A short introduction to heavy-ion physics
arXiv:1508.01136
Abstract
Heavy-ion collisions provide the only laboratory tests of relativistic quantum field theory at finite temperature. Understanding these is a necessary step in understanding the origins of our universe. These lectures introduce the subject to experimental particle physicists, in the hope that they will be useful to others as well. The phase diagram of QCD is briefly touched upon. Kinematic variables which arise in the collisions of heavy-ions beyond those in the collisions of protons or electrons are introduced. Finally, a few of the signals studied in heavy-ion collisions, and the kind of physics questions which they open up are discussed.
Lectures delivered at the Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, Puri, India, November 2014
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- Suppression of elliptic flow in a minimally viscous quark-gluon plasma
- Thermal Dileptons at LHC
- Heavy-Quark Kinetics in the QGP at LHC
- Observation of sequential Upsilon suppression in PbPb collisions
- Scale for the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics
- QCD Phase Transition in a Strong Magnetic Background
- Freeze-out Conditions in Heavy Ion Collisions from QCD Thermodynamics
- QCD at finite chemical potential with six time slices
- The QCD equation of state in background magnetic fields
- Translation of collision geometry fluctuations into momentum anisotropies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
- The centrality dependence of elliptic flow, the hydrodynamic limit, and the viscosity of hot QCD
- Event-by-event hydrodynamics and elliptic flow from fluctuating initial state
- Real time evolution of non-Gaussian cumulants in the QCD critical regime
- Light quark energy loss in strongly-coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
- Eccentricity fluctuation effects on elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Microscopic Origin of \boldmath{} Symmetry Violation in the High Temperature Phase of QCD
- Non-thermal p/pi ratio at LHC as a consequence of hadronic final state interactions
- Two-color QCD with staggered fermions at finite temperature under the influence of a magnetic field
- Strangeness production from SPS to LHC
- Measurement of higher cumulants of net-charge multiplicity distributions in AuAu collisions at GeV
- Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions from AdS/CFT Correspondence
- Thermal Conductivity and Chiral Critical Point in Heavy Ion Collisions
- Complex Langevin dynamics and other approaches at finite chemical potential
- Calculating the Jet Quenching Parameter in Lattice Gauge Theory
- Finite-size scaling as a tool in the search for the QCD critical point in heavy ion data
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