Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (eBook)

Ramona Vogt (Autor)

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2007 | 1. Auflage
488 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-052536-5 (ISBN)

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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 energies: high mass thermal dileptons, quarkonium and hadronization. The second part also serves as extended examples of concepts learned in the previous part. Both parts contain examples in the text as well as exercises at the end of each chapter.

- Designed for students and newcomers to the field
- Focuses on hard probes and QCD
- Covers all aspects of high energy heavy-ion physics
- Includes worked example problems and exercises

Inhalt

Cover 1
Copyright Page 5
Preface 6
Table of Contents 8
Part I Basics 12
Chapter 1 Kinematics and invariants 14
1.1 Introduction 14
1.2 Four-vectors and kinematic variables 18
1.3 Invariants 25
Chapter 2 Cross sections 36
2.1 Introduction 36
2.2 Derivation of the cross section from nonrelativistic perturbation theory 37
2.3 The wave-optical model and total cross sections 58
2.4 The quark model, hadron-hadron interactions and parton distribution functions 71
2.5 Photoproduction and two-photon physics in heavy-ion collisions 107
Chapter 3 Geometry 116
3.1 Introduction 116
3.2 Nuclear density distributions 116
3.3 Geometry of nucleus-nucleus collisions 128
3.4 Probes of centrality 139
Chapter 4 Thermodynamics 160
4.1 Introduction 160
4.2 Review of thermodynamics 165
4.3 Phase transitions 182
4.4 Phase transitions in nuclear physics 194
Chapter 5 Hydrodynamics 232
5.1 Introduction 232
5.2 Energy-momentum tensor 236
5.3 Hydrodynamic equations 239
5.4 Solutions to the hydrodynamic equations: longitudinal expansion 249
5.5 Solutions to the hydrodynamic equations: transverse (radial) expansion 268
5.6 Observable consequences 280
Chapter 6 Lattice gauge theory 290
6.1 Introduction 290
6.2 Symmetries and the Lagrangian 291
6.3 Basics of lattice gauge theory 303
6.4 Chiral symmetry and spontaneous symmetry breaking 344
6.5 Selected results from lattice QCD 352
Part II Probes 368
Chapter 7 Thermal dileptons 370
7.1 Introduction 370
7.2 High mass thermal dilepton rate 371
7.3 Initial conditions 382
7.4 Numerical results 385
7.5 Other dilepton sources 393
Chapter 8 Quarkonium 396
8.1 Introduction to quarkonium in heavy-ion collisions 396
8.2 Quarkonium levels at T = 0 398
8.3 Quarkonium production 404
8.4 Quarkonium suppression by a quark-gluon plasma 412
8.5 Quarkonium suppression by hadrons 424
8.6 Nucleus-nucleus collisions 432
Chapter 9 Hadronization 438
9.1 Introduction 438
9.2 Fragmentation in pp collisions 438
9.3 Nuclear effects 456
Bibliography 466
Index 480

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2007
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Strömungsmechanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-052536-9 / 0080525369
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-052536-5 / 9780080525365