Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma

This book provides an accessible introduction to the rapidly expanding field of hadronic interactions and quark gluon plasma.

List of contents

Part I. A New Phase of Matter?: 1. Micro-bang: big bang in the laboratory; 2. Hadrons; 3. Vacuum as a physical medium; 4. Statistical properties of hadronic matter; Part II. Analysis Tools and Experiments: 5. Nuclei in collision; 6. Understanding collision dynamics; 7. Entropy and its relevance in heavy ion collisions; Part III. Particle Production: 8. Particle spectra; 9. Highlights of hadron production; Part IV. Hot Hadronic Matter: 10. Relativistic gas; 11. First look at hadronic gas; 12. Hagedorn gas; Part V. QCD, Hadronic Structure and High Temperature: 13. Hadronic structure and quantum chromodynamics; 14. Perturbative QCD; 15. Lattice quantum chromodynamics; 16. Perturbative quark-gluon plasma; Part VI. Strangeness: 17. Thermal flavor production in deconfined phase; 18. Strangeness background; 19. Hadron freeze-out analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Letessier, Jean (Universite De Paris VII (Denis Di Letessier, Jean (Universite de Paris VII (Denis Diderot)) Letessier, Letessier Jean, Johann Rafelski, Johann (University of Arizona) Rafelski, Rafelski Johann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781009290739
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0929073-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology; Cambridge Monographs on Partic
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, Nuclear physics