Review of Recent Results from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan

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We review recent results from the RHIC beam energy scan (BES) program, aimed to study the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram.

• The main goals are to search for the possible phase boundary, softening of equation of state or first order phase transition, and possible critical point.
• Phase-I of the BES program has recently concluded with data collection for Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energies ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}$) of 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV.
• Several interesting results are observed for these lower energies where the net-baryon density is high at the mid-rapidity.