Jean Letessier, Johann Rafelski

Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 890g
• ISBN-13: 9781009290708
• ISBN-10: 1009290703
• Artikelnr.: 66279943

Inhaltsangabe

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.