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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164134203321

Titolo

Proceedings of strong and electroweak matter '98 : Copenhagen, Denmark, 2-5 Dec 1998 / / editors, Jan Ambjorn [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : World Scientific, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

981-4527-20-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

539.7544

Soggetti

Electroweak interactions

Nuclear matter

Nuclear reactions

Nuclear astrophysics

Standard model (Nuclear physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title page (viewed March 30, 2017).

Papers presented at a conference held on December 2-5, 1998 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

"Already in 1997, the topics included in this meeting had been enlarged to include all different phases and phase transitions relevant on laboratory scales or in cosmology. The '98 meeting followed this trend, and there was a balanced combination of the physics associated with both strong and electroweak interactions (and beyond). The main motivation continues to be the understanding of the standard model in “extreme” situations, particularly relevant on the cosmological scale. Most contributions were in one way or another concerned with the finite-temperature aspects of strong and electroweak interactions, and, as in the previous meeting, one persistent theme was the present understanding of baryon-number asymmetry: how it can be created, and how it can be maintained beyond the earliest stages of the Universe. The recent progress in describing the real-time and nonequilibrium dynamics of the non-Abelian gauge was covered in a number of the main talks, as well as in several shorter contributions



and posters. The conference presented examples of impressive analytical progress and equally impressive results from numerical simulations: the two techniques continue to fruitfully complement each other. One completely new theme at this conference was the recent suggestion that finite-density QCD may contain new and interesting condensed phases in the neighborhood of the conventional critical density separating quark matter from hadronic matter. All of these developments, and many more, are reflected in this book."--Publisher's website.