Working group report: Heavy-ion physics and quark-gluon plasma

Coordinators: MUNSHI G MUSTAFA¹ and SUDHIR RANIWALA²

Contributors: T Awes³, B Rai⁴, R S Bhalerao⁵, J G Contreras⁶, R V Gavai⁵,

S K Ghosh⁷, P Jaikumar⁸, G C Mishra⁹, A P Mishra⁴, H Mishra¹⁰,

B Mohanty¹¹, J Nayak¹¹, J-Y Ollitrault¹², S C Phatak⁴, L Ramello¹³, R Ray¹,

P K Sahu⁴, A M Srivastava⁴, D K Srivastava^11,14 and V K Tiwari¹⁵

¹Theory Group, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India

²University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302 004, India

³Oak Ridge National Laboratory, High Energy Physics, Oak Ridge,

Tennessee 37831-6372, USA

⁴Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar 700 005, India

⁵Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India

⁶Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, CINVESTAV, M\'erida, Yucat\'an, M\'exico and

PH Division, Centre for European Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland

⁷Department of Physics, Bose Institute, 93/1, A.P.C. Road,

Kolkata 700 009, India

⁸Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439-4843, USA

⁹Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Rango-737132, East Sikkim, Sikkim

¹⁰Theory Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009,

India

¹¹Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India

¹²Service de Physique Th\'eorique, CEA/DSM/SPhT, Unit\'e de

Recherche associ\'{e}e au CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

¹³Universit\`a del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria and INFN-Torino, Italy

¹⁴Van de Graff Laboratory, Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic

Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India

¹⁵Physics Department, Allahabad University, Allahabad 211 002, India

E-mail: munshigolam.mustafa@saha.ac.in, raniwala@uorehep.ac.in

Keywords. Quantum chromodynamics; quark-gluon plasma; lattice gauge theory;

hydrodynamics; susceptibility; flow; AdS/CFT; $J/\psi$-suppression; screening;

jet quenching; color superconductor.

PACS Nos 12.38.Aw; 12.38.Mh; 12.39.-x; 24.85.+p; 25.75.-q