Challenges in QCD matter physics - The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR

Understand

Substantial experimental and theoretical efforts worldwide are devoted to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter.

• At LHC and top RHIC energies, QCD matter is studied at very high temperatures and nearly vanishing net-baryon densities.
• There is evidence that a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) was created at experiments at RHIC and LHC.
• The transition from the QGP back to the hadron gas is found to be a smooth cross over.