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Laser and Particle Beams (1993), vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 279-281 279Printed in the United States of AmericaBook reviewsS. Eliezer and R. A. Ricci, Eds., High Pressure Equations of State: Theory and Applications, Course113 of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," North Holland, Amsterdam, 1991,563 pages, $166.75.It is an incommensurable merit that this book presents a worldwide synopsis of the advanced resultson the research of the equations of state for extremely high pressures and temperatures. This coversthe physics of nuclear explosions with pressures of several Gbar and the recent compilation of resultsfrom the Supernova 1987. It includes the most exciting developments of the equation of state in nuclearmatter, as well as high-temperature and high-pressure laboratory plasmas produced by laser com-pression of solid pellets where pressures of 6 Gbar have been detected and densities of 1,000 timesthe solid state of polyethylene (especially highlighting the Yamanaka compression on p. 490) havebeen produced. The field includes plasma with degenerate electrons and cases close to the border-line of these transitions. Just this field was highly developed by the laser-produced plasma studies,including the most sophisticated nuclear and other detection techniques as well as the classic appli-cation of shock waves, where the deviations from the classic cases are most important. The laser-plasma interaction studies were the first to arrive at the detailed research of the large-amplitudedilatation shocks and the breaking processes in solids (metals) as pioneered by one of the course direc-tors, Shalom Eliezer, whose pioneering work on the equation of state in nuclear matter was furtherdeveloped as seen in the presentation of R. M. Weiner, discussing nuclear, hadronic, and quark mat-ter, in which problems of phase transition and symmetry breaking are one of the main goals of high-energy physics. The overview to all this was given by J. A. Maruhn, where the initial theoretical workfor shock waves at collisions of heavy nuclei was pioneered by W. Scheid and W. Greiner with furthercoauthors was elaborated on and shown in the resulting experiments.The contribution of G. Senatore and G. Pastorale about crystallization for quantum liquids camejust at the right time because it was only a few months later that R. G. Clark et al. first realizedthe Wigner crystal experimentally. The presentation by Fortov et al., compiling results from nuclearexplosions, was regrettably much less explicit than the lectures with detailed descriptions of the exper-iments. Fortov's summary indeed showed his souverain position in this field, similar to the presen-tations of his counterparts at Livermore (F. J. Rogers), Los Alamos (R. G. McQueen), and Oxford(N. H. March), all united in this unique conference, which was especially enlightened by the otherco-Director, Renato Ricchi, President of the European Physical Society among other important posi-tions. For the shock wave mechanisms, M. Ross (Livermore) was most experienced to present thereview interlinked with many other contributions. Last but not least, Eliezer, by himself, reviewedthe laser-produced plasmas. The complexity of the differing models was illustrated in a short con-tribution by S. Pfalzner et al. J.-P. Hansen (Lyon) et al. presented methods of statistical mechanicsand freezing of classic fluids, J.-M. Besson (Paris) explained X-ray techniques for the advanced mea-surements of the equation of state, and the astrophysical problems were presented in a most attrac-tive way by E. Schatzman (Meudon) and W. Hillebrandt (Munich) while general plasma physics andsome geophysics topics were included.This presentation of fascinating new physics forms a rare combination of the most experiencedresearchers in the field that is unique, contrary to many other Enrico Fermi Schools, where this gen-eral coverage of the best representatives cannot always be confirmed due to the biased selection ofspeakers in these cases. The book is a milestone on the equations of state and is essential to the phys-ics of the high-density plasmas, which the readers of Laser and Particle Beams specifically need toknow.H. HoraCHI21 Geneva 23, SwitzerlandM. Month and S. Turner, Eds., Frontiers of Particle Beams; Observation, Diagnosis, and Cor-rection, Lecture Notes in Physics, by W. Beiglbock et al., vol. 343, Springer, Heidelberg, 1990,509 pages + ix, DM102, $69.00.These are the proceedings of the US-CERN School of Particle Accelerators, Capri 1988, and con-cern the classic accelerator physics and technology as used for research in high-energy physics. Because© 1993 Cambridge University Press 0263-0346/93 $5.00 + .00at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263034600007126Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 11:28:50, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available

Book Review: High Pressure Equations of State: Theory and Applications: EliezerS. and RicciR. A., Eds., High Pressure Equations of State: Theory and Applications, Course 113 of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi,” North Holland, Amsterdam, 1991, 563 pages, $166.75

Book Review: High Pressure Equations of State: Theory and Applications: EliezerS. and RicciR. A., Eds., High Pressure Equations of State: Theory and Applications, Course 113 of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi,” North Holland, Amsterdam, 1991, 563 pages, $166.75

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