We review the theoretical developments and conceptual advances that stemmed from the
generalization of QCD to the limit of a large number of color charges, originally proposed by't …

A decade ago, a brief summary of the field of the relativistic heavy ion physics could be
formulated as the discovery of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, sQGP for short, a near …

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 …

A bstract A new model (CUJET3. 0) of jet quenching in nuclear collisions coupled to bulk
data constrained (VISH2+ 1D) viscous hydrodynamic backgrounds is constructed by …

A hadron resonance gas model including all known particles and resonances with masses
m< 2 GeV and an exponentially rising density of Hagedorn states for m> 2 GeV is used to …

We argue that features of hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions, mainly at CERN-
SPS energies, may be explained by the existence of three forms of matter: Hadronic Matter …

We consider the formation of chiral density waves in Quarkyonic matter, which is a phase
where cold, dense quarks experience confining forces. We model confinement following …

We investigate how the possible existence of hadronic bound states above the
deconfinement transition temperature T c affects heavy-quark observables, such as the …

In ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, the matter formed shortly after the collision is a
dense, out of equilibrium, system of gluons characterized by a semi-hard momentum scale …

Direct real photons are arguably the most versatile tools to study relativistic heavy ion
collisions. They are produced, by various mechanisms, during the entire space-time history …