Selected Topics in Nuclear Physics:

The Quark-Gluon Plasma

Prof. B. Svetitsky

Given in the second semester of 5759 (spring 1999).

Hours

Sunday 2-4 in Shenkar 222
Tuesday 1-3 in Orenstein 111

Syllabus

• Properties of compressed nuclear matter and the quark-gluon plasma
• Models of plasma formation in nuclear collisions: field theory, kinetic theory, and hydrodynamics
• Experimental signals
• Current and future experimental data
• Phase transitions in the theory of strong interactions

Textbooks

• B. Müller, The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (1985)
• E. M. Shuryak, QCD Vacuum, Hadrons, and the Superdense Matter (1988)
• J. Kapusta, Finite-Temperature Field Theory (1989)
• M. Le Bellac, Thermal Field Theory (1996)

References

• Proceedings of Quark Matter conferences
• R. Hwa, Quark-Gluon Plasma (1990)
• R. Hwa, Quark-Gluon Plasma 2 (1995)