called quark–gluon plasma. This hot soup of quarks and gluons
is effectively an inescapable consequence of our current knowledge
about the fundamental hadronic interactions: quantum
chromodynamics. This book covers the ongoing search to verify the
prediction experimentally and discusses the physical properties of
this novel form of matter. It begins with an overview of the
subject, followed by discussion of experimental methods and
results. The second half of the book covers hadronic matt
目錄:
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.