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Exploring the QCD Phase Diagram

Exploring the QCD phase diagram through relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a primary goal of modern nuclear physics. This contribution focuses on fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges — specifically net-baryon and net-charge cumulants …

Charmed nuclei and exotic charmed meson production at CBM@FAIR and ALICE@LHC

We make predictions for the expected multiplicities of exotic charmed hadrons and charmed nuclei in Au+Au collisions at SIS100 and Pb+Pb collisions at LHC beam energies, using input on light hadron and charm production from the UrQMD transport model, …

Disentangling baryon stopping and neutron skin effects in heavy-ion collisions

We analyse the net baryon (B) and net electric charge (Q) stopping in heavy-ion collisions using the statistical model. Focusing first on isobar collisions Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr at sNN=200 GeV, we show that any deviation of the midrapidity ratio NB/NQ from …

Lattice-based equation of state with a critical point from constant entropy contours and its comparison to effective QCD approaches

Locating the QCD critical point from first principles through contours of constant entropy density

Indications for Freeze-Out of Charge Fluctuations in the Quark-Gluon Plasma at the LHC

High-order cumulants and correlation functions near the critical point from molecular dynamics

Acceptance dependence of factorial cumulants, long-range correlations, and the antiproton puzzle

Lattice QCD constraints on the critical point from an improved precision equation of state

Building neutron stars with the MUSES calculation engine