Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter -- Current Status and Developments

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current status and recent developments in hot QCD matter research, highlighting experimental discoveries of Quark Gluon Plasma and theoretical advances in understanding its properties and dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental and theoretical progress in hot QCD matter, integrating results from major collider experiments and lattice QCD studies.

Findings

Experimental evidence of Quark Gluon Plasma from RHIC and LHC

Advances in theoretical modeling of QGP dynamics

Recent lattice QCD results on heavy quarks in QGP

Abstract

The discovery and characterization of hot and dense QCD matter, known as Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), remains the most international collaborative effort and synergy between theorists and experimentalists in modern nuclear physics to date. The experimentalists around the world not only collect an unprecedented amount of data in heavy-ion collisions, at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, USA, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland but also analyze these data to unravel the mystery of this new phase of matter that filled a few microseconds old universe, just after the Big Bang. In the meantime, advancements in theoretical works and computing capability extend our wisdom about the hot-dense QCD matter and its dynamics through mathematical equations. The exchange of ideas between experimentalists and theoreticians is crucial for the progress of our knowledge. The motivation of this first conference named "HOT QCD Matter 2022" is to bring the community together to have a discourse on this topic. In this article, there are 36 sections discussing various topics in the field of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and related phenomena that cover a snapshot of the current experimental observations and theoretical progress. This article begins with the theoretical overview of relativistic spin-hydrodynamics in the presence of the external magnetic field, followed by the Lattice QCD results on heavy quarks in QGP, and finally, it ends with an overview of experiment results.