High-pT Physics in the Heavy Ion Era

Jan Rak is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physics at Jyväskylä University, Finland. He is also project leader of ALICE/CERN for Finland and was involved in the CERES/SPS experiment at CERN, Switzerland and the PHENIX experiment at the RHIC, USA. Michael J. Tannenbaum is a Senior Scientist within the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His achievements include measurement of the statistics of the muon, and discoveries in hard-scattering of quarks and gluons at the CERN-ISR which he applied to the discovery of jet-quenching in collisions of nuclei at the RHIC, USA.

1. Introduction and overview; 2. Basic observables; 3. Some experimental techniques; 4. The search for structure; 5. Origins of high pT physics – the search for the W boson; 6. Discovery of hard scattering in p–p collisions; 7. Direct single lepton production and the discovery of charm; 8. J/ ψ, u and Drell–Yan pair production; 9. Two particle correlations; 10. Direct photon production; 11. The search for jets; 12. QCD in hard scattering; 13. Heavy ion physics in the high pT era; 14. RHIC and LHC; Appendix A. Probability and statistics; Appendix B. Methods of Monte Carlo calculations; Appendix C. TAB and the Glauber Monte Carlo calculation; Appendix D. Fits including systematic errors; Appendix E. The shape of the xE distribution triggered by a jet fragment, for example, π0; Appendix F. kT phenomenology and Gaussian smearing; References; Index.