Hadrons at finite temperature

• Tác giả: Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, Kolkata, Samirnath Mallik, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sourav Sarkar
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1107145317
• ISBN-13: 978-1107145313
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 539.7216 Atomic and nuclear physics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Mô tả vật lý: 250 pages ; , 26 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 284878
• Chủ đề: 1. Broken symmetry (Physics); 2. Field theory (Physics); 3. Hadrons; 4. Heavy ion collisions; 5. Thermodynamics

Tóm tắt

"High energy laboratories are performing experiments in heavy ion collisions to explore the structure of matter at high temperature and density. This elementary book explains the basic ideas involved in the theoretical analysis of these experimental data. It first develops two topics needed for this purpose, namely hadron interactions and thermal field theory. Chiral perturbation theory is developed to describe hadron interactions and thermal field theory is formulated in the real-time method. In particular, spectral form of thermal propagators is derived for fields of arbitrary spin and used to calculate loop integrals. These developments are then applied to find quark condensate and hadron parameters in medium, including dilepton production. Finally, the non-equilibrium method of statistical field theory to calculate transport coefficients is reviewed. With technical details explained in the text and appendices, this book should be accessible to researchers as well as graduate students interested in thermal field theory"-- Provided by publisher.