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This book offers the unique possibility of tackling the problem of hadronic deconfinement from different perspectives. After general introductions to the physical issues, from both the theoretical and the experimental point of view, the book presents the most recent expertise on field theory approaches to the QCD phase diagram, many-body techniques and applications, the dynamics of phase transitions, and phenomenological analysis of relativistic heavy ion collisions.One of the major goals of this book is to promote interchange among those fields of research, which have traditionally been cultivated by different communities of physicists. The contributions in the book help in obtaining deep comprehension of this new state of matter, a system of deconfined quarks and gluons. At the same time the book offers a few examples of how the seeds of the deconfined state are looked for in the phenomenological analysis of the observables measured in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The main topics are dealt with in a pedagogical style, suitable for beginners as well as experienced researchers.Contents: Quark Liberation (N Cabibbo) Physics Perspectives of the ALICE Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (L Riccati & M Masera) Hard Probes of Matter in QCD (H Satz) Phenomenology of Heavy Ion Collisions and Observables: Heavy Ion Collision Phenomenology I: Soft Observables (F Becattini) Heavy Ion Collision Phenomenology II: Hard Probes (M Nardi) Many-Body Theories and the Nuclear Equation of State: Randomness in Nuclei and in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (A De Pace & A Molinari) Quantum Monte Carlo and Nuclear Astrophysics (S Fantoni et al.) Is the Equation of State of Strongly Interacting Matter Observable? (O Benhar) Isospin Effects at Finite Baryon Density (M Di Toro et al.) Semiclassical Description of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (S Terranova et al.) The QCD Phase Diagram: An Introduction to QCD at Non-Zero Temperature and Density (M-P Lombardo) Effective Fields in Dense Quantum Chromodynamics (G Nardulli) Aspects of the Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Diagram (F Sannino) The U (1) Axial Symmetry and the Chiral Transition in QCD (E Meggiolaro) Mechanisms of Confinement (L Del Debbio) and other topical talksReadership: Advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in nuclear and particle physics.

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