Proceedings of the International Workshop on Understanding Deconfinement in QCD : Trento, Italy, 1-13 March 1999

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Workshop on Understanding Deconfinement in QCD : Trento, Italy, 1-13 March 1999 written by David Blaschke and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes our contemporary understanding of the deconfinement transition in QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential. Questions as to whether a quark-gluon plasma exists in the interior of dense astrophysical objects or which bound-state signals have to be studied in order to unambiguously detect the QCD phase transition(s) in future heavy-ion collision programmes at RHIC and LHC are addressed. Progress in answering these questions requires a fusion of lattice QCD with other nonperturbative approaches and low-energy effective models for QCD. Experts in these fields present in the book their methods and their results in understanding the deconfinement phenomenon.