Course Code
P475
Credit
8
Prerequisite
Total Hours
42 Lectures + 14 Tutorials
Outcome of the Course
This course provides the basic background for relativistic nuclear scattering processes and physics of quark gluon plasma.
Approval
Syllabus
- Introduction to high energy heavy ion collisions and Quark-Gluon-Plasma, comparison of big bang and the little bang
- Thermodynamics: Relativistic gas (hadrons, quarks and gluons) and its statistical and thermodynamical properties, MIT Bag model, Hagedorn gas, phase diagram of QCD
- Relativistic Kinematics: four vectors notation, rapidity variables, pseudo rapidity variables, light cone variables, relativistic invariants, Dalitz plot, cross sections
- Collision Dynamics: initial state of nuclear collisions, fluid dynamical evolution, kinetic transport model, freeze-out and particle production
- Experiments: a general overview of different experimental setup related to search for QGP and relevant observables
- Signatures of QGP: collective flow, J/Ψ suppression, strangeness enhancement, jet quenching, electromagnetic probes, Hanbury-Brown-Twiss measurement
- Recent progress
Reference Books
- Hadrons and QGP by Letterssier and Rafelski
- Introduction to High Energy Heavy Ion Collissions by C. Y. Wong
- Phenomenology of Ultra Relativistic Heavy Ion Collissions by W Florkowski
- Ultra relativistic heavy ion collisions by R. Vogt
- Introduction to relativistic heavy ion collisions, by L. P. Csernai
- A Short Course On Relativistic Heavy Ion Collission by A. K. Chaudhuri
- Extreme states of matter in strong interaction physics by Helmut Satz
- Relativistic Hydrodynamics by L. Rezzolla and O. Zanotti
- Finite Temperature Field Theory by J. I. Kapusta and C. Gale
- The Early Universe by Kolb and Turner
- Fantastic Realitis by Frank Wilczek
- Research Reports in Physics, Quark Gluon Plasma, Invited lectures of Winter School, Published by Springer Verlag, Editors - B. Sinha, S. Pal and S. Raha
- The Physics of Quark Gluon Plasma, Introductory lectures, Lecture Notes in Physics 785, Publisher - Springer, Editor - S. Sarkar, H. Satz and B. Sinha
- Quark Gluon Plasma - From big bang to little bang, K. Yagi, T. Hatsuda, Y. Miake, Cam- bridge Monograms on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology
- Quark Gluon Plasma: Theoretical Foundations, An annotated reprint collection - J. Ka- pusta, B. Muller and J. Rafelski, Publisher - Elsevier Science