Hadrons in Dense Matter and Hadrosynthesis: Proceedings of the Eleventh Chris Engelbrecht Summer School Held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4–13 February 1998

Helmut Oeschler (auth.), Jean Cleymans, Hendrik B. Geyer, Frederik G. Scholtz (eds.)3540652094, 9783540652090

In seven lectures of a pedagogical nature aimed at both researchers and graduate students the authors review important aspects of hadronic physics. The book contains a comprehensive review of recent experimental results obtained at the GSI collider. In particular, it covers chiral symmetry at finite temperature and statistical methods applied to relativistic heavy ion collisions and gives a detailed presentation of the astrophysics of strange quark matter.

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Table of contents :
Pion and kaon production as a probe for hot and dense nuclear matter….Pages 1-20
Fluid dynamics for relativistic nuclear collisions….Pages 21-70
The use of statistical mechanics to describe hadron production in high energy collisions….Pages 71-88
Introduction to light cone field theory and high energy scattering….Pages 89-112
Chiral symmetry breaking in hot matter….Pages 113-161
Physics and astrophysics of strange quark matter….Pages 162-203
Out of equilibrium thermal field theories — Elimination of pinching singularities….Pages 204-234
Exact conservation of quantum numbers in the statistical description of high energy particle reactions….Pages 235-248