arXiv:0809.2482·v1·Nuclear Experiment
Global Properties of Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
Michael Kliemant (1)🇩🇪 · Raghunath Sahoo (2)🇫🇷 · Tim Schuster (1)🇩🇪 · Reinhard Stock (1); (1. Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany; 2. SUBATECH-Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France)🇩🇪
Abstract
In this lecture note, we discuss the global properties of nucleus-nucleus collisions. After a brief introduction to heavy-ion collisions, we introduce useful kinematics and then discuss the bulk hadron production in A+A collisions. At the end we discuss the hadronization and hadronic freeze-out in A+A collisions. We have tried to cover the topic from very fundamental arguments especially for the beginners in the field. We also give very useful formulae frequently used by experimentalists, from a first principle derivation.
Comments: 84 pages, 34 figures; Lecture given at the QGP Winter School, Jaipur, India, Feb.1-3, 2008; To appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Physics