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 …

Motivated by forthcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC, and results from SPS, a review is
given of the present state of event-by-event fluctuations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion …

Important progress in understanding the behavior of hadronic matter at high density has
been achieved recently, by adapting the techniques of condensed matter theory. At …

ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly
interacting matter and the quark–gluon plasma in nucleus–nucleus collisions at the LHC. It …

The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite
volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases …

The QCD phase diagram may feature a critical end point at a temperature T and baryon
chemical potential μ which is accessible in heavy-ion collisions. The universal long …

We argue that the event-by-event fluctuations of the ratio of positively charged over
negatively charged pions provides a measurement of the number of rho and omega mesons …

Event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum of charged particles
produced in pp collisions at ss== 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV, and Pb–Pb collisions at s_ NN s …

A model for particle production at the deconfining phase transition in QCD is developed, as
the semiclassical decay of a condensate for the Polyakov loop. In such a model, generically …

The QCD vacuum in which we live, which has the familiar hadrons as its excitations, is but
one phase of QCD, and far from the simplest one at that. One way to better understand this …