We review the constraints imposed by the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of the QCD
vacuum on the hadron properties at finite temperature T and baryon density ρB. A …

Continuum strong QCD is the application of models and continuum quantum field theory to
the study of phenomena in hadronic physics, which includes; eg, the spectrum of QCD …

A statistical model of the early stage of central nucleus--nucleus (A+ A) collisions is
developed. We suggest a description of the confined state with several free parameters fitted …

A critical review on signatures of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation is given and the
current (1998) experimental status is discussed. After giving an introduction to the properties …

The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite
volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases …

In this report we give a detailed account on Hanbury Brown/Twiss (HBT) particle
interferometric methods for relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These exploit identical two …

An improved statistical model with excluded volume corrections and resonance decays is
introduced and applied to the complete presently available set of particle ratios as measured …

Anisotropic transverse flow is studied in Pb+ Pb and Au+ Au collisions at SPS and RHIC
energies. The centrality and transverse momentum dependence at midrapidity of the elliptic …

▪ Abstract We provide an overview of collective flow phenomena observed in heavy ion
collisions from the Fermi energy range up to CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) …

Before matter as we know it emerged, the universe was filled with the primordial state of
hadronic matter called quark–gluon plasma. This hot soup of quarks and gluons is …