Description of heavy ion collisions
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Heavy ion collisions are best described by transport models that include both mean-field potentials and two-body collisions. In particular, the relativistic transport model, which treats consistently the change of hadron masses and energies in hot dense matter, allows one to study these medium effects in heavy ion collisions. In this talk, we review the present understanding of hadron in-medium properties and the progress made in extracting such information from available experimental data using the relativistic transport model.