Global Properties of Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
  In this lecture note, we discuss the global properties of nucleus-nucleus collisions. After a brief introduction to heavy-ion collisions, we introduce useful kinematics and then discuss the bulk hadron production in A+A collisions. At the end we discuss the hadronization and hadronic freeze-out in A+A collisions. We have tried to cover the topic from very fundamental arguments especially for the beginners in the field. We also give very useful formulae frequently used by experimentalists, from a first principle derivation. 
Michael Kliemant (1), Raghunath Sahoo (2), Tim Schuster (1) and   Reinhard Stock (1); (1. Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, Germ...