PHY552, NUCLEAR PHYSICS II, Fall 2006
Prof.Edward Shuryak
(office C139, phone 632-8127)

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Tu. and Thu. 9-50 to 11-10AM, C139

FINAL GRADES

  • name/talk/HW/(2/3)T+(1/3)(HW)/grade
  • Petti 7 10 8 A-
  • Liao 9 10 9.33 A
  • Wei 9 8 8.33 A
  • Chen 7 7 7 B+
  • Durham 8 5 7 B+
  • Borggen 9 10 9.33 A
  • Shreck 7 10 8 A-
  • Juszkiewicz 7 10 8 A-

    • Add-on to read to lecture 2 are at pages from my book and summary from particle data

    power point introductory lecture about heavy ion collisions
    The main objective of the course is to introduce graduate students, both theorists and experimentalists, to nuclear/hadronic physics and its theory based on QCD. The main part of the course is devoted to phenomena studied by heavy ion physics at RHIC and related to finite temperature/density hadronic matter such as Quark-Gluon Plasma. It will also cover QCD vacuum structure, hadronic phenomenology (spectroscopy, structure functions, spin phenomena) and high energy/small-x physics (pomerons, saturation, colored glass)
    Pre-requisites: Grad. or undergrad general course on Particle/Nuclear physics; Phy540 or other course on Statistical Mechanics

    The particular topics to be discussed are:

  • QCD generalities, QCD phase diagram
  • Field theory at finite temperature and density
  • Deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration
  • Heavy ion collisions: global observables and kinematics, the space-time picture
  • Chemical and kinetic freezeouts, statistical model of particle production
  • Collective expansion, relativistic hydrodynamics, viscosity
  • Weakly and strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma
  • other strongly coupled systems: classical plasma, ultracold atoms and AdS/CFT
  • Jet quenching, correlations, conical flow
  • Heavy quark diffusion and quenching, J/psi suppression
  • Dileptons and photons as penetrating probes
  • Euclidean formulation and lattice gauge theory: correlation functions
  • Exotic hadrons and hadrons modified in matter
  • Confinement: models and lattice results
  • Instantons and light quarks: violation of $U(1)_A$, correlators
  • Color superconductivity
  • Deep inelastic scattering, spin structure
  • High energy collisions: Reggeons and Pomerons, saturation

    • During the semester students are supposed to make one presentation based on recent research papers from a supplied list.