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Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era and beyond

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, one of the four fundamental interactions. To understand it better, QCD needs to be studied under extreme temperature and density conditions, such as those that existed microseconds after the Big Bang.

In that “primordial soup” a new state of matter was generated, known as a plasma of quarks and gluons, which could also be found today in the interior of neutron stars. To study this phenomenon, its conditions are recreated in colliders such as the LHC at CERN or the RHIC in Brookhaven (USA).

The IGFAE team is an international reference in the theory and phenomenology of hot and dense QCD, and has positions of responsibility in the design and configuration of future particle accelerators that will study this fundamental force. Some of the theories developed allow connections between this programme and the IGFAE gravitational wave programme.

The IGFAE is currently developing the YoctoLHC project, funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

ERC Advanced Grant: Yoctosecond imaging of QCD collectivity using jet observables (2019-2025). PI: Carlos Salgado.

Publications

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2025-03-01
Article

Article
2025-03-01
Towards an interpretation of the first measurements of energy correlators in the quark-gluon plasma

JHEP2025(2025), 2025, (2025)

JCAP

Andres C., Dominguez F., Holguin J., Marquet C., Moult I.

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Andres C., Dominguez F., Holguin J., Marquet C., Moult I.

2025-02-13
Article

Article
2025-02-13
A potential approach to the X(3872) thermal behaviour

316, 4 (2025)

ARXIV

2879459

JCAP

Escobedo, Miguel A., Armesto, Nestor, Ferreiro, Elena G., Lopez-Pardo, Victor

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Escobedo, Miguel A., Armesto, Nestor, Ferreiro, Elena G., Lopez-Pardo, Victor

2025-02-01
Article

Article
2025-02-01
Corrigendum to A potential approach to the X(3872) thermal behavior [Phys. Lett. B 854 (2024) 138760] (Physics Letters B (2024) 854, (S0370269324003186), (10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138760))

861, (2025)

JCAP

Armesto N., Escobedo M.A., Ferreiro E.G., Lopez-Pardo V.

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Armesto N., Escobedo M.A., Ferreiro E.G., Lopez-Pardo V.

2025-01-23
Thesis

Thesis
2025-01-23
Relacións universais para estrelas bosónicas
2025-01-12
Article

Article
2025-01-12
Quark production and thermalization of the longitudinally boost-invariant quark-gluon plasma

ICHEP2024, 6 (2025)

ARXIV

2867038

JCAP

Barrera Cabodevila, Sergio, Du, Xiaojian, Salgado, Carlos A., Wu, Bin

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Barrera Cabodevila, Sergio, Du, Xiaojian, Salgado, Carlos A., Wu, Bin

Projects

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2024-11-04
SA1_HQCD

SA1_HQCD
LCF/BQ/PI24/12040029
Programa de becas de Posdoctorado Junior Leader para realizar un proyecto de investigación posdoctoral en Universidades y Centros de Investigación españoles o portugueses.

Principal investigator

Carlos Alberto Salgado López

Initial date

2024-11-04

Final date

2027-11-03

Agency

AEI - Agencia Estatal de Investigación

2024-09-01
SA1_HQCD

SA1_HQCD
PID2023-152762NB-I00
Cromodinámica Cuántica en condiciones extremas - QCDEXT - GENERACIÓN DE CONOCIMIENTO 2023 - Proye...

Principal investigator

Néstor Armesto Pérez

Initial date

2024-09-01

Final date

2027-08-31

Agency

AEI - Agencia Estatal de Investigación

2024-04-30
SA1_HQCD

SA1_HQCD
ED431G 2023/05
Axudas para a acreditación da excelencia (científica, técnica ou artística) así como das axudas p...

Principal investigator

Carlos Alberto Salgado López

Initial date

2024-04-30

Final date

2027-11-30

2024-04-01
SA1_HQCD

SA1_HQCD
CEX2023-001318-M
Solicitud a Unidades de Excelencia María de Maeztu - IGFAE - 2023

Principal investigator

Carlos Alberto Salgado López

Initial date

2024-04-01

Final date

2028-03-31

Agency

AEI - Agencia Estatal de Investigación

2024-04-01
SA1_HQCD

SA1_HQCD
101155036-2
2023-PI154

Principal investigator

Daniel Pablos Alfonso

Initial date

2024-04-01

Final date

2026-03-31