Abstract:
At high temperatures or densities, hadronic matter shows different forms of critical behaviour: colour deconfinement, chiral symmetry restoration, and diquark condensation. I first discuss the conceptual basis of these phenomena and then consider the description of colour deconfinement in terms of symmetry breaking, through colour screening and as percolation transition.
  • talk: Marseille 2000/06/14
  • talk: Zakopane 2000/06/03
  • talk: Acicastello 2000/05/22
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • critical phenomena
  • matter: hadronic
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • symmetry breaking
  • thermodynamics
  • color: screening