Hot-dense Lattice QCD: USQCD whitepaper 2018

TL;DR

This whitepaper discusses the potential and challenges of hot-dense lattice QCD calculations, emphasizing their importance for understanding QCD matter phases relevant to heavy-ion experiments at RHIC and LHC.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the opportunities, prospects, and challenges in hot-dense lattice QCD research for the first time in a USQCD whitepaper.

Findings

Identifies key challenges in hot-dense lattice QCD calculations.

Highlights the relevance to RHIC and LHC heavy-ion experiments.

Outlines future research directions in the field.

Abstract

This document is one of a series of whitepapers from the USQCD collaboration. Here, we outline the opportunities for, prospects of and challenges to the lattice QCD calculations relevant for the understanding of the phases and properties of hot-dense QCD matter. This program of lattice QCD calculations is relevant to current and upcoming heavy-ion experimental programs at RHIC and LHC.