Erice: INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS, 46th COURSE

I will discuss the present state with regards to the search for a QCD critical point, especially in view of the new high statistics data from the RHICH beam energy scan II. I will also discuss possible next steps needed to either confirm or rule out the existence of a CP in the region accessible by experiment.

I will discuss the motivation for investigating the QCD phase diagram in the domain of large baryochemical potential and how we phenomenologically access this region, focusing on the statistical hadronization model. I will review briefly the existing measurements and will describe the CBM experiment in construction at FAIR, introducing as well its expected physics performance.

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I will review recent progress in understanding cold and dense QCD matter, with a particular focus on the equation of state and its applications to neutron stars, including contributions from my own work.

I will discuss recent progress in the study of the properties of heavy flavor particles in lattices QCD, including the in-medium masses and width of quarkonia, open charmed hadrons and heavy quark diffusion constant.

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The HEFTY collaboration has been created to address, in a comprehensive way, the production, transport and hadronization of heavy-flavor particles in heavy-ion collisions, by bringing together state-of-the-art expertise on the various components needed to achieve that. In this talk we focus on recent determinations of nonperturbative transport coefficients in the strongly coupled QGP, for both...

Understanding the space–time evolution of strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions requires precise probes of its collective expansion. While anisotropic flow has long been established as a key signature of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP), the isotropic component, radial flow, has until now been inferred only indirectly through spectral slopes and blast-wave fits.

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Research on hypernuclei plays an essential role in answering how the hierarchy of nuclei is constructed from quarks. We are going to review the recent achievements in hypernuclear programs in J-PARC. One of the recent achievements is the realization of an accurate hyperon-nucleon scattering experiment. The differential cross sections of the Σ+p, Σ−p elastic scatterings and Σ−p → Λn inelastic...

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We present a novel relativistic density functional approach for QCD matter, motivated by a nonlocal medium-screened confining interaction among quarks. The approach suggests a phenomenological confining mechanism equivalent to suppressing excitations of quark quasiparticles by their large self-energies already at the mean-field level. Chirally symmetric form of the functional provides...

We review the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) for illuminating the dark ages of the cosmological evolution and as dark matter candidates. We elucidate the role of phase transitions for primordial black hole formation in the early Universe and focus our attention to the cosmological QCD phase transition within a recent microscopical model.We explore the impact of physics beyond the...

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The nature of nuclear matter at the huge densities associated with neutron stars is not known. One certainly expects very large scalar and vector fields which may be expected to affect the structure of hadrons in such a medium. We explore ideas about the possible effects and thier consequences.