Foreword

Abstract

FOREWORDThe International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) is a conference series that began in Paris in 1970. The conference is dedicated to the yearly summary of the most interesting results concerning the processes of multiple production of hadrons induced by high-energy photon, lepton, hadron and heavy ion reactions as well as particle astrophysics.The XXXVI ISMD, or ISMD 2006, was held in Paraty, a charming, well preserved colonial style small town, located in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 02 to 08 September, 2006. This was the first time an ISMD meeting took place in the Southern Hemisphere. We are very proud of being awarded by this task. There were 74 participants from institutes of 16 countries of 5 continents. Altogether 59 talks have been presented in this meeting, both in experiment and theory, which merited enthusiastic discussions. They are presented in this volume in chronological order, concluding with the summary talk by Larry McLerran. We regret not have been able to include all the presentations in this proceedings, mostly because some of the participants were not able to send their contributions in time. This year, we also made an innovation with 7 poster presentations, mostly by young students.

Hot strong matter

“…In fact, this structure (step) strongly resembles the behavior of water, where a plateau can be observed in the temperature when heat is added. Models (not shown) without phase transition do not reproduce the A + A data, but a hydrodynamical model incorporating a deconfinement phase transition at SPS energies [49] describes the results in Fig. 14 (right) quite well.…”