John B. Kogut

Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics (eBook, PDF)

From Confinement to Extreme Environments

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the physical phases of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in ordinary environments, as well as in extreme environments of high temperatures and high baryon number. Under such extreme conditions, new phases are thought to exist: the quark-gluon plasma and colour superconductivity. After introducing lattice-gauge theory, beginning with fundamentals and reaching important developments, this book emphasises the application of QCD to the study of matter in extreme environments through a host of methods, including lattice-gauge theory, lower dimensional model field theories and effective Lagrangians. Suitable for graduate students and researchers entering the field of lattice-gauge theory, heavy ion collisions, nuclear theory or high energy phenomenology, as well as astrophysicists interested in the phases of nuclear matter and its impact on ideas of the interiors of dense stars. It is suitable for use as a textbook on lattice-gauge theory, effective Lagrangians and field theoretic modelling for nonperturbative phenomena in QCD.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511057380
• Artikelnr.: 38184184

Autorenporträt

John Kogut obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1971. He was nominated for the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize, for the International Scientists' Boycott of the Strategic Defense Initiative. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of over 200 original papers in elementary particle, high-energy and condensed matter physics, and is the author of one previous book.
Mikhail Sephanov obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1994. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 1994 to 1997 and then spent two years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is presently Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and RHIC Fellow. His research interests lie in particle and nuclear physics, quantum field theory on the lattice, matter under extreme conditions, and heavy-ion collisions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Background to spin systems and critical phenomena
3. Gauge fields on a four-dimensional Euclidean lattice
4. Fermions and nonperturbative dynamics in QCD
5. Lattice fermions and chiral symmetry
6. Hamiltonian version of lattice-gauge theory
7. Phase transitions in lattice-gauge theory at high temperatures
8. Physics of QCD at high temperatures and chemical potentials
9. Large chemical potentials and color superconductivity
10. Effective Lagrangians and models of QCD at nonzero chemical potential
11. Lattice-gauge theory at nonzero chemical potential
12. Epilogue
References
Index.