Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Thermal and Chemical Equilibrium

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Probing Thermalizing Nuclear Matter with Hard Photons

      • Yves Schutz

      Pages 3-18

   3. Hadron Multiplicities in High Energy e+e−, pp and pp̄ Collisions with a Statistical-Thermal Model

      • F. Becattini

      Pages 19-30

   4. Phase Transitions without Thermodynamic Limit

      • D. H. E. Gross

      Pages 31-42

   5. The Role of Statistics and Thermodynamics in Nuclear Multifragmentation

      • L. G. Moretto, L. Beaulieu, L. Phair, G. J. Wozniak

      Pages 43-51

   6. Hydrodynamic Description of Very High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

      • P. V. Ruuskanen

      Pages 53-65

3. Non-Equilibrium Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Hadronic Transport Model with A Phase Transition

      • P. Danielewicz, P.-B. Gossiaux, R. A. Lacey

      Pages 69-84

   3. Baryon Transport Dynamics: From P — P to PB — PB Collisions

      • Stephen E. Vance, Miklos Gyulassy, Xin-Nian Wang

      Pages 85-96

   4. Semihard Interactions in Nuclear Collisions Based on a Unified Approach to High Energy Scattering

      • H. J. Drescher, M. Hladik, K. Werner, S. Ostapchenko

      Pages 97-105

   5. Dynamics of the Chiral Phase Transition

      • Jørgen Randrup

      Pages 107-118

   6. Filamentation Instability in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

      • Stanisław Mrówczyński

      Pages 119-128

4. Phase Transitions and the Critical Behaviour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Critical Behaviour in Finite Temperature QCD

      • Frithjof Karsch

      Pages 131-146

   3. Chaos as a Signature of Quark-Hadron Phase Transition

      • Rudolph C. Hwa

      Pages 147-159

   4. Universality of the Off-Equilibrium Critical Fragmentation

      • Robert Botet

      Pages 161-172

   5. Bose-Einstein Condensation in Trapped Atomic Gases

      • Yvan Castin

      Pages 173-192

   6. Thermodynamics and Cluster Content of Finite Excited Systems of Classical Particles with Short and Long Range Interactions

      • J. M. Carmona, A. Tarancón, M. Henkel, J. Richert, P. Wagner

      Pages 193-202

   7. Percolation Approach to the Liquid Gas Phase Transition

      • W. Bauer

      Pages 203-212

Nuclei in their ground states behave as quantum fluids, Fermi liquids. When the density, or the temperature of that fluid increases, various phase transitions may occur. Thus, for moderate excitation energies, of the order of a few MeV per nucleon, nuclear matter behaves as an ordinary fluid with gaseous and liquid phases, and a coexistence region below a critical temperature. For higher excitation energies, of the order of a few Ge V per nucleon, the composition of nuclear matter changes, nucleons being gradually turned into baryonic resonances of various kinds. Finally, when 3 the energy density exceeds some few GeV /fm , nuclear matter turns into a gas of weakly interacting quarks and gluons. This new phase of matter has been called the quark-gluon plasma, and its existence is a prediction of Quantum Chromodynamics. Collisions of heavy ions produce nuclear matter with various degrees of excitation. In fact, by selecting the impact parameter and the bombarding energy, one can produce nuclear matter with specified baryonic density and excitation energy. Several major experimental programs are under way (for instance at GANIL, with the detector INDRA, at GSI with the detector ALADIN, at the CERN-SPS, at the AGS of Brookhaven, etc. ), or are in preparation (RRIC, LHC, etc. ). The goal of these experiments is to get evidence for the different phases of nuclear matter predicted by the theory, and to study their properties.

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• Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et de Modèles Statistiques, Orsay, France

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• Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, Caen, France

  Marek Ploszajczak

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