All files in this directory: accel.pdf det_1.pdf det_2.pdf flow_and_jets.pdf intro.pdf kine.pdf literature.txt quarks_intro.pdf the_making_of_the_tpc.pdf thermalization.pdf thermo_hydro.pdf recommended literature: 1) general QGP: "Quark-Gluon Plasma", K. Yagi, T. Hatsuda, Y. Miake, Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Cosmology, 2006 2) Early universe and GRT J.B. Hartle, Gravity, An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, Addison-Wesley, 2003 plus web page http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~gravitybook/mathematica.html 3) Detectors J. Blum, L. Rolandi: Particle Detection with Drift Chambers, Springer, 1993 K. Kleinknecht, Detectors for Particle Radiation, Cambridge University Press, 1999 4) General nuclear and particle physics H. Frauenfelder, E. Henley, Subatomic physics. (Prentice Hall 1999) 5) General particle physics Introduction to High Energy Physics. 4th Edition. Donald H. Perkins. University of Oxford Particle Data Book - 2005 http://pdg.lbl.gov/ or http://pdg.web.cern.ch/pdg/ The Particle Physics Bible 6) Gauge theories I.J.R. Aitchison and A.J.G. Hey, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics