From AGS-SPS and Onwards to the LHC

Abstract

I review the history of the efforts using heavy ion collisions to make new forms of matter. I discuss both the development of the theoretical ideas about such new forms of matter, as well the past, present and planned experimental efforts. I also highlight the development of this activity in both India and China.

Plenary talk for Quark Matter 2008 in Jaipur, India

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• The effects of topological charge change in heavy ion collisions: "Event by event P and CP violation"
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• The axial anomaly and the phases of dense QCD
• Quarkyonic Matter and the Revised Phase Diagram of QCD
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• Hyperon/meson ratios in rare high-multiplicity $pp$ collisions at energies available at the Large Hadron Collider, and potential signatures for mini-quark-gluon plasma formation
• Soft Open Charm Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Strong color fields and heavy flavor production
• Electron-muon correlation as a new probe to strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma
• The non-perturbative analytical equation of state for the gluon matter. I
• Open Charm Production in $p+p$ and Pb + Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
• Multiplicity dependent $p_T$ distributions of identified particles in pp collisions at 7 TeV within HIJING/$B\bar{B}$ v2.0 model