Quantum chromodynamics at finite energy with baryon number and strangeness conservation

Feb, 1992
28 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 1566-1578
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-6397-92

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Abstract: (APS)
We formulate quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in a medium of finite energy and conserved charges using the microcanonical distribution in the real-time formalism. The generating functional and Feynman rules are given and used to calculate perturbatively the entropy of the quark-gluon plasma at finite energy and fixed baryon number. We discuss the relation to the grand canonical formulation and study the implications of our results on the confinement-deconfinement phase transition.
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • critical phenomena
  • energy: finite
  • conservation law: strangeness
  • Feynman graph
  • entropy
  • baryon number
  • quark: confinement
  • path integral