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High-pT Physics in the Heavy Ion Era [Kõva köide]

(Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York), (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
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Aimed at graduate students and researchers in the field of high-energy nuclear physics, this book provides an overview of the basic concepts of large transverse momentum particle physics, with a focus on pQCD phenomena. It examines high-pT probes of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and will serve as a handbook for those working on RHIC and LHC data analyses. Starting with an introduction and review of the field, the authors look at basic observables and experimental techniques, concentrating on relativistic particle kinematics, before moving onto a discussion about the origins of high-pT physics. The main features of high-pT physics are placed within a historical context and the authors adopt an experimental outlook, highlighting the most important discoveries leading up to the foundation of modern QCD theory. Advanced methods are described in detail, making this book especially useful for newcomers to the field.

Aimed at graduate students and new researchers in the field of high-energy nuclear physics, this book examines both high-pT physics and relativistic heavy ion collisions. It provides an overview of the basic concepts of large transverse momentum particle physics, adopting both an experimental and historical focus.

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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.
Preface ix
1 Introduction and overview
1(13)
1.1 Elementary particle physics
1(1)
1.2 The fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions
1(2)
1.3 A new paradigm for the structure of matter
3(1)
1.4 The particle zoo
4(1)
1.5 The first high pT physics, the search for the W boson
5(2)
1.6 From Bjorken scaling to QCD to the QGP
7(1)
1.7 Relativistic heavy ion collisions and the QGP
8(2)
1.8 High energy physics and techniques in the RHI physicist's toolkit
10(4)
2 Basic observables
14(14)
2.1 Observables
14(3)
2.2 Inclusive single particle reactions
17(8)
2.3 Semi-inclusive reactions - ET and multiplicity distributions
25(3)
3 Some experimental techniques
28(36)
3.1 Relation of observables to experimental techniques
28(1)
3.2 Some details of experimental technique and analysis
29(7)
3.3 Measurement of the momentum of a charged particle
36(6)
3.4 Lorentz transformations, kinematics, spectra of decay products
42(19)
3.5 Methods of direct single photon measurements
61(3)
4 The search for structure
64(21)
4.1 Rutherford scattering
64(4)
4.2 Hofstadter - measurement of radii of nuclei and the proton
68(5)
4.3 DIS - deeply inelastic electron scattering
73(7)
4.4 Sum rules, Bjorken scaling and the parton model
80(5)
5 Origins of high pT physics - the search for the W boson
85(8)
5.1 Why were some people studying "high pT" physics in the 1960s?
85(3)
5.2 The absence of high pT single leptons leads to lepton pair measurements
88(3)
5.3 The November revolution
91(2)
6 Discovery of hard scattering in p-p collisions
93(18)
6.1 Bjorken scaling and the parton model in p-p collisions
101(2)
6.2 ISR data, notably CCR 1972-1973
103(1)
6.3 Constituent interchange model (CIM), 1972
103(1)
6.4 First prediction using "QCD" 1975 - WRONG!
104(1)
6.5 Experimental improvements, theoretical improvements
105(1)
6.6 State of the art at Fermilab 1977 - but misleading!
106(5)
7 Direct single lepton production and the discovery of charm
111(15)
7.1 The CCRS experiment at the CERN-ISR
111(1)
7.2 Experimental issues in direct single lepton production
112(4)
7.3 The discovery of direct single lepton production
116(1)
7.4 The direct single electrons are the first observation of charm
116(10)
8 J / Ψ, Υ and Drell-Yan pair production
126(21)
8.1 Di-lepton production in the parton model: Drell-Yan pairs
126(1)
8.2 J / Ψ production
127(13)
8.3 Are J / Ψ and Υ production due to hard scattering?
140(2)
8.4 Measurements of Drell-Yan pair production
142(5)
9 Two particle correlations
147(27)
9.1 Hard scattering in the parton model
147(3)
9.2 Two particle correlation measurements
150(12)
9.3 Same-side and spectator region measurements
162(3)
9.4 Early direct searches for jets, isotropy of jT
165(4)
9.5 Symmetric di-hadron cross sections
169(2)
9.6 Measurement of dσab→cd /d cos θ for parton-parton scattering
171(3)
10 Direct photon production
174(16)
11 The search for jets
190(24)
11.1 Origins of ET - the search for jets
190(10)
11.2 Does history provide a guide for the future?
200(1)
11.3 The systematics of transverse energy emission in p-p and p-p collisions
201(5)
11.4 The use of ET distributions in p-p collisions: the study of jets
206(6)
11.5 Experimental issues
212(2)
12 QCD in hard scattering
214(30)
12.1 Status of theory and experiment circa 1982
214(1)
12.2 Jets since 1982
214(3)
12.3 The factorization theorem for pQCD
217(2)
12.4 Parton distribution and fragmentation functions
219(7)
12.5 Parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions in nuclei
226(3)
12.6 Elements of QCD for experimentalists
229(2)
12.7 Explicit tests of QCD: αs(Q2), Σab(cos)
231(6)
12.8 xT scaling
237(7)
13 Heavy ion physics in the high pT era
244(10)
13.1 Relativistic heavy ion collisions and dense nuclear matter
244(2)
13.2 Experimental issues in A + A compared to p-p collisions
246(8)
14 RHIC and LHC
254(48)
14.1 The road to RHIC
254(5)
14.2 Proposals for experiments
259(4)
14.3 Hard scattering at RHIC
263(30)
14.4 Hard scattering at the LHC
293(7)
14.5 Conclusion
300(2)
Appendix A Probability and statistics 302(16)
Appendix B Methods of Monte Carlo calculations 318(15)
Appendix C TAB and the Glauber Monte Carlo calculation 333(3)
Appendix D Fits including systematic errors 336(12)
Appendix E The shape of the xE distribution triggered by a jet fragment, for example, π0 348(9)
Appendix F kT phenomenology and Gaussian smearing 357(3)
References 360(24)
Index 384
Jan Rak is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physics at Jyväskylä University, Finland. He is also project leader of ALICE/CERN for Finland and was involved in the CERES/SPS experiment at CERN, Switzerland and the PHENIX experiment at the RHIC, USA. Michael J. Tannenbaum is a Senior Scientist within the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His achievements include measurement of the statistics of the muon, and discoveries in hard-scattering of quarks and gluons at the CERN-ISR which he applied to the discovery of jet-quenching in collisions of nuclei at the RHIC, USA.