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PLV: Plenary Talks

PLV XI

PLV XI: Plenary Talk

Friday, September 12, 2025, 09:30–10:30, ZHG011

The hottest fluid on earth: characterizing deconfined quark-gluon matter at the Large Hadron Collider — •Anton Andronic — University of Münster, Germany

Deconfined quark-gluon matter, a state of matter which must have prevailed in our Universe in its first 10 microseconds of existence, is produced in collisions of nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider. I will discuss our knowledge and questions on the early thermalization of the hot and dense deconfined matter and focus on what we learned about its still-mysterious transition to hadrons with confined quarks and gluons.

Keywords: deconfined quarks and gluons; thermalization; hadronization; QCD phase diagram