Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 52
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12235-4

Review

Nuclear and quark matter at high temperature

¹ H.A.S. Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
² Roland Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
³ Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

^* e-mail: Biro.Tamas@wigner.mta.hu

Received: 30 October 2016
Accepted: 14 February 2017
Published online: 16 March 2017

Abstract

We review important ideas on nuclear and quark matter description on the basis of high-temperature field theory concepts, like resummation, dimensional reduction, interaction scale separation and spectral function modification in media. Statistical and thermodynamical concepts are spotted in the light of these methods concentrating on the --partially still open-- problems of the hadronization process.