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High pT physics in the heavy ion era / Jan Rak, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Michael J. Tannenbaum, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; 34.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107341074
  • 1107341078
  • 1107344824
  • 9781107344822
  • 9780511675720
  • 0511675720
  • 9781299634695
  • 1299634699
  • 9781107356948
  • 1107356946
  • 9781107347328
  • 1107347327
  • 1107232627
  • 9781107232624
  • 1107343577
  • 9781107343573
  • 1107348579
  • 9781107348578
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: High-pT physics in the heavy ion eraDDC classification:
  • 539.7/3 23
LOC classification:
  • QC794.8.H4 R35 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction and overview -- 1.1 Elementary particle physics -- 1.2 The fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions -- 1.3 A new paradigm for the structure of matter -- 1.4 The particle zoo -- 1.5 The first high pT physics, the search for the W boson -- 1.6 From Bjorken scaling to QCD to the QGP -- 1.7 Relativistic heavy ion collisions and the QGP -- 1.8 High energy physics and techniques in the RHI physicist's toolkit -- 2 Basic observables -- 2.1 Observables -- 2.2 Inclusive single particle reactions -- 2.3 Semi-inclusive reactions -- ET and multiplicity distributions -- 3 Some experimental techniques -- 3.1 Relation of observables to experimental techniques -- 3.2 Some details of experimental technique and analysis -- 3.3 Measurement of the momentum of a charged particle -- 3.4 Lorentz transformations, kinematics, spectra of decay products -- 3.5 Methods of direct single photon measurements -- 4 The search for structure -- 4.1 Rutherford scattering -- 4.2 Hofstadter -- measurement of radii of nuclei and the proton -- 4.3 DIS -- deeply inelastic electron scattering -- 4.4 Sum rules, Bjorken scaling and the parton model -- 5 Origins of high pT physics -- the search for the W boson -- 5.1 Why were some people studying "high pT " physics in the 1960s? -- 5.2 The absence of high pT single leptons leads to lepton pair measurements -- 5.3 The November revolution -- 6 Discovery of hard scattering in p-p collisions -- 6.1 Bjorken scaling and the parton model in p-p collisions -- 6.2 ISR data, notably CCR 1972-1973 -- 6.3 Constituent interchange model (CIM), 1972 -- 6.4 First prediction using "QCD" 1975 -WRONG! -- 6.5 Experimental improvements, theoretical improvements -- 6.6 State of the art at Fermilab 1977 -- but misleading! -- 7 Direct single lepton production and the discovery of charm.
Summary: One of few books to address both high-pT physics and relativistic heavy ion collisions. Essential handbook for graduates and researchers.
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One of few books to address both high-pT physics and relativistic heavy ion collisions. Essential handbook for graduates and researchers.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction and overview -- 1.1 Elementary particle physics -- 1.2 The fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions -- 1.3 A new paradigm for the structure of matter -- 1.4 The particle zoo -- 1.5 The first high pT physics, the search for the W boson -- 1.6 From Bjorken scaling to QCD to the QGP -- 1.7 Relativistic heavy ion collisions and the QGP -- 1.8 High energy physics and techniques in the RHI physicist's toolkit -- 2 Basic observables -- 2.1 Observables -- 2.2 Inclusive single particle reactions -- 2.3 Semi-inclusive reactions -- ET and multiplicity distributions -- 3 Some experimental techniques -- 3.1 Relation of observables to experimental techniques -- 3.2 Some details of experimental technique and analysis -- 3.3 Measurement of the momentum of a charged particle -- 3.4 Lorentz transformations, kinematics, spectra of decay products -- 3.5 Methods of direct single photon measurements -- 4 The search for structure -- 4.1 Rutherford scattering -- 4.2 Hofstadter -- measurement of radii of nuclei and the proton -- 4.3 DIS -- deeply inelastic electron scattering -- 4.4 Sum rules, Bjorken scaling and the parton model -- 5 Origins of high pT physics -- the search for the W boson -- 5.1 Why were some people studying "high pT " physics in the 1960s? -- 5.2 The absence of high pT single leptons leads to lepton pair measurements -- 5.3 The November revolution -- 6 Discovery of hard scattering in p-p collisions -- 6.1 Bjorken scaling and the parton model in p-p collisions -- 6.2 ISR data, notably CCR 1972-1973 -- 6.3 Constituent interchange model (CIM), 1972 -- 6.4 First prediction using "QCD" 1975 -WRONG! -- 6.5 Experimental improvements, theoretical improvements -- 6.6 State of the art at Fermilab 1977 -- but misleading! -- 7 Direct single lepton production and the discovery of charm.

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