Publisher's Synopsis
This book focuses on new experimental and theoretical advances concerning the role of strange and heavy-flavour quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and in astrophysical phenomena.
The topics covered include
Strangeness and heavy-quark production in nuclear collisions and hadronic interactions,
Hadron resonances in the strongly-coupled partonic and hadronic medium,
Bulk matter phenomena associated with strange and heavy quarks,
QCD phase structure,
Collectivity in small systems,
Strangeness in astrophysics,
Open questions and new developments.
