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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2022
      February 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009290753
      9781009290708
      9781009290739
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      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 414 Pages
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      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 414 Pages
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    Before matter as we know it emerged, the universe was filled with the primordial state of hadronic matter called quark–gluon plasma. This hot soup of quarks and gluons is effectively an inescapable consequence of our current knowledge about the fundamental hadronic interactions: quantum chromodynamics. This book covers the ongoing search to verify the prediction experimentally and discusses the physical properties of this novel form of matter. It begins with an overview of the subject, followed by a discussion of experimental methods and results. The second half of the book covers hadronic matter in confined and deconfined form, and strangeness as a signature of the quark-gluon phase. It is ideal as an introduction for graduate students, as well as providing a valuable reference for researchers already working in this and related fields. This title, first published in 2002, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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    'Letessier and Rafelski's book occupies a sparsely-populated niche. it contains a valuable toolkit for understanding the physics of heavy-ion collisions, and the properties of matter at the crucial temperature of around 100 MeV, where quarks are thought to escape their cages … an excellent book.'

    Mark Hindmarsh Source: The Observatory

    'The book offers a broad overview of the facilities around the world at which the relevant experiments have been carried out or are planned, and of the theoretical concepts and methods through which the results of these experiments can be interpreted. I am fairly sure that this volume will provide experts with a useful and timely summary of the state of their field, while sufficiently assiduous newcomers will find it a tolerably good starting point for further exploration.'

    Source: Contemporary Physics

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    Contents

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    • Frontmatter
      pp i-vi
    • Contents
      pp vii-x
    • Preamble
      pp xi-xvi
    • I - A new phase of matter?
      pp 1-1
    • 1 - Micro-bang and big-bang
      pp 1-24
    • 2 - Hadrons
      pp 24-37
    • 3 - The vacuum as a physical medium
      pp 37-54
    • 4 - Statistical properties of hadronic matter
      pp 54-71
    • II - Experiments and analysis tools
      pp 72-72
    • 5 - Nuclei in collision
      pp 72-100
    • 6 - Understanding collision dynamics
      pp 100-112
    • 7 - Entropy and its relevance in heavy–ion collisions
      pp 112-129
    • III - Particle production
      pp 130-130
    • 8 - Particle spectra
      pp 130-159
    • 9 - Highlights of hadron production
      pp 159-186
    • IV - Hot hadronic matter
      pp 187-187
    • 10 - Relativistic gas
      pp 187-207
    • 11 - Hadronic gas
      pp 207-235
    • 12 - Hagedorn gas
      pp 235-257
    • V - QCD, hadronic structure and high temperature
      pp 258-258
    • 13 - Hadronic structure and quantum chromodynamics
      pp 258-274
    • 14 - Perturbative QCD
      pp 274-287
    • 15 - Lattice quantum chromodynamics
      pp 287-303
    • 16 - Lattice quantum chromodynamics
      pp 303-315
    • VI - Strangeness
      pp 316-316
    • 17 - Thermal production of flavor in a deconfined phase
      pp 316-340
    • 18 - The strangeness background
      pp 340-352
    • 19 - Hadron-freeze-out analysis
      pp 352-370
    • References
      pp 371-388
    • Index
      pp 389-398

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