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This volume summarizes our contemporary understanding of the deconfinement transition in QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential. Questions as to whether a quark-gluon plasma exists in the interior of dense astrophysical objects or which bound-state signals have to be studied in order to unambiguously detect the QCD phase transition(s) in future heavy-ion collision programmes at RHIC and LHC are addressed. Progress in answering these questions requires a fusion of lattice QCD with other nonperturbative approaches and low-energy effective models for QCD. Experts in these fields present in the book their methods and their results in understanding the deconfinement phenomenon.
Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword (52 KB)
Finite Temperature QCD on the Lattice (188 KB)
Contents:
- Lattice-QCD at Finite-T and μ
- Topological Aspects of Deconfinement
- Random Matrix Theory
- QCD Phase Transition and Universality
- Dyson–Schwinger-Equation Studies
- Effective Models and Kinetics for QCD
- Signals for Deconfinement
Readership: Physicists
