Theory progress at Strange Quark Matter 2021

Abstract

I review recent theory progress reported at the 19th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM), and discuss open questions to be addressed by the coming editions of SQM.

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References in corpus (7)

• Lattice QCD equation of state at finite chemical potential from an alternative expansion scheme
• Improved quark coalescence model for spin alignment and polarization of hadrons
• The multiple-charm hierarchy in the statistical hadronization model
• Unified description of hadron yield ratios from dynamical core-corona initialization
• In-medium effects in strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions at (sub-)threshold energies
• Deep learning stochastic processes with QCD phase transition
• Update of the Three-fluid Hydrodynamics-based Event Simulator: light-nuclei production in heavy-ion collisions