Table Of Content

CONTENTS Preface xi Deconfinement and Chiral Symmetry Restoration Recent results from lattice QCD simulations E. Laermann The chiral phase transition T. Schafer 13c Condensed elementary particle matter K. Kajantie 26c Hadrons in dense baryonic matter W. Weise 35c Stopping and Flow Particle production and flow at SIS energies N. Herrmann (FOPI Collaboration) 49c Flow studies at 10.8 GeV/nucleon T. Hemmick (E877 Collaboration) 63c Stopping and collective effects at SPS energies T. Wienold (NA49 Collaboration) 76c Hydrodynamics and collective behaviour in relativistic nuclear collisions D.H. Rischke 88c Particle production in nuclear collisions from LBNL/SIS to SPS energies H. Strdbele 102c Contents /Nuclear Physics A 610 (1996) xiii-xvii Microscopic calculations of stopping, flow and electromagnetic radiation from 160 AMeV to 160 AGeV L.A. Winckelmann, S.A. Bass, M. Bleicher, M. Brandstetter, A. Dumitru, C. Ernst, L. Gerland, J. Konopka, S. Soff, C. Spieles, H. Weber, C. Hartnack, J. Aichelin, N. Amelin, H. Stécker and W. Greiner Hadron spectra from nuclear collisions A. Leonidov, M. Nardi and H. Satz Baryon stopping and strange baryon enhancement in heavy ion collisions A. Capella Hadron Yields and Spectra Particle production in Au+Au collisions from BNL E866 Y. Akiba (E802 Collaboration) 139c Hadron yields and spectra in Au+Au collisions at the AGS R. Lacasse (E877 Collaboration ) 153c WA9Q7 results on strangeness production in lead-lead collisions at 158 AGeV/c H. Helstrup (WA97 Collaboration) 165c Hadron distributions - recent results from the CERN experiment NA44 N. Xu (NA44 Collaboration) 175c Hadron yields and hadron spectra from the NA49 experiment P.G. Jones (NA49 Collaboration) 188c Photon and neutral meson production in 158 AGeV ?°8Pb+Pb collisions T. Peitzmann (WA98 Collaboration) 200c Hadron Correlations The centrality dependence of the source size for Au-Au collisions at the AGS M.D. Baker (E802 Collaboration ) Two-particle correlations in Au+Au collisions at AGS energy D. Miskowiec (E877 Collaboration) Measuring the space-time extent of nuclear collisions using interferometry A. Franz (NA44 Collaboration) Contents/Nuclear Physics A 610 (1996) xiii-xvii Xv Particle correlations in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN-SPS - results from the NA49 experiment K. Kadija (NA49 Collaboration) 248c Interferometry results from the CERN WA98 experiment L. Rosselet, A.L.S. Angelis, P. Dénni, P. Foka, M. Martin, H. Naef, H. Kalechofsky and J.M.Rubio (WA98 Collaboration) 256c How to extract physics from HBT radius parameters U. Heinz 264c Interferometry radii for expanding hadron resonance gas Yu.M. Sinyukov, S.V. Akkelin and A. Yu. Tolstykh 278c Physics of Coulomb corrections in Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions G. Baym and P. Braun-Munzinger 286c Antinuclei and Strangelets Strangelets, antimatter and coalescence: First results from BNL E864 F.S. Rotondo (E864 Collaboration) 297c Strangelet search and antinuclei production studies in Pb+Pb collisions R. Klingenberg (NA52 Collaboration) 306c Lepton Pairs First results from CERES/NA45 on low-mass electron pair production in Pb-Au collisions Th. Ullrich (CERES Collaboration) 317c Intermediate mass muon pair continuum in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV/c E. Scomparin (NASO Collaboration) 331c Enhancement of low-mass dileptons in SPS heavy-ion collisions: possible evi- dence for dropping rho meson mass in medium C.M. Ko, G.Q. Li, G.E. Brown and H. Sorge 342c Excess production of low mass lepton pairs in S+Au collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron and the quark-hadron phase transition D.K. Srivastava, B. Sinha, C. Gale, D. Pal and K. Haglin 350c Xvi Contents/Nuclear Physics A 610 (1996) xiii-xvii Medium effects in low-mass lepton pair production B. Friman Heavy Quarkonia Quarkonia production at CDF A. Sansoni (CDF Collaboration) Charmonium production in high energy collisions E. Braaten 386c Recent measurements of quarkonia and Drell-Yan production in proton-nucleus collisions P.L. McGaughey Anomalous J/p suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at 158xA GeV/c M. Gonin (NAS5O Collaboration) Quarkonium production and colour deconfinement in nuclear collisions D. Kharzeev J/p and wy’ suppression in high-energy heavy-ion collisions C.-Y. Wong J/p and y' suppression by comovers in Pb+Pb collisions S. Gavin and R. Vogt J/f suppression in Pb-Pb collisions: A hint of quark-gluon plasma production? J.-P. Blaizot and J.-Y. Ollitrault 452c Recent Theoretical Developments Energy loss and p,-broadening of high energy partons in hot and cold QCD matter A.H. Mueller 459c Thermodynamics and bulk properties of QCD plasma M. Asakawa and T. Hatsuda 470c Nuclear gluon shadowing via dileptons from open charm decay in p+A at /s=200 AGeV Z. Lin and M. Gyulassy 476c Contents/Nuclear Physics A 610 (1996) xiii-xvii Lifetime of quasiparticles in hot gauge theories E. Iancu The chiral phase transition and random matrix models T. Wettig, A. Schafer and H.A. Weidenmiiller Primordial black-hole evaporation and the quark-gluon phase transition D.B. Cline Concluding Session Tests of thermalization in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions J. Stachel Recent results on hadron correlations D. Ferenc Low mass dilepton and photon production A. Drees Hard probes in nucleus-nucleus collisions C. Lourengo Poster session List of participants Author index