PARTICLE-PRODUCTION AND FLOW AT SIS ENERGIES

An overview is given over recent measurement of how and particle produ ction in the energy range from 0.1 to 2 AGeV. Excitation functions for the directed sideward and the azimuthally symmetric transverse flow a re presented and show the importance of how phenomena in this incident energy regime. Rapidity density distributions are indicative of a sys tem size dependence of the stopping process. The role of strange parti cles as a probe for the hot and dense phase of hadronic matter is disc ussed with respect to the production and propagation. The spectra of K aons indicate an equilibration with the surrounding baryons during the expansion while their directed how pattern is different from that of the nucleons.