CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA) I. Meshkov, A. Sissakian and A. Sorin -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The NICA structure and operation scenario -- 3. Luminosity of heavy ion collisions -- 4. Injection chain structure and e ciency -- 5. The main elements of NICA -- 5.1. Injector -- 5.2. Booster synchrotron -- 5.3. Stripping target station -- 5.4. The Nuclotron -- 5.5. Collider -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 2. The Multipurpose Detector (MPD) V. D. Kekelidze, A. N. Sissakian and A. S. Sorin -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physics goals -- 3. Observables and Requirements for the Detector -- 4. General Design -- 5. Magnet Coil and Flux Return -- 6. TPC for Central Tracking -- 7. Inner Tracker (IT) -- 8. Time of Flight System (TOF) -- 9. Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC) -- 10. Endcap Tracker (ECT) -- 11. Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) -- 12. Beam-Beam Counter (BBC) -- 13. Detector performance -- 14. Conclusion -- 15. Acknowledgements -- References -- 3. On the First Order Phase Transitions Signal in Multiple Production Processes J. Manjavidze and A. Sissakian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions -- 2.1. -- 2.2. -- 2.3. -- 2.4. -- 3. Ising model: phase transition -- 4. Ising model: stable minimum -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. Bose-Einstein Condensation in Very High Multiplicity Events V. V. Begun and M. I. Gorenstein -- 1. Introduction -- 2. BEC in Thermodynamic Limit -- 3. Finite Size Effects -- 3.1. Chemical Potential at Finite Volume -- 3.2. Particle Number Fluctuations -- 4. BEC Fluctuation Signals in High Multiplicity Events -- 5. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References.

5. Observation of a Resonance-like Structure in the Invariant Mass Spectrum of two Photons from pC- and dC-Interactions Kh. U. Abraamyan, M. I. Baznat, A. V. Friesen, K. K. Gudima, M. A. Kozhin, S. A. Lebedev, M. A. Nazarenko, S. A. Nikitin, G. A. Ososkov, S. G. Reznikov, A. N. Sissakian, A. S. Sorin and V. D. Toneev -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment -- 2.1. General layout -- 2.2. Event selection -- 3. Wavelet analysis -- 4. Data simulation -- 4.1. About the model -- 4.2. Analysis of the obtained data -- 4.3. The ! 3 0 decay -- 4.4. Dibaryon mechanism -- 5. Estimate of the and R production cross sections and resonance widths -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Continuous wavelets with vanishing momenta -- References -- 6. Correlation radii from Fast Hadron Freeze-Out Generator Iu. A. Karpenko, R. Lednicky, I. P. Lokhtin and L. V. Malinina -- References -- 7. High-Pt Features of z-Scaling at RHIC and Tevatron M. V. Tokarev, I. Zborovsky and T. G. Dedovich -- 1. Introduction -- 2. z-Scaling -- 3. z-Scaling in pp and AA collisions at RHIC -- 3.1. 0 mesons -- 3.2. Charged hadrons -- 3.3. Mean pT vs. multiplicity and collision energy -- 3.4. Jets -- 3.5. Similarity of charged hadron production in AA -- 4. z-Scaling in pp collisions at Tevatron -- 4.1. Direct photons -- 4.2. Jets -- 4.4. J= mesons -- 4.5. D0 mesons -- 4.6. B+ mesons -- 4.7. (1S) mesons -- 4.8. Z0 -- W+ bosons -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8. Quarkonia Measurements in Heavy-Ion Collisions in CMS O. L. Kodolova -- 1. Introduction -- 2. CMS detector -- 3. Signal and background processes -- 3.1. Quarkonia production rates -- 3.2. Muon background rates -- 3.3. Reconstruction and analysis -- 3.3.1. Dimuon trigger e ciency and acceptance -- 3.3.2. Dimuon reconstruction e ciency and purity -- 3.3.3. J/ and mass resolutions -- 4. Results.

4.1. Signal/Background ratio and statistics -- 4.1.1. Transverse momentum and rapidity spectra -- 5. Discussion on the results and conclusions -- References -- 9. Bose-Einstein Correlations of Neutral Gauge Bosons in pp Collisions G. A. Kozlov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. BEC in case of two particles -- 3. Stochastic field and Green's function -- 4. Green's function and kernel operator -- 5. Source size -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- 10. Bose-Einstein Correlations and the Stochastic Scale of Light Hadrons Emitter Source G. A. Kozlov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two-particle BEC -- 3. Green's function -- 4. Evolution equation -- 5. Green's function and kernel operator -- 6. Stochastic forces scale -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- 11. Pion Multiplicities at High Energy Proton Nuclear Collisions in Frames of Reggeon Action E. A. Kuraev, S. Bakmaev and E. N. Antonov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pomeron mechanisms of meson production -- 3. Screening e ects. Several - production -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 12. Rbec Analysis and the Cascade Model V. Roinishvili -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cascade Model (CM) of multiparticle production (1) -- 3. Comparison of the CM with the experimental data -- 3.1. e+e -- 3.2. pp= pp ! h + X -- 3.2.1. pp and pp data. -- 3.2.2. Inelasticity -- 3.2.3. pp and pp multiplicity -- 4. CM and RBEC results -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 13. J= Electroproduction in a Dual Model R. Fiore, L. L. Jenkovszky, V. K. Magas and A. Prokudin -- 1. Introduction -- 2. J= photoproduction -- 3. J= electroproduction -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References.