Nuclear Matter and Heavy Ion Collisions : Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Nuclear Matter and Heavy Ion Collisions, held February 7-16, 1989, in Les Houches, France

The Winter School "Nuclear Matter and Heavy Ion Collisions", a NATO Research Workshop held at Les Houches in February 89, has been devoted to recent developments in nuclear matter theory and to the study of central heavy ion collisions in which quasi­ macroscopic nuclear systems can be formed at various temperatures and densities. At in­ cident energies below 100 Me V per nucleon, the kinematic conditions are favourable for producing transient hot nuclei with temperatures of the order of a few MeV. At higher ener­ gies (100 MeV < E/A < 1-2 GeV) heavy ion collisions offer the possibility of investigating the properties of hot and dense nuclear systems. The Workshop has been motivated by important theoretical developments in transport equations whicll make it possible to relate microscopic descriptions of heavy ion collisions to nuclear matter theory and by the need to review the large body of data available on heavy ion collisions and discuss future experimental programs. This discussion was especially timely a few months before the new SIS/ESR Heavy Ion Fa.cility starts operating in Darmstadt. The School consisted mostly of series of lectures on nuclear matter, transport equations and the dynamics of heavy ion collisions. The data and their interpretation were exten­ sively discussed; the information carried by the various types of particles emitted during the collisions (photons, lepton pairs, pions, hons, nucleons, fragments) has been particu­ larlyemphasized. Specialized topics were presented as shorter contributions by participants. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Nuclear Matter with Nonrelativistic Potentials: Present Status....Pages 1-35 A Relativistic Theory of Nuclear Matter....Pages 37-72 Elements of a Relativistic Microscopic Theory of Hadronic Matter in Equilibrium and Non Equilibrium....Pages 73-102 Hot Nuclear Matter....Pages 103-132 Introduction to Non-Relativistic Transport Theories....Pages 133-163 Relativistic Transport Theory of Fluctuating Fields for Hadrons....Pages 165-165 Pion Absorption in Nuclei....Pages 167-185 Formation and Decay of Hot Nuclei: The Experimental Situation....Pages 187-230 Multigramentation of Nuclei....Pages 231-265 Nuclear Matter and Fragmenting Nuclei....Pages 267-285 Collective Phenomena in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: The Experimental Situation....Pages 287-321 Inclusive Experiments, Correlations and Pion Production Data....Pages 323-341 Confrontation of Theoretical Approaches and Experimental Data on High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 343-390 Momentum Dependent Mean Fields in the BUU Model of Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 391-403 Hard Photons and Subthreshold Mesons from Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions....Pages 405-416 Measurements of e + e - Pair Production at the Bevalac....Pages 417-427 Status of the SIS/ESR-Project at GSI....Pages 429-441 Heavy Ions at Saturne....Pages 443-446 Pion Polarisations in the Relativistic Dirac-Brueckner Model....Pages 447-449 Cut-Off and Effective Meson Field Theory....Pages 451-452 A Non-Perturbative Transport Theory for Nuclear Collective Motion....Pages 453-455 Timescale of Particle Emission Using Nuclear Interferometry....Pages 457-459 Determination of Time Scales in Intermediate Energy Reactions....Pages 461-463 Fragment Production and Nuclear Freezeout....Pages 465-467 Δ Excitation in Nuclei by Heavy Ion Charge-Exchange Reactions....Pages 469-470 Momentum Dependent Potentials in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 471-473 Classical Models of Heavy-Ion Collisions....Pages 475-476 Relativistic Molecular Dynamics and the Relativistic Vlasov Equation....Pages 477-479 Stability Conditions and Vibration Modes of Self-Consistent Vlasov Solutions with Diffuse Surface....Pages 481-482 Sideward Flow of Charged Particles and Neutrons in Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 483-485 Dilepton Radiation from Hot Nuclear Matter and Nucleon-Nucleon Collisions....Pages 487-489 Kaon and Pion Production in the Reaction Silicon (14.5 A GeV ) on Gold....Pages 491-493 Back Matter....Pages 495-500