Mapping the phases of quantum chromodynamics with beam energy scan

A Bzdak, S Esumi, V Koch, J Liao, M Stephanov, N Xu - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

K Zhou, L Wang, LG Pang, S Shi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - 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 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) …

Hydrodynamics with parametric slowing down and fluctuations near the critical point

M Stephanov, Y Yin - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The search for the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collision experiments requires dynamical
simulations of the bulk evolution of QCD matter as well as of fluctuations. We consider two …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of critical fluctuations: Theory–phenomenology–heavy-ion collisions

M Bluhm, A Kalweit, M Nahrgang, M Arslandok… - Nuclear Physics A, 2020 - Elsevier
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions during the Rapid Reaction Task
Force “Dynamics of critical fluctuations: Theory–phenomenology–heavy-ion collisions” …

QCD equation of state matched to lattice data and exhibiting a critical point singularity

P Parotto, M Bluhm, D Mroczek, M Nahrgang… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We construct a family of equations of state for QCD in the temperature range 30 MeV≤ T≤
800 MeV and in the chemical potential range 0≤ μ B≤ 450 MeV. These equations of state …

Hydrodynamic approaches in relativistic heavy ion reactions

RD De Souza, T Koide, T Kodama - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
We review several facets of the hydrodynamic description of the relativistic heavy ion
collisions, starting from the historical motivation to the present understandings of the …

Diffusive dynamics of critical fluctuations near the QCD critical point

M Nahrgang, M Bluhm, T Schaefer, SA Bass - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
A quantitatively reliable theoretical description of the dynamics of fluctuations in
nonequilibrium is indispensable in the experimental search for the QCD critical point by …

Search for the QCD critical point in high energy nuclear collisions

A Pandav, D Mallick, B Mohanty - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
QCD critical point is a landmark region in the QCD phase diagram outlined by temperature
as a function of baryon chemical potential. To the right of this second-order phase transition …

Collective flow and hydrodynamics in large and small systems at the LHC

H Song, Y Zhou, K Gajdošová - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2017 - Springer
In this article, we briefly review the recent progress on collective flow and hydrodynamics in
large and small systems at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which includes the following …