Quark-Gluon Structure of the Nucleon and QCD. Held in Wako, Saitama, Japan on March 29-31, 2002

摘要

An over view of the recent progress in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at finite tem- perature and baryon density is given. The 1st lecture is devoted to general introduction to the phase transition in QCD. In the 2nd lecture, plasma properties at high temperature is discussed on the basis of the weak coupling perturbation theory. In the 3rd lecture, critical phenomena associated with the QCD phase transition are described. Applications to early universe, relativistic heavy ion collisions and the structure of neutron stars are also discussed.