Abstract
What is matter made of? The search for its ultimate constituents has always inspired the imagination. Since antiquity, man has tried to explain the composite macroscopic world in terms of indivisible building blocks on a microscopic scale. Beneath the complexity and irregularity which surround us, we hope to find a hidden world of greater simplicity, in which primordial parts move according to basic laws. This idea turned out to be fruitful beyond all expectations, so that today we find it natural to derive the properties of matter from the dynamics which govern the interaction between some fundamental building blocks.
So there must be an ultimate limit to bodies, beyond perception by our senses. This limit is without parts, is the smallest possible thing. It can never exist by itself, but only as primordial part of a larger body, from which no force can tear it loose.
Titus Lucretius Carus: De rerum natura,
liber primus 599, ∼ 55 B.C.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Wilczek, F.: In: Zerwas, P.M., Kastrup, H.A. (eds.) QCD—20 Years Later. World Scientific, Singapore (1993)
Gell-Mann, M.: Phys. Lett. 8, 214 (1964)
Zweig, G.: Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 25, 3863 (2010) and earlier references given there
Pati, J.C., Salam, A.: Phys. Rev. D 10, 275 (1974)
Buchmüller, W.: In: Mitter, H. Plessas, W. (eds.) Nucleon-Nucleon and Nucleon-Antinucleon Interactions. Springer, Wien (1985)
Finkelstein, R.J.: Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 22, 4467 (2007)
Weinberg, S.: Rev. Mod. Phys. 52, 515 (1980)
Salam, A.: Rev. Mod. Phys. 52, 525 (1980)
Glashow, S.: Rev. Mod. Phys. 52, 529 (1980)
Kane, G.: Modern Elementary Particle Physics. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1993)
Pomeranchuk, I.Ya.: Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 78, 889 (1951)
Mott, N.F.: Proc. Phys. Soc. (Lond.) A 62, 416 (1949)
Dixit, V.V.: Mod. Phys. Lett. A 5, 227 (1990)
Satz, H.: Nucl. Phys. A 418, 447c (1984)
Castorina, P., Gavai, R.V., Satz, H., Eur. Phys. J. C 69, 169 (2010)
Anselmino, M., Ekelin, S., Lichtenberg, D.B., Predazzi, E.: Rev. Mod. Phys. 65, 1199 (1993)
Rajagopal, K., Wilczek, F.: The condensed matter physics of QCD. hep-ph/0011333
Alford, M.: Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 51, 131 (2001)
Alford, M., et al.: Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1455 (2008)
Wong, C.-Y.: Introduction to High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions. World Scientific, Singapore (1994)
Csernai, L.P.: Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. Wiley, New York (1994)
Yagi, K., Hatsuda, T., Miake, Y.: Quark-Gluon Plasma. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2005)
Vogt, R.L.: Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. Elsevier, Amsterdam (2007)
Sarkar, S., Satz, H., Sinha, B. (eds.): The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Lect. Notes in Physics, vol. 785. Springer, Berlin (2010)
Fiorkowski, W.: Phenomenology of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions. World Scientific, Singapore (2011)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Satz, H. (2012). The Analysis of Dense Matter. In: Extreme States of Matter in Strong Interaction Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23908-3_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23908-3_1
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-23907-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-23908-3
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)