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STRONG AND ELECTROWEAK MATTER 2004
Proceedings of the SEWM2004 Meeting
Helsinki, Finland 16 - 19 June 2004
edited by Kari J Eskola, Kimmo Kainulainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Keijo Kajantie (University of Helsinki, Finland) & Kari Rummukainen (CERN, Switzerland & University of Oulu, Finland)
This volume presents an authoritative review of the physics of strongly and electroweakly interacting elementary particle matter in extreme conditions that prevailed in the very early Universe, and which are being recreated in high energy physics laboratories today. Exciting, high-quality experimental results from RHIC collider at Brookhaven, collected since summer 2000, suggest that strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma has indeed been produced. The study of these phenomena will form an important part of theoretical particle and nuclear physics for years to come.
Based on the discussions of more than a hundred experts at the Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 Meeting, this volume contains an up-to-date overview of present ideas on QCD matter: quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions, phase structure, kinetics, thermalization and transport properties. Also discussed are topics related to the cosmology of the early Universe, dark matter, inflation and creation of particle-antiparticle asymmetries. Both analytic and numerical lattice Monte Carlo methods are emphasized.
Contents:
- RHIC Experimental Summary: The Message from pp, d+Au and
Au+Au Collisions (M C de la Barca Sánchez)
- Hydrodynamic Aspects of Relativistics Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC (P F Kolb)
- Photon Emission in a Hot QCD Plasma (P Aurenche)
- In Search of the Saturation Scale: Intrinsic Features of the CGC (H Weigert)
- From Leading Hadron Suppression to Jet Quenching at RHIC and LHC (U A Wiedemann)
- Lattice Simulations with Chemical Potential (C Schmidt)
- Mesonic Correlators in Hot QCD (M Laine)
- Thermalization and Plasma Instabilities (P Arnold)
- Transport Coefficients in Hot QCD (G D Moore)
- Classical Fields and Heavy Ion Collisions (T Lappi)
- Progress in Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory II (J Bergs & J Serreau)
- A General Effective Theory for Dense Quark Matter (P T Reuter et al.)
- Thermal Leptogenesis (M Plümaher)
- Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis (J Smit)
- and other papers
Readership: Researchers, graduate students and academics.
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Pub. date: Jan 2005 |
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