The main motivation of the RHIC beam energy scan (BES) program is to study the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram. Systematic analysis of Au+Au collisions from √sNN = 39 GeV down to 7.7 GeV in the RHIC BES-I could help to achieve the following goals: 1) to find the QCD critical point where the first order phase transition at finite baryon chemical potential ends and to identify the...
We study (anti-)deuteron formation rates in heavy-ion collisions in the framework of a coalescence model. Our main assumption hereby is that nucleons are emitted from a spherically symmetric fireball volume, antinucleons from a spherical shell to account for nucleon-antinucleon annihilations at lower beam energies. Comparison with experimental data on the coalescence parameter in the range...
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that at sufficiently high-temperature (T) and/or baryon chemical potential ($\mu_{B}$), normal nuclear matter converts into a de-confined state of quarks and gluons, known as Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). A hot and dense medium of quarks and gluons is created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The dynamics and collective behavior of such strongly...
A central goal of current experiments at RHIC and LHC is to study the properties of the hot and dense QCD matter produced in energetic heavy-ion collisions. Such studies can give insight into the QCD phase diagram, as well as the transport coefficients of the strongly-coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma (sQGP). Anisotropic flow measurements of identified particles play an essential role in such...
The short-lived resonances have been very useful in the study of heavy-ion collisions at SPS, RHIC, and the LHC. Properties of these particles measured in hadronic decay channels carry a wealth of information about the hadron chemistry and reaction dynamics. Resonances containing one or two strange quarks contribute to the study of the strangeness enhancement phenomenon, their integrated and...
The main goal of study the relativistic heavy-ion collisions at energies of accelerator facility NICA ( 4−11 GeV) is to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high net baryon chemical potential and moderate temperatures. The anisotropic collective flow is one of the important observables sensitive to transport properties of strongly interacting matter created in such collisions. The...
Heavy flavor quarks are an important probe of the initial state of the Quark Gluon Plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. Bottom and charm quarks are produced early in the collision, primarily through hard interactions, and experience the full evolution of the medium. Understanding bottom quark production in $p$+$p$ collisions gives a baseline reference for studying larger collision systems....