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Informationen zum Autor Jan Rak is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physics at Jyväskylä University, Finland. He is also project leader of ALICE/CERN for Finland and was involved in the CERES/SPS experiment at CERN, Switzerland and the PHENIX experiment at the RHIC, USA. Klappentext One of few books to address both high-pT physics and relativistic heavy ion collisions. Essential handbook for graduates and researchers. Zusammenfassung Aimed at graduate students and new researchers in the field of high-energy nuclear physics! this book examines both high-pT physics and relativistic heavy ion collisions. It provides an overview of the basic concepts of large transverse momentum particle physics! adopting both an experimental and historical focus. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Basic observables; 3. Some experimental techniques; 4. The search for structure; 5. Origins of high pT physics - the search for the W boson; 6. Discovery of hard scattering in p-p collisions; 7. Direct single lepton production and the discovery of charm; 8. J/ ¿, u and Drell-Yan pair production; 9. Two particle correlations; 10. Direct photon production; 11. The search for jets; 12. QCD in hard scattering; 13. Heavy ion physics in the high pT era; 14. RHIC and LHC; Appendix A. Probability and statistics; Appendix B. Methods of Monte Carlo calculations; Appendix C. TAB and the Glauber Monte Carlo calculation; Appendix D. Fits including systematic errors; Appendix E. The shape of the xE distribution triggered by a jet fragment, for example, ¿0; Appendix F. kT phenomenology and Gaussian smearing; References; Index.
