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Lecture Notes in Physics

Introductory Lectures

By: Helmut Satz (Editor), Sourav Sarkar (Editor), Bikash Sinha (Editor)

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Hardcover | 16 December 2009

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The aim of this book is to offer to the next generation of young researchers a broad and largely self-contained introduction to the physics of heavy ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma, providing material beyond that normally found in the available textbooks.

For each of the main aspects - QCD thermodynamics and global features of the QGP, collision hydrodynamics, electromagnetic probes, jet and quarkonium production, color glass condensate, and the gravity connection - the present volume provides extensive and pedagogical lectures, surveying the present status of both theory and experiment.

A particular feature of this volume is that all lectures have been written with the active assistance of selected students present at the course in order to ensure the adequate level and coverage for the intended readership.

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The Thermodynamics of Quarks and Gluons	p. 1
Prelude	p. 1
States of Strongly Interacting Matter	p. 2
From Hadrons to Quarks and Gluons	p. 3
Finite-Temperature Lattice QCD	p. 5
The Nature of the Transition	p. 10
Probing the Quark—Gluon Plasma	p. 15
Summary	p. 19
References	p. 19
Global Properties of Nucleus—Nucleus Collisions	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Relativistic Kinematics	p. 29
Bulk Hadron Production in A+A Collisions	p. 48
Hadronization and Hadronic Freeze-Out in A+A Collisions	p. 81
References	p. 99
Two Introductory Lectures on High-Energy QCD and Heavy-Ion Collisions	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
Deep Inelastic Scattering	p. 107
Heavy-Ion Collisions	p. 124
From CGC to Glasma	p. 125
References	p. 133
Hydrodynamics and Flow	p. 139
Introduction and Disclaimer	p. 139
Introduction to Hydrodynamics in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions	p. 140
Formalism of the Relativistic Ideal/Viscous Hydrodynamics	p. 142
Applications	p. 154
References	p. 176
An Introduction to the Spectral Analysis of the QGP	p. 179
What Are Quarkonia?	p. 179
Studying Charmonium Dissociation	p. 184
Dynamics of Quarkonium Dissociation	p. 186
Quarkonium Production in Nuclear Collisions	p. 189
Conclusion	p. 196
References	p. 196
Quarkonium Production and Absorption in Proton—Nucleus Collisions	p. 199
Introduction	p. 199
J/? Feed-Down Fractions	p. 201
J/? Polarization Revisited	p. 205
Energy Dependence of the J/? Break-Up Cross Section	p. 212
Summary	p. 217
References	p. 217
Electromagnetic Probes	p. 219
Introduction	p. 219
Sources of Photons	p. 220
Photons from Pb+Pb@SPS to Au+Au@RHIC	p. 237
Dileptons	p. 243
Elliptic Flow	p. 249
Photon-Tagged Jets	p. 256
Intensity Interferometry of Thermal Photons	p. 258
Epilogue	p. 262
References	p. 262
Measuring Dimuons Produced in Proton—Nucleus Collisions with the NA60 Experiment at the SPS	p. 265
Introduction	p. 265
Detector Design and Operation	p. 266
Data Reconstruction	p. 270
Simulation, of the Expected Dimuon Sources	p. 275
Acceptances, Phase Space Window and Efficiencies	p. 276
Target Identification	p. 280
Summary and Final Remarks	p. 281
References	p. 284
High-p_T Hadron Suppression and Jet Quenching	p. 285
Introduction	p. 285
Jet Quenching and Parton Energy Loss in QCD Matter	p. 286
Parton Energy Loss Phenomenology	p. 296
High-p_T Leading Hadron Suppression: Data vs. Theory	p. 307
High-p_T Di-hadron Ø, ¿ Correlations: Data vs. Theory	p. 320
Jet Observables in AA Collisions	p. 325
Summary	p. 333
References	p. 334
In Search of the QCD—Gravity Correspondence	p. 341
Introduction	p. 341
QCD and Its Properties	p. 342
Black Holes	p. 349
Using Black Holes to Understand Gauge Theories	p. 351
Applications: Shear and Bulk Viscosities	p. 358
Limitations of the Present Approaches and Outlook	p. 366
References	p. 367
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