STAR Experimental Overview

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent STAR collaboration results on heavy-ion collisions, focusing on QGP properties, particle modifications, and collision dynamics under extreme conditions.

Contribution

It provides an overview of new experimental findings on QGP phenomena and particle production in various collision regimes from the STAR collaboration.

Findings

Jet and quarkonium modifications observed in QGP

Collective flow patterns of QGP constituents analyzed

Vector meson production studied in ultraperipheral collisions

Abstract

We highlight some of the STAR collaboration's results on heavy-ion collisions from the past year, addressing many open questions related to the strong interaction under extreme conditions. Topics presented include jet and quarkonium modification in quark-gluon plasma (QGP); collective dynamics of QGP constituents; low-energy and small-sized collisions; and vector meson production from ultraperipheral, photonic ion collisions. Lastly, we end with a conclusion and outlook toward the data-analysis era.