FYSS4551 Ultra-relativistic Heavy Ion Physics (7 cr)
Description
THE BASICS OF THE HEAVY-ION EXPERIMENTS
Goals of the experiments
Quark-Gluon Plasma, QGP
Detectors in (relativistic heavy ion) experiments
Beam facilities, operation principles of accelerators
Heavy-ion physics program
Comparison to physics in proton-proton and e+e- collisions
Flow harmonics and hydrodynamics
pQCD and Fragmentation
Jet quenching
Chiral Magnetic Effect
QGP in small systems, particularly proton-lead or proton-proton
Programming materials for few topics are prepared. Students who are interested in learning physics with programming can be guided.
Learning outcomes
After the course, a student can describe the main goals and physics of the relativistic heavy ion collisions. She knows the basic principles of the measurement techniques used in the major detectors and accelerators related to the research, particularly LHC.
Student familiarizes himself with timely research topics and can explain them to his peers.
Student learns how to find scientific articles from the field and gets used to reading articles. She will enforce her learning strategies.
He will develop communication and presentation skills through weekly poster sessions and peer group work. Therefore, this course is also suitable for undergraduate students who want to learn about physics in LHC.
Description of prerequisites
Basics of particle and statistical physics, particularly elementary particles and basic interactions, foundations of Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD), parton model, baryons, concept of cross sections and different cross sections in particle physics, hard (partonic) processes, relativistic kinematics, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics.
Study materials
Lectures and lecture material in moodle.jyu.fi
Printed articles will be provided for reading circles