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Finite temperature field theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

These lectures review phases and phase transitions of the Standard Model, with emphasis on those aspects which are amenable to a first principle study. Model calculations and theoretical ideas of practical applicability are discussed as well. Contents: 1.Overview; 2. Field Theory at Finite Temperature and Density; 3.Critical Phenomena; 4.Electroweak Interactions at Finite Temperature; 5. Thermodynamics of Four Fermions models; 6.The Phases of QCD; 7.QCD at Finite Temperature, μB=0\mu_B = 0; 8.QCD at Finite Temperature, μB0\mu_B \ne 0.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0103141,
  title  = {Finite temperature field theory},
  author = {M. -P. Lombardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0103141},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

34 pages, 11 figures; lectures given at the Summer School on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, ICTP, Trieste, 12-30 June 2000 ; Comments and references added