Global Properties of Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

Abstract

In this lecture note, we discuss the global properties of nucleus-nucleus collisions. After a brief introduction to heavy-ion collisions, we introduce useful kinematics and then discuss the bulk hadron production in A+A collisions. At the end we discuss the hadronization and hadronic freeze-out in A+A collisions. We have tried to cover the topic from very fundamental arguments especially for the beginners in the field. We also give very useful formulae frequently used by experimentalists, from a first principle derivation.

84 pages, 34 figures; Lecture given at the QGP Winter School, Jaipur, India, Feb.1-3, 2008; To appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Physics

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