HQM Lecture Week Spring 2014

Electromagnetic Probes in Heavy-Ion Collisions



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Theory Lectures

Lecturer: Hendrik van Hees

Lecture I: Fundamentals [pdf]
Lecture II: Heavy-ion phenomenology; Basic theory for dileptons in heavy-ion collision [pdf]
Lecture III: Tranport Theory and dileptons at SIS energies [pdf]
Lecture IV: Dileptons at SPS and RHIC; direct photons at RHIC, and LHC [pdf]

Experimental Lectures

Lecturers:Torsten Dahms, Baldo Sahlmüller

Lecture I (T. Dahms): Dileptons (experiment) [pdf] (for Lectures I and III);   Quiz [txt]
Lecture II (B. Sahlmüller): Presentation (for both lectures) [pdf]
Lecture III (T. Dahms): Quiz [txt]
Lecture IV (B. Sahlmüller): Quiz (for both lectures) [pdf]

Theory Literature

Elementary-Particle Physics and (Thermal) Quantum Field Theory

Halzen, F., and Martin, A. D. Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics. John Wiley&Sons, 1984.

J. F. Donoghue, E. Golowich, B. R. Holstein, Dynamics of the Standard Model, Cambridge University press (1992).

J. I. Kapusta, C. Gale, Finite-Temperature Field Theory; Principles and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2 ed. (2006).

M. LeBellac, Thermal Field Theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne (1996).

K. Chou, Z. Su, B. Hao, L. Yu, Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Formalisms made unified, Phys. Rept. 118 (1985) 1.
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N. P. Landsmann, C. G. van Weert, Real- and Imaginary-time Field Theory at Finite Temperature and Density, Physics Reports 145 (1987) 141.
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H. van Hees, Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Manuscript).
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H. van Hees, Renormierung selbstkonsistenter Näherungen in der Quantenfeldtheorie bei endlichen Temperaturen, Ph.D. thesis, TU Darmstadt (2000).
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H. van Hees, Nonequilibrium relativistic many-body theory  (Manuscript)
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General Literature on Heavy-Ion Collisions

C. Y. Wong, Introduction to High-Energy Heavy-Ion collisions, World Scientific, Singapore (1994).

B. Friman, et al. (eds.), The CBM Physics Book, vol. 814 of Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011).
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Hadronic Transport

S. Bass, et al., Microscopic models for ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 41 (1998) 255.
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H. Petersen, J. Steinheimer, G. Burau, M. Bleicher, H. Stöcker, A Fully Integrated Transport Approach to Heavy Ion Reactions with an Intermediate Hydrodynamic Stage, Phys. Rev. C 78 (2008) 044901.
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H. van Hees, Introduction to Relativistic Transport Theory (Manuscript)
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Chiral Symmetry and Effective Models

V. Koch, Aspects of chiral symmetry, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 6 (1997) 203.
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S. Scherer, Introduction to chiral perturbation theory, Adv. Nucl. Phys. 27 (2003) 277.
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M. Dine, Goldstone Bosons and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD (2011) lecture notes.
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U. G. Meissner, Low-Energy Hadron Physics from Effective Chiral Lagrangians with Vector Mesons, Phys. Rept. 161 (1988) 213.
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M. Bando, T. Kugo, Is the ρ Meson a Dynamical Gauge Boson of Hidden Local Symmetry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (1984) 1215.
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M. Harada, K. Yamawaki, Hidden local symmetry at loop: A new perspective of composite gauge boson and chiral phase transition, Phys. Rept. 381 (2003) 1.
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J. J. Sakurai, Theory of strong interactions, Ann. Phys. (NY) 11 (1960) 1.
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G. J. Gounaris, J. J. Sakurai, Finite-Width Corrections to the Vector-Meson-Dominance Prediction for ρe+e-, Phys. Rev. Lett. 21 (1968) 244.
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N. M. Kroll, T. D. Lee, B. Zumino, Neutral Vector Mesons and the Hadronic Electromagnetic Current, Phys. Rev. 157 (1967) 1376.
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Brown, G., and Rho, M. Scaling effective Lagrangians in a dense medium. Phys. Rev. Lett. 66 (1991) 2720-2723.
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Brown, G., and Rho, M. Chiral restoration in hot and/or dense matter. Phys. Rept. 269 (1996) 333-380.
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Weinberg, S. Precise relations between the spectra of vector and axial vector mesons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 18 (1967) 507-509.
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Kapusta, J. I., and Shuryak, E. V. Weinberg type sum rules at zero and finite temperature. Phys. Rev. D 49 (1994) 4694-4704.
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Leupold, S., Peters, W., and Mosel, U. What QCD sum rules tell about the ρ meson. Nucl. Phys. A 628 (1998) 311-324.
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Leupold, S., and Mosel, U. On QCD sum rules for vector mesons in nuclear medium. Phys. Rev. C 58 (1998) 2939-2957.
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Landsberg, L. G. Electromagnetic Decays of Light Mesons, Phys. Rept. 128 (1985) 301.
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Koch, P. Low mass lepton pair production and pion dynamics in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. Z. Phys. C 57 (1993) 283.
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Electromagnetic Probes in Heavy-Ion Collisions and Medium Modifications of Hadron Properties

