The QGP dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

The dynamics of partons and hadrons in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is analyzed within the novel Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach, which is based on a dynamical quasiparticle model for the partonic phase (DQPM) including a dynamical hadronization scheme. The PHSD model reproduces a large variety of observables from SPS to LHC energies, e.g. the quark-number scaling of elliptic flow, transverse mass and rapidity spectra of charged hadrons, dilepton spectra, open and hidden charm production, collective flow coefficients etc., which are associated with the observation of a sQGP. The highlights of the latest results on collective flow are presented and open questions/perspectives are discussed.

8 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the Proceedings of the Kruger-2012 International Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC (Kruger National park in South Africa, December 3-7, 2012)

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