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 …

Phase transitions in particle physics: Results and perspectives from lattice quantum chromo-dynamics

G Aarts, J Aichelin, C Allton, A Athenodorou… - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase transitions in a non-perturbative regime can be studied by ab initio Lattice Field
Theory methods. The status and future research directions for LFT investigations of Quantum …

Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

K Zhou, L Wang, LG Pang, S Shi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel
problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly …

[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 …

Bayesian analysis of heavy ion collisions with the heavy ion computational framework Trajectum

G Nijs, W Van Der Schee, U Gürsoy, R Snellings - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We introduce a model for heavy ion collisions named trajectum, which includes an
expanded initial stage with a variable free streaming velocity v fs and a hydrodynamic stage …

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 …

Determining the jet transport coefficient from inclusive hadron suppression measurements using Bayesian parameter estimation

S Cao, Y Chen, J Coleman, J Mulligan, PM Jacobs… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We report a new determination of q ̂, the jet transport coefficient of the quark-gluon plasma.
We use the JETSCAPE framework, which incorporates a novel multistage theoretical …

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) …

Inclusive jet and hadron suppression in a multistage approach

A Kumar, Y Tachibana, C Sirimanna, G Vujanovic… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We present a new study of jet interactions in the quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy
heavy-ion collisions, using a multistage event generator within the jetscape framework. We …

Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions

Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Atomic nuclei are self-organized, many-body quantum systems bound by strong nuclear
forces within femtometre-scale space. These complex systems manifest a variety of shapes …