This is a collection of review articles and more specialized papers on the main issues of early universe physics. Both theoretical and experimental fields of research are dealt with.

This volume deals mainly with physics related to the RHIC. It contains one of the first reports on the results of RHIC experiments.

Contains lectures and contributed papers from an August 1997 workshop aimed especially at young researchers and graduate students in nuclear physics. Invited talks encompass areas including particle interferometry, collective flow in heavy-ion collisions, phase transitions in nuclear physics, lifetime of quasiparticles in the quark-gluon plasma, and properties of hadrons in the nuclear medium. Contributed papers examine areas such as strangeness production in the meson cloud model, the chiral bag model with a soft surface, and hadronic slopes and cross-sections for vector mesons. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR