Finite-Temperature Field Theory

Joseph I. Kapusta is Professor of Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and has been a faculty member at the University of Minnesota since 1982. He has authored over 150 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Since 1997 he has been an associate editor for Physical Review C. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Charles Gale is James McGill Professor at the Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1986 and joined the faculty there in 1989. He has authored more than 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Since 2005 he has been the Chair of the Department of Physics at McGill University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

1. Review of quantum statistical mechanics; 2. Functional integral representation of the partition function; 3. Interactions and diagrammatic techniques; 4. Renormalisation; 5. Quantum electrodynamics; 6. Linear response theory; 7. Spontaneous symmetry breaking and restoration; 8. Quantum chromodynamics; 9. Resummation and hard thermal loops; 10. Lattice gauge theory; 11. Dense nuclear matter; 12. Hot hadronic matter; 13. Nucleation theory; 14. Heavy ion collisions; 15. Weak interactions; 16. Astrophysics and cosmology; Conclusion; Appendix.