Overview
- Conceived as self-contained primer for newcomers to this field of research
- Provides a basis for the study of critical behavior in strongly interacting matter
- Presents a general introduction to the fluid dynamics of strongly interacting matter produced in heavy ion collisions
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 945)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
- Matter under extreme conditions
- Hadron-quark phase transition
- QCD at Finite Temperature and baryon density
- Quark-Gluon Plasma
- Statistical Quantum Field Theory
- Lattice studies of QCD
- Thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter
- Hadron production through Hawking-Unruh radiation
- Heavy ion collisions
- Gauge/gravity Correspondence
- AdS/CFT
About this book
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 experiments, high-energy nuclear collisions are the key for extensive laboratory investigations. As such, the field straddles statistical, particle and nuclear physics, both conceptually and in the methods of investigation used.
The book addresses, above all, the many young scientists starting their scientific research in this field, providing them with a general, self-contained introduction that highlights the basic concepts and ideas and explains why we do what we do. Much of the book focuses on equilibrium thermodynamics: first it presents simplified phenomenological pictures, leading to critical behavior in hadronic matter and to a quark-hadron phase transition. This is followedby elements of finite temperature lattice QCD and an exposition of the important results obtained through the computer simulation of the lattice formulation. It goes on to clarify the relationship between the resulting critical behavior due to symmetry breaking/restoration in QCD, before turning to the QCD phase diagram. The presentation of bulk equilibrium thermodyamics is completed by studying the properties of the quark-gluon plasma as a new state of strongly interacting matter. The final chapters of the book are devoted to more specific topics that arise when nuclear collisions are considered as a tool for the experimental study of QCD thermodynamics. This second edition includes a new chapter on the hydrodynamic evolution of the medium produced in nuclear collisions. Since the study of flow for strongly interacting fluids has gained ever-increasing importance over the years, it is dealt with it in some detail, including comments on gauge/gravity duality. Moreover, other aspects ofexperimental studies are brought up to date, such as the search for critical behavior in multihadron production, the calibration of quarkonium production in nuclear collisions, and the relation between strangeness suppression and deconfinement.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Helmut Satz, Professor Emeritus at the Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, studied at Michigan State University and the University of Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1963 and did his habilitation in 1967. After that, he worked at the University of California/ Los Angeles, at CERN/Geneva, and the University of Helsinki. Satz has been Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Bielefeld since 1971, retiring in2001. In addition to his Bielefeld activities, he served on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory (1985 - 1989) and at CERN (1089 – 1996), specifically to carry out research on the physics of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma, the state of matter which made up the very early universe and which is presently being studied in high energy nuclear collision experiments.
Professor Satz has been a great inspiration to his colleagues as well as his students, many of whom graduated under his supervision. After his retirement, he wasfrom 2002 to 2004 Gulbenkian professor at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and since 2014 he holds an honorary doctorate of the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extreme States of Matter in Strong Interaction Physics
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Helmut Satz
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71894-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71893-4Published: 27 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71894-1Published: 26 February 2018
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 288
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Complex Systems, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Quantum Gases and Condensates, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems