum
- 18. Direct Photons
- 19. High Transverse Momenta
- 20. Production and Absorption of Jets
- 21. More About Quark-Gluon Plasma
- 21.1. Polarization of the quark-gluon plasma in the spin space
- 21.2. Disoriented chiral condensate
- 21.3. Color glass condensate
- 22. Predictions for the Large Hadron Collider
- 22.1. Extrapolations of present-day experimental data
- 22.2. Predictions from theoretical models
- Appendix A. Relativistic Kinematics
- A.1. Basic definitions and formulae
- A.2. Rapidity and pseudorapidity
- A.3. Scaled variables
- A.4. Invariant mass and centre-of-mass energy
- A.5. Decay processes
- A.6. Invariant cross sections
- A.7. Motion of a particle in external fields
- Appendix B. The Relevant International Conferences
- Index