I. A. Kenyon, The Drell-Yan Process, Rept. Prog. Phys. 45 (1982) 1261
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Rapp, R., and Wambach, J. Chiral symmetry restoration and dileptons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Adv. Nucl. Phys. 25 (2000) 1.
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Rapp, R., Wambach, J., and van Hees, H. The Chiral Restoration Transition of QCD and Low Mass Dileptons. Landolt-Börnstein I/23 (2009) 4-1.
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Leupold, S., Metag, V., and Mosel, U. Hadrons in strongly interacting matter. Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 19 (2010) 147-224.
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Gale, C., and Kapusta, J. I. Vector Dominance Model at Finite Temperature. Nucl. Phys. B 357 (1991) 65.
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S. H. Lee, C. Song, H. Yabu, Photon - vector meson coupling and vector meson properties at low temperature pion gas, Phys. Lett. B 341 (1995) 407.
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R. D. Pisarski, Where does the ρ go? Chirally symmetric vector mesons in the quark - gluon plasma, Phys. Rev. D 52 (1995) 3773.
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R. Rapp, J. Wambach, Low mass dileptons at the CERN-SPS: Evidence for chiral restoration?, Eur. Phys. J. A 6 (1999) 415.
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R. Rapp, Dileptons in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, Pramana 60 (2003) 675.
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R. Rapp, The vector probe in heavy-ion reactions, J. Phys. G 31 (2005) S217.
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M. Urban, M. Buballa, J. Wambach, Temperature dependence of ρ and a1 meson masses and mixing of vector and axial-vector correlators, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 042002.
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H. van Hees, R. Rapp, Comprehensive interpretation of thermal dileptons at the SPS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 102301.
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H. van Hees, R. Rapp, Dilepton Radiation at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, Nucl. Phys. A 806 (2008) 339.
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H. van Hees, C. Gale, R. Rapp, Thermal Photons and Collective Flow at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, Phys. Rev. C 84 (2011) 054906.
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M. Herrmann, Eigenschaften des ρ-Mesons in dichter Kernmaterie, Dissertation, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt (1992).
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Shyam, R., and Mosel, U. Dilepton production in proton-proton and quasi-free proton-neutron reactions at 1.25 GeV. Phys. Rev. C 82 (2010) 062201.
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Kaptari, L., and Kämpfer, B. Di-Electrons from Resonances in Nucleon-Nucleon Collisions. Phys. Rev. C 80 (2009) 064003.
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Kaptari, L., and Kämpfer, B. Di-electron bremsstrahlung in intermediate-energy pn and Dp collisions. Nucl. Phys. A 764 (2006) 338-370.
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E. Santini, J. Steinheimer, M. Bleicher, S. Schramm, Dimuon radiation at the CERN SPS within a (3+1)d hydrodynamic+cascade model, Phys. Rev. C 84 (2011) 014901.
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K. Schmidt, et al., Production and evolution path of dileptons at energies accessible to the HADES detector, Phys. Rev. C 79 (2009) 064908.
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