Introduction to Equilibrium Thermal Field Theory

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dc.creatorLandshoff, P V
dc.date1998-08-19
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dc.descriptionWithin the next few years experiments at RHIC and the LHC will seek to create in the laboratory a quark-gluon plasma, the phase of matter through which the Universe passed very early in its life. It is believed that the plasma will survive long enough to reach thermal equilibrium. I give an introduction to the formalism of thermal field theory, the combination of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory needed to describe the plasma in thermal equilibrium, in a way that tries to keep close to the physics it describes.
dc.description14 pages, plain tex. Lectures given in August 1998 at the University of Regensburg, based on a course given in February 1997 at the IX Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School, Campos do Jordao, Brazil
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9808362
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9808362
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48146
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleIntroduction to Equilibrium Thermal Field Theory
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