The low energy frontier: What is exciting about physics below the top RHIC energy

Abstract

These proceedings summarize my plenary talk at Quark Matter 2011 with a focus on the future perspectives of the low energy programs at RHIC, FAIR, NICA and CERN.

Proceedings of Quark Matter 2011

References in corpus (13)

• On the sign of kurtosis near the QCD critical point
• Fully integrated transport approach to heavy ion reactions with an intermediate hydrodynamic stage
• Probing freeze-out conditions in heavy ion collisions with moments of charge fluctuations
• The QCD phase diagram at nonzero quark density
• STAR experiment results from the beam energy scan program at RHIC
• Equilibration and relaxation times at the chiral phase transition including reheating
• Higher Flow Harmonics in Heavy Ion Collisions from STAR
• NA49/NA61: results and plans on beam energy and system size scan at the CERN SPS
• Shape analysis of strongly-interacting systems: the heavy ion case
• Equation of state at finite baryon density based on lattice QCD
• Moments of charge fluctuations, pseudo-critical temperatures and freeze-out in heavy ion collisions
• Energy dependence of the freeze out eccentricity from the azimuthal dependence of HBT at STAR
• The impact of dissipation and noise on fluctuations in chiral fluid dynamics

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• Relation between baryon number fluctuations and experimentally observed proton number fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions
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• Local Multiplicity Fluctuations as a Signature of Critical Hadronization at LHC
• Hadronic freeze-out in an effective relativistic mean field model
• Hierarchy of kinetic freeze-out parameters in low energy heavy-ion collisions
• Flow fluctuations and kinetic freeze-out of identified hadrons at energies available at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron