The Nuclear Equation of State: Part A: Discovery of Nuclear Shock Waves and the EOS

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Opening Remarks....Pages 1-29
Collective Flow Measured with the Plastic Ball....Pages 31-43
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions studied with the Streamer Chamber at the BEVALAC....Pages 45-61
Fragment Flow and Squeeze-Out of Hot Dense Nuclear Matter....Pages 63-80
Stopping Power and the Equation of State at Intermediate Energy....Pages 81-86
Collective Flow Measurements in Asymmetric Nuclear Collisions....Pages 87-96
4π Fragment Measurements at MSU and the Nuclear Equation of State....Pages 97-113
Collective Flow of Charged Fragments and Neutrons from Bevalac Experiment 848H....Pages 115-121
Pion and Proton Emission in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 123-131
Hard Photons and Subthreshold Mesons from Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions....Pages 133-146
Hard Photons from Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 147-159
Production of Lepton Pairs at the LBL Bevalac....Pages 161-175
Intermediate Mass Fragment Emission in the Reactions Nb + Au And Fe + Au At 50 to 100 Mev/A....Pages 177-185
The HISS TPC....Pages 187-195
The Equation of State and Viscosity in the Hydrodynamic Model....Pages 197-220
Transport Theory, Viscosity and Kaon Production....Pages 221-237
Study of Observables from Heavy Ion Data using VUU and QMD Calculations....Pages 239-255
Medium Effects and Nuclear Transport Theory....Pages 257-271
Many Body Modes of Excitation in Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 273-281
How to extract the nuclear equation of state from heavy ion data....Pages 283-291
Transverse Momentum Generation and Dilepton Emission in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 293-309
Relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck Model for High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions....Pages 311-320
The Relativistic BUU Approach — Analysis of Retardation Effects and Thermal Properties....Pages 321-330
High Energy Photons and Pions in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Reactions....Pages 331-340
Photon and Pion Production in Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 341-351
Dilepton Production in Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 353-362
On the Derivation of the Quantum Molecular Dynamics Approach....Pages 363-373
Fermionic Molecular Dynamics....Pages 375-387
Mean Field and Collisions in Hot Nuclei....Pages 389-399
Nuclear Multifragmentation and the Equation of State....Pages 401-412
Medium Energy Collisions and Multifragmentation....Pages 413-422
Introductory Remarks to the Lectures of Erwin Schopper and Arthur M. Poskanzer....Pages 423-425
Early History of Shock Waves in Heavy Ion Collisions (The Frankfurt Group)....Pages 427-446
A History of Central Collisions at the Bevalac....Pages 447-462
The SIS/ESR-Project at GSI — Present and Future....Pages 463-476
High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions and the Rhic Project at Brookhaven....Pages 477-484
Adaptation of the Theory of Superconductivity to the Behavior of Oxides....Pages 485-495
High Pressure Equation of State in Various Areas of Physics — Overview....Pages 497-511
Scale Transformations, the Energy-Momentum Tensor and the Equation of State....Pages 513-520
Density Functional Theory at Finite Temperatures....Pages 521-532
The Collective Spin of Nuclear Surface Vibrations....Pages 533-539
Review of the Current Status of Cold Fusion....Pages 541-556
Coulomb Assisted Cold Fusion....Pages 557-560
Cold Confusion....Pages 561-565
The Nuclear Matter Saturation Problem....Pages 567-584
Variational Theory of Nuclear and Neutron Matter....Pages 585-604
Exploring Many-Body Theories in Light Nuclei....Pages 605-614
Spectral Functions and the Momentum Distribution of Nuclear Matter....Pages 615-624
Meson and Quark Degrees of Freedom in Nuclear Matter and Finite Nuclei....Pages 625-634
The Relativistic Mean-Field Model of Nuclear Structure and Dynamics....Pages 635-647
The Giant Monopole Resonance and the Compressibility of Nuclear Matter....Pages 649-660
The Nuclear Matter Compressibility from Breathing Mode: A Semi-Phenomenological Approach....Pages 661-678
Nuclear Compression Modulus from Monopole Data....Pages 679-688
Constraints on the Nuclear Equation of State from Type II Supernovae and Newly Born Neutron Stars....Pages 689-719
The Hadronic Equation of State and Supernovae....Pages 721-730
Supernovae and Stellar Collapse....Pages 731-750
Neutron Stars, Fast Pulsars, Supernovae and the Equation of State of Dense Matter....Pages 751-774
Constraints on the equation of state for neutron stars from fast rotating pulsars....Pages 775-784
Neutron Star Calculations in the Relativistic Hartree- And Hartree-Fock Approximation....Pages 785-792
The Equation of State and Properties of Neutron Stars....Pages 793-797
Back Matter....Pages 799-802