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[en] Production processes from nuclear targets allow the study of interactions of elementary hadronic constituents in nuclear matter. The information thus obtained on the structure of hadrons and on the properties of hadronic constituents is presented. Both soft (low momentum transfer) and hard (high momentum transfer) processes are discussed. 89 references

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[en] Theoretical aspects of the measurements of production of low transverse momentum secondaries in high-energy hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions are discussed. Applications of the quark model to those processes are discussed in some detail. 58 references

[en] It is shown that the quark-antiquark coalescence mechanism for pion production allows to explain the small pseudorapidity width of the balance function observed for central collisions of heavy ions, provided effects of the finite acceptance region and of the transverse flow are taken into account. In contrast, the standard hadronic cluster model is not compatible with this data

[en] Central production cross-sections of hard dijets with 2, 1 or 0 rapidity gap at Tevatron are analyzed in terms of diffractive ('a la Good-Walker') and non-diffractive fluctuations of the incident particles. The observed large factorization breaking and the unexpected high value of the 2 to 1 gap cross-section ratio are explained in terms of scattering with and between the incident particles

[en] It is shown that, in the presence of correlations in particle emission, the measured HBT radii are related to the correlation range rather than to the size of the interaction volume. Only in the case of weak correlations the standard interpretation may be applicable. The earlier discussion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 1109; Phys. Rev. C 49 (1994) 2722] of the short-range correlations in configuration space is generalized to include also the correlations of particle momenta

[en] It is proposed that soft particle production in hadronic collisions is dominated by multiple gluon exchanges between partons from the colliding hadrons, followed by radiation of hadronic clusters from the coloured partons distributed uniformly in rapidity. This explains naturally two dominant features of the data: (a) the linear increase of rapidity spectra in the regions of limiting fragmentation and, (b) the proportionality between the increasing width of the limiting fragmentation region and the height of the central plateau

[en] It is shown that the Glauber model, for factorized ground state densities and purely imaginary elastic amplitudes, can be viewed as a consequence of the classical probability calculus used for computing incoherent cros-sections, supplemented with the optical theorem to obtain the coherent effects. (author)

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