Quark-Gluon Plasma: Theoretical Foundations Book

	Introduction
1	Phase Space Model of Particle Production	1
1.1	High energy nuclear events	6
1.2	On multiparticle production in a single interaction process	20
1.3	Statistical thermodynamics of strong interactions at high energies	24
1.4	On the hadronic mass spectrum	64
1.5	Strange anti-baryons from quark-gluon plasma	69
2	Perturbative QCD Plasma	77
2.1	Superdense matter: neutrons or asymptotically free quarks?	77
2.2	Fermions and gauge vector mesons at finite temperature and density. III. The ground-state energy of a relativistic quark gas	86
2.3	Theory of hadron plasma	103
2.4	Quantum chromodynamics at high temperature	111
2.5	Infrared problem in the thermodynamics of the Yang-Mills gas	149
2.6	Covariant calculations at finite temperature: the relativistic plasma	153
2.7	Spectrum of elementary Fermi excitations in quark-gluon plasma	167
2.8	Soft amplitudes in hot gauge theories: a general analysis	169
3	Lattice Gauge Theory	235
3.1	Lattice models of quark confinement at high temperature	239
3.2	Quark liberation at high temperature: a Monte Carlo study of SU(2) gauge theory	248
3.3	Monte Carlo study of SU(2) gauge theory at finite temperature	248
3.4	The order of the deconfinement transition in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory	265
3.5	On the existence of a phase transition for QCD with three light quarks	269
3.6	Remarks on the chiral phase transition in chromodynamics	273
4	Fluid Dynamics and Flow	277
4.1	On multiple production of particles during collisions of fast particles	283
4.2	Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region	300
4.3	Hydrodynamics of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions	312
4.4	Single particle distribution in the hydrodynamic and statistical thermodynamic models of multiparticle production	342
4.5	Evidence for a blast wave from compressed nuclear matter	346
4.6	Transverse momentum analysis of collective motion in relativistic nuclear collisions	350
4.7	Anisotropy as a signature of transverse collective flow	355
5	Strangeness	372
5.1	Strangeness production in the quark-gluon plasma	378
5.2	Quarkochemistry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions	383
5.3	How much strangeness production is there in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions?	388
5.4	Time evolution of strange-particle densities in hot hadronic matter	398
5.5	Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions	412
6	Charm	416
6.1	J/[Psi] suppression by quark-gluon plasma formation	419
6.2	Color screening and deconfinement for bound states of heavy quarks	426
7	Electromagnetic Signals	432
7.1	Direct production of photons and dileptons in thermodynamical models of multiple hadron production	436
7.2	Quark-gluon plasma and the production of leptons, photons and psions in hadron collisions	457
7.3	Muon pair production in very high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions	465
7.4	Direct lepton production in high-energy collisions of nuclei	471
7.5	Dilepton emission and the QCD phase transition in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions	478
7.6	High-energy photons from quark-gluon plasma versus hot hadronic gas	487
8	Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation	503
8.1	Minijet production in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions	508
8.2	The early stage of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions	512
8.3	Quark and gluon production in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions	526
8.4	HIJING: A Monte Carlo model for multiple jet production in pp. pA and AA collisions	542
8.5	Dynamics of parton cascades in highly relativistic nuclear collisions	558
8.6	Kinetic theory for plasmas with non-abelian interactions	613
9	Parton Energy Loss	617
9.1	Jets as a probe of quark-gluon plasmas	620
9.2	Jets in expanding quark-gluon plasmas	626
9.3	Gluon shadowing and jet quenching in A+A collisions at [actual symbol not reproducible] = 200A GeV	633
10	Density Interferometry	637
10.1	Influence of Bose-Einstein statistics on the antiproton-proton annihilation process	641
10.2	Like particle correlations as a tool to study the multiple production mechanism	654
10.3	Pion interferometry of nuclear collisions. I. Theory	657
10.4	Proton pictures of high-energy nuclear collisions	683
10.5	Pion interferometry for exploding sources	688
10.6	Pion interferometry of quark-gluon plasma	691
11	Disoriented Chiral Condensate	705
11.1	Classical states of the chiral field and nuclear collisions at very high energy	708
11.2	Soft-pion emission in high-energy heavy-ion collisions	712
11.3	Static and dynamic critical phenomena at a second order QCD phase transition	718
12	Phase Transition Dynamics and Cosmology	749
12.1	Cosmic separation of phases	752
12.2	Big bang nucleosynthesis and the quark-hadron transition	766
12.3	Bubble growth and droplet decay in the quark-hadron phase transition in the early Universe	771
12.4	Dynamics of the QCD phase transition	791
13	Color Superconductivity	795
13.1	Superconducting quark matter	798
13.2	Superconductivity in quark matter	802
	Author Index	817