TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kapusta, Joseph I.
AU  - Gale, Charles
TI  - [SCOAP3-Ebook] Finite-Temperature Field Theory : Principles and Applications, 2nd edition
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
M1  - GSI-2025-01290
T2  - 2729786
SP  - 1 online resource (441 p.)
PY  - 2023
N1  - This eBook was converted to open access in 2021 through the sponsorship of SCOAP3 licensed under the terms of the creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
AB  - This book develops the basic formalism and theoretical techniques for studying relativistic quantum field theory at high temperature and density. Specific physical theories treated include QED, QCD, electroweak theory, and effective nuclear field theories of hadronic and nuclear matter. Topics covered include: functional integral representation of the partition function, diagrammatic expansions, linear response theory, screening and plasma oscillations, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Goldstone theorem, resummation and hard thermal loops, lattice gauge theory, phase transitions, nucleation theory, quark-gluon plasma, and color superconductivity. Applications to astrophysics and cosmology cover white dwarf and neutron stars, neutrino emissivity, baryon number violation in the early universe, and cosmological phase transitions. Applications to relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions are also included. The book is written for theorists in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.
KW  - thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHN Nuclear physics (autogen)
KW  - quantum statistical mechanics (autogen)
KW  - functional integral representation (autogen)
KW  - the partition function (autogen)
KW  - interactions (autogen)
KW  - diagrammatic techniques (autogen)
KW  - renormalisation (autogen)
KW  - quantum electrodynamics (autogen)
KW  - linear response theory (autogen)
KW  - spontaneous symmetry breaking (autogen)
KW  - quantum chromodynamics (autogen)
KW  - resummation (autogen)
KW  - hard thermal loops (autogen)
KW  - lattice gauge theory (autogen)
KW  - dense nuclear matter (autogen)
KW  - hot hadronic matter (autogen)
KW  - nucleation theory (autogen)
KW  - heavy ion collisions (autogen)
KW  - weak interactions (autogen)
KW  - astrophysics and cosmology (autogen)
KW  - Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics (autogen)
KW  - Physics and Astronomy (autogen)
KW  - Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics (autogen)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)3
DO  - DOI:10.1017/9781009401968
UR  - https://repository.gsi.de/record/363268
ER  -