Quark-gluon plasma lectures presented at the 1982 Arctic School of Physics, August 1-14, Akaslampalo, Finland

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6237012

McLerran, L

These lectures present features of high temperature and baryon number density hadronic matter as it might be described by QCD, and describe the possible formation of such matter in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The confinement-deconfinement transition, and the chiral symmetry breaking transition are discussed using order parameters. The current understanding of the dynamics of these phase changes is reviewed. The first lecture begins by presenting naive arguments for expecting phase transitions at several times the energy density of hadronic matter. These phase transitions are then discussed in terms of order parameters. For Yang-Mills theories in the absence of dynamical quarks the exponential of the negative of the free energy of an isolated static test quark is employed to measure the confinement-deconfinement phase transition. The chiral symmetry restoration transition is extensively discussed. The dynamic of these phase transitions, and the relationship between confinement-deconfinement and the breakdown or realization of a global dynamical Z/sub N/ symmetry, is the subject of the second lecture. The dynamics of chiral symmetry breaking is discussed. The last lecture reviews how hadronic matter might be formed in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions. The space time dynamics of the Landau hydrodynamical model and the inside-outside cascade model are reviewed. (WHK)

• Research Organization: Washington Univ., Seattle (USA). Dept. of Physics; Helsinki Univ. (Finland). Research Inst. for Theoretical Physics
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-81ER40048
• OSTI ID: 6237012
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40048-26-P2; CONF-8208133-1; ON: DE83011617
• Resource Relation: Conference: Arctic school of physics, Akaslampalo, Finland, 1 Aug 1982; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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