Extreme States of Matter in Strong Interaction Physics An Introduction /

• Main Author: Satz, Helmut (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 945
• Subjects: Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Astrophysics.; Phase transformations (Statistical physics).; Condensed materials.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Complex Systems.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Quantum Gases and Condensates.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

This book is a course-tested primer on the thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter - a profound and challenging area of both theoretical and experimental modern physics. Analytical and numerical studies of statistical quantum chromodynamics provide the main theoretical tool, while in experimen...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
• Preface to the 1st Edition
• Preface to the 2nd Edition
• The Analysis of Dense Matter
• The Physics of Complex Systems
• The Limits of Hadron Physics
• From Hadrons to Quarks
• Statistical Quantum Chromodyanamics
• Broken Symmetries
• The QCD Phase Diagram
• The Quark-Gluon Plasma
• The Little Bang
• Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• The Fireball Paradigm
• The Event Horizon of Color Confinement
• Fluids and Flow
• Outlook.