Transport models are the main method to obtain physics information on the nuclear equation
of state and in-medium properties of particles from low to relativistic-energy heavy-ion …

We review theoretical approaches to explore the phase diagram of nuclear and quark matter
at high baryon density. We first look over the basic properties of quantum chromodynamics …

In the limit of a large number of colors, Nc, we suggest that gauge theories can exhibit
several distinct phases at nonzero temperature and quark density. Two are familiar: a cold …

We argue that features of hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions, mainly at CERN-
SPS energies, may be explained by the existence of three forms of matter: Hadronic Matter …

Formed in the aftermath of gravitational core-collapse supernova explosions, neutron stars
are unique cosmic laboratories for probing the properties of matter under extreme conditions …

This article is an attempt to a pedagogical introduction and review into the elementary
concepts of chiral symmetry in nuclear physics. Effective chiral models such as the linear …

We review the current state of research on electromagnetic probes in the context of heavy-
ion collisions. The focus is on thermal photons and dileptons which provide unique insights …

Parity doublet model is an effective chiral model that includes the chiral-variant and-invariant
masses of baryons. The chiral-invariant mass has large impacts on the density dependence …

We study chiral symmetry aspects of the positive and negative parity baryons by identifying
them with linear representations of the chiral group SU (N f)⊗ SU (N f). It is shown that there …

A bstract We study what happens to the N, Δ and Ω baryons in the hadronic gas and the
quark-gluon plasma, with particular interest in parity doubling and its emergence as the …