PHY 8800: Experimental High Energy Nuclear Physics (Winter 07) Professor: Rene Bellwied e-mail: bellwied@physics.wayne.edu Office Location: 312 Physics, Phone: 577-5407 Office Hours: by arrangement Web-Site: http://rhic.physics.wayne.edu/~bellwied/phy8800/physics8800.html Classes meet Mo, 3-5 p.m. Tu, 1-3 p.m. Physics: Room 312 The class will be taught like a study group There will be no homework assignments, no exams Each student will have to prepare an essay on a particular topic, which will be presented in the last two weeks of classes. Class Outline Textbooks of interest for the course C.Y. Wong Introduction to High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions L.P. Csernai Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions J. Letessier and J. Rafelski Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma D. Perkins Introduction to High Energy Physics Start reading for the course Lectures given by R. Bellwied at Graduate Summer School, Germany 2004 Lectures given by John Harris at Winter Institute, Lake Louise, 2006 The STAR Whitepaper nucl-ex/0501009 The PHENIX Whitepaper nucl-ex/0410003 CORE - COmpendium on RElations hep-ph/9507456 The Physics of Thermal QCD Smilga, hep-ph/9612347 | |
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