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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257381603321

Titolo

Hadrons in Dense Matter and Hadrosynthesis [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the Eleventh Chris Engelbrecht Summer School Held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4–13 February 1998 / / edited by Jean Cleymans, Hendrik B. Geyer, Frederik G. Scholtz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999

ISBN

3-540-49483-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 252 p. 50 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 516

Disciplina

539.7/216

Soggetti

Nuclear physics

Astronomy

Astrophysics

Particle and Nuclear Physics

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Pion and kaon production as a probe for hot and dense nuclear matter -- Fluid dynamics for relativistic nuclear collisions -- The use of statistical mechanics to describe hadron production in high energy collisions -- to light cone field theory and high energy scattering -- Chiral symmetry breaking in hot matter -- Physics and astrophysics of strange quark matter -- Out of equilibrium thermal field theories — Elimination of pinching singularities -- Exact conservation of quantum numbers in the statistical description of high energy particle reactions.

Sommario/riassunto

In seven lectures of a pedagogical nature aimed at both researchers and graduate students the authors review important aspects of hadronic physics. The book contains a comprehensive review of recent experimental results obtained at the GSI collider. In particular, it covers chiral symmetry at finite temperature and statistical methods applied to relativistic heavy ion collisions and gives a detailed presentation of the astrophysics of strange quark matter.