Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in high energy heavy-ion physics. It is relevant for students who will work on RHIC and the LHC.

In the first part, the cross-sections (including the quark model and the parton distribution functions), the geometry of nuclear collisions, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and related aspects of lattice gauge theory at finite temperature.

The second part covers some high-energy thermal dileptons, quarkonium and hadronization. The second part of the study. Both parts contain examples in the text.

- Designed for students and newcomers to the field
- Focuses on hard probes and QCD
- Covers all aspects of high energy heavy-ion physics
- Includes worked example problems and exercises

Preface
Contents
I. Basics
1. Kinematics and invariants
2. Cross sections
3. Geometry
4. Thermodynamics
5. Hydrodynamics
6. Lattice gauge theory
II. Probes
7. Thermal dileptons
8. Quarkonium
9. Hadronization
Bibliography
index