Hadrons and Quark–Gluon Plasma
By J. Letessier, J. Rafelski. 2002
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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.
Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Hydrodynamic Approaches in Relativistic Heavy Ion Reactions (2015, background): “Many theoretical investigations on possible QGP signals in relativistic heavy ion collisions were proposed, such as strangeness enhancement [57], J/Ψ suppression [58], restoration of chiral symmetry [59], jet quenching [60] and so on [61, 62].”
- Polyakov loop modeling for hot QCD (2017, background): “aders can consult Refs. [10,11,12] for phenomenological implications of the Polyakov loop to the QGP physics. Several established textbooks are also available to study the heavy-ion collision physics [13,14,15,16]. One might be wondering why we do not touch the lattice-QCD results in this review. Th”