Recent Advances in High-Energy Physics: QCD from Heavy-Ion to Electron-Ion Colliders
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1863
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heavy-ion physics has been at the forefront of high-energy nuclear physics for the past two decades. The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) began collecting data in 2000 with the primary goal of discovering quark–gluon plasma, theorized to exist since the mid-1970s. Rolf Hagedorn's 1965 finding of a maximum possible temperature for strong interactions paved the way for David Gross and Frank Wilczek's theory of asymptotic freedom in 1973. Shortly after that, Hagedorn's maximum limiting temperature was reinterpreted as a second-order phase transition by Nicola Cabibbo and Giorgio Parisi in 1975, and the discussion officially began of a new state of matter where quarks and gluons were deconfined.
Since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began recording data in 2010, hundreds of papers have been published discussing quark–gluon plasma formation and its possible signatures in heavy-ion collisions. However, many other exciting and unexpected results have also accompanied these publications in terms of the LHC and RHIC. The heavy-ion community now sits at a crossroads, with preparations for the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider underway and a new era of physics on the horizon.
This Special Issue invites the submission of papers which review and assess the challenges of quantum chromodynamics from heavy-ion to electron-ion colliders. All original papers considering this area of high-energy nuclear physics (experimental and theoretical) are invited for submission. The topics of interest of the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- heavy-ion collisions;
- electron-ion collisions;
- quark-gluon plasma;
- quantum chromodynamics.
Dr. Krista Lizbeth Smith
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy-ion collisions
- electron-ion collisions
- quark-gluon plasma
- quantum chromodynamics
- proton-proton collisions
