Prof. Ludwik Turko, IFT, University of Wroclaw

Statistical physics of excluded volume effects for hadrons

The effects of attractive and repulsive interactions among hadrons lead to excluded volumes occupied by the hadrons – as in the Van der Waals equation. The need for the consistent description of fluctuations and phase transition phenomena makes necessary to introduce chemical potentials and use statistical physics machinery. A recent progress in this field will be reported.