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 …

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 …

The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE collaboration - European Physical Journal C, 2024 - jyx.jyu.fi
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 …

QCD equation of state to from lattice QCD

A Bazavov, HT Ding, P Hegde, O Kaczmarek, F Karsch… - Physical review D, 2017 - APS
We calculated the QCD equation of state using Taylor expansions that include contributions
from up to sixth order in the baryon, strangeness and electric charge chemical potentials …

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) …

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 …

Finite-density lattice QCD and sign problem: Current status and open problems

K Nagata - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Finite-density lattice QCD aims for the first-principle study of QCD at finite density, which
describes the system consisting of many quarks. The main targets are systems such as …

Bulk properties of the medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions from the beam energy scan program

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We present measurements of bulk properties of the matter produced in Au+ Au collisions at s
NN= 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV using identified hadrons (π±, K±, p, and p¯) from the …

Beam Energy Dependence of Moments of the Net-Charge Multiplicity Distributions in Collisions at RHIC

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report the first measurements of the moments—mean (M), variance (σ 2), skewness (S),
and kurtosis (κ)—of the net-charge multiplicity distributions at midrapidity in Au+ Au …

Energy dependence of moments of net-proton multiplicity distributions at RHIC

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We report the beam energy (s NN= 7.7–200 GeV) and collision centrality dependence of the
mean (M), standard deviation (σ), skewness (S), and kurtosis (κ) of the net-proton multiplicity …