Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

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

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.

• CERN
• Charmonium
• Confinement
• Lepton
• Quark
• hadron
• jet quenching

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

  R. Stock

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