Publications

General publications relevant to our field of research

• Symmetry article: Turning Lead into Gold - the alchemists dream finally realized (May 2025)

• Scientific American article on: Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe (February 2023)

• Scientific American article on: The Mysteries of the World's Tiniest Bits of Matter (May 2015)

• Scientific American article on: 'The First Few Microseconds' by Zajc and Riordan

• Scientific American article on: 'The Illusion of Gravity' by Maldacena

• Discovery Magazine article on: 'The Big Bang Machine' by Folger

• CERN Press Release to the start of heavy ion running in 2010

• Symmetry article on the strangeness in small systems discovery in 2017 (interviews with Bianchi and Bellwied)

• Gizmodo article on the strangeness in small system discovery in 2017 (interview with Bianchi)

Relevant recent publications from ALICE and STAR

• Observation of the anti-hyper-hydrogen-4 (Nature article by STAR)

• Measurement of anti-3He nuclei absorption in matter and impact on their propagation in the Galaxy (Nature Physics article by ALICE) 

• Direct observation of the dead-cone effect in quantum chromodynamics (Nature article by ALICE)

• Unveiling the strong interaction among hadrons at the LHC (Nature article by ALICE)

• Enhanced production of multi-strange hadrons in high-multiplicity proton–proton collisions (Nature Physics article by ALICE)

• Nonmonotonic Energy Dependence of Net-Proton Number Fluctuations (PRL by STAR)

Publications relevant to the future

• Letter of intent for ALICE 3: A next-generation heavy-ion experiment at the LHC (2022 document)

• Hot and Cold QCD White Paper from ALICE-USA: Input for 2023 U.S. Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science (2022 document)

• EIC Yellow Report: Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider (2021 document)

• NuPECC Report: Nuclear Physics in Everyday Life (2025 document)

Relevant publications of group members outside the collaboration efforts

• Quantum entanglement in the initial and final state of relativistic heavy ion collisions (by Bellwied), arXiv:1807.04589 

• Freeze-out temperature from net-Kaon fluctuations at RHIC (by Bellwied et al.), arXiv:1805.00088

• Freeze-out conditions from net-proton and net-charge fluctuations at RHIC (by Alba, Bellwied et al.), arXiv:1403.4903

• Is there a flavor hierarchy in the deconfinement transition of QCD ? (by Bellwied et al.), Phys.Rev.Lett. 111, 202302 (2013)

• Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions: event shape engineering (by Schukraft, Voloshin and Timmins), Phys.Lett.B 719:394 (2013)

• Are there hadronic bound states above the QCD transition temperature ?(by Ratti and Bellwied et al., Phys.Rev.D85:014004 (2012))

• In-medium hadronization in the deconfined matter at RHIC and LHC (by Bellwied and Markert, Phys.Lett.B691:208 (2010))

• Formation and decay of hadronic resonances in the QGP (by Markert, Bellwied and Vitev, Phys.Lett.B669:92 (2008))

• The ALICE EMcal Physics Performance Report (by Bellwied et al. for ALICE EMCal collaboration (2010))

Reading material for graduate students

• D.J. Schwarz: The first second of the universe

• S. Hands: The phase diagram of QCD

• M. Natsuume: String Theory and Quark Gluon Plasma

• H. Stoecker: Stable TeV Black Hole Remnants at the LHC

• Mrowczynski and Thoma: What do electromagnetic plasmas tell us about the QGP

• S. Albino et al.: Parton fragmentation in the vacuum and in the medium

• J. Harris & T. Ullrich: Electron-Ion Collider – discussing the science and concept

• U. Wiedemann: Selected Topics and Exercises in Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

• J. Harris and B. Mueller: The Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma (1996)

• J. Harris and B. Mueller: QGP Signatures - Revisited (2024)

• M. Karliner and J. Rosner: Inside Tetra- and Penta-Quarks (2024)

Ph.D. theses

• Anjali Menon: Two Particle Angular Correlation Functions of Neutral and Charged Kaons in Pb–Pb collisions at  5.02 TeV with ALICE at the LHC (ALICE thesis, July 2024)

• Alek Hutson: Evidence of Entanglement in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC (ALICE thesis, July 2024)

• Oveis Sheibani: Measurements of Prompt Lc /D 0 Ratio as a Function of Multiplicity at the ALICE Experiment: An Investigation of Charm Hadronization in Small Systems (ALICE thesis, April 2024)

• Jonathan Ball-Cap: Event-by-event Lambda Multiplicity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions from the RHIC Fixed-target Program at √sNN = 3.0 GeV (STAR thesis, July 2023)

