- Description:
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The goal of this subject is to introduce students the principles of physics of heavy-ion collisions at large energies. Students will gain insight into phases of a nuclear collision, properties of the created matter (quark-gluon plasma (QGP)), probes which contain information about the QGP and other phases of the collision, and knowledge that these signals brought to us based on the recent measurements at present experiments.
- Contents:
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1. General introduction to heavy-ion collisions
2. Mechanisms of particle production
3. Physics of light and heavy quarks
4. Jet quenching
5. Jets
6. Flow
7. Correlations, fluctuations
8. Electro-magnetic probes
9. Small collision systems
- Recommended literature:
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Key references:
[1] S. Sarkar, H. Satz and B. Sinha, The physics of the quark-gluon plasma, Lecture notes in physics, Vol. 785 (2010)
[2] H. Satz, Extreme States of Matter in Strong Interaction Physics: An Introduction, Springer (2012)
Recommended references:
[3] J. Rak, M. J. Tannenbaum, High- pT Physics in the Heavy Ion Era, Cambridge University Press (2013)
[4] J. Rafelski, Melting hadrons, boiling quarks, Springer (2016)
- Keywords:
- Heavy-ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma.
Abbreviations used:
Semester:
- W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
- S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
- W,S ... both semesters
Mode of completion of the course:
- A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
- GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
- EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
- A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)
Weekly load (hours per week):
- P ... lecture
- C ... seminar
- L ... laboratory
- R ... proseminar
- S ... seminar