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Thermal Field Theory
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Now in paperback, this text introduces the theoretical framework for describing the quark-gluon plasma, an important new state of matter. The first part of this book is a self-contained introduction to relativistic thermal field theory. Topics include the path integral approach, the real and the imaginary time formalisms, fermion fields and gauge fields at finite temperature. Useful techniques such as the evaluation of frequency sums or the use of cutting rules are illustrated on various examples. The second part of the book is devoted to recent developments, giving a detailed account of collective excitations (bosonic and fermionic), and showing how they give rise to energy scales which imply a reorganization of perturbation theory. The relation with kinetic theory is also explained. Applications to processes which occur in heavy ion collisions and in astrophysics are worked out in detail. Each chapter ends with exercises and a guide to the literature.
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“A summary of the results of these efforts mainly through the Pb + Pb experiments at SPS-CERN provided compelling evidence in favor of the existence of a new state of matter[23].”
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“The excess of dileptons in the small invariant mass region cannot be explained by charged pion annihilation [23].”
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“We summarize the observables that have been proposed as telltales of a QGP and the data gathered by the SPS from Pb + Pb and Pb + Au collisions, which taken together provide a hint of evidence [22, 23, 120, 129] for a QGP, although many of them could have alternative explanations.”
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“The current understanding of these features is that the medium effects result in a shift in the ρ meson mass as well as a change in its width[23, 120, 135].”
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- Authors
- Le Bellac, M.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1996-08-01
- OpenAlex
- W4210557146
- Cited by
- 897
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- FWCI
- 13.98
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Keywords
- thermal field theory, quark-gluon plasma, path integral, imaginary time formalism, real-time formalism, fermion fields, gauge fields, cutting rules, collective excitations, kinetic theory, heavy-ion collisions, astrophysical plasmas
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