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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454343603321

Titolo

Quark--Gluon plasma 3 [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Rudolph C. Hwa, Xin-Nian Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, c2004

ISBN

1-281-93589-1

9786611935894

981-279-553-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (786 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HwaRudolph C

WanXin-Nian

Disciplina

530.4/4

530.44

539.72167

Soggetti

Quark-gluon plasma

Heavy ion collisions

Quantum chromodynamics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS               ; Preface              ; Thermodynamics and In-Medium Hadron Properties from Lattice QCD                                                                      ; 1 Introduction                     ; 1.1 QCD thermodynamics                             ; 1.2 Lattice formulation of QCD thermodynamics                                                    ; 2 The QCD Phase Diagram                              ; 3 The Transition Temperature                                   ; 4 Equation of State

5 Heavy Quark Free Energies                                  5.1 Deconfinement order parameter                                        ; 5.2 Heavy quark potential                                ; 6 Thermal Modifications of Hadron Properties                                                   ; 6.1 QCD phase transition and the hadron spectrum                                                       ; 6.2 Spatial and temporal correlation functions hadronic susceptibilities

6.3 Spectral functions from hadronic correlation functions                                                                 6.4 Spectral analysis of thermal correlation functions                                                             ; 6.5 Vector meson spectral function and thermal dilepton rates                                                                    


; 6.6 Heavy quark spectral functions and charmonium suppression                                                                    ; 7 Summary                ; References                 ; Appendix A

Thermodynamics of the High-Temperature Quark-Gluon Plasma                                                                1 Introduction                     ; 2 The Scalar Field Theory as a Pedagogical Example                                                         ; 2.1 Perturbation theory and its difficulties                                                   ; 2.2 Order g3 from various resummation schemes                                                    ; 2.3 Self-consistent resummation                                      ; 3 Quark-Gluon Plasma

3.1 Perturbative results                               3.2 Lattice results                          ; 3.3 Dimensional reduction                                ; 4 Thermodynamics of HTL Quasiparticles in QCD                                                    ; 4.1 HTL-screened perturbation theory                                           ; 4.2 2PI formalism in gauge theories                                          ; 4.3 Approximately self-consistent entropy and quark density                                                                  ; 4.4 Pressure

4.5 Quark number susceptibilities

Sommario/riassunto

This is a review monograph on quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Different theoretical and experimental aspects of the program to produce QGP in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are covered by experts in the field. This is the third volume in a series on the subject, and the first such monograph to focus on the implications of the experimental results from RHIC, the relativistic heavy-ion collider at the National Brookhaven Laboratory. The review articles will be useful to experienced researchers as well as to graduate students entering the field. <br><i>Contents: </i><ul><li>Thermodynamics and In-Me