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Effective field theories have been widely used in nuclear physics.
This volume is devoted to exploring the intricate structure of
compact-star matter inaccessible directly from QCD. It is
principally anchored on hidden symmetries and topology presumed to
be encoded in QCD. It differs from standard effective field theory
and energy density functional approaches in that it exploits
renormalization-group flow in the complex 'vacuum' sliding with
density inferred from topology change identified as a manifestation
of baryon-quark continuity in dense matter. It makes a variety of
predictions that drastically differ from the conventional
treatments that could be tested by upcoming terrestrial and
astrophysical experiments.This monograph recounts how to go, in one
unique field theoretic formalism in terms of hadronic degrees of
freedom, from finite nuclei to dense compact-star matter that could
be explored in RIB-type machines in nuclear physics as well as in
LIGO-type gravity waves in astrophysics.
This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown
(1926-2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students,
postdocs, colleagues and friends. As written by one of the
contributors to this book, 'Gerry was an inspiring father figure
for generations of theoretical nuclear physicists and a great human
being'.This book covers a wide range of topics in nuclear physics,
including nuclear structure, two- and three-body nuclear forces,
strangeness nuclear physics, chiral symmetry, hadrons in dense
medium, hidden local symmetry, heavy quark symmetry, cosmic
neutrinos, nuclear double-beta decay, neutron stars, gravitational
waves, renormalization group methods, exotic nuclei, electron ion
collider (EIC), and much more. Most of the authors are Gerry's
former students and collaborators.We hope readers will find this
book very interesting not only for its physics content but also for
the window it gives into Gerry's personal legacy and humanity. This
book has vivid recollections of Gerry at Stony Brook, Princeton and
Copenhagen, together with his humor and his very special intuitive
way of thinking.
This book presents, in the form of reviews by world's leading
physicists in wide-ranging fields in theoretical physics, the
influence and prescience of Skyrme's daring idea of 1960,
originally conceived for nuclear physics, that fermions can arise
from bosons via topological solitons, pervasively playing a
powerful role in wide-ranging areas of physics, from
nuclear/astrophysics, to particle physics, to string theory and to
condensed matter physics.The skyrmion description, both from gauge
theory and from gauge/gravity duality, offers solutions to some
long-standing and extremely difficult problems at high baryonic
density, inaccessible by QCD proper. It also offers explanations
and makes startling predictions for fascinating new phenomena in
condensed matter systems. In both cases, what is at the core is the
topology although the phenomena are drastically different, even
involving different spacetime dimensions.This second edition has
been expanded with addition of new reviews and extensively updated
to take into account the latest developments in the field.
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