Quark--Gluon Plasma: Invited Lectures of Winter School, Puri, Orissa, India, December 5-16, 1989

ISBN-13: 9783540519843 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 344 str.

Bikash Sinha; Santanu Pal; Sibaji Raha

Opis

Quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a state of matter predicted by the theory of strong interactions, or quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Intended for use by graduate students or physicists, this book cites specific examples in order to show how theoretical predictions may not always correspond.

Spis treści

An Introduction to the Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Interactions.- Hadron Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Interactions and the Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma.- Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma.- Quarks and Gluons in Hadrons and Nuclei.- Early Universe and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.- The Astrophysics and Cosmology of Quark-Gluon Plasma.

O autorze

Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state of matter predicted by Quantum Chromodynamics, is expected to be formed in ultra- relativistic heavy ion collisions. In the standard hot Big Bang cosmology, the Universe may have existed in this phase up to about 1 µsec after the initial singularity. The cores of collapsed massive stars may contain QGP. The subject of QGP has thus been a meeting ground of physicists from several sub-disciplines - particle and nuclear physics, statistical physics, astrophysics and cosmology.