Name: 16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement
Start: 2026-04-13T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement

from Monday, April 13, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Friday, April 17, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, April 13, 2026

9:00 AM Welcome

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
9:10 AM Session 1: Experimental Overviews
Experimental Overviews
9:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:10 AM ALICE overview - Swati Saha (IIT- Indian Institute of Technology (IN))

9:40 AM HADES overview - Marvin Nabroth

10:10 AM NA61 overview - Seweryn Kowalski (University of Silesia (PL))
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
11:00 AM Session 2: Experimental Overviews
Experimental Overviews
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

11:00 AM STAR overview - Fan Si (Heidelberg University (DE))

11:30 AM CBM overview - Piotr Gasik (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

12:00 PM NA60/DiCE overview - Giacomo Alocco (Universita e INFN, Torino (IT))
2:00 PM Session 3: Experimental Overviews
Experimental Overviews
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Physics opportunities for fixed target experiments at EIC. - Charles Joseph Naim

2:20 PM Probes of collectivity in large and small systems with ATLAS - Patrycja Anna Potepa (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

2:40 PM CMS overview - Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))

3:00 PM LHCb overview - Imanol Corredoira (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
3:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
3:50 PM Session 4: Phase transition
Phase transition
3:50 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

3:50 PM QCD phase structure from Lattice QCD - Jana N. Guenther (University of Wuppertal)

4:20 PM FRG approach to the QCD phase diagram - Wei-jie Fu (Dalian University of Technology)

4:50 PM Bridging Theory/Phenomenology and Experiment in Fluctuation Studies - Anar Rustamov (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

5:20 PM Quarkyonic matter - Larry McLerran
5:50 PM Reception
Reception
5:50 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
9:00 AM Session 5: Phase transition
Phase transition
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:00 AM Three regimes/phases of QCD at high T, their symmetries and Nc scaling - Leonid Glozman

9:20 AM Bubble Nucleation in an Expanding Supercooled Quark–Gluon Plasma with a Critical-Point Equation of State - Noriyuki Sogabe

9:40 AM Supercooled Goldstones at the QCD chiral phase transition - Aleksas Mazeliauskas

10:00 AM Superfluid dynamics of the QCD chiral phase transition - Jannis Gebhard (Heidelberg University)

10:20 AM Dissecting the moat regime at low energies - Shi Yin (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Justus Liebig University Giessen)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
11:00 AM Session 6: Deconfined Matter
Deconfined Matter
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

11:00 AM Transport properties from lattice QCD - Dibyendu Bala (Bielefeld University)

11:30 AM HRG models - Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

12:00 PM Interplay of Electromagnetic Fields and Baryon Diffusion in Directed Flow Splitting - Tribhuban Parida (AGH UST Krakow)

12:20 PM Towards Physics-Informed Parameterization of QCD EoS - Yi Yin (Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen))
2:00 PM Session 7: Critical Point
Critical Point
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Non-Monotonicity of pT Correlations in Au + Au Collisions at RHIC-STAR - Rutik Manikandhan (University of Houston)

2:20 PM State of the art in fluctuation dynamics theory - Gokce Basar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

2:50 PM MUSES: results on the critical point - Johannès Jahan (University of Houston - Department of Physics)

3:20 PM Unveiling QCD Criticality in Rapidity Scan via Cross-Cumulant - Jianing Li
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
4:10 PM Session 8: Compact Stars
Compact Stars
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

4:10 PM Probing Three-Body Baryonic Interactions via Triplet Femtoscopy at STAR - Ke Mi (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Central China Normal University)

4:30 PM Relating the onset density of quark deconfinement in neutron stars and heavy ion collisions - Oleksii Ivanytskyi (University of Wroclaw)
4:50 PM Session 9: Hadronisation
Hadronisation
4:50 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

4:50 PM Connecting neutron stars to heavy-ion collisions theory - Agnieszka Sorensen (Institute for Nuclear Theory) Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington)

5:20 PM Isospin symmetry violation measurements by NA61/SHINE - Andrzej Krzysztof Rybicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
9:00 AM Session 10: Critical Point
Critical Point
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:00 AM CP and 1st-Order Phase Boundary: theory overview - Jamie Karthein (MIT) Jamie Karthein (MIT)

9:30 AM Experimental overview of net-proton fluctuations measurements - Xin Dong

10:00 AM E-by-E fluctuations of proton and light nuclei numbers measured at HADES - Marvin Nabroth

10:20 AM Relative particle yield fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC BES-II - Ashish Pandav
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
11:10 AM Session 11: Phase transition
Phase transition
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

11:10 AM Searching for echoes of criticality in OO collisions with ALICE - Mario Ciacco (Universita and INFN Torino (IT))

