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Particle production modeling using negative binomial distribution, NBD, in order to fit data from STAR and CMS. Discussion of convolution (convolving the NBD with the Ncoll distribution from the…

Heavy ion physics for summer undergraduate researchers. Discussion of the meaning of a plasma and a quark-gluon plasma. Discussion of jet quenching. Discussion of the energy density in Lattice QCD.

Discussion on various aspects of the accelerators and detectors used in high energy nuclear collisions, including Time projection chamber, ionization, calorimeters, hit finding, track finding, event…

Discussion of Monte Carlo methods. Monte Carlo integration example. 1-D random walk example.

Part of the summer mini course on heavy-ion physics for undergraduate research students during the summer or 2023. Session 6. Glauber model of nuclear collisions.