Concepts of Heavy-Ion Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In these lectures I present the key ideas driving the field of relativistic heavy-ion physics and develop some of the theoretical tools needed for the description and interpretation of heavy-ion collision experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0407360,
title = {Concepts of Heavy-Ion Physics},
author = {Ulrich W. Heinz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0407360},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
74 pages, incl. 39 figures. Lecture Notes for lectures presented at the 2nd CERN - Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, June 1-14, 2003, San Miguel Regla, Mexico. To appear as a CERN Yellow Report (N. Ellis, ed.). A shorter version of these Notes with the same title, summarizing lectures given a year earlier at the 2002 European School of High Energy Physics, appeared in CERN Yellow Report CERN-2004-001, pp.127-178 (see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=5907233)