2008/09/15 by Michael Kliemant, Raghunath Sahoo, Tim Schuster +2
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-ex #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02286-9_2
published as Lect.Notes Phys.785:23-103,2010. · 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
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.