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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2022
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009290753
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Book description

Before matter as we know it emerged, the universe was filled with the primordial state of hadronic matter 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 a discussion of experimental methods and results. The second half of the book covers hadronic matter in confined and deconfined form, and strangeness as a signature of the quark-gluon phase. It is ideal as an introduction for graduate students, as well as providing a valuable reference for researchers already working in this and related fields. This title, first published in 2002, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Reviews

'Letessier and Rafelski's book occupies a sparsely-populated niche. it contains a valuable toolkit for understanding the physics of heavy-ion collisions, and the properties of matter at the crucial temperature of around 100 MeV, where quarks are thought to escape their cages … an excellent book.'

Mark Hindmarsh Source: The Observatory

'The book offers a broad overview of the facilities around the world at which the relevant experiments have been carried out or are planned, and of the theoretical concepts and methods through which the results of these experiments can be interpreted. I am fairly sure that this volume will provide experts with a useful and timely summary of the state of their field, while sufficiently assiduous newcomers will find it a tolerably good starting point for further exploration.'

Source: Contemporary Physics

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-x
  • Preamble
    pp xi-xvi
  • I - A new phase of matter?
    pp 1-1
  • 1 - Micro-bang and big-bang
    pp 1-24
  • 2 - Hadrons
    pp 24-37
  • 3 - The vacuum as a physical medium
    pp 37-54
  • 4 - Statistical properties of hadronic matter
    pp 54-71
  • II - Experiments and analysis tools
    pp 72-72
  • 5 - Nuclei in collision
    pp 72-100
  • 6 - Understanding collision dynamics
    pp 100-112
  • 7 - Entropy and its relevance in heavy–ion collisions
    pp 112-129
  • III - Particle production
    pp 130-130
  • 8 - Particle spectra
    pp 130-159
  • 9 - Highlights of hadron production
    pp 159-186
  • IV - Hot hadronic matter
    pp 187-187
  • 10 - Relativistic gas
    pp 187-207
  • 11 - Hadronic gas
    pp 207-235
  • 12 - Hagedorn gas
    pp 235-257
  • V - QCD, hadronic structure and high temperature
    pp 258-258
  • 13 - Hadronic structure and quantum chromodynamics
    pp 258-274
  • 14 - Perturbative QCD
    pp 274-287
  • 15 - Lattice quantum chromodynamics
    pp 287-303
  • 16 - Lattice quantum chromodynamics
    pp 303-315
  • VI - Strangeness
    pp 316-316
  • 17 - Thermal production of flavor in a deconfined phase
    pp 316-340
  • 18 - The strangeness background
    pp 340-352
  • 19 - Hadron-freeze-out analysis
    pp 352-370
  • References
    pp 371-388
  • Index
    pp 389-398

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