Quark-Gluon Plasma 3
Quark-Gluon Plasma 3
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10.1142/5029
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2004
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R. Hwa;Xin-Nian Wang
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作者：
R. Hwa;Xin-Nian Wang
自上一个夸克胶子等离子体综述专著问世以来，已有五年的时间。在这期间的几年里，这一课题的理论研究取得了很大进展，而在实验室中产生热化等离子体的无可争议的证据仍然难以捉摸。将理论和实验联系起来的一个重要步骤是开发了计算机代码，这些代码可以模拟重离子碰撞中的详细演化过程，并考虑到部分子动力学。部分子的产生和平衡已经成为研究热化过程的重要课题。在更理论性的领域，如格点规范理论、高温场论和手征相变，也取得了显著的进展。在唯象学中，从对原初态的严格探测到对末态的时空或奇异性特征的深入理解，已经取得了长足的进步。因此，在这个时候提出另一个评论专着，可以为社会服务，尽可能多的有用性，因为第一卷有。只包括理论论文在这里的原因仍然是一样的。如果要使对理论思想和方法的审查有用，就必须提供足够的空间，以便进行教学讨论。与实验结果不同，有页数限制的会议记录不是进行这种审查的适当媒介。即使有这么大的体积，也不能容纳所有有趣的开发。然而，所包含的内容无疑可以满足许多目前正在从事该主题工作或正在开始进入该主题的人的需求。
It has been five years since the first appearance of the previous review mono graph on quark-gluon plasma. In the intervening years much progress has been made in the theoretical investigation of the subject, while incontrovertible evidence for the creation of a thermalized plasma in the laboratory is still elusive. A sig nificant step in connecting theory and experiment has been the development of computer codes that simulate the detailed evolution process in heavy-ion collisions with parton dynamics taken into account. Parton production and equilibration have become important topics of investigation that can shed light on the thermalization process. There have also been notable advances made in areas of more theoretical nature such as lattice gauge theory, high-temperature field theory and chiral phase transition. In phenomenology great strides have been taken toward further under standing of the characteristics of the hadronic signatures, ranging from hard probes of the primordial state to the space-time or strangeness features of the final state. It is therefore opportune at this time to put forth another review monograph that can serve the community with as much usefulness as the first volume has.The reason for including only theoretical papers here is still the same as be fore. If reviews of theoretical ideas and methods are to be useful, it is necessary that sufficient space be available to allow for pedagogical discussions. Conference proceedings that have page limitations are not the proper medium for such reviews, unlike experimental results. Even with a volume of this size, not all interesting development can be accommodated. However, what are included can undoubtedly meet the needs of many who either are currently working in the subject or are beginning to enter into it.