Workshop on High Baryon Density Physics in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

19 Mar 2026, 07:00 → 20 Mar 2026, 20:00 US/Pacific

253 (Bldg 15)

Volker Koch, Xin Dong

The purpose of this workshop is to have focused discussions on high baryon density physics including collectivity, correlations and criticality etc. Latest experimental measurements from facilities around the world including RHIC, LHC, SPS, SIS18 etc and theoretical advances will be discussed at the workshop.

This workshop is a satellite meeting for the SQM2026 will take place during March 22-27, 2026 at UCLA.

Thursday 19 March

09:00 → 12:30 Fluctuation - I

Convener: Nu Xu (CCNU)

09:00 pT Fluctuation Measurement from STAR

Speaker: Rutik Manikandhan (Univ. of Houston)

Pre_SQM_2026.pdf

09:20 Discussion

09:45 Theory Perspectives on Critical Point

Speaker: Maneesha Pradeep (IISc, India)

Pre-SQMWorkshop_Pradeep.pdf

10:05 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Theory Perspectives on QCD Critical Point

Speaker: Misha Stephanov (Univ. of Illinois Chicago)

11:20 Discussion

11:45 Proton Fluctuation Measurements from RHIC BES-II

Speaker: Ashish Pandav (LBNL)

PreSQM_2026_highmoments.pdf

12:05 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 17:00 Fluctuation - II

Convener: Volker Koch (LBNL)

14:00 Cumulants from Hydro using Maximum Entropy Freeze-out

Speaker: Gregoire Pihan (Univ. of Houston)

14:20 Discussion

14:45 Proton Cumulants

Speaker: Volodymyr Vovchenkov (Univ. of Houston)

Vovchenko-LBNL-HighDensity-2026.pdf

15:05 Discussion

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Chirality Transport at BES Energies

Speaker: Jinfeng Liao (Indiana University)

LIAO_LBL.pdf

16:20 Discussion

17:00 → 19:00 Group Dinner

Friday 20 March

09:00 → 12:30 Collectivity

Convener: Xin Dong (LBNL)

09:00 BES-II Collective Flow Measurements (Remote)

Speaker: Shusu Shi (CCNU)

Recent Collective Flow Results from STAR Beam Energy Scan II.pdf

09:20 Discussion

09:45 Theory Perspectives on Collective Flows at BES Energies

Speaker: Lipei Du (UCB/LBNL)

pre-SQM 2026 - L Du.pdf

10:05 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Model Calculations for BES-II

Speaker: Iurii Karpenko (FNSPE CTU in Prague)

pre-SQM2026.pdf

11:20 Discussion

11:45 UrQMD

Speaker: Tom Reichert (CERN)

preSQM26_Reichert_Tom.key

preSQM26_Reichert_Tom.pdf

12:05 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 16:30 EoS

Convener: Volodymyr Vovchenkov (Univ. of Houston)

14:00 Baryon Correlations (Remote)

Speaker: Yingjie Zhou (GSI)

HighBaryonDensity_zyingjie_20 Mar 2026.pdf

14:20 Relativistic Hydrodynamics with Multiple Conserved Chrages

Speaker: Isabella Danhoni (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

14:40 Discussion

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Nuclear Matter EoS at High Density Region

Speaker: Yumu Yang (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

15:50 SAM-3.0 and Fractional Quark Charges

Speaker: Roman Poberezhniuk (Univ. of Houston)

16:10 Discussion