Heavy ion collisions: puzzles and hopes

Abstract

This talk is a brief summary of some theoretical issues in the field of hot and dense QCD matter and ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.

6 pages, invited talk presented at the conference "Physics at the LHC 2010", DESY, June 7-12, 2010 Minor corrections in references

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• Computing Quark and Gluon Distribution Functions for Very Large Nuclei
• The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics
• Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
• The phase diagram of dense QCD
• Phases of Dense Quarks at Large N_c
• Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high $p_T$ hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC
• Equation of state and QCD transition at finite temperature
• Saturation Physics and Deuteron--Gold Collisions at RHIC
• Evolution at small x_bj: The Color Glass Condensate
• Evolution of the nuclear modification factors with rapidity and centrality in d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV
• Approximately self-consistent resummations for the thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma. I. Entropy and density
• Azimuthal correlations of forward di-hadrons in d+Au collisions at RHIC in the Color Glass Condensate
• A ZEUS next-to-leading-order QCD analysis of data on deep inelastic scattering
• Small x physics and RHIC data
• Using string theory to study the quark-gluon plasma: progress and perils
• The Phase Diagram of Strongly-Interacting Matter
• The equation of state at high temperatures from lattice QCD
• Probing the properties of dense partonic matter at RHIC