Nuclear and Particle Physics

"Nuclear and Particle Physics - Their Changing Interface" is a primer for nuclear physicists who want to be gently introduced into particle physics while knowing that nuclear physics is changing more and more towards the way particle physics research is done. For scientists, graduate students and interested advanced undergraduate students.

Inhalt
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.