Quark Matter 2025 is the XXXI International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, which will be held in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. This conference brings together theoretical and experimental physicists from around the world to discuss new developments in high-energy heavy-ion physics. The focus of the discussions is on the fundamental understanding of strongly-interacting matter at extreme conditions, as formed in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, as well as on emergent QCD phenomena in high-multiplicity proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions.
The scientific program will cover the following topics:
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Chirality
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Collective dynamics & small systems
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Correlations & fluctuations
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Detectors & future experiments
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Electromagnetic probes
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Heavy flavor & quarkonia
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Initial state of hadronic and electron-ion collisions
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Jets
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Light and strange flavor physics & nuclei
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New theoretical developments
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Physics of ultraperipheral collisions
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QCD matter in astrophysics
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QCD phase diagram & critical point