LEADER 05128nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910451264903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-37901-8 010 $a9786611379018 010 $a981-277-491-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000412205 035 $a(EBL)1679692 035 $a(OCoLC)815571412 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000227427 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947095 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227427 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10264155 035 $a(PQKB)11402695 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1679692 035 $a(WSP)00003763 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1679692 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10201273 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL137901 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000412205 100 $a20070227d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPrinciples of phase structures in particle physics$b[electronic resource] /$fHildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Thomas Reisz 210 $aNew Jersey ;$aLondon $cWorld Scientific Pub.$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (702 p.) 225 1 $aWorld Scientific lecture notes in physics ;$vvol. 77 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-02-3441-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents ; 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 energy 327 $a2.2 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 approximation 327 $a2.3.2 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 phase 327 $a2.3.3.3 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 model 327 $a2.3.5 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 renormalization 327 $a2.4.5 Linearized renormalization-group transformation and universality 330 $a The phase structure of particle physics shows up in matter at extremely high densities and/or temperatures as they were reached in the early universe, shortly after the big bang, or in heavy-ion collisions, as they are performed nowadays in laboratory experiments. In contrast to phase transitions of condensed matter physics, the underlying fundamental theories are better known than their macroscopic manifestations in phase transitions. These theories are quantum chromodynamics for the strong interaction part and the electroweak part of the Standard Model for the electroweak interaction. It is 410 0$aWorld Scientific lecture notes in physics ;$vv. 77. 606 $aParticles (Nuclear physics) 606 $aCollisions (Nuclear physics) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aParticles (Nuclear physics) 615 0$aCollisions (Nuclear physics) 676 $a539.725 700 $aMeyer-Ortmanns$b Hildegard$061806 701 $aReisz$b Thomas$0922208 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451264903321 996 $aPrinciples of phase structures in particle physics$92069351 997 $aUNINA