The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE Collaboration alice-publications@ cern … - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of …

Hot QCD phase diagram from holographic Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton models

R Rougemont, J Grefa, M Hippert, J Noronha… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this review, we provide an up-to-date account of quantitative bottom-up holographic
descriptions of the strongly coupled quark–gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic …

Digital quantum simulation of the schwinger model and symmetry protection with trapped ions

NH Nguyen, MC Tran, Y Zhu, AM Green, CH Alderete… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Tracking the dynamics of physical systems in real time is a prime application of quantum
computers. Using a trapped-ion system with up to six qubits, we simulate the real-time …

The BEST framework for the search for the QCD critical point and the chiral magnetic effect

X An, M Bluhm, L Du, GV Dunne, H Elfner, C Gale… - Nuclear Physics A, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration was formed with the goal of
providing a theoretical framework for analyzing data from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) …

Lattice QCD equation of state at finite chemical potential from an alternative expansion scheme

S Borsányi, Z Fodor, JN Guenther, R Kara, SD Katz… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
In this Letter, we introduce a novel scheme for extrapolating the equation of state of QCD to
finite chemical potential that features considerably improved convergence properties and …

Cold-atom quantum simulators of gauge theories

JC Halimeh, M Aidelsburger, F Grusdt, P Hauke… - Nature Physics, 2025 - nature.com
Gauge theories constitute the basis of the Standard Model and provide useful descriptions of
various phenomena in condensed matter. Realizing gauge theories on tunable tabletop …

High-energy collision of quarks and mesons in the Schwinger model: From tensor networks to circuit QED

R Belyansky, S Whitsitt, N Mueller, A Fahimniya… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
With the aim of studying nonperturbative out-of-equilibrium dynamics of high-energy particle
collisions on quantum simulators, we investigate the scattering dynamics of lattice quantum …

Recent development of hydrodynamic modeling in heavy-ion collisions

C Shen, L Yan - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2020 - Springer
We present a concise review of the recent development of relativistic hydrodynamics and its
applications to heavy-ion collisions. Theoretical progress on the extended formulation of …

Overview of the QCD phase diagram: Recent progress from the lattice

JN Guenther - The European Physical Journal A, 2021 - Springer
In recent years there has been much progress on the investigation of the QCD phase
diagram with lattice QCD simulations. In this review we focus on the developments in the last …

Skewness, kurtosis, and the fifth and sixth order cumulants of net baryon-number distributions from lattice QCD confront high-statistics STAR data

A Bazavov, D Bollweg, HT Ding, P Enns, J Goswami… - Physical review D, 2020 - APS
We present new results on up to sixth-order cumulants of net baryon-number fluctuations at
small values of the baryon chemical potential, μ B, obtained in lattice QCD calculations with …