Phenomenology of heavy ion collisions: selected topics




Lecturer: Nicolas Borghini (borghini at physik dot uni-bielefeld dot de) E6-123

Time/place: Mon. & Wed. 10:00-12:00 in D6-135

Homepage:   http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~borghini/Teaching/HIC09
 
News: First lecture on Wed., April 15th
 
Literature: •  J.-P.Blaizot, E.Iancu (eds.), QCD perspectives on hot and dense matter
    (links to online available contributions)
•  L.P.Csernai, Introduction to relativistic heavy-ion collisions
•  R.C.Hwa (ed.), Quark-gluon plasma (3 volumes, 4th one in preparation)
    (links to online available contributions)
•  J.Letessier, J.Rafelski, Hadrons and quark-gluon plasma
•  R.Vogt, Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
•  C.-Y.Wong, Introduction to high-energy heavy-ion collisions
•  K.Yagi, T.Hatsude, Y.Miake, Quark-gluon plasma

Content: •  Introduction: motivation, experimental programmes, kinematics
•  Global observables: multiplicity, collective flow, hadrochemistry
•  Hard probes: jet quenching, quarkonium suppression, photons...
•  Models: Introduction to ideal relativistic fluid dynamics

Some links: The online version of the Review of Particle Physics
Experimental collaborations:
   • at RHIC, BRAHMS, PHENIX, PHOBOS & STAR;
   • at LHC, ALICE, ATLAS heavy ion group, & CMS heavy ion group.