[en] These proceeding contain the invited and contributed papers presented at the named workshop. These concern nuclear multifragmentation together with its theoretical and experimental studies using heavy ion reactions. See hints under the relevant topics. (HSI)

[en] The following topics were dealt with: Experimental results on ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, QCD thermodynamics, equilibration in relativistic heavy ion collisions, lattice QCD, space- time evolution and Hanbury-Brown-Twiss correlations, vector meson production, high-p_T and small-x physics. (HSI)

[en] The following topics were dealt with: Hadronic reactions and resonances, structure of mesons, baryons, glueballs, and hybrids, physics with strange and charmed quarks, future projects and facilities. (HSI)

[en] The following topics were dealt with: Synthesis and decay of superheavy elements, the study of neutron-rich nuclei by their observation as fission fragments, mass spectroscopy of short-lived nuclei, studies with radioactive beams, the structure of halo nuclei. (HSI)

[en] The following topics were dealt with: Chiral symmetry, chiral condensates, in-medium effective chiral Lagrangians, Δ's in nuclei, nonperturbative QCD, electron scattering from nuclear matter, nuclear shadowing, QCD sum rules, deconfinement, ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, nuclear dimuon and electron pair production, photoproduction from nuclei, subthreshold K⁺ production, kaon polarization in nuclear matter, charged pion production in relativistic heavy ion collisions, the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, the SU(3)_LxSU(3)_R sigma model, nonequilibrium dense nuclear matter, pion pair production at finite temperature. (HSI)

[en] The following topics were dealt with: Elementary hadronic reactions, Delta dynamics in nuclei, in-medium s-wave ππ-correlations, strangeness in hot and dense matter, medium modifications of vector mesons and dilepton production, medium modifications of charmonium, thermal properties of hot and dense hadronic matter, nuclear matter, spectral functions and QCD sum rules

[en] Short communication

[en] The formation and decay of excited nuclei with masses around A=200 are studied for excitation energy, ε^* ranging from 0 to 6 MeV/u. For ε^* values up to 6 MeV/n, the various decay channels ending with one (evaporation), two (fission) or more (3, 4, 5) fragments still compete. In case of multifragment emission, we find that: - the life-time of the excited nucleus before breaking is equal to 100-150 fm/c for ε^* values around 5 MeV/u, - the emission time (i.e. the interval between the emission of two fragments) evolves from a large value (τ>1000 fm/c, sequential decay) when ε^* equals 2-3 MeV/u to a very small value (τ<50 fm/c, simultaneous decay) for ε^* values around 5 MeV/u. (orig.)

[en] A method for determining critical exponents from small systems is discussed. We apply this method to projectile framentation of gold nuclei in a recently completed experiment using the EOS-TPC. (orig.)

[en] Multifragmentation of the system α + ¹⁹⁷Au has been studied at incident energies of 1 and 3.6 GeV/nucleon with the new 4π setup, ''FASA''. Mass energy and velocity of a few fragments are measured with high precision using time-of-flight telescopes, while for the other fragments, global multiplicity information is obtained from 55 CsI(Tl) detectors covering the main part of 4π. Very high mean IMF (intermediate mass fragment) multiplicities of left angle M right angle _imf=5.1 ± 0.8 are observed at the higher incident energy. Applying the statistical multifragmentation model of Gross a breakup density ρ/ρ₀ of only 1/6 to 1/8 is deduced from the relative velocity measured for IMF-IMF coincidences at large relative angles and excitation energies increasing from 4.5 to 5.5 MeV/nucleon with increasing incident energy. (orig.)