Phase Structure of Strongly Interacting Matter : Proceedings of a Summer School on Theoretical Physics, Held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, January 8–19, 1990

The 6th Advanced Course in Theoretical Physics was held at the University of Cape Town, January 8-19, 1990. The topic of the course was "Phase Structure of Strongly Interacting Matter". There were ten invited speakers from overseas, each having up to six hours in which to present his field of research to a relatively small audience of about 50 participants. This allowed for the presentation of a broad, coherent and pedagogical review of the present status of the field. In addition there were several one-hour presentations by local participants. The main emphasis of the course was on the study of the properties of high­ density hot nuclear matter. This field is of particular interest because of the belief that a deconfined quark-gluon plasma could be created in such an environment when the temperature reaches about 200MeV. In the nuclear regime a so-called "liquid-to-gas" phase transition is expected at a temperature of approximately 10- 20MeV. Both of these topics received ample attention at the school. Owing the nature of the field, there exists much overlapping interest from both the nuclear physics and high-energy particle physics communities. It is hoped that these proceedings will contribute to building a bridge between the two groups. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction to Perturbative QCD....Pages 2-25 Phase Transitions in Nuclei at Low Temperatures....Pages 26-52 Chiral Symmetry....Pages 53-80 Dynamical Evolution and Particle Production in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions....Pages 81-132 Strings in Ultrarelativistic Collisions....Pages 133-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 The Fractal Structure of Multihadron Production at High Energies....Pages 192-203 Q-Stars....Pages 204-215 Specific Heat of Strongly Interacting Matter....Pages 216-250 QCD Transport Coefficients....Pages 251-263 Strangeness Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions....Pages 264-276 Dilepton Production in Nuclear Collisions....Pages 277-289 Quantum Chromodynamics and the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction....Pages 290-306 Resonant Dimeson Decay Mechanism in K → ππ Decays....Pages 307-316 All That RAZ — An Overview of Radiation Amplitude Zeros....Pages 317-330 Quark and Gluon Structure of Nuclei....Pages 331-367 Back Matter....Pages 369-372 This volume deals with strong interactions in nuclear and elementary particle physics, especially the phase structure of nuclei and particles at finite temperatures and densities. Areas covered include phase transitions in nuclei at low temperatures, nuclear reactions at relativistic energies, perturbative quantum chromodynamics, and chiral symmetry. In addition to the survey lectures, the volume also contains topical papers directly related to the theme.