Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• EDITORS' FOREWORD
• EXPERIMENTAL OVERVIEW
• MUON PAIR PRODUCTION IN HEAVY ION INTERACTIONS AT 200 GeV PER NUCLEON
• PHOTON MULTIPLICITY MEASUREMENTS: PRESENT AND FUTURE
• Electromagnetic Probes of Quark–Gluon Plasma
• EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES FOR STRANGE QUARK MATTER
• MEASUREMENTS OF TRANSVERSE ENERGY AND FORWARD ENERGY IN HIGH ENERGY NUCLEAR COLLISIONS
• MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF ULTRARELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS: AN OVERVIEW
• SINGLE PHOTON AND NEUTRAL MESON PRODUCTION IN NUCLEAR COLLISIONS AT 200 AGeV
• PHENIX
• PRE-EQUILIBRIUM COLLECTIVE NON-ABELIAN PHENOMENA IN QUARK GLUON PLASMA
• Measuring the Nuclear Glue in Associated J/ψ + γ Production
• THEORETICAL STATUS OF J/ψ SUPPRESSION
• THE QUARK-HADRON TRANSITION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE
• PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS OF STRANGE QUARK MATTER
• SUPERCOOLING, NUCLEATION AND QUARK-HADRON PHASE TRANSITION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE
• A Comparison of the Calculated and Observed Primordial Abundances of the Light Elements
• EIGENFREQUENCIES OF RADIAL PULSATIONS OF STRANGE QUARK STARS
• ON THE SURVIVABILITY OF COSMOLOGICAL QUARK NUGGETS
• ASTROPHYSICAL STUDIES WITH RADIOACTIVE BEAMS
• Effective source sizes of low rapidity soft particle emission
• MULTIPARTICLE PRODUCTION IN HIGHLY EXCITED NUCLEAR MATTER
• STRANGENESS: SIGNAL OF QGP
• THE STAR EXPERIMENT AT THE RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLIDER
• NUCLEAR SPIN STRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS AT SLAC
• HEAVY ION PHYSICS AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER AT CERN
• EXPERIMENTAL SUMMARY
• SUMMARY TALK (THEORY)
• INTERMITTENCY
• FAST PULSARS, COMPACT STARS, AND THE STRANGE MATTER HYPOTHESIS
• Flipped neutrino emissivity from strange matter
• High Energy Photons from an Expanding Quark Gluon Plasma and Hot Hadronic Matter with Transverse Flow
• ANISOTROPY: A NEW SIGNATURE OF TRANSVERSE COLLECTIVE FLOW?
• NIELSEN-OLSEN INSTABILITY AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
• COSMOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS IN STRING THEORY
• Pair Production in Non-Abelian Gauge Fields
• GLUON CONDENSATES AT FINITE BARYON DENSITIES AND TEMPERATURE
• THREE FLAVOUR QUARK MATTER IN CHIRAL COLOUR DIELECTRIC MODEL
• STRANGE ANTI-BARYONS AND HIGH ENTROPY PHASE
• BARYONIC MATTER AT A FINITE TEMPERATURE IN THE NONLINEAR MESON FIELD THEORY
• NEUTRINO EMISSIVITY OF QUARK MATTER AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
• A Baryon number violating classical configuration in the Wienberg-Salam theory in the presence of external magnetic fields
• Nonlinear Effects in High Energy Hadronic Collisions
• TWO SCALE CANTOR SET MODEL OF MULTIFRACTALS FOR MULTIPARTICLE PRODUCTION IN HIGH ENERGY COLLISIONS
• CURRENT VS. CONSTITUENT MASS OF QUARKS
• RESULTS FROM CERN EXPERIMENT NA44
• TRANSVERSE ENERGY PRODUCTION IN COLLISIONS WITH GOLD AND SILICON BEAMS AT AGS
• Rapidity Density Distributions in ¹⁶O, ²⁸Si, ³²S, and ¹⁹⁷Au Induced High Energy Heavy-Ion Interactions
• HIGH p_T STRANGENESS PRODUCTION IN HEAVY ION COLLISIONS
• DIMUON STUDY WITH LEAD BEAMS AT CERN: THE NA50 EXPERIMENT
• Mass identified particle production and Bose Einstein correlations at 1800 GeV
• PSEUDORAPIDITY-INTERVAL DEPENDENCE MULTIPLICITIES AT RELATIVISTIC ENERGIES
• TRANSVERSE ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS IN Au + Au COLLISIONS AT 11.44 A GeV
• Heavy-Ion Physics at LHC with the Compact Muon Solenoid
• Image Tracking: A Technique for Reconstructing Trajectories in Heavy Ion Collisions
• A PROPOSED LIGHT ION RADIOACTIVE ION BEAM (RIB) FACILITY FOR MEASURING REACTION RATES OF ASTROPHYSICAL INTEREST AND OTHER STUDIES
• LOW ENERGY PHOTON PRODUCTION IN PROTON-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS AT 18 GeV/c
• PRODUCTION OF DIRECT PHOTONS AND NEUTRAL MESONS AT LARGE TRANSVERSE MOMENTA FROM π⁻ and p BEAMS AT 500 GeV/c