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Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

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  1. R. Stock

    1. Institut für Kernphysik Frankfurt, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Introduction

    • Reinhard Stock
    Pages 1-10

  3. The States of Strongly Interacting Matter

    • Helmut Satz
    Pages 11-36

  4. Lattice QCD and the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics Theory of Strongly Interacting Matter

    • Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz
    Pages 37-87

  5. The Quest for the Nuclear Equation of State

    • Jörg Aichelin, Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich
    Pages 88-110

  6. Hadron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions

    • Helmut Oeschler, Hans Georg Ritter, Nu Xu
    Pages 111-133

  7. The Chiral Restoration Transition of QCD and Low Mass Dileptons

    • R. Rapp, J. Wambach, H. van Hees
    Pages 134-175

  8. Electromagnetic Probes

    • Itzhak Tserruya
    Pages 176-207

  9. The QCD Confinement Transition: Hadron Formation

    • Francesco Becattini, Rainer J. Fries
    Pages 208-239

  10. Early Collective Expansion: Relativistic Hydrodynamics and the Transport Properties of QCD Matter

    • Ulrich Heinz
    Pages 240-292

  11. Collective Phenomena in Non-Central Nuclear Collisions

    • Sergei A. Voloshin, Arthur M. Poskanzer, Raimond Snellings
    Pages 293-333

  12. Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions

    • Larry McLerran
    Pages 334-352

  13. Hadron Multiplicities in Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

    • Gunther Roland
    Pages 353-372

  14. Color Deconfinement and Charmonium Production in Nuclear Collisions

    • Louis Kluberg, Helmut Satz
    Pages 373-423

  15. Charmonium from Statistical Hadronization of Heavy Quarks – a Probe for Deconfinement in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

    • P. Braun-Munzinger, J. Stachel
    Pages 424-444

  16. Photon Production in Hot and Dense Strongly Interacting Matter

    • Charles Gale
    Pages 445-470

  17. 6.4 Jet quenching

    • David d’Enterria
    Pages 471-520

  18. Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions

    • Urs Achim Wiedemann
    Pages 521-562

  19. Viscous Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter at High Temperature

    • Joseph I. Kapusta
    Pages 563-580

  20. Structure of Strongly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma

    • Edward Shuryak
    Pages 581-625
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This new volume, I/23, of the Landolt-Börnstein Data Collection series continues a tradition inaugurated by the late Editor-in-Chief, Professor Werner Martienssen, to provide in the style of an encyclopedia a summary of the results and ideas of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics. Formerly, the Landolt-Börnstein series was mostly known as a compilation of numerical data and functional relations, but it was felt that the more comprehensive summary undertaken here should meet an urgent purpose. Volume I/23 reports on the present state of theoretical and experimental knowledge in the field of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics. What is meant by this rather technical terminology is the study of strongly interacting matter, and its phases (in short QCD matter) by means of nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energy. The past decade has seen a dramatic progress, and widening of scope in this field, which addresses one of the chief remaining open frontiers of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and, ina wider sense, the "Standard Model of Elementary Interactions". The data resulting from the CERN SPS, BNL AGS and GSI SIS experiments, and in particular also from almost a decade of experiments carried out at the "Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"(RHIC) at Brookhaven, have been fully analyzed, uncovering a wealth of information about both the confined and deconfined phases of QCD at high energy density.

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  • Institut für Kernphysik Frankfurt, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

    R. Stock

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