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Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Anton Rebhan rebhana at tph.tuwien dot ac dot at +43-1-58801x13620

Current activity:

• ESI programm on AdS Holography and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Schedule AdS/QGP (August 2 - October 29, 2010)

TEACHING

Eine komplette Liste aller meiner im laufenden Studienjahr angekündigten Lehrveranstaltungen findet sich in der Institutsliste

Hier zu finden:

• Unterlagen zu meinen Lehrveranstaltungen (Skripten, Folien etc.),
• aktuelle Informationen zu meinen Lehrveranstaltungen, wie sie auch über TUWIS an abonnierte Hörer verschickt werden.

(Wie die Vorlesungen selbst, in einem bunten Gemisch aus Englisch und Deutsch:)

WS 2010/11

Einführung in die Quantenfeldtheorie I

Termin

Di 8:15-9:45 FH HS 4

Beginn

Di 5.10.2010

Literatur:

• Mark Srednicki: Quantum Field Theory (free prepublication draft)
• Peskin/Schröder: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Vorlesung folgt weitgehend Buch von Srednicki, aber mit Konventionen aus VO Introduction to QED (weitgehend gleich mit Peskin/Schröder)!

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 1

(gemeinsam mit D. Grumiller)

Termin

Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG

Vorbesprechung

Do, 7.10.210, 15:30

Topic 2010/11

Gauge/gravity dualities

Projektarbeiten

135.027 PrA Teilchenphysik

Spezielle Probleme der theoretischen Teilchenphysik

PrA Quark-Gluon-Plasmaphysik

gemeinsam mit Dr. Andreas Schmitt

PrA Black hole physics

gemeinsam mit Dr. Daniel Grumiller

SS 2010

Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics

Termin

Mo 10:00-11:30 SEM 136, FH 10. OG (Besprechung der Hausübungen im Anschluss an die Vorlesung)

QED Lecture notes

(postscript file, 890KB) (pdf file, 581KB) (Englisch, 81 pp.)

Erhältlich in Spiralbindung im Sekretariat des Institutes um 5 €

Prüfungen

mündlich, Termine jederzeit nach Vereinbarung (z.B. per E-mail an rebhana at tph.tuwien dot ac dot at)

Hausaufgaben

bei Abgabe von 2/3 der (freiwilligen) wöchentlichen Hausaufgaben wird eine Grundnote für die LVA ermittelt, die auf Wunsch durch eine mündliche Prüfung aufgebessert werden kann;

Abgabe der Hausaufgaben und unmittelbarer feedback im Anschluss an die Vorlesung der Folgewoche

Bei Grundnote 1 wird das Zeugnis automatisch ausgestellt, bei allen anderen erst nach evt. mündlicher Prüfung bzw. erklärtem Verzicht darauf (z.B. per e-mail an rebhana @ tph.tuwien.ac.at)

Hausaufgabenbewertung (pdf file)

VU Elektrodynamik I

siehe EDI

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 2

Termin

Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG

Beginn

Do, 11.3.2010

WS 2009/10

Elektrodynamik II

VO (136.018)

Diese Lehrveranstaltung hat nun eine eigene Homepage: http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/EDII

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 1

TUWIS Eintrag

Termin

Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG

Achtung: die AG vom Do, den 21.1. entfällt wegen der gleichzeitigen Habilitandenseminare von Dr. Grumiller (14:00 Black holes) und Dr. Schmitt (14:45 Color superconductivity in dense quark matter) im Seminarraum 5. Stock, gelb!

Topic 2008/09

Eichfeldtheorien / Gauge field theories

Das Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik basiert auf Eichfeldtheorien, mit denen die elektromagnetischen Wechselwirkungen sowie die schwachen und starken Kernkräfte beschrieben werden. Die theoretischen Grundlagen dazu sowie ausgewählte Aspekte, die über die einführenden Vorlesungen hinausgehen, sollen in dieser Arbeitsgemeinschaft von den teilnehmenden Studenten gemeinsam erarbeitet und vorgetragen werden.

Literatur

S. Pokorski: Gauge field theories

Previous semesters

Below you can find information on and material for lectures of past semesters. Some material pertaining to much older lectures can still be found at my (now obsoleted) old official home page.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 2 (SS 2009)

TUWIS Eintrag

Termin

Donnerstag, 14:00-15:30 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG

Topic

Fortsetzung von AGFW 1 (s.u.)

