Selected topics of relativistic ion collisions

Course guarantor:

Jana Bielčíková

Lecturer:

Jana Bielčíková, Iurii Karpenko, Barbara Antonina Trzeciak

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Physics

Synopsis:

The aim of the lecture is to discuss in more detail the physics of the extreme state of nuclear matter created during relativistic collisions of heavy ions. The course will cover selected topics in the physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions. Emphasis will be placed on the applications of thermodynamic and statistical physics to high-energy collisions of heavy ions and the description of the medium using hydrodynamic theory. In addition, the mean parton energy loss and the related concept of jet quenching will also be discussed. The course will be supplemented with calculation exercises.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Kinematics and invariants in high-energy collisions.

2. Nuclear density distribution, geometry of heavy ion collisions.

3. Thermodynamics in the context of relativistic nuclear collisions.

4. Phase diagram of nuclear matter.

5. Phase transitions in nuclear physics.

6. Basics of the Blast-wave model.

7. Introduction to relativistic hydrodynamics.

8. Analytical solutions of relativistic hydrodynamics.

9. Basics of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics.

10. Hydrodynamic approach to relativistic collisions of heavy ions.

11. Hadronization and particle production in relativistic collisions of heavy ions.

12. Theory of parton energy losses in the medium.

13. Quenching of jets in relativistic nuclear collisions

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

The aim of the lecture is to discuss in more detail the physics of the extreme state of nuclear matter created during relativistic collisions of heavy ions. The course will cover selected topics in the physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions. Emphasis will be placed on the applications of thermodynamic and statistical physics to high-energy collisions of heavy ions and the description of the medium using hydrodynamic theory. In addition, the mean parton energy loss and the related concept of jet quenching will also be discussed. The course will be supplemented with calculation exercises.

Study materials:

Required literature:

[1] Extreme States of Matter in Strong Interaction Physics; Helmut Satz, Lecture Notes in Physics 945, Springer 2018,

ISBN 978-3-319-71894-1

[2] Short Course of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, A K Chaudhuri, IOP Publishing 2014, ISBN 978-0-750-31061-1

[3] The CBM Physics Book, Springer 2011

Recommended literature:

[4] Discoveries at the Frontiers of Science: Springer March 2020

[5] Ramona Vogt, Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Elsevier 2007

Note:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: