Course Information:

Offered as block course from 17^th to 23^rd of August

Link to TUCaN

Aim of the Course:

Overview of the physics of (ultra-)relativistic heavy-ion collisions with emphasis on experimental results

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Themes:

• Introduction
• Kinematics
• Accelerators and the design of experiments
• Measurement of global observables and the Glauber Model
• Nucleon-Nucleon and Nucleus-Nucleus collisions
• Collective effects
• Measurement of hadron yields and the statistical model of particle production at chemical freeze-out
• Thermodynamics
• Chiral symmetry and the generation of mass
• Dilepton spectra at low mass and thermal photons
• The physics of charm
• Jets and high-momentum particles
• Wrap-up: questions, discussion of key points

Literature:

• F. Halzen and A.D. Martin, Quarks and leptons: an introductory course in modern particle physics, Wiley, 1984
• D. Perkins, Hochenergiephysik, Addison-Wesley, 1991
• E.M. Henley and A. Garcia, Subatomic Physics, World Scientific Publishing, 2007
• J. Rafelski and J. Letessier, “Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma”, Cambridge University Press