Exploring the QCD phase diagram through relativistic heavy ion collisions

Abstract

We present a review of the studies related to establishing the QCD phase diagram through high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. We particularly focus on the experimental results related to the formation of a quark-gluon phase, crossover transition and search for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram.

8 pages, based on invited talk at International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2013), Firenze, Italy

References in corpus (13)

• The Chiral Magnetic Effect
• The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics
• Systematic Measurements of Identified Particle Spectra in pp, d+Au and Au+Au Collisions from STAR
• Event-by-event anisotropic flow in heavy-ion collisions from combined Yang-Mills and viscous fluid dynamics
• Scale for the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics
• Charge separation relative to the reaction plane in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV
• Partonic flow and $\varphi$-meson production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV
• Common Suppression Pattern of eta and pi^0 Mesons at High Transverse Momentum in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Elliptic flow for phi mesons and (anti)deuterons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Conserved number fluctuations in a hadron resonance gas model
• Volume Fluctuation and Autocorrelation Effects in the Moment Analysis of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions in Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Search for Chiral Magnetic Effects in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
• Exploring the QCD landscape with high-energy nuclear collisions

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Chemical freeze-out parameters in Beam Energy Scan Program of STAR at RHIC