APCTP Workshop on Astro-Hadron Physics: Properties of Hadrons in Matter

The 50 papers from the October 1997 workshop offer numerous perspectives on the in medium behavior of hadrons. The subject headings are fundamental issues; QCD phase transition, quark gluon plasma and related properties; effective field theory, chiral symmetry and chiral perturbation theory; nucleon-nucleon interactions in medium, dense matter and relativistic heavy-ion collision; hadron structure; strangeness in medium; and astrophysics. Among the topics are random matrices and chiral symmetry in QCD, QCD at high temperature and the resummation of perturbation series, vector meson properties in hot dense matter, dynamics of kaons in nuclear matter, and rotating accretion flows near a black hole. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)