Nuclear and Particle Physics

The Changing Interface

Mira Dey, Jishnu Dey (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 109 Seiten

2011 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-84967-1 (ISBN)

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"Nuclear and Particle Physics" both have been very distinctsubjects for decades, and are now developing more and moreinterfaces. Thus, hitherto typical methods of particlephysics are adopted by nuclear physics. The authors try tobuild bridges between both fields and give nuclearphysicists a thorough introduction from the fundamentals ofparticle physics to current research in this field.Contents:- Introduction- Preliminaries and Simple Models- Currents, Anomaly, Solitons, and Fractional Fermions- More on Chiral Symmetry- Introduction to Instantons- Relevance of Instantons- Chiral Perturbation Theory- The Topological and Non-Topological Soliton Model- QCD Sum Rules- References

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Quarks.- 1.2 Colour.- 1.3 Flavour.- 1.4 Quark Masses.- 1.5 Medium Effects on Quarks and Their Interactions.- 1.6 Phase Transition and Quark Gluon Plasma.- 2 Preliminaries and Simple Models.- 2.1 SU(2) and SU(3) Symmetry.- 2.2 The SU(3) Group.- 2.3 Non-Abelian Gauge Transformations.- 2.4 SU(3) Flavour Group.- 2.5 The SU(3) Colour and the Multi-Quark Wave Function.- 2.6 The Necessity of Relativistic Models.- 2.7 Fully Relativistic One-Body Potential Models.- 2.8 Relativistic Hartree-Fock Models.- 3 Currents, Anomaly, Solitons and Fractional Fermions.- 3.1 The Theorem of Emmy Noether.- 3.2 Internal Symmetry and Space-Time Symmetry.- 3.3 Standard Examples.- 3.4 Current Algebra and Anomaly.- 3.5 Fractional Fermions.- 3.6 A Brief Review of Solitons: Kinks.- 3.7 Polyacetylene: One Dimensional Dirac-Type Equation.- 4 More on Chiral Anomaly.- 4.1 Chiral Anomaly in QED.- 4.2 Gentleness.- 4.3 Momentum Routing Anomalies.- 4.4 Anomalous Ward Identity from Path Integral Approach.- 4.5 Summary of Grassmann Algebra.- 4.6 Integration Over Fermi Fields.- 4.7 Chiral Transformation.- 5 Introduction to Instantons.- 5.1 Instantons or Pseudoparticles.- 5.2 Tunneling in Imaginary Time.- 5.3 Homotopy Theory.- 5.4 Compactification of Space-Time Manifold and Mapping.- 5.5 Bounds for the Instanton Solutions.- 6 Relevance of Instantons.- 6.1 ? Vacuum.- 6.2 The DEMON.- 6.3 Electroweak Baryon Number Violation.- 6.4 Conformally Invariant Solutions of Jackiw, Nohl and Rebbi.- 6.5 Instanton to Skyrmion.- 6.6 QCD Vacuum - Instanton Gas or Liquid?.- 6.7 Instanton Suppression by Light Fermions.- 6.8 Instanton Induced Effective Interaction.- 7 Chiral Perturbation Theory (CHPT).- 7.1 CHPT for the Meson Sector.- 7.2 CHPT for the Nucleon.- 7.3 CHPT at Finite Temperature.- 8 TheTopological and Non-Topological Soliton Models.- 8.1 Skyrmion: Baryon as a Topological Soliton in Meson Fields.- 8.2 The Non-topological Soliton or the Soliton Bag Model.- 8.3 The Nature of the QCD Vacuum.- 8.4 Description of the Model.- 9 QCD Sum Rules.- 9.1 Introduction to QCD Sum Rules.- 9.2 The Operator Product Expansion (OPE).- 9.3 Calculation of the Coefficients and Borel Transform.- 9.4 Introduction to Sum Rules for Baryons.- 9.5 The Nucleon Correlator.- 9.6 Details of the Sum Rule for Nucleons.- 9.7 Finite Temperature and Density.- References.- Citation Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.12.2011
Reihe/Serie	Springer Series in Nuclear and Particle Physics
Zusatzinfo	IX, 109 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	206 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte	Baryon • Condensed Matter • Condensed matter physics • Field Theory • Meson • nuclear physics • Particle physics • Quark • skyrmion
ISBN-10	3-642-84967-9 / 3642849679
ISBN-13	978-3-642-84967-1 / 9783642849671
Zustand	Neuware