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CONTENTS List of committees Preface RHIC: From dreams to beams in two decades G. Baym Plenary sessions Review of nuclear reactions at the AGS C.A. Ogilvie Searching for quark matter at the CERN SPS C. Lourengo RHIC performance T. Roser Results from the BRAHMS experiment at RHIC F. Videbaek (BRAHMS collaboration) Overview of PHENIX results from the first RHIC run W.A. Zajc (PHENIX collaboration) First results from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC G. Roland (PHOBOS collaboration) Results from the STAR experiment J.W. Harris (STAR collaboration) On predictions of the first results from RHIC K.J. Eskola dNen/dn distributions from PHOBOS A.H. Wuosmaa (PHOBOS collaboration) Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Strangeness production in heavy ion collisions K. Redlich New results from NA49 C. Blume (NA49 collaboration) Strangeness production at RHIC H. Caines (STAR collaboration) First results on strange baryon production from the NAS7 experiment N. Carrer (NAS57 collaboration) Recent results on J /wW from experiment NASO P. Bordalo (NASO collaboration) Direct photons in WA98 A. Lebedev (WA98 collaboration) Direct photons and thermal dileptons: A theoretical review C. Gale Remarks on the extraction of freeze-out parameters D.H. Rischke Microscopic reaction dynamics at SPS and RHIC S.A. Bass Charged particle multiplicity and transverse energy in Au—Au collisions at /snn = 130GeV A. Milov (PHENIX collaboration) Two particle interferometry at RHIC F. Laue (STAR collaboration) Laying the groundwork at the AGS: Recent results from experiment E895 M.A. Lisa (E895 collaboration) Elliptic flow in Au + Au collisions at ./snn = 130 GeV R.J.M. Snellings (STAR collaboration) Lattice results on QCD thermodynamics F. Karsch Small x physics and the initial conditions in heavy ion collisions A. Krasnitz and R. Venugopalan Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Parton thermalization and energy loss R. Baier, A.H. Mueller, D. Schiff and D.T. Son Neutral pion distributions in PHENIX at RHIC G. David (PHENIX collaboration) Constraints on high-density matter from observations of neutron stars M.C. Miller Spectral change of hadrons and chiral symmetry T. Hatsuda New results from CERES H. Appelshauser (CERES collaboration) Event-by-event fluctuations and the QGP V. Koch, M. Bleicher and S. Jeon Electron measurement at RHIC Y. Akiba (PHENIX collaboration) Spin physics program at RHIC: The first polarized-proton collider N. Saito Heavy ions at the LHC: Physics perspectives and experimental program J. Schukraft Monte Carlo models: Quo vadimus? X.-N. Wang Hadron freeze-out conditions in high energy nuclear collisions N. Xu and M. Kaneta Global observables at RHIC P.A. Steinberg HBT and fluctuations: Recent results S.Y. Panitkin First hints of jet quenching at RHIC A. Drees Experimental conference summary H.J. Specht Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Theoretical conference summary J.-P. Blaizot Parallel session I Multiphase transport model for heavy ion collisions at RHIC Z.-W. Lin, S. Pal, C.M. Ko, B.-A. Li and B. Zhang Elliptic flow and freeze-out from the parton cascade MPC D. Molnar and M. Gyulassy Chemical freeze-out parameters at RHIC from microscopic model calculations L.V. Bravina, E.E. Zabrodin, S.A. Bass, A. Faessler, C. Fuchs, M.I. Gorenstein, W. Greiner, S. Soff, H. Stécker and H. Weber Models for RHIC and LHC: New developments K. Werner, H.J. Drescher, S. Ostapchenko and T. Pierog Understanding color confinement A. Di Giacomo Responses of hadrons to the chemical potential at finite temperature O. Miyamura (QCD-TARO collaboration) Lattice calculation of medium effects at short and long distances P. Petreczky, O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, S. Stickan, I. Wetzorke and F. Zantow The thermodynamics of the quark—gluon plasma: Self-consistent resummations vs. lattice data J.-P. Blaizot, E. lancu and A. Rebhan The STAR time projection chamber F. Retiére (STAR collaboration) Particle identification capability of the PHENIX experiment H. Hamagaki (PHENIX collaboration) The PHOBOS detector at RHIC R. Pak (PHOBOS collaboration) Calorimetry for global measurements in PHENIX S.N. White (PHENIX collaboration) Dileptons and photons from central heavy-ion collisions at CERN-SPS B. Kampfer, K. Gallmeister, O.P. Pavienko and C. Gale Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Model for dilepton rates from a fireball R.A. Schneider, T. Renk and W. Weise Emission of single photons, hadrons, and dileptons in Pb + Pb collisions at CERN SPS and quark—hadron phase transition D.K. Srivastava, B. Sinha, I. Kvasnikova and C. Gale Photon production by a quark—gluon plasma F. Gelis Probing quark matter in neutron stars M. Prakash Explosive collisions at RHIC? A. Dumitru and R.D. Pisarski The free energy of hot @CD Y. Schréder The STAR-RICH detector B. Lasiuk (STAR-RICH & STAR collaborations) Heavy ion physics with CMS at LHC P.P. Yepes (CMS collaboration) ALICE TRD: Results from prototype tests A. Andronic (ALICE collaboration) The time-of-flight detector for the ALICE experiment M.C.S. Williams (ALICE collaboration) Parallel session II Transverse energy as a barometer of a saturated plasma A. Dumitru and M. Gyulassy Is there elliptic flow without transverse flow? P. Huovinen, P.F. Kolb and U. Heinz Hydro + Cascade, flow, the equation of state, predictions and data D. Teaney, J. Lauret and E.V. Shuryak Broad band equilibration of strangeness G.E. Brown, M. Rho and C. Song XViii Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Production of strange resonances in C + C and Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV V. Friese (NA49 collaboration) Cascade production in p + p, p+ A and A-4 A interactions at 158 A GeV T. SuSa (NA49 collaboration) Production and collective behavior of strange particles in Au + Au collisions at 2-8 AGeV C. Pinkenburg (E895 collaboration) The measurement of transverse polarization of A hyperons in relativistic heavy ion collisions R. Beliwied (E896 collaboration) Negatively charged hadron spectra in Au + Au collisions at /snn = 130 GeV M. Calder6én de la Barca Sanchez (STAR collaboration) P, distributions of identified charged hadrons measured with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC J. Velkovska (PHENIX collaboration) Spectra of high momentum particles in PHENIX F. Messer (PHENIX collaboration) High p, spectra from Au + Au collisions at /sjn = 130 GeV J.C. Dunlop (STAR & STAR-RICH collaborations) Fluctuation probes of quark deconfinement M. Asakawa, U. Heinz and B. Miiller Charge fluctuations as a signal of QGP and QCD critical point M.A. Stephanov The QCD mixed phase: Shaken, not stirred D. Bower and S. Gavin Balance functions: A signal of late-stage hadronization S. Pratt Modification of vector mesons in nuclear matter measured in 12 GeV p + A reactions at KEK-PS K. Ozawa, J. Chiba, H. En’ yo, H. Funahashi, H. Hamagaki, M. Kitaguchi, M. leiri, M. Ishino, H. Kanda, S. Mihara, T. Miyashita, T. Murakami, R. Muto, M. Naruki, M. Nomachi, O. Sasaki, F. Sakuma, H.D. Sato, M. Sekimoto, T. Tabaru, K.H. Tanaka, S. Yamada, S. Yokkaichi and Y. Yoshimura Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Enhancement of intermediate mass dimuons in nucleus—nucleus collisions at the CERN-SPS L. Capelli (NA38/NAS50 collaborations) Charmonia suppression in p—A collisions at 450 GeV/c; new results from NASO E. Scomparin (NASO collaboration) Charmonium production off nuclei: From SPS to RHIC B.Z. Kopeliovich Common event characterization in the RHIC experiments A. Denisov (PHENIX collaboration) Determination of the collision geometry and measurement of the centrality dependence of dN /dn at mid-rapidity J.M. Katzy (PHOBOS collaboration) Elliptic flow measurements with the PHENIX detector R.A. Lacey (PHENIX collaboration) Charged particle flow measurement for \n| < 5.3 with the PHOBOS detector I. Park (PHOBOS collaboration) Parallel session III J/wW production and suppression in nuclear collisions J. Qiu, J.P. Vary and X. Zhang J/¥ production at RHIC in a QGP R.L. Thews and J. Rafelski J/W suppression in central Pb-Pb collisions P.M. Dinh, J.-P. Blaizot and J.-Y. Ollitrault J/wW suppression at SPS and RHIC in the comovers approach N. Armesto, A. Capella, E.G. Ferreiro, A. Kaidalov and D. Sousa Regeneration of anti-protons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions R. Rapp and E.V . Shuryak A novel scenario for the production of antihyperons in relativistic heavy ion collisions C. Greiner New insight into antiproton production and reabsorption using proton—nucleus collisions at the AGS S. Mioduszewski (E910 collaboration) Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Leading baryon and antiproton measurements in p + A collisions at AGS energies A. Tai (E941 collaboration) First measurements of pion correlations by the PHENIX experiment S.C. Johnson (PHENIX collaboration) Resonance studies at STAR Z. Xu (STAR collaboration) STAR event-by-event fluctuations J.G. Reid (STAR collaboration) Energy loss of hard partons in nuclear matter U.A. Wiedemann Classical initial conditions for nucleus—nucleus collisions Y.V. Kovchegov Diffractive dijet production and nuclear shadowing in pA interactions S.E. Vance and D. Kharzeev Multiple scattering and p,;-broadening at RHIC energies G. Papp, G.G. Barnaféldi, G. Fai, P. Lévai and Y. Zhang Discovery of jet quenching at RHIC and the opacity of the produced gluon plasma P. Lévai, G. Papp, G. Fai, M. Gyulassy, G.G. Barnaféldi, I. Vitev and Y. Zhang Angular correlations of high momentum photons at 158 AGeV p + A and Pb+ Pb collisions H. Biisching (WA98 collaboration) Event-by-event fluctuations in hydrodynamical description of heavy-ion collisions C.E. Aguiar, Y. Hama, T. Kodama and T. Osada Systematic study of Au—Au collisions with AGS experiment E917 B. Holzman (E917 collaboration) One-, two- and three-particle distributions from central Pb + Pb collisions at 158 AGeV/c L. Rosselet (WA98 collaboration) Event texture search for critical fluctuations in Pb + Pb collisions M.L. Kopytine (NA44 collaboration) First results from the PHOBOS spectrometer N. George (PHOBOS collaboration) Contents / Nuclear Physics A 698 (2002) xiii—xxi Particle ratios in PHENIX at RHIC H. Ohnishi (PHENIX collaboration) Anti-baryon to baryon ratios in Au + Au collisions at /snn = 130 GeV H.Z. Huang (STAR collaboration) Antiproton to proton ratio in ./ Snn = 130 GeV Au-Au collisons I.G. Bearden (BRAHMS collaboration) Antinucleus production at RHIC D. Hardtke (STAR collaboration) List of participants Author index