Quark--Gluon plasma 3 / editors, Rudolph C. Hwa, Xin-Nian Wang.

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A review monograph on quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Different theoretical and experimental aspects of the programme to produce QGP in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are covered by experts in the field. This is the third volume in a series on the subject, and it focuses on the implications of the experimental results from RHIC, the relativistic heavy-ion collider at the National Brookhaven Laboratory. The review articles should be useful to experienced researchers as well as to graduate students entering the field.

Preface ; Thermodynamics and In-Medium Hadron Properties from Lattice QCD ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 QCD thermodynamics ; 1.2 Lattice formulation of QCD thermodynamics ; 2 The QCD Phase Diagram ; 3 The Transition Temperature ; 4 Equation of State.

5 Heavy Quark Free Energies 5.1 Deconfinement order parameter ; 5.2 Heavy quark potential ; 6 Thermal Modifications of Hadron Properties ; 6.1 QCD phase transition and the hadron spectrum ; 6.2 Spatial and temporal correlation functions hadronic susceptibilities.

6.3 Spectral functions from hadronic correlation functions 6.4 Spectral analysis of thermal correlation functions ; 6.5 Vector meson spectral function and thermal dilepton rates ; 6.6 Heavy quark spectral functions and charmonium suppression ; 7 Summary ; References ; Appendix A.

Thermodynamics of the High-Temperature Quark-Gluon Plasma 1 Introduction ; 2 The Scalar Field Theory as a Pedagogical Example ; 2.1 Perturbation theory and its difficulties ; 2.2 Order g3 from various resummation schemes ; 2.3 Self-consistent resummation ; 3 Quark-Gluon Plasma.

3.1 Perturbative results 3.2 Lattice results ; 3.3 Dimensional reduction ; 4 Thermodynamics of HTL Quasiparticles in QCD ; 4.1 HTL-screened perturbation theory ; 4.2 2PI formalism in gauge theories ; 4.3 Approximately self-consistent entropy and quark density ; 4.4 Pressure.

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