Quarks Bound by Chiral Fields
Quarks Bound by Chiral Fields

Author: Georges Ripka

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780198517849

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The structure of light hadrons is dominated by the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of the strongly interacting (QCD) vacuum. Low energy properties of light hadrons can be described in terms of quarks interacting with chiral fields. This book gives a comprehensive account of a large class of models which describe the restoration of chiral symmetry at high temperature and density, the effective interactions between quarks, mesons as solutions of the Beth-Salpeter equation, and baryons in terms of solitions which rotate in flavor space. An in-depth analysis of regularization is given, including regularization by delocalized fields. Symmetry conserving approximations are formulated using both path integral and Feynmann graph methods. The book's style is pedagogical and well-suited to graduate and Ph.D. students who want to learn the techniques used in present day research. It can also serve as a reference for research and lecture courses.

Nuclear Physics at the Borderlines
Nuclear Physics at the Borderlines

Author: Jose M. Arias

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 3642847080

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This volume contains the lectures presented by invited speakers at the IV La Rlibida International Summer School on Nuclear Physics. This was the IV edition of a summer school organized by our group every three years on topics related to nuclear physics. This Summer School was aimed mainly at young nuclear physicists, both theoreticians and experimentalists, engaged in research work at predoctoral or recent postdoctoral level. The topics treated in the three previous editions of the School were: "Heavy Ion Collisions", "Theory of Nuclear Structure and Reactions" and "Nuclear As trophysics". This year's School was entitled "Nuclear Physics at the Borderlines". Special emphasis was placed on those topics along which nuclear physics is ex pected to develop in the next few years. The aim of the School was to provide the attendants with an opportunity to get into close contact with experienced researchers and listen to their account of the present state-of-the-art in nuclear physics and the main future lines of development.

Chiral Nuclear Dynamics Ii: From Quarks To Nuclei To Compact Stars (2nd Edition)
Chiral Nuclear Dynamics Ii: From Quarks To Nuclei To Compact Stars (2nd Edition)

Author: Mannque Rho

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2008-06-09

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9814475769

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This is the sequel to the first volume to treat in one effective field theory framework the physics of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. This is vital for understanding the high temperature phenomena taking place in relativistic heavy ion collisions and in the early Universe, as well as the high-density matter predicted to be present in compact stars. The underlying thesis is that what governs hadronic properties in a heat bath and/or a dense medium is hidden local symmetry which emerges from chiral dynamics of light quark systems and from the duality between QCD in 4D and bulk gravity in 5D as in AdS/QCD. Special attention is paid to hot matter relevant for relativistic heavy ion processes and to dense matter relevant for compact stars that are either stable or on the verge of collapse into black holes.

Advanced School Of Nonperturbative Quantum Field Physics
Advanced School Of Nonperturbative Quantum Field Physics

Author: Manuel Asorey

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1998-09-28

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9814544833

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This book contains many topics on the nonperturbative aspects of quantum field theory, including gauge theories, QCD vacuum and confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, instantons and monopoles, lattice physics and random matrices.

Nuclear Dynamics: From Quarks to Nuclei
Nuclear Dynamics: From Quarks to Nuclei

Author: M.T. Pena

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3709160146

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Papers presented at the 20th CFIF fall workshop held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October/November 2002. The focus of these papers is on the latest experimental observations and on theoretical progress made in the fields of few-nucleon dynamics and related problems. The topics range from electron-nucleus scattering, meson production, relativistic effects, structure of nucleons and of light nuclei, to heavy-ion collisions.

Proceedings of the VIII International Workshop on Hadron Physics 2002
Proceedings of the VIII International Workshop on Hadron Physics 2002

Author: C‚sar A. Z. Vasconcellos

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9812704426

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This book provides in a pedagogical way some up-to-date reviews of properties of strongly interacting matter produced at RHIC, analytical approaches to QCD, and nuclear and high-energy astrophysics. It also contains schematic outlines of topics on high-precision non-perturbative QCD, first results from RHIC, and heavy-ion collisions at LHC with the ATLAS detector.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)"

Mesons and Quarks
Mesons and Quarks

Author: A. B. Santra

Publisher: Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9788173195891

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"This monograph "Mesons and Quarks" includes a wide range of topics in the frontier areas of research in the overlapping field of nuclear and particle physics. It discusses various aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at different regimes of energy and density."--BOOK JACKET.

Hadron Physics 96: Topics On The Structure And Interaction Of Hadronic Systems - Proceedings Of The International Workshop
Hadron Physics 96: Topics On The Structure And Interaction Of Hadronic Systems - Proceedings Of The International Workshop

Author: Erasmo Ferreira

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1997-05-05

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9814546348

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The study of QCD in the confinement regime poses some of the most difficult problems of fundamental physics at present. The mechanism of confinement is not yet understood, and it is hard to investigate the properties of the fundamental theory in the determination of the structures and interactions of hadronic systems. As a consequence of these difficulties, the frontier between effective and fundamental theories has been intensively investigated in the last few years, and progress has been achieved in several directions. The 'Hadron Physics' workshop gathered together experts who have been taking the lead in these developments in recent years. Four sets of lectures were presented, providing a pedagogical and updated basis that gives support to research work in frontier problems. This book puts together the main current methods in the study of the properties of hadrons. The perspective of future developments based on different approaches can then be more clearly perceived.

The Large N Expansion In Quantum Field Theory And Statistical Physics
The Large N Expansion In Quantum Field Theory And Statistical Physics

Author: Edouard Brezin

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993-08-31

Total Pages: 1149

ISBN-13: 981450663X

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This book contains an edited comprehensive collection of reprints on the subject of the large N limit as applied to a wide spectrum of problems in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. The topics include (1) Spin Systems; (2) Large N Limit of Gauge Theories; (3) Two-Dimensional QCD; (4) Exact Results on Planar Perturbation Series and the Nature of the 1/N Series; (5) Schwinger-Dyson Equations Approach; (6) QCD Phenomenological Lagrangians and the Large N Limit; (7) Other Approaches to Large N: Eguchi-Kawai Model, Collective Fields and Numerical Methods; (8) Matrix Models; (9) Two-Dimensional Gravity and String Theory.

The Structure of the Nucleon
The Structure of the Nucleon

Author: Anthony W. Thomas

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3527635041

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As the only stable baryon, the nucleon is of crucial importance in particle physics. Since the nucleon is a building block for all atomic nuclei, there is a need to analyse the its structure in order to fully understand the essential properties of all atomic nuclei. After more than forty years of research on the nucleon, both the experimental and theoretical situations have matured to a point where a synthesis of the results becomes indispensable. Here, A.W. Thomas and W. Weise present a unique report on the extensive empirical studies, theoretical foundations and the different models of the nucleon. The appendices provide an extensive summary of formulae needed in practical calculations. From the contents: electromagnetic structure of the nucleon, weak probes of nucleon structure, deep inelastic lepton scattering on the nucleon; elements of QCD, aspects of non-perturbative QCD, Chiral Symmetry and nucleon structure, models of the nucleon