Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions : Proceedings of the Workshop Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions, March 31-april 10, 1998, Les Houches, France

by Blaizot, Jean-Paul; Campi, Xavier; Ploszajczk, Marek

• ISBN13: 9780792356608
• ISBN10: 0792356608
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The Workshop on Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions, held March 31 - April 10, 1998, brought together both theorists and experimentalists working on the properties of nuclear and hadronic matter produced in heavy-ion collisions in various energy ranges. The main focus was on experimental signals revealing the possible phase changes of the matter, taking into account the finite size of the system, and the non- equilibrium features of the observed phenomena. A discussion of phase transitions in other small quantum systems, such as metallic clusters, or atomic Bose-Einstein condensates was also presented. The papers included in this volume present and review in an understandable and inspiring way the major experimental and theoretical advances in those different communities of physicists addressing similar physics questions, facing similar problems and often using analogous techniques. Audience: This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers whose work involves nuclear physics, atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, statistical physics, thermodynamics or particle physics.

Table of Contents

Preface
Section I Thermal and chemical equilibrium
Probing thermalizing nuclear matter with hard photons	3	(16)
Y. Schutz
Hadron multiplicities in high energy e+e-, pp and pp collisions with a statistical - thermal model	19	(12)
F. Becattini
Phase transitions without thermodynamic limit	31	(12)
D.H.E. Gross
The role of statistics and thermodynamics in nuclear multifragmentation	43	(10)
L.G. Moretto
Hydrodynamic description of very high energy heavy ion collisions	53	(16)
P.V. Ruuskanen
Section II Non-equilibrium dynamics
Hadronic transport model with a phase transition	69	(16)
P. Danielewicz
Baryon transport dynamics: from p - p to Pb - Pb collisions	85	(12)
S.E. Vance
Semihard interactions in nuclear collisions based on a unified approach to high energy scattering	97	(10)
K. Werner
Dynamics of the chiral phase transition	107	(12)
J. Randrup
Filamentation instability in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions	119	(12)
St. Mrowczynski
Section III Phase transitions and the critical behaviour
Critical behaviour in finite temperature QCD	131	(16)
F. Karsch
Chaos as a signature of quark - hadron phase transition	147	(14)
R.C. Hwa
Universality of the off-equilibrium critical fragmentation	161	(12)
R. Botet
Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped atomic gases	173	(20)
Y. Castin
Thermodynamics and cluster content of finite excited systems of classical particles with short and long range interactions	193	(10)
J. Richert
Percolation approach to the liquid gas phase transition - Isospin degree of freedom	203	(10)
W. Bauer
Critical phenomena in finite systems	213	(10)
A. Bonasera
Deuteron versus α-particle condensation and precritical pair fluctuations in low density nuclear matter	223	(14)
P. Schuck
Section IV Hadronic matter and the quark - gluon plasma
QCD phases at high density and instantons	237	(18)
E.V. Shuryak
Colour deconfinement in high energy collisions	255	(22)
H. Satz
The phase transition between the quark-gluon plasma and the hadronic matter: What can we learn from vector mesons?	277	(16)
C. Gerschel
Quark gluon plasma in A + A collisions at CERN SPS	293	(10)
M. Gazdzicki
Chemical equilibrium in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions	303	(2)
P. Braun-Munzinger
Flow phenomena as possible signals of the QCD phase transition	305	(4)
J. Stachel
Quark-hadron interactions in nuclear matter: Deconfinement signal	309	(12)
V.D. Toneev
Constraining a simple hadronization model of relativistic heavy-ion collisions using hadronic observables	321	(10)
T.J. Humanic
Probing chiral symmetry restoration with heavy ions	331	(16)
J. Wambach
R. Rapp
Low mass dilepton production at the CERN SPS	347	(14)
A. Drees
Strangeness and in-medium effects in heavy-ion collisions at SIS energies	361	(14)
P. Crochet
Bose-Einstein condensations in multipion systems	375	(10)
A. Bialas
Determination of emission times using particle correlation	385	(14)
D. Ardouin
Section V Multifragmentation, liquid - gas phase transition
Boltzmann - Langevin approaches	399	(12)
Ph. Chomaz
Liquid-gas phase transition infinite nuclei within ferminoic molecular dynamics	411	(10)
H. Feldmeier
J. Schnack
Multifragmentation - a dynamical or a statistical process?	421	(14)
R. Nebauer
J. Aichelin
Multifragmentation in heavy ion reactions: Dynamical effects and thermalization	435	(16)
E. Plagnol
The caloric curve of hot nuclei	451	(12)
U. Lynen
Critical behavior in nuclear multifragmentation: A determination of critical exponents and the scaling function	463	(16)
J.B. Elliott
Light particle probes of the dynamical evolution of multifragmentation reactions	479	(14)
J. Natowitz
Cluster-cluster collisions: Fusion, phase transition and fragmentation phenomena	493	(18)
E.E.B. Campbell
On microscopic insights into metal cluster fragmentation	511
E. Suraud
List of participants