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| Title: | Relativistic Microscopic Quantum Transport Equation
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| Author: | Guangjun Mao |
| ISBN: | 159454395X : 9781594543951 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 185 |
| Weight: | .43 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - January 2006 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) |
The violent dynamical expansion of dense matter produced in heavy-ion collisions determines that the microscopic transport theories designed for it should keep the line of time evolution and medium effects, both in the in-medium particle drifting and in-medium particle-particle scatterings. A set of relativistic transport equations for particle distribution functions have thus been developed. Starting from a Lagrangian of baryons interacting through mesons, one computes Feynman diagrams up to the Born term through employing the closed time-path Green's function technique. All the ingredients of equations are derived from the same effective interaction and presented analytically. This book clearly shows how a relativistic Boltzmann equation can be deduced from a given interaction through reckoning Feynman diagrams of quantum field theory. While discussions are concentrated on the topic of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the introduced method is rather general, and may find it's application in the problems of neutrino transportation of astrophysics and electron transportation of solid-state physics.
Foreword; Introduction; Nonequilibrium Green’s Technique; Derivation of the Quantum Transport Equations for Hadronic Matter; Calculation of Mean Fields; Calculation of Collision Terms; Outlook; Index.
