Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions - WS 2010-2011

Every Thursday, 9:30-12:00, at GSI

Plan (and location) of the lectures:

• 21.10.10 (Seitenraum): Introduction: units, concepts, scope and method, global observables Slides
• 11.11.10 (SB3 4.161): Kinematics and Glauber model Slides and Notes
• 18.11.10 (Seitenraum): Glauber model (cont.), applications, examples Notes and Slides ...and Darek's code
• 25.11.10 (Seitenraum): The phase diagram of QCD, Equation of state, equilibration Notes
• 02.12.10 (C24 2.011): Statistical model Slides and Notes and particle production at chemical freeze-out Slides
• 09.12.10 (SB3 4.161): Chiral symmetry Notes and Slides and hydrodynamical model Notes Slides
• 16.12.10 (Seitenraum): Relativistic hydro and initial conditions; Notes and Slides; collective flow (radial and elliptic), data and hydro Slides
• 13.01.11 (Seitenraum): Measurement of sizes: Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry Slides
• 20.01.11 (C27 1.004): Hydro completion theory (viscosity) Slides; HBT theory Slides
• 27.01.11 (Seitenraum): Generation of mass, dilepton spectra and connection to chiral symmetry Notes Slides CMS dimuon spectrum
• 03.02.11 (Seitenraum): Jets and high-momentum particles Notes and Slides; Experimental Slides
• 10.02.11 (SB3 4.161): Heavy quarks Slides; Experimental Slides
• 17.02.11 (Seitenraum): Wrap-up Slides, Experimental Slides; questions, discussion (of exercises); Detectors Slides

• Wojciech Florkowski, Phenomenology or Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, World Scientific, 2010.
• Ramona Vogt, Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Elsevier, 2007
• Material from a previous course by B.Friman and J.Knoll
• A collection of articles and reviews
• TU Seminar WS 2010/2011: Relativistische Schwerionenphysik
• Lectures on "Structure of hadrons and nuclei" (P.Braun-Munzinger, A.Andronic)

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