Bengt Friman & Jörn Knoll

Lectures held at GSI (SS2000 & WS2000/01):

Introduction to the physics of hot and dense hadronic matter

Available Lecture notes:

• Kinematics and phase space
• Elements of scattering theory
• Scattering theory continued
• Thermodynamics
• Thermodynamics continued (incomplete)

Supplements:

• Mathematica note-book for Dalitz plot
• Dalitz plot in HTML
• Mathematica note-book for computing the pi pi mass distribution in pi N -> pi pi N
• Mathematica note-book for the scattering length of an attractive square-well potential
• Mathematica note-book for the phase shift of an attractive square-well potential

Exercises:

• Problem set 1
• Problem set 2
• Problem set 3
• Problem set 4
• Problem set 5
• Problem set 6