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