Introductory Overview of Quark Matter 2012
Urs Achim Wiedemann
TL;DR
This paper reviews the properties of hot, dense QCD matter observed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC, focusing on soft hadron flow and hard hadron quenching, and discusses future research opportunities.
Contribution
It provides an overview of experimental findings on quark-gluon plasma properties and highlights prospects for advancing understanding in the field.
Findings
Observation of collective flow in soft hadronic observables
Evidence of jet quenching in hard hadronic observables
Insights into the properties of hot, dense QCD matter
Abstract
The two arguably most generic phenomena seen in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions are the flow of essentially all soft hadronic observables and the quenching of essentially all hard hadronic observables. Limiting the discussion to these two classes of phenomena, I review what can be said so far about the properties of hot and dense QCD matter from the heavy ion programs at RHIC and at the LHC, and I discuss the opportunities for further progress in the coming years.
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