Presentations (dates are lower bounds and will be updated when we get delayed)

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 1 (WS 2008/09)

TUWIS Eintrag

Termin

Donnerstag, 14:00-15:30 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG

Topic 2008/09

Gauge/gravity duality

Through the Anti-deSitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence of Maldacena and in other conjectured gauge/gravity dualities, the thermodynamics of gauge theories at strong coupling is mapped to the thermodynamics of BHs in 5-dimensional AdS space. The deconfinement transition in quantum chromodynamics is related to the Hawking-Page phase transition on the gravitational side. Matter degrees of freedom are described by additional D-branes embedded in this background geometry, and several quantities of phenomenological interest have been worked out already: shear viscosity, thermalization times, meson spectra, energy loss and jet quenching parameters.

Literature (with links to PS or PDF files from arxiv.org)

• H. Nastase: Introduction to AdS/CFT, arXiv:0712.0689
• O. Aharony, S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz: Large N field theories, string theory and gravity, hep-th/9905111
• J. Maldacena: TASI 2003 lectures on AdS/CFT, hep-th/0309246

Presentations (dates are lower bounds and will be updated when we get delayed)

Antrittsvorlesung

Öffentliche Antrittsvorlesung "Quark-Gluon-Plasmaphysik": Mo., 2. Juni 2008, 17:00 Freihaus HS 5 (2. Stock, grüner Bereich)

Elektrodynamik I (SS 2008)

VU (136.015) gemeinsam mit Doz. Herbert Balasin und Tutoren

Diese Lehrveranstaltung hat nun eine eigene Homepage: http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/EDI

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 2 (SS 2008)

Termin

Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG

Terminänderung: Der Termin für die AG am Do., den 17.4. ist auf 9:45-11:15 im Seminarraum 138C (9. Stock!) vorverlegt!

Thema

Phasenstruktur der Quantenchromodynamik (Buch von J.B.Kogut & M.A.Stephanov: The Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics)

Elektrodynamik und Relativitätstheorie VO (SS 2007)

Vorlesungsfolien (kapitelweise als PDF-files)

I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV, XV.

Vorlesungsskriptum

7. Aufl. erhältlich im Sekretariat E136 (10.OG) zum Preis von 10 €; oder on-line als PDF files
Nicht vorgetragen und daher auch nicht Prüfungsstoff: Kap. IV.2.C, VI.2.D, VI.4, X.1.A, XIII, XIV.4, XVI [NB: (XVI.29) schon in Kap. XI]

Ergänzende Literaturempfehlungen etc.

• H. Römer, M. Forger: Elementare Feldtheorie : Elektrodynamik, Hydrodynamik, spezielle Relativitätstheorie (VCH), on-line als PDF file am Freiburger Dokumentenserver abrufbar

• zur Auffrischung und Vertiefung der Methodenkenntnisse: K. Jähnich: Analysis für Physiker und Ingenieure (Springer)

• http://www.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de : Nette Homepage mit Visualisierungen zur Relativitätstheorie

Prüfungen

Modus und Termine: unter Exams#Prof._A._Rebhan

Thermische Quantenfeldtheorie (SS 2007)

Geänderter Vorlesungstermin: Mittwoch SEM 136 (10.OG) 16:00-17:30

Ausnahme: Die Vorlesung vom Mi., den 20.6. wird auf Di., den 19.6. vorverlegt.

(Bits of) Lecture Notes (postscript files):

1. Orders of magnitude in ultrarelativistic plasma physics (28K)
2. Basic formulae of statistical quantum mechanics (28 K)
3. Elementary modelling of the QCD phase transition (1.7M)
4. Many-particle propagators (96K)
5. Many-particle propagators for a scalar field theory (34K)
6. Perturbation theory at zero vs. nonzero temperature (36K)
7. Imaginary-time (Matsubara) formalism (34K)
8. Real-time (Keldysh) formalism (38K)
9. Decay and creation rates (21K)
10. Gauge theories at finite T (50K)
11. Linear response in gauge theories at finite T (53K)
12. Fermionic quasi-particles (42K)
13. Hard-thermal-loop resummation (26K)
14. Symmetry restoration in spontaneously broken theories (29K)

(More advanced) Lecture Notes from courses I gave at International Summer Schools:

• Schladming 2001: Thermal Gauge Field Theories (47 Seiten)
• Cargèse 2001: Hard thermal loops and QCD thermodynamics (26 Seiten)

September-October 2005 I held a series of lectures as "James H. Simons lecturer" at the YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook on Thermal Field Theory. Scanned lecture notes are available here.

