Theoretical Review on Bulk Properties and Light/Strange Hadron Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Abstract

Since the discovery of large elliptic flow at RHIC in the early 2000s, relativistic hydrodynamics has become a central framework for quantitative studies of the quark--gluon plasma (QGP). In parallel, increasingly sophisticated analyses have improved constraints on the initial state and the transport properties of the QGP. In this contribution, I overview the recent progress on bulk-property of QGP and light/strange hadron production.

6 pages; contribution to the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2026), Los Angeles, USA, March 22-27, 2026