In this unit we plan to cover material relevant for the study of strong interactions in extreme conditions of temperature and densities, with and without magnetic fields. One would learn how to define the theory at finite temperature and densities, and how to study the relevant phase transitions.
Units: Essentials (in depth), Critical phenomena and RG (in depth) , numerical and statistical analysis (elements), renormalisation and improvement (elements).
Basics of Finite Temperature Field Theory
Symmetries and phases of massless QCD
Phase diagram as function of quark masses
Phase diagram as a function of temperature and density
Fluctuations
Quark chemical potentials, real and imaginary mu
Phase diagram for imaginary mu and for isospin
Finite volume scaling
Topology at high temperature
Transport and other quantities from analytical continuation
Heavy quark states and sequential melting
Classical-statistical Real-Time methods
Magnetic fields
Owe Philipsen, QCD Thermodynamics
Guy Moore, Thermal Field Theory
Claudia Ratti, Thermodynamics of the Quark Gluon Plasma I,II,III
Slides & Video Material (cont’d)
Frithjof Karsch, Supercomputing the properties of strong interaction matter by Lattice QCD
Peter Petreczky, Studying thermal QCD matter on the Lattice
Claudia Ratti, QCD Phase Diagram
Francesca Cuteri, Non Zero temperature and density
Massimo D’Elia, Topology & Confinement @ Europlex School