Lecture notes on "Quantum chromodynamics and statistical physics"
arXiv:1410.6478 · doi:10.1007/s11433-015-5666-7
Abstract
The concepts and methods used for the study of disordered systems have proven useful in the analysis of the evolution equations of quantum chromodynamics in the high-energy regime: Indeed, parton branching in the semi-classical approximation relevant at high energies is a peculiar branching-diffusion process, and parton branching supplemented by saturation effects (such as gluon recombination) is a reaction-diffusion process. In these lectures, we first introduce the basic concepts in the context of simple toy models, we study the properties of the latter, and show how the results obtained for the simple models may be taken over to quantum chromodynamics.
58 pages, 32 figures. Lectures given at the Huada school on QCD, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, June 2-13, 2014
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