RESEARCH

Research positions held

• 1986-05-01 - 1989-12-31 ITP, TU Wien (Universitätsassistent)
• 1990-01-01 - 1991-12-31 Fellowship at the Theory Divison, CERN, Geneva (CH)
• 1992-01-01 - 1992-08-31 Scientific Associate at the Theory Divison of CERN
• 1992-03-01 - 1992-07-31 Boursier du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (France) at Laboratoire de Physique Théorique LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux (F)
• 1992-09-01 - 1993-03-31 ITP, TU Wien (Universitätsdozent)
• 1993-04-01 - 1993-10-31 C4-Lehrstuhlvertretung (Prof. F. Karsch), Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld (D)
• 1993-11-01 - 1995-10-31 Senior Research Associate at DESY, Gruppe Theorie, Hamburg (D)
• 1995-11-01 - 2008-02-29 Associate Professor, ITP, TU Wien (Außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor)
• since 2008-03-01 Full Professor, ITP, TU Wien

Research Interests and Projects

My research interests comprise theoretical particle physics and its ramifications, in particular quantum field theory, gauge theories, supersymmetry, thermal field theory, and cosmology.

My main current research activities involve

Quantum field theory at finite temperature and density

which is the theoretical tool to analytically study quantum matter under extreme conditions, e.g. ultrarelativistic temperatures and densities that existed in the early universe in the first second after the Big Bang. Of particular interest is the high-temperature regime of quantum chromodynamics which is supposed to describe the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe during the first 10 μsec's. This form of matter is now believed to be produced fleetingly in "Little Bangs" in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collider experiments such as RHIC and also expected to exist in the interior of (some) neutron stars.

Nonabelian plasma instabilities

An open problem in quark-gluon plasma physics is to understand the very fast apparent thermalization observed at RHIC and also the extremely low viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma. For both phenomena it has been suggested that nonabelian plasma instabilities may play a crucial role. Together with my former student Paul Romatschke (now at the University of Washington, Seattle) and former post-doc Mike Strickland (now at FIAS, Frankfurt) we were the first group to carry out numerical simulations of nonabelian plasma instabilities in Yang-Mills theories, which are now being studied by several groups in the US and Europe. Recently we have published the first numerical study of nonabelian plasma instabilities in an anisotropically expanding system.

Quantum theory of (supersymmetric) solitons

In recent years, major progress in the understanding of non-perturbative aspects of (supersymmetric) field (and string) theories has been achieved by exploiting dualities in which quantized (supersymmetric) solitons play a central role. Initially it was thought that supersymmetric solitons saturating the so-called BPS bound are protected from quantum corrections, but in collaboration with Peter van Nieuwenhuizen from the State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, we have found, and are still working out, a number of subtleties and nontrivial results, in particular for 1+1-dimensional supersymmetric kinks (domain walls) and 3+1-dimensional monopoles. Other objects of interest are supersymmetric "confined monopoles" which permit analytical studies with relevance to the outstanding confinement problem of nonabelian gauge theories.

• List of my current externally funded projects

Publications

Since 1984 (the start of my doctoral studies), I have written or co-authored over 100 scientific publications, most of which are available on-line (freely accessible as arXiv.org e-prints) through:

• Hyperlinked list of my publications (HEP-SPIRES database)
  • My TOPCITE publications (papers with more than 50 citations)

LINKS

Public outreach

For information and news on nuclear and particle physics written for the public visit:

teilchen.at

This contains the public outreach web pages of the Fachausschuss für Kern- und Teilchenphysik (FAKT) of the ÖPG (Austrian Physical Society), which I was involved in creating and where I am a regular author.

It also hosts now the coordinated efforts of Austrian scientists to appeal for a reversal of the recent decision by the ministry of science to cancel Austria's membership of CERN

• http://sos.teilchen.at

My collaborators

List of collaborators with joint scientific publications and links to their present home institutions/home pages (where available)

