In the last few years, numerical simulations of QCD on the lattice have reached a new level of accuracy. A wide range of thermodynamic quantities is now available in the continuum limit and for physical quark masses. This allows a comparison with measurements from heavy ion collisions for the first time.
Furthermore, calculations of dynamical quantities are also becoming available. The combined effort from first principles and experiment allows to gain an unprecedented understanding of the properties of quark-gluon plasma.
This concise text, geared towards postgraduate students and newcomers to the field, carefully introduces and reviews the state-of-the-art techniques and results from lattice simulations and connects them to the experimental information from RHIC and the LHC.
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Dr. Bellwied was a founding member of the STAR collaboration. He served as one of eight project managers of STAR from 1992-2007, he was the deputy spokesperson of STAR from 2001-2002. He joined the ALICE experiment at CERN in 2010 and served as coordinator of the ALICE-USA collaboration from 2015-2018.
In addition, he was the Chair of the U.S. National User Facility Organization (NUFO) for four years (2008-2012) and served as an appointed member on the Physics Policy Committee (PPC) of the American Physical Society (APS). He is presently the Chair of the Texas Section of the APS. He is also the lead organizer of an annual international conference in his field, he serves on two peer-reviewed journal editorial boards, and he is a reviewer for the four highest impact Nuclear Physics journals, as well as the grant offices of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is a member of the Sigma-Xi Honors Society.
Prof. Bellwied has published over 1,000 peer-reviewed papers that gathered over 85,000 citations. His h-index is 151 according to Google Scholar.Inhalt
Part 1. Bulk Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Lattice QCD.- Chapter 2. Phase Transitions in QCD.- Chapter 3. Equation of State of QCD at Finite Temperature and B = 0.- Chapter 4. QCD at Finite Chemical Potential.- Chapter 5. Fluctuations of Conserved Charges.- Chapter 6. The Hadron Resonance Gas Model.- Chapter 7. Experimental Verification of Lattice QCD Predictions.- Part 2. Transport Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter.- Chapter 8. Transport Properties of QCD matter.- Chapter 9. Heavy Flavors and Quarkonia.