Nucleus-nucleus collisions: what we have learned from the heavy ion program at CERN

Abstract

In the first part, I give a brief description of the quark-gluon plasma search at CERN and of some experimental results. In the second part, I review a dynamical model of nucleus-nucleus interactions and propose a physical interpretation of those results.

Comments: LaTeX, 11 pages, uses fleqn.sty and espcrc2.sty. Figures available from the author. Invited talk at the XVth European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Perpignan (France), August 1996; to appear in the proceedings