Hadrons in Dense Matter and Hadrosynthesis: Proceedings of the Eleventh Chris Engelbrecht Summer School Held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4?13 February 1998 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

In seven lectures of a pedagogical nature aimed at both researchers and graduate students the authors review important aspects of hadronic physics. The book contains a comprehensive review of recent experimental results obtained at the GSI collider. In particular, it covers chiral symmetry at finite temperature and statistical methods applied to relativistic heavy ion collisions and gives a detailed presentation of the astrophysics of strange quark matter.