edited by R C Hwa (University of Oregon, USA)

This volume contains 14 review articles on the theory and phenomenology of the creation and diagnosis of quark-gluon plasma. They are written by active investigators of in the various research topics, which range from the QCD foundation through transport theory and thermalization models to the examination of possible signatures. The monograph should be useful not only to the experienced researchers in the subject but also to newcomers.

• The Confinement-Deconfinement Mechanism (J Polonyi)
• Simulating the Quark-Gluon Plasma on the Lattice (F Karsch)
• Quark-Gluon Transport Theory (H-T Elze & U Heinz)
• Applications of Transport Theory to Quark-Gluon Plasma (S Mrówczynski)
• Non-Equilibrium Aspects of Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions (M Gyulassy)
• Color Tube Model of Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in High Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (A Bialas & W Czyz)
• Hadronic Matter in the String Model (K Sailer et al.)
• Hydrodynamics of Quark-Gluon Plasmas (J-P Blaizot & J-Y Ollitrault)
• Hadronization of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (U Heinz et al.)
• Dilepton Emmision in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions (P V Ruuskanen)
• Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation and Strangeness Evolution (P Koch)
• Colour Screening and Quark Deconfinement in Nuclear Collisions (H Satz)
• J/ψ Suppression, Signal of a Quark-Gluon Plasma? (J-P Blaizot & J-Y Ollitrault)
• Self-Similarity in Multiplicity Fluctuations (R C Hwa)