We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

The past decade witnessed a remarkable proliferation of exotic charmonium-like
resonances discovered at accelerators. In particular, the recently observed charged states …

Extensive experimental data from high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions were recorded
using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The comprehensive …

We review the most important experimental results from the first three years of nucleus–
nucleus collision studies at RHIC, with emphasis on results from the STAR experiment, and …

We describe in detail how the different components of a multiphase transport (ampt) model
that uses the heavy ion jet interaction generator (hijing) for generating the initial conditions …

Transverse momentum spectra of π±, K±and p (p¯) up to p T= 20 GeV/c at mid-rapidity in pp,
peripheral (60–80%) and central (0–5%) Pb–Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV have been …

Identified charged-particle spectra of π±, K±, p, and p¯ at midrapidity (| y|< 0. 1) measured by
the dE/dx method in the STAR (solenoidal tracker at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) …

We discuss two special limiting forms of QCD matter which may be produced at RHIC. We
conclude from the available empirical evidence that an equilibrated, but strongly coupled …

We analyze the experimental hadron yield ratios for central nucleus–nucleus collisions in
terms of thermal model calculations over a broad energy range, sNN= 2.7–200 GeV. The fits …

We argue that the emission of hadrons with transverse momentum up to about 5 G e V/c in
central relativistic heavy ion collisions is dominated by recombination, rather than …