The hadron production inπ−-C interaction at 40 GeV/c and QCD phase transition

Hadron Structure and the QCD Phase Transition

Firstly, I give a brief summary of the current understanding of QCD below and near Tc (the critical temperature of the chiral transition). Some emphases are put on the qualitative difference between the Yukawa regime (T ∼ 0) and the Hagedorn regime (T ∼ Tc). Secondly, the dynamical phenomena associated with the chiral transition, in particular, the spectral changes of hadrons in hot and/or dens...

Thermal hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions: the hadron mass spectrum, the horn, and the QCD phase transition

We present, using the statistical model, a new analysis of hadron production in central collisions of heavy nuclei. This study is motivated by the availability of final measurements both for the SPS (beam energies 20-160 AGeV) and for the RHIC energies ( √ sNN=130 and 200 GeV) and by updates in the hadron mass spectrum, which is a crucial input for statistical models. Extending previous studies...

The QCD confinement transition: hadron formation

QCD at hadron colliders

QCD is an extensively developed and tested gauge theory, which models the strong interactions in the high-energy regime. In this talk, I shall review the considerable progress which has been achieved in the last few years in the most actively studied QCD topics: Monte Carlo models, higher-order corrections, and parton distribution functions. Thanks to that, QCD in the high-energy regime is beco...

Thermal hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions: the σ meson, the horn, and the QCD phase transition

We present, using the statistical model, a new analysis of hadron production in central collisions of heavy nuclei. This study is motivated by the availability of final measurements both for the SPS (beam energies 20-160 AGeV) and for the RHIC energies ( √ sNN=130 and 200 GeV) and by updates in the hadron mass spectrum, which is a crucial input for statistical models. Extending previous studies...