International Workshop on Nuclear Physics 30th Course Heavy-Ion Collisions from the Coulomb Barrier to the Quark-Gluon Plasma Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture Erice, Sicily, Italy 16-24 September 2008 Foreword

摘要

Hot and dense nuclear matter plays an important role in the quarkhadron transition shortly after the big bang, in the element production in stars and the interior of neutron stars. The properties of such matter under extreme conditions can be studied in heavy-ion collisions.