Prelude to Compressed Baryonic Matter

Abstract

This is intended to appear as the introduction to "The CBM Physics Book: compressed baryonic matter in laboratory experiments" (ed. B. Friman, C. Höhne, S. Leupold, J. Knoll, J. Randrup, R. Rapp, P. Senger), to be published by Springer. At the end there is a new proposal for numerically tractable models of interacting many-body systems.

Comments: 12 pages, to appear in "The CBM Book: compressed baryonic matter in laboratory experiments"