Advances in Nuclear Physics - Volume 25 (Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei)
Contributors: J.W. Negele (Editor); Erich W. Vogt (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780306464409
Subjects: Atomic & molecular physics; Nuclear structure physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Nuclear Physics; Solid State Physics; Medical : General; Science / Nuclear Physics; Science : Solid State Physics
First sentence: In recent years substantial experimental and theoretical efforts have been undertaken to investigate the versatile physics issues involved in (ultra-) relativistic heavy-ion collisions, i.e, collisions of atomic nuclei in which the center-of-mass (cms) energy per nucleon is (much) larger than the nucleon rest mass [1, 2]. 
Description: For the first half of the 20th Century, low-energy nuclear physics was one of the dominant foci of all of science. Then accelerators prospered and energies rose, leading to an increase of interest in the GeV regime and beyond. The three articles comprising this end-of-century Advances in Nuclear Physics present a fitting and masterful summary of the energy regimes through which nuclear physics has developed and promises to develop in future. One article describes new information about fundamental symmetries found with kV neutrons. Another reviews our progress in understanding nucleon-nucleus scattering up to 1 GeV. The third analyzes dilepton production as a probe for quark-gluon plasmas generated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.