| Overview | |
| Big Bang in the Laboratory | p. 1 |
| Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma | p. 11 |
| Physics of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions | p. 57 |
| From the BEVALAC to RHIC: Recent Results and Future Perspectives | p. 89 |
| Towards the LHC | p. 117 |
| Low p[subscript t] Physics and Compact Detectors at RHIC and LHC | p. 149 |
| pp and [actual symbol not reproducible] Collisions | p. 159 |
| Hot Hadronic Matter | |
| Fireball Spectra | p. 175 |
| Quark Matter in Equilibrium | p. 207 |
| Surface Energy and Chiral Interface of a Coexisting Quark-Hadron System | p. 239 |
| Rehadronisation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma | p. 243 |
| Towards Dynamical Theoretical Description | |
| Cascade Models and Particle Production: A Comparison | p. 271 |
| Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Flavor Flow | p. 295 |
| Flavor Flow in Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: The RQMD Approach | p. 335 |
| Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions | p. 377 |
| Jets and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions | p. 387 |
| Dynamical Approach to Pair Production from Strong Fields | p. 397 |
| Particle Production and Vacuum Structure in Strong Fields | p. 427 |
| Diagnostic Methods and Recent Results | |
| A Pedestrians Guide to Interferometry | p. 435 |
| Multiparticle Correlations and Fluctuations in High Energy Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions | p. 461 |
| Meson Spectra - What we can learn from Single Particle Distributions | p. 471 |
| Strangeness in Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions | p. 499 |
| On the Trail of Quark-Gluon Plasma: Strange Antibaryons in Nuclear Collisions | p. 529 |
| Strangeness Production in the S+Pb and p+Pb Collisions at 200 GeV/c per Nucleon | p. 545 |
| Physics from Photon and Lepton-Pair Spectra | p. 555 |
| Photons and Lepton Pairs - The Deep Probes of Quark-Gluon Plasma | p. 593 |
| Probing the Primordial State in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions | p. 615 |
| Pion Dynamics and Lepton Pair Production | p. 639 |
| Kinetics of Pre-equilibrium Parton Matter Probed by Dilepton Radiation | p. 649 |
| Coherent Photon Interactions in Central and Peripheral Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions | p. 657 |
| Particle Production, Hadron Deconfinement and Thermodynamics in [actual symbol not reproducible] Interaction | p. 663 |
| Epilogue | |
| The Quark-Gluon Plasma: Search for the Holy Grail | p. 669 |
| Index | p. 683 |
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