ISBN 3-540-65209-4
TITLE Hadrons in Dense Matter and Hadrosynthesis
AUTHOR Cleymans, Jean; Geyer, Hendrik B.; Scholtz, Frederik G. (Eds.)
TOC:

Pion and Kaon Production as a Probe for Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter 1
Helmut Oeschler
1 Introduction 1
2 The Experiment 4
3 K^+ Production 5
4 K^- Production 8
5 Pion Spectra 9
6 The Time Evolution of Pion Emission 11
7 Summary 18
References 19
Fluid Dynamics for Relativistic Nuclear Collisions 21
Dirk H. Rischke
1 Introduction and Conclusions 21
2 The Basics 22
3 Numerical Aspects 34
4 One-Dimensional Solutions 39
5 Freeze-Out 61
References 69
The Use of Statistical Mechanics to Describe Hadron Production in High Energy Collisions 71
Francesco Becattini
1 Introduction 71
2 Basics of the Model 72
3 A Brief Summary of the Analysis of Hadron Multiplicities 75
4 Strangeness Suppression 79
5 Multiplicity Distributions 81
6 Heavy Flavours and Spectra 83
7 Outlook 86
References 88
Introduction to Light Cone Field Theory and High Energy Scattering 89
Raju Venugopalan
1 Introduction 89
2 Light Cone Quantization and the Light Cone Algebra 91
3 The Light Cone QCD Hamiltonian 95
4 High-Energy Eikonal Scattering and the Parton Model in QED 100
5 Bjorken Scaling and Light Cone Fock Distributions 105
References 112
Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Hot Matter 113
Sandi P. Klevansky
1 Introduction 113
2 Equilibrium Thermodynamics 116
3 The Nambu{Jona-Lasinio Model 134
4 Non-equilibrium formulation and transport equation 146
5 Concluding comments 159
6 Acknowledgments. 160
References 160
Physics and Astrophysics of Strange Quark Matter 162
Jes Madsen
1 Introduction 162
2 Physics of SQM in Bulk 164
3 Strangelets 169
4 SQM in Cosmology 181
5 SQM in Neutron Stars; Strange Stars 185
6 SQM in Cosmic Rays 195
7 Conclusion and Outlook 198
References 199
Out of Equilibrium Thermal Field Theories - Elimination of Pinching Singularities 204
Ivan Dadic
1 Introduction 204
2 Propagators and the Schwinger-Dyson Equation 207
3 Threshold Factor 211
4 Pinch Singularities in QED 215
5 Pinch Singularities in Massless QCD 219
6 Pinch Singularities in Schwinger-Dyson Series 223
7 Conclusion 230
References 233
Exact Conservation of Quantum Numbers in the Statistical Description of High Energy Particle Reactions 235
Esko Suhonen, Antti Ker.anen, Jean Cleymans
1 Introduction 235
2 Quantum Statistical Concepts in Brief 236
3 Exact Strangeness Conservation 238
4 Exact Baryon, Charge and Strangeness Conservation 242
5 Generalization of the Projection Method 245
6 Summary 248
References 248
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