We review the present status of the search for a phase transition and critical point as well as
anomalous transport phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), with an emphasis …

Motivated by forthcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC, and results from SPS, a review is
given of the present state of event-by-event fluctuations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion …

Important progress in understanding the behavior of hadronic matter at high density has
been achieved recently, by adapting the techniques of condensed matter theory. At …

The QCD phase diagram may feature a critical end point at a temperature T and baryon
chemical potential μ which is accessible in heavy-ion collisions. The universal long …

The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite
volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases …

ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly
interacting matter and the quark–gluon plasma in nucleus–nucleus collisions at the LHC. It …

We argue that the event-by-event fluctuations of the ratio of positively charged over
negatively charged pions provides a measurement of the number of rho and omega mesons …

Event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum of charged particles
produced in pp collisions at ss== 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV, and Pb–Pb collisions at s_ NN s …

Results are presented on event-by-event fluctuations in transverse momentum of charged
particles, produced at forward rapidities in p+ p, C+ C, Si+ Si, and Pb+ Pb collisions at 158 A …

A model for particle production at the deconfining phase transition in QCD is developed, as
the semiclassical decay of a condensate for the Polyakov loop. In such a model, generically …