NUCLEAR REACTIONS IN HEAVY ELEMENTS
1 Introduction 1 11 Overview 1 21 The States of Strongly Interacting Matter 11 22 Lattice QCD and the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics 37 31 The Quest for the Nuclear Equation of State 88 32 Hadron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions 111 41 The Chiral Restoration Transition of QCD and Low Mass Dileptons 134 42 Electromagnetic Probes 176 43 The QCD Con·nement Transition: Hadron Formation 208 51 Early Collective Expansion: Relativistic Hydrodynamics and the Transport 240 Properties of QCD Matter 52 Collective Phenomena in Non-Central Nuclear Collisions 293 53 Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions 334 54 Hadron Multiplicities in Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions 353 61 Color Decon·nement and Charmonium Production in Nuclear Collisions 373 62 Charmonium from Statistical Hadronization of Heavy Quarks · a Probe for 424 Decon·nement in the Quark- Gluon Plasma 63 Photon Production in Hot and Dense Strongly Interacting Matter 445 64 Jet quenching 471 65 Jet Quenching in Heavy Ion Collisions 521 71 Viscous Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter at High Temperature 563 72 Structure of Strongly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma 581 81 Hadronic Fluctuations and Correlations 626 82 Femtoscopically Probing the Freeze-out Con·guration in Heavy Ion 653 Collisions