Hadron Production in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
Abstract
Description
Relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions create a "fireball" of strongly interacting matter at high energy density. At very high energy this is suggested to be partonic matter, but at lower energy it should consist of yet unknown hadronic, perhaps coherent degrees of freedom. The freeze-out of this high density state to a hadron gas can tell us about properties of fireball matter.
25 pages, 12 figures, Varenna Summer School 2002
25 pages, 12 figures, Varenna Summer School 2002