1 Table of Contents: “...An Introduction to the Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion...”

2

3 “... self-contained introduction to the physics of heavy ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma...”

4 Subjects: “...Quark-gluon plasma...”

5 “...–gluon plasma (QGP), a many-body system of elementary particles.   The author formulates a causal theory...”

6 Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- Quark Gluon Plasma - Heavy Ion Collisions -- Collective Flow -- Jet-medium...”

7 Table of Contents: “... Diagram -- The Quark-Gluon Plasma -- The Little Bang -- Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma -- The Fireball...”

8 Table of Contents: “... Temperature -- Part III Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks Heavy Ion Path to Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Acronyms...”

9 Table of Contents: “... -- Statistical Quantum Chromodyanamics -- Broken Symmetries -- The QCD Phase Diagram -- The Quark-Gluon Plasma...”

10 “... understanding of the quark–gluon plasma, is described in great detail. The results described in the final...”

11 “... investigates the soft probe of strong interaction topological fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP...”

12 Table of Contents: “... Electroweak Processes -- Medium Modifications of Hadrons -- Matter under Extreme Conditions and Quark-Gluon...”

13 Table of Contents: “...Big Bang in the Laboratory -- Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Physics of Relativistic Nuclear...”

14 Table of Contents: “... electrodynamics in strong fields -- The search for the quark-gluon plasma -- Physics at LHC -- Seminars...”

15 Table of Contents: “... collisions -- The phase transition between the quark-gluon plasma and the hadronic matter : What can we learn...”

16 Table of Contents: “... Matter in Compact Stars -- Theory of the Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Thermal Gauge Field Theories -- Lattice...”

17 Table of Contents: “... Saturation in QCD -- The Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Chiral Symmetry and Effective Models for QCD -- Meson...”

18 Table of Contents: “... and the Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Nuclear Physics Far From Stability -- Experiments With Radioactive Nuclear Beams...”

19 “... conditions, new phases are thought to exist: the quark-gluon plasma and colour superconductivity. After...”

20 “...-deconfined medium called quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in such collisions. In this thesis, the mechanisms...”