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Title: [Research in theoretical nuclear physics]. [Annual progress report, July 1992--June 1993]

Abstract

The main subject of research was the physics of matter at energy densities greater than 0.15 GeV/fm{sup 3}. Theory encompasses the relativistic many-body/quantum field theory aspects of QCD and the electroweak interactions at these high energy densities, both in and out of thermal equilibrium. Applications range from neutron stars/pulsars to QCD and electroweak phase transitions in the early universe, from baryon number violation in cosmology to the description of nucleus-nucleus collisions at CERN and at Brookhaven. Recent activity to understand the properties of matter at energy densities where the electroweak W and Z boson degrees of freedom are important is reported. This problem has applications to cosmology and has the potential to explain the baryon asymmetry produced in the big bang at energies where the particle degrees of freedom will soon be experimentally, probed. This problem is interesting for nuclear physics because of the techniques used in many-body, physics of nuclei and the quark-gluon plasma may be extended to this new problem. The was also interested in problems related to multiparticle production. This includes work on production of particles in heavy-ion collisions, the small x part, of the nuclear and hadron wave function, and multiparticle production induced by instantons inmore » weakly coupled theories. These problems have applications in the heavy ion program at RHIC and the deep inelastic scattering experiments at HERA.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10121354
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40328-T2
ON: DE94006341; BR: KB0300000; TRN: 94:007338
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-87ER40328
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1993]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; NUCLEAR MATTER; QUARK MATTER; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; MULTIPLE PRODUCTION; PROGRESS REPORT; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; SUM RULES; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; 663110; 662230; 663300; GENERAL AND AVERAGE PROPERTIES OF NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR ENERGY LEVELS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS AND SCATTERING, GENERAL

Citation Formats

Kapusta, J I. [Research in theoretical nuclear physics]. [Annual progress report, July 1992--June 1993]. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10121354.
Kapusta, J I. [Research in theoretical nuclear physics]. [Annual progress report, July 1992--June 1993]. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10121354
Kapusta, J I. 1993. "[Research in theoretical nuclear physics]. [Annual progress report, July 1992--June 1993]". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10121354. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10121354.
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abstractNote = {The main subject of research was the physics of matter at energy densities greater than 0.15 GeV/fm{sup 3}. Theory encompasses the relativistic many-body/quantum field theory aspects of QCD and the electroweak interactions at these high energy densities, both in and out of thermal equilibrium. Applications range from neutron stars/pulsars to QCD and electroweak phase transitions in the early universe, from baryon number violation in cosmology to the description of nucleus-nucleus collisions at CERN and at Brookhaven. Recent activity to understand the properties of matter at energy densities where the electroweak W and Z boson degrees of freedom are important is reported. This problem has applications to cosmology and has the potential to explain the baryon asymmetry produced in the big bang at energies where the particle degrees of freedom will soon be experimentally, probed. This problem is interesting for nuclear physics because of the techniques used in many-body, physics of nuclei and the quark-gluon plasma may be extended to this new problem. The was also interested in problems related to multiparticle production. This includes work on production of particles in heavy-ion collisions, the small x part, of the nuclear and hadron wave function, and multiparticle production induced by instantons in weakly coupled theories. These problems have applications in the heavy ion program at RHIC and the deep inelastic scattering experiments at HERA.},
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year = {Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1993}
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