Heavy-Ion Collisions toward High-Density Nuclear Matter

Shoji Nagamiya

doi:10.3390/e24040482

Heavy-Ion Collisions toward High-Density Nuclear Matter

Entropy (Basel). 2022 Mar 30;24(4):482. doi: 10.3390/e24040482.

Author

Shoji Nagamiya^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba-shi 305-0801, Japan.
² RIKEN (Institute for Physical and Chemical Research), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi 351-0198, Japan.

Abstract

In the present paper, the current efforts in heavy-ion collisions toward high-density nuclear matter will be discussed. First, the essential points learned from RHIC and LHC will be reviewed. Then, the present data from the STAR Beam Energy Scan are discussed. Finally, the current efforts, NICA, FAIR, HIAF, and J-PARC-HI (heavy ion) are described. In particular, the efforts of the J-PARC-HI project are described in detail.

Keywords: FAIR; HIAF; J-PARC-HI; LHC; NICA; RHIC; high-density nuclear matter; high-temperature matter; relativistic heavy-ion collision.

Publication types

Review