Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma / / Jean Letessier, Johann Rafelski.

• VerfasserIn: Letessier, Jean,; Rafelski, Johann,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rafelski, Johann,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, England : : Cambridge University Press,, [2023]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 397 pages)

This volume explores the primordial state of hadronic matter called quark-gluon plasma. It covers the ongoing search to verify the prediction experimentally and discusses the physical properties of this novel form of matter. This 2002 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Table 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.