Quark–Gluon Plasma 6

Book info: Quark–Gluon Plasma 6 (Hardcover, 576 pages) – World Scientific Publishing, 2025. Language: English.

This book, the sixth volume in a series on Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) research, offers updated reviews on theoretical developments and phenomenological understanding of the hot and dense matter formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Authored by leading experts in the field, it delves into how these advancements help shed light on the recent data emerging from the experiments conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Despite setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores a multitude of recent progresses, including insights into jet measurements, study of hydrodynamization in QGP, flow measurements in large and small systems, spin polarization and chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Additionally, the book features a timely review of the QCD phase diagram in light of the new data collected at the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. Furthermore, it includes a chapter on the growing role of machine learning in analyzing and interpretating complex data. Written carefully with detailed analyses and expert reviews, Quark-Gluon Plasma 6 stands as an invaluable reference for individuals engaged in the field. Editorial Reviews About the Author Xin-Nian Wang, currently a Bo Ya Chair Professor and the Director of the Institute of Particle Physics at the Central China Normal University (CCNU), is a theoretical physicist in the area of high-energy particle and nuclear physics. He had his undergraduate education in Shandong University and the graduate study with a MS degree in the Institute of High-energy Physics in Beijing, China. After receiving his PhD from University of Oregon in 1989, he did his postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Duke University before returning to LBNL in 1992 as a Divisional Fellow in the Nuclear Science Division. He became a senior scientist at LBNL in 1997 until 2024. He was also a Changjiang Visiting Professor in Shandong University and 1000-Plan Professor at CCNU. He was the former head of the Nuclear Theory Program at LBNL and the manager and co-spokesperson of the JET Collaboration funded by the US Department of Energy. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 and received the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2024.