The investigation of nuclear matter under extreme conditions is one of the major research
topics of nuclear and high energy physics (a short and necessarily incomplete overview may …

Astrophysicists distinguish between three different kinds of compact stars. These are white
dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. The former contain matter in one of the densest forms …

A whole decades research collated, organised and synthesised into one single book!
Following a 60-page review of the seminal treatises of Misner, Thorne, Wheeler and …

We review progress in the study of antinuclei, starting from Dirac's equation and the
discovery of the positron in cosmic-ray events. The development of proton accelerators led …

Nuclear collisions recreate conditions in the universe microseconds after the Big Bang. Only
a very small fraction of the emitted fragments are light nuclei, but these states are of …

Pulsars, generally accepted to be rotating neutron stars, are dense, neutron-packed
remnants of massive stars that blew apart in supernova explosions. They are typically about …

A critical discussion of the present status of the CERN experiments on charm dynamics and
hadron collective flow is given. We emphasize the importance of the flow excitation function …

We provide a method to test if hadrons produced in high energy heavy ion collisions were
emitted at freeze-out from an equilibrium hadron gas. Our considerations are based on an …

We investigate the stability of multiply strange baryonic systems, in the context of a mean
field approach obtained from an underlying set of phenomenological meson-baryon …

flavor quark matter (strange quark matter; SQM) can be stable or metastable for a wide
range of strong interaction parameters. If so, SQM can play an important role in cosmology …