High energy laboratories are performing experiments in heavy ion
collisions to explore the structure of matter at high temperature
and density. This elementary book explains the basic ideas involved
in the theoretical analysis of these experimental data. It first
develops two topics needed for this purpose, namely hadron
interactions and thermal field theory. Chiral perturbation theory
is developed to describe hadron interactions and thermal field
theory is formulated in the real-time method. In particular,
spectral form of thermal propagators is derived for fields of
arbitrary spin and used to calculate loop integrals. These
developments are then applied to find quark condensate and hadron
parameters in medium, including dilepton production. Finally, the
non-equilibrium method of statistical field theory to calculate
transport coefficients is reviewed. With technical details
explained in the text and appendices, this book should be
accessible to researchers as well as graduate students interested
in thermal field theory.
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