High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

AbstractA review of important achievements and future prospects in high-energy heavy ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Large Hadron Collider is presented along with their implications for the physics of quark-gluon plasma from theoretical and experimental perspectives. A focus is put on the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma as a relativistic fluid, which makes it important to establish a dissipative hydrodynamic model to understand the properties of the hot medium.KeywordsHeavy ion collisionsQuark-gluon plasmaRelativistic heavy ion colliderLarge Hadron ColliderHydrodynamic model