Ebook: Particle Production in Highly Excited Matter

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.

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Overview: Big Bang in the Laboratory; H.H. Gutbrod, J. Rafelski. Physics of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions; I. Otterlund. Towards the LHC; P. Giubellino.Hot Hadronic Matter: Fireball Spectra; U. Heinz,et al. Quark Matter in Equilibrium; F. Karsch.Towards DynamicalTheoretical Description: Cascade Models and Particle Production; J.Cugnon. Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Flavor Flow; L. Csernai, et al. Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in UltraRelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions; K. Geiger.Diagnostic Methods and Recent Results: A Pedestrian's Guide to Particle Interferometry; W.A. Zajc. Strangeness in Ultrarelativistic NucleusNucleus Collisions; E. Quercigh. On the Trail of Quark-Gluon Plasma; J. Rafelski.Epilogue: The Quark-Gluon Plasma; P.A. Carruthers. 20 additional articles. Index.

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Overview: Big Bang in the Laboratory; H.H. Gutbrod, J. Rafelski. Physics of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions; I. Otterlund. Towards the LHC; P. Giubellino.Hot Hadronic Matter: Fireball Spectra; U. Heinz,et al. Quark Matter in Equilibrium; F. Karsch.Towards DynamicalTheoretical Description: Cascade Models and Particle Production; J.Cugnon. Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Flavor Flow; L. Csernai, et al. Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in UltraRelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions; K. Geiger.Diagnostic Methods and Recent Results: A Pedestrian's Guide to Particle Interferometry; W.A. Zajc. Strangeness in Ultrarelativistic NucleusNucleus Collisions; E. Quercigh. On the Trail of Quark-Gluon Plasma; J. Rafelski.Epilogue: The Quark-Gluon Plasma; P.A. Carruthers. 20 additional articles. Index.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Big Bang in the Laboratory....Pages 1-9
Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma....Pages 11-55
Physics of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions....Pages 57-87
From the Bevalac to Rhic: Recent Results and Future Perspectives....Pages 89-115
Towards the LHC....Pages 117-148
Low Pt Physics and Compact Detectors at Rhic and LHC....Pages 149-157
Fireball Spectra....Pages 159-173
Quark Matter in Equilibrium....Pages 175-206
Surface Energy and Chiral Interface of A Coexisting Quark-Hadron System....Pages 207-237
Rehadronisation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma....Pages 239-242
Cascade Models and Particle Production: A Comparison....Pages 243-270
Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Flavor Flow....Pages 271-293
Flavor Flow in Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: The Rqmd Approach....Pages 295-334
Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy ION Collisions....Pages 335-375
Jets and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 377-386
Dynamical Approach to Pair Production from Strong Fields....Pages 387-395
Particle Production and Vacuum Structure in Strong Fields....Pages 397-425
A Pedestrian’s Guide to Interferometry....Pages 427-433
Multiparticle Correlations and Fluctuations in High Energy Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions....Pages 435-459
Meson Spectra — What We Learn from Single Particle Distributions....Pages 461-470
Strangeness in Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Interactions....Pages 471-497
On the Trail of Quark-Gluon Plasma: Strange Antibaryons in Nuclear Collisions....Pages 499-527
Strangeness Production in S + Pb and p + Pb Collisions at 200 GEV/c Per Nucleon....Pages 529-544
Physics from Photon and Lepton-Pair Spectra....Pages 545-553
Photons and Lepton Pairs — The Deep Probes of Quark-Gluon Plasma....Pages 555-592
Probing the Primordial State in High Energy Heavy ion Collisions....Pages 593-613
Pion Dynamics and Lepton Pair Production....Pages 615-638
Kinetics of Pre-Equilibrium Parton Matter Probed by Dilepton Radiation....Pages 639-647
Coherent Photon Interactions in Central and Peripheral Relativistic Heavy ion Collisions....Pages 649-656
The Quark-Gluon Plasma: Search for The Holy Grail....Pages 657-662
Back Matter....Pages 663-667
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