The Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC and LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental results from RHIC and LHC on the quark-gluon plasma, focusing on flow, energy loss, and direct photons, highlighting the state-of-the-art understanding of strongly interacting matter.

Contribution

It summarizes recent high-quality data from major experiments at RHIC and LHC, providing insights into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma.

Findings

Evidence of collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

Significant energy loss of high-energy particles in plasma

Detection of direct photons indicating initial temperature

Abstract

The study of heavy-ion collisions has currently unprecedented opportunities with two first class facilities, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and five large experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, PHENIX and STAR producing a wealth of high quality data. Selected results recently obtained are presented on the study of flow, energy loss and direct photons.