• Negin Alizadevhandchali: Investigating the Speed of Sound of the Medium Formed by Heavy-Ion Collisions at the LHC (ALICE thesis, May 2023)

• Jacobb Martinez: Pentaquark Search in the Strange Sector at ALICE at the LHC (ALICE thesis, May 2022)

• Fernando Flor: Sequential Strangeness Freeze-out via Statistical Hadronization in Relativistic Heavy Ion and Elementary Particle Collisions (ALICE thesis, January 2022)

• Raquel Quishpe: Longitudinal Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions (ALICE thesis, January 2022)

• Surya Pathak:  Search for clustering of strange quarks in relativistic heavy ion collisions at the LHC (ALICE thesis, May 2021)

• Corey Myers: Investigation Of Chiral Symmetry Restoration Using Ξ(1820) Reconstruction From p-p, p-Pb, And Pb-Pb Collisions At ALICE (ALICE thesis, July 2020)

• Ejiro Umaka: Event-by-event net-Λ fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC (ALICE thesis, May 2020)

• Muqing Jin: Anisotropic flow fluctuations in very central Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV (ALICE thesis, May 2019)

• Nalinda Kulathunga: Energy Dependence of Net-Lambda Fluctuations measured by the STAR Detector at RHIC (STAR thesis, December 2018) 

• Jihye Song: Study of Multi-strange Resonance Xi(1530) Production with ALICE at LHC Energies (ALICE thesis, February 2018)

• Dilan Minthaka Madagodahettige Don: Hadron-K0 correlations in proton-proton collisions at the ALICE experiment (ALICE Thesis, May 2011)

• Sandun Jayarathna: Transverse momentum evolution of hadron-V0 correlation in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV (ALICE thesis, May 2015)

• Badrajee Piyarathna: 2d di-hadron correlations at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV using the ALICE experiment (ALICE thesis, May 2015)

• Chanaka DeSilva: 2d di-hadron correlations at sqrt(s)= 200 GeV using the STAR experiment (STAR thesis, December 2012)

• Daniel McDonald: Statistical moments of the multiplicity distributions of identified particles in Au+Au collisions (STAR thesis, May 2013)

Masters theses

• Diego Cristancho Guerrero: Simulation study of magnetic field effects in the Pair Spectrometer Luminosity Detector for the ePIC Experiment at the Electron Ion Collider (ePIC MS thesis, May 2025)

Publications relevant for ongoing research in the group

Exotic particle related

• ALICE Collaboration: Antihyperhelium-4 (2025)

• CERN Courier: Exotic Hadrons discovered at the LHC (November 2024)

• ExHIC Collaboration: Exotic Hadrons from Heavy Ion Collisions

• NA49 Collaboration: Observation of an Exotic S = -2, Q = -2 Baryon Resonance in Proton-Proton Collisions at the CERN SPS

• LHCb Collaboration: Observation of J/psi-p resonances consistent with pentaquark states in lambda_b to J/psi K- p decays

• STAR Collaboration: Discovery of Anti-Helium-4

Fluctuation related

• STAR Collaboration: Precision Measurements of net-proton fluctuations above 7.7 GeV (July 2025)

• HADES Collaboration: Proton number fluctuations in sqrt(s) = 2.4 GeV Au+Au collisions studied with HADES

• STAR Collaboration: Net-proton number fluctuations and the Quantum Chromodynamics critical point

• STAR Collaboration: Beam energy dependence of net-Λ fluctuations measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC 

• ALICE Collaboration: Global baryon number conservation encoded in net-proton fluctuations measured in Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV 

• STAR collaboration: Collision Energy Dependence of second order off-diagonal and diagonal cumulants of multiplicity distributions in AuAu collisions (2019)

• STAR collaboration: Collision Energy Dependence of Net-Kaon Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC (2017)

• STAR collaboration: Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

• STAR collaboration: Beam energy dependence of moments of the net-charge multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

• PHENIX collaboration: Measurement of higher cumulants of net-charge multiplicity distributions in AuAu collisions at sqrt(s) = 7.7-200 GeV

Chirality and Resonances related

• ALICE Collaboration: Omega(2012) measurement - paper and CERN Courier (2025)

• ALICE Collaboration: Strange Resonance Proceedings - Quark Matter 2017 (Jihye Song)

• STAR collaboration: Summary talk by Lijuan Ruan (2011)

• PHENIX collaboration: Low Mass Vector Meson Measurements via Di-electrons at RHIC by the PHENIX Experiment

• Theory paper: Hatsuda and Hayano: Hadron Properties in the Nuclear Medium