Strong and Electroweak Matter 2002 : proceedings of the SEWM2002 meeting, Heidelberg, Germany, 2-5 October 2002 / edited by Michael G. Schmidt.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Main talks. The phase diagram of QCD. Lattice QCD at non-vanishing density: phase diagram, equation of state / F. Csikor [and others] -- Lattice studies of QCD thermodynamics / E. Laermann -- What mediates the longest correlation length in the QCD plasma? / O. Philipsen -- Effective Lagrangians for Polyakov loops and quarkless baryons / R.D. Pisarski -- New results for spin-one color superconductors / A. Schmitt, Q. Wang and D.H. Rischke -- Anomaly matching and low energy theories at high matter density / F. Sannino -- Complex action problems in models for QCD at finite density / U.-J. Wiese -- Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology. RHIC and the search for high energy density matter / L. McLerran -- Jet tomography in heavy ion collisions / U.A. Wiedemann -- Thermal and nonequilibrium QFT. Transport coefficients and quantum fields / G. Aarts and J.M. Martinez Resco -- Progress in nonequilibrium quantum field theory / J. Berges and J. Serreau -- Do we understand the non-perturbative dynamics of hot non-abelian gauge fields? / D. Bödeker -- What is the simplest effective approach to hot QCD thermodynamics? / M. Laine -- Transport coefficients at leading order: kinetic theory versus diagrams / G.D. Moore -- HTL-resummed thermodynamics of hot and dense QCD: an update / A. Rebhan -- Quasiparticle dynamics in relativistic plasmas / L.G. Yaffe -- Small x-physics. High energy scattering and diffraction at HERA / A. Hebecker -- The colour glass condensate / E. Iancu -- Cosmology. Kinetic approach to electroweak baryogenesis / T. Prokopec [and others] -- Preheating and thermalization after inflation / R. Micha and I.I. Tkachev -- Photon dynamics in inflation / O. Törnkvist -- Cosmology with varying scales and couplings / C. Wetterich.

Contributed talks. The phase diagram of QCD. Matrix model correlation functions and lattice data for the QCD Dirac operator with chemical potential / G. Akemann and T. Wettig -- Interpolating the free energy density differences of reweighting methods / P.R. Crompton -- Remarks on the reweighting method in the chemical potential direction / S. Ejiri -- Heavy quark free energies and screening in SU(2) gauge theory / S. Digal, S. Fortunato and P. Petreczky -- QCD phase diagram at small densities from simulations with imaginary [mu] / Ph. de Forcrand and O. Philipsen -- Cubic order for spatial 't Hooft Loop in hot QCD / P. Giovannangeli and C.P. Korthals Altes -- A BCS condensate in NJL[symbol]? / S. Hands and D.N. Walters -- Positivity of QCD at asymptotic density / D.K. Hong -- Anisotropic colored superfluids / J. Hošek -- Renormalized quark-anti-quark free energy / F. Zantow [and others] -- Lattice effective theory and the phase transition at finite densities / K. Langfeld -- p and [sigma] mesons in unitarized thermal xPT / F. Llanes-Estrada [and others] -- High spin glueballs from the lattice / H.B. Meyer -- Numerical simulation with light Wilson-quarks / I. Montvay -- The semiclassical structure of SU(2) lattice gauge theory at 0 <T [symbol] Tc / E.-M. Ilgenfritz [and others] -- Cold deconfined matter EOS through an HTL quasi-particle model / P. Romatschke -- The QCD phase diagram for small chemical potentials / C. Schmidt -- Critical behaviour and scaling functions for the three-dimensional O(6) spin model with external field / S. Holtmann and T. Schulze -- Renormalization group approach to the phase diagram of strong interaction / K. Schwenzer and H.-J. Pirner -- The structure in mesonic channels above Tc / I.-O. Stamatescu (QCD-TARO collaboration) -- In medium hadron properties / S. Stickan -- On the renormalization of the Polyakov loop / F. Zantow -- Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology. Bottom-up scenario and Au-Au collisions at RHIC / R. Baier -- Quasiquarks in anisotropic systems / S. Mrówczyński -- Electron-positron pairs in the color-flavor locked phase of compact stars / I.A. Shovkovy and P.J. Ellis -- Freeze-out in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions / B. Tomášik.

Thermal and nonequilibrium QFT. Initial states and time evolution for out-of-equilibrium matter / R.F. Alvarez-Estrada -- Hard thermal loops and QCD thermodynamics / J.O. Andersen -- [Phi]-derivable approximations in gauge theories / A. Arrizabalaga and J. Smit -- Nonequilibrium Goldstone phenomenon in hybrid inflation / Sz. Borsányi, A. Patkós and D. Sexty -- An influence functional for ultrasoft QCD / F. Guerin and E. Iancu -- Quantum corrections to Boltzmann equations / A. Jakovác -- QCD effective actions at high temperature and the quasiparticle picture / C. Manuel -- Nonequilibrium dynamics of the O(N) linear sigma model in the Hartree approximation / S. Michalski -- Gauge invariance in 2PI effective actions / E. Mottola -- On asymmetric Chern-Simons number diffusion / B.-J. Nauta -- Spectral function of the sigma meson at finite temperature in optimized perturbation theory to 2-loop / T. Nishikawa and O. Morimatsu -- Resummation in hot field theories / U. Reinosa -- Universality in fermionic field theories at finite temperature / C.G. Strouthos -- The scalar-isoscalar spectral function of strong matter in a large N approximation / A. Patkós, Zs. Szép and P. Szépfalusy -- Finite temperature Z(N) phase transition with Kaluza-Klein gauge fields / M. Vettorazzo -- Small x-physics. Geometrical scaling of F2 and critical correlations of Wilson lines / H.J. Pirner -- QCD-instantons and saturation at small x / F. Schrempp and A. Utermann -- Cosmology. Decay of magnetic fields in the early universe / M. Hindmarsh, M. Christensson and A. Brandenburg -- Possible baryogenesis scenarios / M. Losada -- Formation of magnetic monopoles in hot gauge theories / A. Rajantie -- How to detect the cosmic neutrino background? / A. Ringwald -- W-Particle distribution in electroweak tachyonic pre-heating / J. Skullerud, J. Smit and A. Tranberg -- Chern-Simons number asymmetry from CP-violation during tachyonic preheating / J. Smit and A. Tranberg.

The SEWM2002 workshop, like the ones before, brought together theoretical physicists working on thermal field theory and, more generally, on (resummation) techniques for deriving effective actions based on QCD and the electroweak standard model of elementary particle physics, but describing nonstandard situations. The focus was on the temperature/chemical potential phase diagram of QCD, considered both analytically and with lattice gauge theory, equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermo field theory, and on heavy ion physics. Other related topics were "small x physics" in QCD, electroweak baryogenesis, inflation, and dark energy in the early universe.

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