HADRONS AND QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
CONTENTS I A NEW PHASE OF MATTER? MICRO-BANG AND BIG-BANG ENERGY AND TIME SCALES QUARKS AND GLUONS THE HADRONIC PHASE TRANSITION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE ENTROPY-CONSERVING (ISENTROPIC) EXPANSION THE DYNAMIC UNIVERSE LOOKING FOR QUARK–GLUON PLASMA: STRANGENESS OTHER PROBES OF QUARK–GLUON PLASMA HADRONS BARYONS AND MESONS STRANGE HADRONS CHARM AND BOTTOM IN HADRONS THE VACUUM AS A PHYSICAL MEDIUM CON?NING VACUUM IN STRONG INTERACTIONS FERROMAGNETIC VACUUM CHIRAL SYMMETRY PHASES OF STRONGLY INTERACTING MATTER THE EXPANDING ?REBALL AND PHASE TRANSFORMATION QGP AND CON?NED HADRONIC-GAS PHASES STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF HADRONIC MATTER EQUIDISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY THE GRAND-CANONICAL ENSEMBLE INDEPENDENT QUANTUM (QUASI)PARTICLES THE FERMI AND BOSE QUANTUM GASES HADRON GAS A ?RST LOOK AT QUARK–GLUON PLASMA CONTENTS II EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYSIS TOOLS NUCLEI IN COLLISION HEAVY-ION RESEARCH PROGRAMS REACTION ENERGY AND COLLISION GEOMETRY RAPIDITY PSEUDORAPIDITY AND QUASIRAPIDITY STAGES OF EVOLUTION OF DENSE MATTER APPROACH TO LOCAL KINETIC EQUILIBRIUM THE APPROACH TO CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM UNDERSTANDING COLLISION DYNAMICS CASCADES OF PARTICLES RELATIVISTIC HYDRODYNAMICS THE EVOLUTION OF MATTER AND TEMPERATURE LONGITUDINAL ?OW OF MATTER ENTROPY AND ITS RELEVANCE IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS ENTROPY AND THE APPROACH TO CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM ENTROPY IN A GLUE-BALL MEASUREMENT OF ENTROPY IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS THE ENTROPY CONTENT IN 200A-GEV S–PB INTERACTIONS SUPERSATURATED PION GAS ENTROPY IN A LONGITUDINALLY SCALING SOLUTION III PARTICLE PRODUCTION PARTICLE SPECTRA A THERMAL PARTICLE SOURCE: A ?REBALL AT REST A DYNAMIC ?REBALL INCOMPLETE STOPPING TRANSVERSE-MASS ?REBALL SPECTRA CENTRALITY DEPENDENCE OF M?-SPECTRA HIGHLIGHTS OF HADRON PRODUCTION THE PRODUCTION OF STRANGENESS HADRON ABUNDANCES MEASUREMENT OF THE SIZE OF A DENSE-MATTER ?REBALL PRODUCTION OF TRANSVERSE ENERGY RHIC RESULTS IV HOT HADRONIC MATTER RELATIVISTIC GAS RELATION OF STATISTICAL AND THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES AND ?REBALLS OF HADRONIC MATTER THE IDEAL GAS REVISITED THE RELATIVISTIC PHASE-SPACE INTEGRAL QUARK AND GLUON QUANTUM GASES ENTROPY OF CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GASES HADRONIC GAS PRESSURE AND ENERGY DENSITY IN A HADRONIC RESONANCE GAS COUNTING HADRONIC PARTICLES DISTORTION BY THE COULOMB FORCE STRANGENESS IN HADRONIC GAS THE GRAND-CANONICAL CONSERVATION OF STRANGENESS EXACT CONSERVATION OF ?AVOR QUANTUM NUMBERS CANONICAL SUPPRESSION OF STRANGENESS AND CHARM HAGEDORN GAS THE EXPERIMENTAL HADRONIC MASS SPECTRUM THE HADRONIC BOOTSTRAP HADRONS OF ?NITE SIZE BOOTSTRAP WITH HADRONS OF ?NITE SIZE AND BARYON NUMBER THE PHASE BOUNDARY IN THE SBM MODEL V QCD, HADRONIC STRUCTURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURE HADRONIC STRUCTURE AND QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS CON?NED QUARKS IN A CAVITY CON?NED QUARK QUANTUM STATES NONABELIAN GAUGE INVARIANCE GLUONS THE LAGRANGIAN OF QUARKS AND GLUONS PERTURBATIVE QCD FEYNMAN RULES THE RUNNING COUPLING CONSTANT THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP RUNNING PARAMETERS OF QCD LATTICE QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS THE NUMERICAL APPROACH GLUON ?ELDS ON THE LATTICE QUARKS ON THE LATTICE FROM ACTION TO RESULTS A SURVEY OF SELECTED LATTICE RESULTS PERTURBATIVE QUARK–GLUON PLASMA AN INTERACTING QUARK–GLUON GAS THE QUARK–GLUON LIQUID FINITE BARYON DENSITY PROPERTIES OF A QUARK–GLUON LIQUID CONTENTS VI STRANGENESS THERMAL PRODUCTION OF ?AVOR IN A DECON?NED PHASE THE KINETIC THEORY OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRATION EVOLUTION TOWARD CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM IN QGP PRODUCTION CROSS SECTIONS FOR STRANGENESS AND CHARM THERMAL PRODUCTION OF ?AVOR EQUILIBRATION OF STRANGENESS AT THE RHIC AND SPS THE STRANGENESS BACKGROUND THE SUPPRESSION OF STRANGE HADRONS THERMAL HADRONIC STRANGENESS PRODUCTION THE EVOLUTION OF STRANGENESS IN HADRONIC PHASE HADRON-FREEZE-OUT ANALYSIS CHEMICAL NONEQUILIBRIUM IN HADRONIZATION PHASE SPACE AND PARAMETERS SPS HADRON YIELDS STRANGENESS AS A SIGNATURE OF DECON?NEMENT REFERENCES