This proceedings volume gives a consistent overview of various theoretical and experimental programs which study the dynamics of nucleus–nucleus collisions from low to ultra-relativistic energies. The contributions concentrate on the following topics: cold fragmentation of nuclear matter, pre-equilibrium and thermalization, thermal and chemical equilibration, fragmentation and correlations in intermediate energy collisions, dynamical properties of hot and dense nuclear matter in medium effects, resonance and strange nuclear matter, and signals of the deconfined state.
High quality data obtained using experimental devices close to 4π geometries and recent theoretical developments are presented. They illustrate the significant progress made during the last few years in understanding the properties of nuclear matter in extreme conditions of pressure and temperature.
This book serves as a graduate textbook and as a reference work on recent developments in this area.
Contents:
- Cnoidal Waves as Solutions of the Nonlinear Liquid Drop Model (A S⁄ndulescu)
- Application of Lindblad Theory to Problems of Nuclear Dissipation (W Scheid)
- Dynamics of Nucleus–Nucleus Collisions Up to 100 MeV/u and the Caloric Curve (J Péter)
- Transverse and Radial Flow in Intermediate Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (G D Westfall)
- Flow and Spectra for Light Fragments from Au+Au Collisions in the EOS TPC (M A Lisa)
- Collective Expansion of Hot and Compressed Nuclear Matter (M Petrovic)
- Compression and Expansion in Central Collisions (P Danielewicz)
- Pion Production at SIS Energies (D Pelte)
- Strangeness Production and Propagation in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (N Herrmann)
- Particle Production from SIS to SPS Energies (W Cassing)
- The ALICE Detector at the CERN LHC (J Schukraft)
- Current Interests in Cosmic Ray Research (H Rebel)
- and other papers
Readership: High energy physicists.
