Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Relativistic Aspects of Nuclear Physics : Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, 17-20 October 2000 / editors, Takeshi Kodama [and others]
Preface; CONTENTS; Mituo Taketani -- In Memoriam; Invited Talks; First Physics Results from STAR; Was a New Phase of Nuclear Matter Observed at CERN SPS ...?; The Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays; Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Current Data and Propagation Scenarios; Imprints of Nonextensivity in Multiparticle Production; Relics of the Cosmological Quark-Hadron Phase Transition; Hadronic Chiral Mean-Field Models at Extreme Temperatures and Densities; Are High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions Similar to a Little Bang or Just a Very Nice Firework?; Hard Thermal Loops and QCD Thermodynamics
Optimized Perturbation Theory: Finite Temperature ApplicationsPotential Gravitational Wave Sources and Laser Beam Interferometers; Event-by-Event Analysis of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics; Hadronic Form Factors from QCD Sum Rules; Quarkonium Production in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions; Charmonium-Hadron Cross Section in Nonperturbative QCD Models; Remark on the Second Principle of Thermodynamics; Light Front Nuclear Theory and the HERMES Effect; Nuclear Scattering at Very High Energies; Current Status of Quark Gluon Plasma Signals
The Stange Quark-Gluon PlasmaScreening Effects in the Q2 Logarithmic Slope of F2; Charm Meson Interactions in Hadronic Matter; Contributed Papers; Dependence of the Forward Neutral Energy En on Transverse Energy ET in Relativistic Heavy Ions Collisions; Effective Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction in the RPA; B and D Meson Coupling Constant and Form Factor Calculations from QCD Sum Rules; Quantum Contributions for the Temporal Evolution of Nonhomogeneous Configurations of the AO4 Model; QCD Sum Rules for Heavy A Semileptonic Decays; Nonperturbative Quantum Field Methods in Bose Einstein ondensates
Asymmetries in Heavy Meson Production in the Meson Cloud Model ScenarioCrossing Symmetry Violation in Unitarity Corrected ChPT Pion-Pion Amplitude; Nuclear Matter Properties Determined by Relativistic Mean Field Model with o-w Coupling; The Relativistic Quasi-Particle Random Phase Approximation; A Comparison between the Relativistic BCS and Hartree-Bogoliubov Approximations in Nuclear Ground States; Chiral Phase Transition in a Covariant Nonlocal NJL Model; High Density Effects in eA Processes; Quasi-Deuteron Pairing and Isospin Asymmetry; Einstein Equations and Fermion Degrees of Freedom
Hadronic Model Independence of the Hadron-QGP Phase Transition at Very Low DensityQuark Degrees of Freedom in Compact Stars; Finite Temperature Nucleon Mass in QMC Model; The Fuzzy Bag Model Revisited; Neutron Star Properties in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory; Relativistic Description of Asymmetric Nuclear Matter in a o-w-s-p Model; Simplifying Relativistic Density Limits for Nuclear Surface Properties in Walecka Model; Hyperons and Heavy Baryons Decays in the Light-Front Model; Neutron Stars in Nonlinear Coupling Models; Four-Wedge Product for Relativistic Treatment in Quantum Mechanics
Summary
This volume deals mainly with physics related to the RHIC. It contains one of the first reports on the results of RHIC experiments
