Brief history of the search for critical structures in heavy-ion collisions

Quark Matter and Nuclear Collisions: A Brief History of Strong Interaction Thermodynamics

The past fifty years have seen the emergence of a new field of research in physics, the study of matter at extreme temperatures and densities. The theory of strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), predicts that in this limit, matter will become a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons -- the medium which made up the early universe in the first 10 microseconds after the big bang. High energy nuclear collisions are expected to produce short-lived bubbles of such a medium in the laboratory. I survey the merger of statistical QCD and nuclear collision studies for the analysis of strongl…

印尼强子物理的历史与展望

A Brief History and Outlook of Hadronic Physics in Indonesia

本文回顾印尼在强子物理领域的贡献，探讨实验和理论研究方向，并提出未来融入国际强子物理社区的策略。

Brief history for the search and discovery of the Higgs particle - A personal perspective

In 1964, a new particle was proposed by several groups to answer the question of where the masses of elementary particles come from; this particle is usually referred to as the Higgs particle or the Higgs boson. In July 2012, this Higgs particle was finally found experimentally, a feat accomplished by the ATLAS Collaboration and the CMS Collaboration using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is the purpose of this review to give my personal perspective on a brief history of the experimental search for this particle since the '80s and finally its discovery in 2012. Besides the early searches,…

多重宇宙简史

A brief history of the multiverse

本文介绍暴胀多重宇宙理论，阐释其核心图景及与永恒暴胀、人择原理结合对解决宇宙学常数等物理难题的作用，并提供该理论早期难寻论文的相关链接。

How EIC can help us to understand heavy-ion collisions

I give a brief overview of the science cases of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with a particular emphasis on the connections to the physics of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions.

质量简史

A Brief History of Mass

本文回顾了不稳定粒子质量定义的演变，指出物理质量应取传播子复极点的实部，取代了依赖参数化的布赖特-维格纳质量和依赖规范的“在壳”质量，并强调这一概念尚未被教科书广泛采纳。

On the history of multi-particle production in high energy collisions

The 60th birthday of Johann Rafelski was celebrated during the Strangeness in Quark Matter 2011 in Krakow. Johann was born in Krakow and he initiated the series of the SQM conferences. This report, which briefly presents my personal view on a history of multi-particle production in high energy collisions, is dedicated to Johann.

A brief history of Florentine physics from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s

The history of the Institute of Physics at the University of Florence is traced from the beginning of the 20th century, with the arrival of Antonio Garbasso as Director (1913), to the 1960s. Thanks to Garbasso's expertise, not only did the Institute gain new premises on Arcetri hill, where the Astronomical Observatory was already located, but it also formed a brilliant group of young physicists made up of Enrico Fermi, Franco Rasetti, Enrico Persico, Bruno Rossi, Gilberto Bernardini, Daria Bocciarelli, Lorenzo Emo Capodilista, Giuseppe Occhialini and Giulio Racah, who were engaged in the emerg…

A brief overview of fixed-order perturbative QCD calculations of jet production in heavy-ion collisions

We review recent developments in the QCD description of jet production and modification in reactions with heavy nuclei at relativistic energies. Our goal is to formulate a perturbative expansion in the presence of nuclear matter that allows to systematically improve the accuracy of the theoretical predictions. As an example, we present calculations of inclusive jet cross sections at RHIC, Z0/gamma*-tagged jet cross sections at the LHC, and jet shapes that include both next-to-leading order perturbative effects and the effects of the nuclear medium.

Theory of neutrino-atom collisions: the history, present status and BSM physics

An overview of the current theoretical studies on neutrino-atom scattering processes is presented. The ionization channel of these processes, which is studied in experiments searching for neutrino magnetic moments, is brought into focus. Recent developments in the theory of atomic ionization by impact of reactor antineutrinos are discussed. It is shown that the stepping approximation is well applicable for the data analysis practically down to the ionization threshold.

Overview of light nuclei production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

We briefly overview motivations, some recent results and challenges in studying light nuclei production in relativistic heavy ion collisions.