Introduction to High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
Introduction to High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
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DOI：
10.1088/0954-3899/22/1/015
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发表时间：
1996
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H. Stöcker
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H. Stöcker
作者成功地编写了一本关于超相对论重离子碰撞（RHICs）这一新领域的平衡教科书。这本书主要适合理论导向的研究生和研究人员（理论家和实验物理学家）。在介绍了必要的运动学变量和描述了核子-核子碰撞的现象学之后，作者继续阐明与RHIC研究有关的高能粒子物理的各种概念。其中包括硬散射模型，Schwinger粒子产生机制，经典弦模型和对偶部分子模型。然后，他专注于夸克-胶子等离子体（QGP）的概念，并概述了格点规范理论的方法和结果。本书的最后几章致力于通过重离子碰撞及其可能的签名创建QGP。作者详细地讨论了双轻子的产生、抑制、光子的产生、Hanbury-Brown-Twiss干涉和奇异度增强。这本书写得非常好，我可以推荐给所有对RHIC领域感兴趣的研究生和研究人员。然而，这本书有一个缺点：它侧重于能量区域E > 200 GeV/核子和更高的重离子物理学。强子气体的物理，重要的RHICs在欧洲核子研究中心的后期阶段和占主导地位的BEVALAC/SIS/AGS范围内的束能量，被忽略了。为了获得RHIC整个领域的概述，读者可以补充阅读L·切尔奈的《相对论重离子碰撞导论》这本介绍性教科书。
The author has succeeded in writing a well-balanced textbook of the new field of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (RHICs). The book is primarily suited to theoretically oriented graduate students and researchers (both theorists and experimental physicists). After introducing the necessary kinematical variables and describing the phenomenology of nucleon--nucleon collisions, the author proceeds to elucidate various concepts of high-energy particle physics which are relevant to the study of RHICs. Among these are the hard-scattering model, the Schwinger particle production mechanism, the classical string model and the dual parton model. He then focuses on the concept of the quark--gluon plasma (QGP) and gives an overview of the methods and results of lattice gauge theory. The final chapters of the book are devoted to the creation of a QGP via heavy-ion collisions and its possible signatures. In great detail the author discusses dilepton production, suppression, photon production, Hanbury--Brown--Twiss interferometry and strangeness enhancement. The book is very well written and I can recommend it to all graduate students and researchers interested in the field of RHICs. However, the book has one shortcoming: it focuses on heavy-ion physics in the energy region E > 200 GeV/nucleon and higher. The physics of the hadron gas, important for the later stages of RHICs at CERN and dominant for beam energies in the BEVALAC/SIS/AGS range, is neglected. To acquire an overview of the entire field of RHICs, the reader would profit from a supplementary reading of the more introductory textbook Introduction to Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions by L Csernai.