None. Helpful articles and books will be mentioned in classes. All lectures will be given, saved, thereafter downloadable, in digital form.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: Relativistic statistical mechanics. Relativistic hydrodynamics.
Competence acquired : Basic theoretical framework for applications in cosmology, astrophysics and ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions (Quark Gluon Plasma physics)
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): A broader and more general view of the basic laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
Prerequisites
Special and general relativity Classical and quantum statistical mechanics. Some elements of quantum field theory and group theory.
Teaching Methods
6 CFU
Lectures hours: 48
Further information
Office hours
To be agreed with the teacher
Website
http://theory.fi.infn.it/becattini/
Type of Assessment
Oral test
Course program
Relativistic statistical mechanics and thermodynamics at equilibrium. Microcanonical, canonical and grand-canonical ensembles. Non-abelian symmetries and canonical ensemble. Covariant formulation of statistical mechanics. Ideal and dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics. Entropy current. Non-equilibrium relativistic statistical mechanics: Zubarev theory of non-equilibrium density operator. Relativistic Kubo formulae for transport coefficients. Techniques of thermal field theory. A brief review of relativistic kinetic theory and Wigner functions. Hydrodynamical model of the Quark Gluon Plasma.