Quark-Gluon Matter

Abstract

A concise review of the experimental and phenomenological progress in high-energy heavy-ion physics over the past few years is presented. Emphasis is put on measurements at BNL-RHIC and CERN-SPS which provide information on fundamental properties of QCD matter at extreme values of temperature, density and low-x. The new opportunities accessible at the LHC, which may help clarify some of the current open issues, are also outlined.

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• The Gluonic Field of a Heavy Quark in Conformal Field Theories at Strong Coupling
• Study of isolated prompt photon production in $p$-Pb collisions for the ALICE kinematics
• Nuclear shadowing and prompt photons at relativistic hadron colliders
• A minimal quasiparticle approach for the QGP and its large-$N_c$ limits
• Probing nuclear modifications of parton distribution functions through the isolated prompt photon production at the LHC
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• Isentropic thermodynamics and scalar-mesons properties near the QCD critical end point
• Gluino production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and nuclear shadowing
• Virtual Photon Emission from Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Multiparticle Production at High Multiplicities
• Physics at the LHC: a short overview