1. Maximilian Attems (joint papers) TU Wien
2. Carl M. Bender (joint papers) Washington Univ., St. Louis (US)
3. Jean-Paul Blaizot (joint papers) Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (F)
4. Dietrich Bödeker (joint papers) Univ. Bielefeld (D)
5. Margaret E. Carrington (joint papers) Brandon University, Manitoba (Canada)
6. Rosanne Di Stefano (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
7. Ian Drummond (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
8. Fritjof Flechsig (joint papers) Univ. Hannover (D)
9. Kazuo Fujikawa (joint papers) Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
10. Peter Gaigg (joint papers) TU Wien (now: Siemens Austria)
11. Andreas Gerhold (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. of North Carolina, Raleigh (US)
12. Alfred S. Goldhaber (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
13. Antti Gynther (joint papers) Univ. Helsinki (Finland) (HP) → Brandon University, Canada → TU Wien
14. Ron Horgan (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
15. Edmond Iancu (joint papers) Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (F)
16. Andreas Ipp (joint papers) TU Wien (HP) → ECT*, Trento (I) → MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (D)
17. Keijo Kajantie (joint papers) University of Helsinki (Finland)
18. Robert Knienider (joing papers) TU Wien
19. Randy Kobes (joint papers) University of Winnipeg (Canada)
20. Ulrike Kraemmer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
21. Thomas Kreuzberger (joint papers) TU Wien
22. Maximilian Kreuzer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
23. Wolfgang Kummer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
24. Gabor Kunstatter (joint papers) University of Winnipeg (Canada)
25. Peter Landshoff (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
26. Karl Landsteiner (joint papers) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (HP)
27. Martin Leblanc (joint papers) University of Waterloo (Canada)
28. Dietrich Liko (joint papers) TU Wien → HEPHY, Wien
29. Christoph Mayrhofer (joint papers) TU Wien
30. Gerry McKeon (joint papers) University of Western Ontario (Canada)
31. Guy D. Moore (joint papers) McGill University, Montreal (Canada)
32. Stanisław Mrówczyński (joint papers) Sołtan Inst., Warsaw (PL)
33. Herbert Nachbagauer (joint papers) TU Wien → LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux (F) → Univ. Heidelberg (D)
34. Otto Nachtmann (joint papers) Univ. Heidelberg (D)
35. Horatiu Nastase (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → Brown Univ. (US) → Tokyo Institute of Technology
36. Francisco Peña-Benitez (joint papers) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
37. Olivier Piguet (joint papers) Univ. Geneva (CH) → Espirito Santo Univ., Vitoria (Brazil)
38. Urko Reinosa (joint papers) Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (F) → TU Wien → Univ. Heidelberg (D)
39. Paul Romatschke (joint papers) TU Wien (HP) → Univ. Bielefeld → INT, Washington Univ., Seattle (US)
40. Andreas Schmitt (joint papers) Univ. Frankfurt → MIT → Washington U. St.Louis → TU Wien
41. Robert Schöfbeck (joint papers) TU Wien → HEPHY, Wien
42. Hermann Schulz (joint papers) Univ. Hannover (D)
43. Dominik J. Schwarz (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. Bielefeld (D)
44. Manfred Schweda (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
45. Tom Sherry (joint papers) University Coll., Galway (Ireland)
46. Dominik Steineder (joint papers) TU Wien
47. Misha Stephanov (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → Univ. of Chicago (US)
48. Stefan Stricker (joint papers) TU Wien
49. Mike Strickland (joint papers) Duke Univ. (US) → TU Wien → U. Helsinki → FIAS Frankfurt (D) → Gettysburg College
50. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
51. Dmitri V. Vassilevich (joint papers) Univ. Leipzig (D) → Univ. Sao Paolo, Brazil
52. Aleksi Vuorinen (joint papers) Univ. Helsinki (Finland) (HP) → Washington University, Seattle (US) → TU Wien → CERN → Univ. Bielefeld (D)
53. Robert Wimmer (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. Hannover → YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → ENS Lyon
54. Gunter Wirthumer (joint papers) TU Wien (now: Alcatel)

(Co-)organized Workshops and Conferences

Research workshops and conferences where I am/was organizer or on the advisory board:

• 5th International Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and Their Applications: Regensburg, August 10 - 14, 1998 (organizing committee)
• ESI Research Program on Quantization, Generalized BRS Cohomology, and Anomalies: Vienna, September - November 1998 (organizing committee)
• Strong and Electroweak matter '98: Copenhagen, December 2-5, 1998 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2000: Marseilles, June 14-17, 2000 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2002: Heidelberg, October 2-5, 2002 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2004: Helsinki, June 16-19, 2004 (advisory board)
• Quark Matter 2005: Budapest, August 1-6, 2005 (regional advisory committee)
• Workshop on Quark-Gluon Plasma Thermalization, TU Vienna, August 10-12, 2005 (organizer)
• 2nd Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory - Frontiers in Astroparticle Physics, Uni Wien, November 25-27, 2005 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2006, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, May 10-13, 2006 (advisory board)
• INT Workshop on Nonequilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma, University of Washington, Seattle, September 25-30, 2006 (organizing committee)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2008: Amsterdam, 26-29 August 2008 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2010: McGill University, Montreal (advisory board)
• Anti-de Sitter holography and the quark-gluon plasma: analytical and numerical aspects: Erwin-Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, August 2 - October 29, 2010 (organizer, with K. Landsteiner & S. Husa)
• EMMI-Workshop Hot Matter: Vienna, August 24 - 28, 2010 (organizer, with R. Baier, O. Kaczmarek & P. Romatschke)