Investigation of Hot QCD Matter: Theoretical Aspects

Abstract

This lecture presents an overview of the status of the investigation of the properties of the quark-gluon plasma using relativistic heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It focuses on the insights that have been obtained by the comparison between experimental data from both facilities and theoretical calculations.

Lecture at the 2013 Nobel Symposium on LHC Physics

References in corpus (6)

• Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
• The QCD equation of state with dynamical quarks
• 200 A GeV Au+Au collisions serve a nearly perfect quark-gluon liquid
• The theory and phenomenology of perturbative QCD based jet quenching
• Jet physics in heavy-ion collisions
• Small Shear Viscosity of a Quark-Gluon Plasma Implies Strong Jet Quenching

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• Quarkonium in-medium properties from realistic lattice NRQCD
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• Finite temperature gluon spectral functions from $N_f=2+1+1$ lattice QCD
• Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC: What's new ? What's next ?
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• Thermal dynamics on the lattice with exponentially improved accuracy
• A high-resolution pixel silicon Vertex Detector for open charm measurements with the \NASixtyOne spectrometer at the CERN SPS
• Summary of the Nobel Symposium on LHC Results
• (3+1)D event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions