Heavy Ion Physics




Time/place: Lecture (eKVV):  Tue 08:15-10:00 (in D6-135)
Tutorials (eKVV):  Fri 9:00-10:00 (in D6-135)
→  link to the Zoom meeting room  (meeting ID: 970 0430 2724; password sent by email)

Instructor: Nicolas Borghini (borghini at physik dot uni-bielefeld dot de) E6-123
Tutor:  Marc Borrell
 
Oral exam, registration at the end of the semester
Homepage:   http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~borghini/Teaching/HIC/
 
News: none 
 
Prerequisites:  Basic knowledge in
  Special Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics & Statistical physics, and Particle Physics
will be helpful
 
Literature: * A.K. Chaudhuri,  A short course on relativistic heavy ion collisions  (shorter online version)
* L.P. Csernai,  Introduction to relativistic heavy-ion collisions  (online version)
* W. Florkowski,  Phenomenology of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions
* S. Sarkar, H. Satz, B. Sinha (eds.),  The physics of the quark-gluon plasma 
* C.-Y. Wong,  Introduction to high-energy heavy-ion collisions
 
Planned content: After a general introduction to the main existing or planned experimental programmes and to the overarching theoretical particle-physics motivation, the lectures will focus on the so-called "global observables" that are used to describe the collective behavior of the system created in collisions of heavy nuclei at high energies. The main theoretical approaches and models developed to make predictions for these observables will be introduced.

Topics will include: kinematics, multiplicity, collective flow, femtoscopy, hadrochemistry; relativistic fluid dynamics & kinetic transport, models for the initial state
 
 April 21  Preliminaries;  Introduction: motivation for high-energy heavy-ion collisions
           → further reading:  QCD made simple  by Frank Wilczek
 April 28  Kinematics
 May 5  Multiplicity, Glauber model in pA collisions
 May 12  Glauber model in AA collisions, centrality
 May 19  Anisotropic flow: basics
 May 26  Anisotropic flow: measurement with cumulants or Lee-Yang zeroes
 June 2  Radial flow. Dynamical models for transverse flow (1)
              Relativistic fluid dynamics primer: perfect fluids
 June 9  Fluid dynamical modeling of the fireball
              Relativistic fluid dynamics primer: dissipative fluids
 June 16  Phase diagram "trajectory" of the fireball
               Classical kinetic theory
 June 23  Particlization; kinetic theory in heavy ion collisions
 June 30  Femtoscopy
           → further reading:  Size matters  by Mike Lisa
 July 7  Hadrochemistry
 July 14  Initial state / early stages
 

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