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  title info:
    title: Extreme States of Matter in Strong Interaction Physics
    sub title: An Introduction
  name:
    name part: Satz, Helmut.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 239 p. 116 illus., 20 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter has become a profound and challenging area of modern physics, both in theory and in experiment. Statistical quantum chromodynamics, through analytical as well as numerical studies, provides the main theoretical tool, while in experiment, high-energy nuclear collisions are the key for extensive laboratory investigations. The field therefore straddles statistical, particle and nuclear physics, both conceptually and in the methods of investigation used. This course-tested primer addresses above all the many young scientists starting their scientific research in this field, providing them with a general, self-contained introduction that emphasizes in particular the basic concepts and ideas, with the aim of explaining why we do what we do. To achieve this goal, the present text concentrates mainly on equilibrium thermodynamics: first, the fundamental ideas of strong interaction thermodynamics are introduced and then the main concepts and methods used in the study of the physics of complex systems are summarized. Subsequently, simplified phenomenological pictures, leading to critical behavior in hadronic matter and to hadron-quark phase transitions are introduced, followed by elements of finite-temperature lattice QCD leading to the important results obtained in computer simulation studies of the lattice approach. Next, the relation of the resulting critical behavior to symmetry breaking/restoration in QCD is clarified before the text turns to the study of the QCD phase diagram. The presentation of bulk equilibrium thermodynamics is completed by studying the properties of the quark-gluon plasma as new state of strongly interacting matter.The final chapters of the book are devoted to more specific topics which arise when nuclear collisions are considered as a tool for the experimental study of QCD thermodynamics.
  table of contents: 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 -- Outlook.
  note: by Helmut Satz.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Heavy ions
  subject:
    topic: Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Elementary particles (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  classification: QC770-798
  classification: QC702.7.H42
  classification: QC793.5.H32-793.5.H329
  classification: 539.7092
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Physics, 841
  identifier: 9783642239083
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23908-3
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    record change date: 20151030081112.0
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