11:30 AM News on (charged and neutral) hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions from NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS - Oleksandra Panova (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Yuliia Balkova (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))

11:50 AM QCD phase boundary from strangeness fluctuations on a high statistics lattice data set - Piyush Kumar (University of Wuppertal)

12:10 PM Yang-Lee edge singularity structure beyond standard lattice algorithms - Szabolcs Istvan Borsanyi

12:30 PM Directed and Triangular Flow of Protons and Vector Mesons in the High Baryon Density Region at RHIC - Guangyu Zheng (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2:00 PM Session 12: Critical Point
Critical Point
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Probing the QCD critical point by finite-size scaling of fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC - Yige Huang

2:20 PM News in the search for the critical point at NA61/SHINE. - Barnabas Porfy (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))

2:40 PM Measurement of (Net-)Proton Number Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions from RHIC-STAR : A Centrality-independent Method - Zhaohui Wang (Central China Normal University)

3:00 PM Inhomogeneous instabilities in high-density QCD - Franz Richard Sattler (University Bielefeld)

3:20 PM Performance of the CBM experiment to study the net-proton fluctuations - Rudrapriya Das (Bose Institute)

3:40 PM Residual 3rd-body Coulomb Effect on Identical Charged Pion Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at STAR - Nu Xu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
4:30 PM Session 13: Detectors and future
Detectors and future
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

4:30 PM Dectector development: DRD5 - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

4:50 PM CERN ion accelerator complex - Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)

5:10 PM ALICE 3: a next-generation heavy-ion detector for LHC Run 5 - Marianna Mazzilli (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
Thursday, April 16, 2026
9:00 AM Session 14: Critical Point
Critical Point
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:00 AM Full BSQ diffusion matrix effects in 3+1D simulations on conserved charge cumulants - Kevin P. Pala

9:20 AM Constructing a 4D T'-expanded lattice QCD equation of state with a multi-dimensional critical contribution - Francesco Di Clemente (University of Houston)

9:40 AM Towards a general framework for relativistic fluctuating hydrodynamics - Xin An (Ghent University)

10:00 AM Real-time stochastic dynamics near a QCD critical point - Thomas Schaefer
10:20 AM Workshop photo
Workshop photo
10:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
10:50 AM Session 15: Phase Transition
Phase Transition
10:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

10:50 AM Electromagnetic probes experiments - Szymon Harabasz

11:10 AM Low-mass, low-momentum virtual photon measurements with HADES - Iuliana-Carina Udrea (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

11:30 AM Combined Description of Thermal and Vacuum Contributions to the Dilepton Spectrum - Jessica Ou Ya Vogel

11:50 AM How does a phase transition impact dilepton production? - Renan Góes-Hirayama (FIAS)

12:10 PM Flow phenomena at high nuclear densities with HADES - Behruz Kardan (IKF, Uni-Frankfurt)
2:00 PM Session 16: Hadronisation
Hadronisation
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Correlation of baryon number and charge at finite baryon density from S-matrix calculation - Vojtěch Honěk (FNSPE, CTU in Prague)

2:20 PM Elliptic flow of deuterons and the mechanism of their production - Boris Tomasik

2:40 PM Canonical statistical hadronization with local charge conservation for fluctuations and correlations - Volodymyr Vovchenko (University of Houston)
3:00 PM Session 17: Deconfined Matter
Deconfined Matter
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

3:00 PM Hidden news on strangeness production in NA61/SHINE - Antoni Marcinek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

3:20 PM Strange hadron production in O+O collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 200 GeV at STAR - Iris Ponce (Yale University)

3:40 PM System size dependence of particle production with ALICE - Nicolò Jacazio (Universita del Piemonte Orientale (IT))
4:30 PM IAC meeting

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 61/1-009 - Room C

7:30 PM Social dinner
Social dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Friday, April 17, 2026
9:00 AM Session 18: Hadronisation
Hadronisation
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

9:00 AM Baryon junctions - Gregoire Marvin Nelson Pihan (University of Houston)

9:30 AM Hydrodynamic models of heavy ion collisions - Iurii Karpenko (FNSPE CTU in Prague)

10:00 AM Charged Pion Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s) =3 - 4.5 GeV with the STAR Detector - Liubing Chen (Central China Normal University)

10:20 AM Packing baryons into a lattice: lattice QCD canonical results at physical quark masses - Ludovica Pirelli (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
11:10 AM Session 19: Critical Point
Critical Point
11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

11:10 AM How soft is strangeness-neutral QCD matter? Contrasting material parameters at finite baryon density from (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD with heavy-ion data - Jishnu Goswami (Bielefeld University)

11:30 AM Antiproton puzzle - Volodymyr Vovchenko (University of Houston)
11:50 AM Closing

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber