High Energy Heavy Ion Physics—Zimányi School 2024

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will present selected papers from the 24th Zimányi School Winter Workshop on heavy ion physics (Zimányi 24, http://zimanyischool.kfki.hu/24/, 2‒6 December 2024). Zimányi 24 followed the rich traditions of the former Winter School, covering the recent progress in the field.

We would like to invite you to participate in this year's Zimányi School Winter Workshop, which aims to summarize the developments of 2024 in high energy heavy ion physics, with particular attention to the new data emerging from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). We will discuss results from other high-energy nuclear and particle physics facilities worldwide, most importantly lower energy colliders, exploring the nuclear phase diagram (emphasizing the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) searches). Another important point of the School is to discuss new results in hydrodynamics, flow, and femtoscopy. One of the school's main aims is to encourage interaction between the theoretical and experimental communities.

A list of the topics of the Special Issue includes but is not limited to:

• Effective Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) theory/model approaches;
• Elastic scattering and diffraction (experiment and theory);
• Femtoscopy (experiment and theory);
• Flow and hydrodynamics (experiment and theory);
• Gluon saturation and electron-ion collider (experiment and theory);
• Heavy flavor and quarkonia (experiment and theory);
• Intermediate energies (FAIR, J-PARC, nuclear physics);
• Jets and high-p_T probes (experiment and theory);
• Magnetic field in heavy ion collisions (experiment and theory);
• Photons and dileptons (experiment and theory);
• QCD at non-zero temperature and density;
• Search for the QCD critical point (experiment and theory);
• Strongly coupled gauge theories (beyond Standard Model, Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory);
• Vorticity and polarization in heavy ion physics (experiment and theory).

Although this Special Issue collaborates with the 24th Zimányi School Winter Workshop on heavy ion physics (Zimányi 24), all relevant manuscripts, including research and review articles, are welcome.

Dr. Máté Csanád
Dr. Sándor Lökös
Dr. Dániel Kincses
Dr. Péter Kovács
Guest Editors

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