Particle Production in Highly Excited Matter

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Overview

   1. Big Bang in the Laboratory

      • Hans H. Gutbrod, Johann Rafelski

      Pages 1-9

   2. Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

      • Berndt Müller

      Pages 11-55

   3. Physics of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

      • Ingvar Otterlund

      Pages 57-87

   4. From the Bevalac to Rhic: Recent Results and Future Perspectives

      • John W. Harris

      Pages 89-115

   5. Towards the LHC

      • P. Giubellino

      Pages 117-148

   6. Low Pt Physics and Compact Detectors at Rhic and LHC

      • Wit Busza

      Pages 149-157

   7. pp and \(\bar pp\) Collisions

      • P. V. Landshoff

      Pages 159-173

3. Hot Hadronic Matter

   1. Fireball Spectra

      • Ekkard Schnedermann, Josef Sollfrank, Ulrich Heinz

      Pages 175-206

   2. Quark Matter in Equilibrium

      • Frithjof Karsch

      Pages 207-237

   3. Surface Energy and Chiral Interface of A Coexisting Quark-Hadron System

      • W. Bürger, M. Faber, M. Hackel, H. Markum, M. Müller

      Pages 239-242

   4. Rehadronisation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

      • J. Zimányi, P. Lévai, B. Lukács, A. Rácz

      Pages 243-270

4. Towards Dynamical Theoretical Description

   1. Cascade Models and Particle Production: A Comparison

      • Joseph Cugnon

      Pages 271-293

   2. Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Flavor Flow

      • L. P. Csernai, L. B. Bravina, E. E. Zabrodin

      Pages 295-334

   3. Flavor Flow in Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: The Rqmd Approach

      • H. Sorge, M. Berenguer, A. Jahns, L. Winckelmann, R. Mattiello, T. Schönfeld et al.

      Pages 335-375

   4. Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy ION Collisions

      • Klaus Geiger

      Pages 377-386

   5. Jets and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

      • Xin-Nian Wang

      Pages 387-395

   6. Dynamical Approach to Pair Production from Strong Fields

      • Fred Cooper

      Pages 397-425

   7. Particle Production and Vacuum Structure in Strong Fields

      • E. David Davis

      Pages 427-433

5. Diagnostic Methods and Recent Results

   1. A Pedestrian’s Guide to Interferometry

      • William A. Zajc

      Pages 435-459

Seven years after the first experiments in the new field of Nuclear Physics, the Highly Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, the Nato-Advanced- Study-Institute on the 'Particle Production in Highly Excited Matter' was held from July 12 till July 24, 1992, at Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, near Lucca in Italy. The school took place at a mo­ ment when intensive efforts are mounted by the scientific community of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics to meet the extraordinary challenge of the new upcoming physics opportunities. The gold beams of 10 GeV A at Brookhaven AGS have been sent to the experiments this Summer and we extent our congratulations to the persons and teams who made this possible. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven is under construction and expected to allow experiments to see collisions in the intersec­ tion regions early 1998. The lead beams at the SPS at CERN scheduled for summer 1994 are eagerly awaited by 6 large experiments, and many scientists are planning the experiments at the planned LHC with heavy ions to be turned on before the year 2000. Seen against this background of rather fierce activity, we were most delighted when NATO accepted our application for an Advanced Study Institute oriented to the main subject of this young and dynamic field of research. We are very grateful to the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO and Dr. L. DaCunha, the director of the Advanced Study Institute program for giving our community this opportunity.

• collision
• hadron
• heavy ion
• nuclear physics
• spectra

• GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

  Hans H. Gutbrod

• CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  Hans H. Gutbrod

• University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Johann Rafelski

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