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Lecture Notes in Physics - Vol. 8

THE QCD VACUUM, HADRONS AND SUPERDENSE MATTER

by E V Shuryak (Novosibirsk)

This is probably the only textbook available that gathers QCD, many-body theory and phase transitions in one volume. The presentation is pedagogical and readable. It provides materials interesting to both students and researchers of astrophysics, nuclear physics and high energy physics.


Contents:

  • The QCD Vacuum: The Theoretical Introduction
  • Introduction to Lattice Field Theories
  • Topological Effects in QCD and Related Models
  • Correlators and Hadrons: Introductory Hadronic Physics
  • The QCD Sum Rules Based on the Operator Product Expansion
  • The Correlators and the Sum Rules Beyond the OPE
  • Hadronic Spectroscopy on the Lattice
  • Summary on the QCD Vacuum Phenomenology
  • Macroscopic Excitations of the QCD Vacuum: Hadronic Matter Versus Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Perturbative Theory of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Instantons in Matter
  • Thermodynamics on the Lattice
  • Phase Transitions
  • Macroscopic Excitations in Experiment: Formation of Excited Matter in High Energy Colisions
  • Collective Phenomena in High Energy Collisions
  • Diagnostics of Excited Matter
  • The Interferometric "Microscope"


Readership: Particle physicists and nuclear physicists.


"I would recommend it as a good starting place for anyone interested in learning about nonperturbative QCD."

Laurence G Yaffe
Physics Today, July 1989




416pp Pub. date: Mar 1988
ISBN 9971-978-32-6 US$90 / £65
ISBN 9971-978-33-4(pbk) US$41 / £30


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