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- Nominated by Purdue University as an outstanding PhD Thesis
- Provides a careful analysis of short- and long-range
- two-particle correlations in d+Au collisions at 200 GeV from the STAR experiment
- Provokes a fresh look at the physics of hydrodynamics and particle correlations pertinent to high energy nuclear collisions
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This thesis covers several important topics relevant to our understanding of quark-gluon plasma. It describes measurement of the third-order harmonic flow using two-particle correlations and isolation of flow and non-flow contributions to particle correlations in gold-gold collisions. The work also investigates long-range longitudinal correlations in small systems of deuteron-gold collisions. The former is related to the hydrodynamic transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in gold-gold collisions. The latter pertains to the question whether hydrodynamics is applicable to small systems, such as deuteron-gold collisions, and whether the quark-gluon plasma can be formed in those small-system collisions.
The work presented in this thesis was conducted with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where the center-of-mass energy of both collision systems was a factor of 100 larger than the rest mass of the colliding nuclei. The results contained in this thesis are highly relevant to our quest for deeper understanding of quantum chromodynamics. The results obtained challenge the interpretation of previous works from several other experiments on small systems, and provoke a fresh look at the physics of hydrodynamics and particle correlations pertinent to high energy nuclear collisions.
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Book Title: Study of Quark Gluon Plasma By Particle Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions
Authors: Li Yi
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6487-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6485-7Published: 25 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8215-8Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-6487-1Published: 25 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 83
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics