Strongly Interacting Matter Matter at Very High Energy Density: 3 Lectures in Zakopane
arXiv:1011.3203
Abstract
These lectures concern the properties of strongly interacting matter at very high energy density. I begin with the Color Glass Condensate and the Glasma, matter that controls the earliest times in hadronic collisions. I then describe the Quark Gluon Plasma, matter produced from the thermalized remnants of the Glasma. Finally, I describe high density baryonic matter, in particular Quarkyonic matter. The discussion will be intuitive and based on simple structural aspects of QCD. There will be some discussion of experimental tests of these ideas.
Presented at the 50'th Crakow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, June 2010