| Universal Fluctuations: The Phenomenology of Hadronic Matter Contributor(s): Botet, Robert (Author), Ploszajczak, Marek (Author) |
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ISBN: 9810249233 ISBN-13: 9789810249236 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $62.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Nuclear - Science | Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical |
| Dewey: 539.721 |
| LCCN: 2002726697 |
| Series: World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.98" W x 8.82" (1.22 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The main purpose of this book is to present, in a comprehensive and progressive way, the appearance of universal limit probability laws in physics, and their connection with the recently developed scaling theory of fluctuations. Arising from the probability theory and renormalization group methods, this novel approach has been proved recently to provide efficient investigative tools for the collective features that occur in any finite system.The mathematical background is self-contained and is formulated in terms which are easy to apply to the physical context. After illustrating the problem of anomalous diffusion, the book reviews recent advances in nuclear and high energy physics, where the limit laws are now recognized as being able to classify different phases of a system undergoing the pseudo-critical behaviour. A new description of the hadronic matter in terms of the fluctuation scaling is appearing as a consequence of this approach. |