QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
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 …

Phenomenological review on quark–gluon plasma: Concepts vs. observations

R Pasechnik, M Šumbera - Universe, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this review, we present an up-to-date phenomenological summary of research
developments in the physics of the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). A short historical …

Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

V Abgaryan, R Acevedo Kado, SV Afanasyev… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late …

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 …

Heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider: a review of the results from Run 1

N Armesto, E Scomparin - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2016 - Springer
We present an overview of the results obtained in pPb and PbPb collisions at the Large
Hadron Collider during Run 1. We first discuss the results for global characteristics: cross …

Freeze-out radii extracted from three-pion cumulants in pp, p–Pb and Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal… - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
In high-energy collisions, the spatio-temporal size of the particle production region can be
measured using the Bose–Einstein correlations of identical bosons at low relative …

Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

G Roland, K Šafařík, P Steinberg - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2014 - Elsevier
A new era in the study of high-energy nuclear collisions began when the CERN Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) provided the first collisions of lead nuclei in late 2010. In the first …

Nuclear coalescence from correlation functions

K Blum, M Takimoto - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
We derive a simple formula relating the cross section for light cluster production (defined via
a coalescence factor) to the two-proton correlation function measured in heavy-ion …

Centrality dependence of pion freeze-out radii in Pb-Pb collisions at  TeV

J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal, G Aglieri Rinella… - Physical review C, 2016 - APS
We report on the measurement of freeze-out radii for pairs of identical-charge pions
measured in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV as a function of collision centrality and the …

De-confinement and clustering of color sources in nuclear collisions

MA Braun, JD de Deus, AS Hirsch, C Pajares… - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
A brief introduction of the relationship of string percolation to the Quantum Chromo
Dynamics (QCD) phase diagram is presented. The behavior of the Polyakov loop close to …