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.
- ISBN10 0080525369
- ISBN13 9780080525365
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 January 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Elsevier Science & Technology
- Edition New ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 488
- Language English