Relativistic quantum transport theory approach to multiparticle production

Relativistic Quantum Transport Theory for Electrodynamics

We investigate the relationship between the covariant and the three-dimensional (equal-time) formulations of quantum kinetic theory. We show that the three-dimensional approach can be obtained as the energy average of the covariant formulation. We illustrate this statement in scalar and spinor QED. For scalar QED we derive Lorentz covariant transport and constraint equations directly from the K...

Multiparticle Production and Quantum Chromodynamics

The theory of strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), is quite successful in the prediction and description of main features of multiparticle production processes at high energies. The general perturbative QCD approach to these processes (mainly to e + e −-annihilation) is briefly formulated and its problems are discussed. It is shown that the analytical calculations at the parton le...

Introduction to Relativistic Transport Theory

Bibliography 43 3 Contents 4 Preface The present manuscript are lecture notes on an introduction to relativistic transport theory, held at the SERC School on Modern Theories of Nuclear Reactions in Roorkee, India. The aim of these lectures is to provide a self-contained presentation of the general foundations of rela-tivistic transport theory with the aim to provide the theoretical tools for th...

The Quantum Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes

A new derivation of the quantum Boltzmann transport equation for the Fermion system from the quantum time evolution equation for the wigner distribution function is presented. The method exhibits the origin of the time - irreversibility of the Boltzmann equation. In the present work, the spin dependent and indistinguishibility of particles are also considered.

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory