This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in high energy
heavy-ion physics. It is relevant for students who will work on topics being explored at RHIC …

… Also the general understanding of the dynamics of heavy ion collisions over a vast energy
range from the Coulomb barrier (several MeV per nucleon) to the highest energies currently …

… in the very beginning of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We propose simple criteria for
characterizing the partons which get freed during the collision and which give the dominant …

… heavy ions. On the … of heavy ions in many places, for example, at the Gesellschaft für
Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt. The first experiments with the ultra-relativistic heavy ions …

… in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics. The study of the properties of the produced hot and
dense strongly-interacting matter at these unprecedented energies is currently experimentally …

The experimental study of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions might provide unique information
about novel, non-perturbative aspects of QCD, such as the disappearance of confinement …

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been extensively applied to high energy heavy-ion collisions.
We review hydrodynamic calculations for Au + Au collisions at RHIC energies and provide …

… , using ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The high density regime of QCD is sensitive to
nonlinear dynamics and nonperturbative effects, including parton saturation, the onset of color …

… stages of a heavy ion collision is an important problem, which we shall not address here.
The dynamical picture we expect in the hydrodynamic phase of the collision is the following. …

… This paper applies what we have learnedabout relativistic heavy-ion —atom collisions … of
ultrarelativistic collisions, where energies exceed 10 GeV/amu. At thesehigh energies, the ion …