05095nam 2200673Ia 450 991080802920332120230721031236.01-281-37901-89786611379018981-277-491-2(CKB)1000000000412205(EBL)1679692(OCoLC)815571412(SSID)ssj0000227427(PQKBManifestationID)11947095(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227427(PQKBWorkID)10264155(PQKB)11402695(MiAaPQ)EBC1679692(WSP)00003763(Au-PeEL)EBL1679692(CaPaEBR)ebr10201273(CaONFJC)MIL137901(EXLCZ)99100000000041220520070227d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPrinciples of phase structures in particle physics[electronic resource] /Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Thomas ReiszNew Jersey ;London World Scientific Pub.c20071 online resource (702 p.)World Scientific lecture notes in physics ;vol. 77Description based upon print version of record.981-02-3441-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents ; Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. General Background from Statistical Physics ; 2.1 Generalities ; 2.1.1 Phase transitions in statistical systems ; 2.1.1.1 First- and second-order transitions in the infinite volume limit ; 2.1.1.2 Landau's free energy2.2 Generating functional n-point correlations and effective potentials 2.3 The molecular-mean field approximation ; 2.3.1 Self-consistent equation of state for a ferromagnet ; 2.3.1.1 Critical exponents in the molecular-mean field approximation2.3.2 Variational estimates for the free energy of a spin system 2.3.3 Molecular-mean field approximation for an N-component scalar field theory in D dimensions ; 2.3.3.1 Solutions of the mean-field equations ; 2.3.3.2 Critical exponents in the symmetric phase2.3.3.3 Critical exponents in the broken phase 2.3.3.4 First-order transitions within the molecular-mean field approximation ; 2.3.3.5 Tricritical behavior ; 2.3.4 Variational estimates for the SU(2) Higgs model ; 2.3.4.1 Solutions of the mean-field equations of the SU(2) Higgs model2.3.5 Improved variational estimates for the SU(2) Higgs model 2.3.6 Summary ; 2.4 Renormalization group ; 2.4.1 Generalities ; 2.4.2 Block-spin transformations ; 2.4.3 Iteration of the block-spin transformation ; 2.4.4 Field renormalization2.4.5 Linearized renormalization-group transformation and universality The phase structure of particle physics shows up in matter at extremely high densities and/or temperatures as they were reached in the early universe, shortly after the big bang, or in heavy-ion collisions, as they are performed nowadays in laboratory experiments. In contrast to phase transitions of condensed matter physics, the underlying fundamental theories are better known than their macroscopic manifestations in phase transitions. These theories are quantum chromodynamics for the strong interaction part and the electroweak part of the Standard Model for the electroweak interaction. It isWorld Scientific lecture notes in physics ;v. 77.Particles (Nuclear physics)Collisions (Nuclear physics)Particles (Nuclear physics)Collisions (Nuclear physics)539.725Meyer-Ortmanns Hildegard61806Reisz Thomas1656118MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808029203321Principles of phase structures in particle physics4008803UNINA