Hot Hadronic Matter: Theory and Experiment

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn....Pages 1-12
The Long Way to the Statistical Bootstrap Model....Pages 13-46
Entropy for Hadrons....Pages 47-56
Statistical Studies of Hadrons....Pages 57-62
Hagedorn’s Temperature and the Dual Resonance Model: A 25 Year Old Love Affair....Pages 63-66
Mass Spectrum of q -Deformed Dual String Theory....Pages 67-73
Hagedorn’s Reincarnation in String Theory....Pages 75-82
Interactive Computer Languages: Past and Future of Sigma....Pages 83-92
Deconfinement: Concept, Theory, Test....Pages 93-104
Hadronic Matter Equation of State and the Hadron Mass Spectrum....Pages 105-116
Deconfinement of Constituent Quarks and the Hagedorn Temperature....Pages 117-128
Crystalline Quark-Hadron Phase in Neutron Stars....Pages 129-138
A New Effective Model of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Thermal Parton Masses....Pages 139-142
Hadronic Matter with Internal Symmetries and its Consequences: An Expanding Hadronic Gas....Pages 143-146
On the Statistics-Changing Phase Transition in Gauge Theories....Pages 147-150
Fluctuation Corrections to Bubble Nucleation....Pages 151-160
A Finite Temperature String Phase Transition a la Volume Exclusion....Pages 161-164
Entropy and Decoherence....Pages 165-170
Colored Chaos....Pages 171-180
Statistical Properties of Relativistic Quasiparticles....Pages 181-190
Quantum Decoherence and Entropy in High-Energy Interactions....Pages 191-198
Entropy Production Via Particle Production....Pages 199-204
Real-Time Thermal Corrections to Pair-Production Processes in Heavy-Ion Collisions....Pages 205-214
Pions, Baryons and Entropy in Nuclear Collisions....Pages 215-222
Entropy in Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 223-232
High Density QCD and Entropy Production at Heavy Ion Colliders....Pages 233-240
About Entropy and Thermalization — A Miniworkshop Perspective....Pages 241-250
New Developments in Correlation Studies....Pages 251-258
How to Investigate Small Collective Signals in Nucleus-Nucleus Interactions....Pages 259-262
Negative Binomial Fits to Multiplicity Distributions from Central Collisions of 16 O+Cu at 14.6A GeV/c and Intermittency....Pages 263-276
Universal Properties of Angular Correlations in QCD Jets....Pages 277-282
Towards a Field Theoretical Description of Multiparticle Production in High Energy Collisions....Pages 283-290
Intermittency and other Scaling Behaviors in Nuclear Collisions....Pages 291-297
QCD Generalised Factorial Moments....Pages 299-308
Boson Spectra and Correlations in Small Thermalized Systems....Pages 309-322
Correlations and Strong Interactions....Pages 323-330
Analysis of Multiparticle Correlations and the Wavelet Transform....Pages 331-338
Multiparticle Production: Session Summary....Pages 339-345
Single Photon Production in 200 A•GeV Sulphur on Gold Collisions WA80 Collaboration....Pages 347-354
Latest Results on Dilepton Production in 200 GeV a Ion-Ion Collisions....Pages 355-362
Dilepton Spectra in Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 363-366
Photon Multiplicity Measurement a Novel Observable in High Energy Heavy Ion Collision....Pages 367-372
Density Modification of Dilepton Production in Hot Hadronic Matter....Pages 373-386
Miniworkshop on Strangeness....Pages 387-398
Similarities and Differences in Strangeness Production at BNL and CERN....Pages 399-412
Particle Spectra....Pages 413-432
Pion and Kaon Freezeout in NA44....Pages 433-436
The Dual Parton Model and Hadron Production at Cosmic Ray Energies....Pages 437-444
Particle Production at the AGS....Pages 445-450
Chemical Equilibrium and Particle Production in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at AGS Energy....Pages 451-456
Measurement of the Ω/Ξ Production Ratio in Central S-W Interactions at 200 a GEV/c....Pages 457-460
Na36 Strangeness Production Multistrange Baryons....Pages 461-470
Estimates of the Ratios $$\\bar \\Lambda /\\Lambda ,\\overline \\Xi /\\Xi and\\overline \\Omega /\\Omega $$ from pp and pA Interactions....Pages 471-472
Thermalisation in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions and Strange Particle Production....Pages 473-478
Strangeness in Hot Hadronic Matter....Pages 479-492
Hadronic Physics: The Cosmic Ray Perspective....Pages 493-502
Minimax: Progress and Plans....Pages 503-506
Event by Event Analysis of Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions: A New Method to Search for Critical Fluctuations....Pages 507-518
Observing Strangeness (and Charm?) in Heavy Ion Interactions....Pages 519-525
The Physics and Experimental Program of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)....Pages 527-538
Heavy Ion Physics at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern....Pages 539-546
The Hadronic Future....Pages 547-552
Back Matter....Pages 553-562