Physics in the Twenty First Century

Course Outline Part 3- Nuclear and Hadronic Physics

Lecture 3,  Wednesday, November 10, 2004





Quiz Questions from 2nd Lecture (answer by 11/10/04)
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

1) What is the estimated temperature necessary for the phase transition from hadronic matter (protons, pions, etc) to the quark gluon plasma?

2) What is the estimated energy density achieved in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC?

Quiz questions from reading on QCD Exotics:
American Scientist Article, Sept-Oct 200, vol 88, Alex R. Dzierba et al.

3) What is the mass of at least one candidate glue-ball state?

4) What is different about the "exotic" mesons that will be searched for at Jefferson Lab?
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