Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Author: Ramona Vogt

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2007-06-04

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0080525369

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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 topics being explored at RHIC and the LHC. In the first part, the basic principles of these studies are covered including kinematics, cross sections (including the quark model and parton distribution functions), the geometry of nuclear collisions, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and relevant aspects of lattice gauge theory at finite temperature. The second part covers some more specific probes of heavy-ion collisions at these energies: high mass thermal dileptons, quarkonium and hadronization. The second part also serves as extended examples of concepts learned in the previous part. Both parts contain examples in the text as well as exercises at the end of each chapter.- 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


The Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier

The Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier

Author: Antonino Zichichi

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9814374113

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Hot Theoretical Topics: Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity (L J Dixon); Is the Best Superstring Model NP Complete? (M R Douglas); Erice Lecture on Microscopic Gravity (G Dvali); Supergravity: Foundations and Applications (S Ferrara); Orienfold String Vacua and Strings at the LHC (D Luest); Seminar on Specialized Topics: Status of Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics (A Bettini); Experimental Evidence for Pointlike Baryons at q2 = 4MB2 (S Pacetti); Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, Baryon Asymmetry and Inflation can be Explained at Once (M Shaposhnikov); Results from RHIC with Implications for LHC (M J Tannenbaum); Quantum Gravity without Space-Time Singularities or Horizons (G 't Hooft); Diffraction in Deep Inelastic Electron Proton Scattering at HERA (G Wolf); The Lesson Needed for the Future (A Zichichi); Highlights from Laboratories: Highlights from RHIC (P R Sorensen); The LHC and Beyond — The Energy Frontier (R D Heuer); Highlights from the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (E Coccia); Highlights from Fermilab (S J Parke); Special Sessions for New Talents: Radiation Damage Studies for Silicon Sensors for the XFEL (H Perrey); Notes on Chern–Simons Theory in the Temporal Gauge (A Smirnov); Dark Matter via Many Copies of the Standard Model (A Vikman).


Quarks, Symmetries And Strings - A Symposium In Honor Of Bunji Sakita's 60th Birthday

Quarks, Symmetries And Strings - A Symposium In Honor Of Bunji Sakita's 60th Birthday

Author: Michio Kaku

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1991-04-30

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9814569283

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Quarks, Symmetries and Strings is a book that reflects the rich diversity of current research in physics: it describes quantum chromodynamics, quark phenomenology, superstring theory, supersymmetry, matrix models, statistical methods, superconductivity and neural networks. The book also reflects the diversity of Dr Bunji Sakita's scientific work. Dr Sakita has made seminal contributions in many of these areas. The book celebrates the many path-breaking ideas he pioneered which still cross-fertilize many of the most active areas of current research.


Study of the Inclusive Beauty Production at CMS and Construction and Commissioning of the CMS Pixel Barrel Detector

Study of the Inclusive Beauty Production at CMS and Construction and Commissioning of the CMS Pixel Barrel Detector

Author: Lea Caminada

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 3642245625

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This thesis describes one of the first measurements made at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. The method of analysis described in the first part is applied to the first CMS collision data collected after the LHC startup in 2010 and leads to the first experimental result for the inclusive b cross section using semileptonic decays at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV. The second part of the thesis describes the building and testing of the barrel pixel detector; the author herself played an important role in its construction, commissioning and first exploitation. The CMS collaboration Thesis Award Committee selected this work as the best thesis of the year 2010


Non-perturbative Effective Interactions in the Standard Model

Non-perturbative Effective Interactions in the Standard Model

Author: Boris A. Arbuzov

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3110305216

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This monograph is devoted to the nonperturbative dynamics in the Standard Model (SM), the basic theory of allfundamental interactions in nature except gravity. The Standard Model is divided into two parts: the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the electro-weak theory (EWT) are well-defined renormalizable theories in which the perturbation theory is valid. However, for the adequate description of the real physics nonperturbative effects are inevitable. This book describes how these nonperturbative effects may be obtained in the framework of spontaneous generation of effective interactions. The well-known example of such effective interaction is provided by the famous Nambu-Jona-Lasinio effective interaction. Also a spontaneous generation of this interaction in the framework of QCD is described and applied to the method for other effective interactions in QCD and EWT. The method is based on N.N. Bogoliubov's conception of compensation equations. As a result we then describe the principal features of the Standard Model, e.g. Higgs sector, and significant nonperturbative effects including recent results obtained at LHC and TEVATRON.


Quantum Chromodynamics

Quantum Chromodynamics

Author: B. L. Ioffe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 1139484850

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Aimed at graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics, this book presents the modern theory of strong interaction: quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The book exposes various perturbative and nonperturbative approaches to the theory, including chiral effective theory, the problems of anomalies, vacuum tunnel transitions, and the problem of divergence of the perturbative series. The QCD sum rules approach is exposed in detail. A great variety of hadronic properties (masses of mesons and baryons, magnetic moments, form factors, quark distributions in hadrons, etc.) have been found using this method. The evolution of hadronic structure functions is presented in detail, together with polarization phenomena. The problem of jets in QCD is treated through theoretical description and experimental observation. The connection with Regge theory is emphasized. The book covers many aspects of theory which are not discussed in other books, such as CET, QCD sum rules, and BFKL.


Baryons '92 - International Conference On The Structure Of Baryons And Related Mesons

Baryons '92 - International Conference On The Structure Of Baryons And Related Mesons

Author: Moshe Gai

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993-03-24

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9814554219

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This book covers major themes in the spectroscopy of baryons, some light mesons, and involves some limited discussion of baryons in nuclei. A comprehensive review of theoretical models is included. All currently operating accelerator facilities and future facilities of the 1990s are reviewed, with experimental programs discussed in detail.


Physics Of Elementary Interactions - Proceedings Of The Xiii Warsaw Symposium On Elementary Particle Physics

Physics Of Elementary Interactions - Proceedings Of The Xiii Warsaw Symposium On Elementary Particle Physics

Author: Stefan Pokorski

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1991-03-29

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9814569356

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This volume contains reviews and new theoretical and experimental results on the following topics: testing the standard model, electroweak symmetry breaking and Higgs boson physics, rare decays, CP violation, oscillations, physics of strong interactions, physics beyond the standard model.