Coordinator: JAN-E
ALAM1
Contributors: K Assamagan2, S Chattopadhyay1, R Gavai3, Sourendu Gupta3,
B Layek4, S Mukherjee3, R Ray3, Pradip K Roy5 and A Srivastava4
1Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF Bidhan
Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India
2Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New
York 11973-5000, USA
3Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi
Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India
4Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg,
Bhubaneswar 751 005, India
5Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan
Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India
E-mail:
jane@veccal.ernet.in
Abstract. The 8th workshop on high energy physics
phenomenology (WHEPP-8) was held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai,
India during January 5{16, 2004. One of the four working groups, group III was
dedicated to QCD and heavy ion physics (HIC). The present manuscript gives a
summary of the activities of group III during the workshop (see also [1] for
completeness). The activities of group III were focused to understand the
collective behaviours of the system formed after the collisions of two nuclei at
ultra-relativistic energies from the interactions of the elementary degrees of
freedom, i.e. quarks and gluons, governed by non-abelian gauge theory, i.e.
QCD. This was initiated by two plenary talks on experimental overview of heavy
ion collisions and lattice QCD and several working group talks and discussions.
Keywords. Quantum chromodynamics; quark gluon plasma;
equation of state; hydro-
dynamics; flow.
PACS Nos 25.75.-q; 25.75.Nq; 25.75.Ld; 12.38.Mh