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 …

Studying the QGP with Jets at the LHC and RHIC

L Cunqueiro, AM Sickles - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We review the current status of jet measurements in heavy-ion collisions at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We discuss how the …

Decoding the phase structure of QCD via particle production at high energy

A Andronic, P Braun-Munzinger, K Redlich, J Stachel - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Recent studies based on lattice Monte Carlo simulations of quantum chromodynamics
(QCD)—the theory of strong interactions—have demonstrated that at high temperature there …

[HTML][HTML] The present and future of QCD

P Achenbach, D Adhikari, A Afanasev, F Afzal… - Nuclear Physics A, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective
of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 …

Theoretical and experimental constraints for the equation of state of dense and hot matter

R Kumar, V Dexheimer, J Jahan, J Noronha… - Living Reviews in …, 2024 - Springer
This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for
dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results from …

QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

Small system collectivity in relativistic hadronic and nuclear collisions

JL Nagle, WA Zajc - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The bulk motion of nuclear matter at the ultrahigh temperatures created in heavy ion
collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider is well …

Strangeness in nuclear physics

A Gal, EV Hungerford, DJ Millener - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Extensions of nuclear physics to the strange sector are reviewed, covering data and models
of Λ and other hypernuclei, multistrange matter, and antikaon bound states and …

Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

V Abgaryan, R Acevedo Kado, SV Afanasyev… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late …

Properties of hot and dense matter from relativistic heavy ion collisions

P Braun-Munzinger, V Koch, T Schäfer, J Stachel - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the progress achieved in extracting the properties of hot and dense matter from
relativistic heavy ion collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven …