Welcome to the homepage of the HotDISCO workshop.
It is a pleasure to announce the HotDISCO workshop, which will be held at
Korea University - March 18.-19. 2027 - Seoul, South Korea
This workshop is part of the 🇰🇷🇫🇷 France Korea Particle Physics Network / Korea-France Cooperation Foundation Building Project (한 프랑스 협력기반조성사업) HotDISCO, Discovering novel phases of hot nuclear matter with fluctuations.
Its aim is to bring together international leading experts in the study of the phase diagram of hot nuclear matter and to discuss recent developments regarding the existence of novel phase structure located above the chiral crossover transition, probed in heavy-ion collision experiments.
Due to its close thematic connection to the 32nd International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2027) it is held as official satellite meeting.
Scientific Background
The QCD phase diagram summarizes succinctly our knowledge of the equilibrium properties of nuclear matter. Its exploration has motivated significant investment in experiment and theory in the past and continues to do so today. Over the past decade an increasingly detailed picture of the phase structure emerged, which, driven by ab-initio simulations and experiment advocates for a single cross-over transition to exist at low net-baryon density.
Recent tantalizing evidence from ab-initio lattice QCD simulations hints at the existence of a novel phase of nuclear matter at high temperature characterised by the persistence of heavy quark confinement.
The presence of a novel phase above the crossover temperature would shatter the established understanding of nuclear matter and require a more careful study of this temperature region experimentally Developing the theory and data analysis tools to provide an unambiguous identification of such a novel phase is therefore both timely and valuable.
Organizing Committee:
- Alexander Rothkopf (Korea University)
- Marlene Nahrgang (SUBATECH)
- Marcus Bluhm (SUBATECH)
- Kirill Boguslavski (SUBATECH)
Support
This even is supported from France by
and it is supported from Korea by
