The QCD Phase Diagram: From Theory to Experimental Signatures

8 Oct 2025, 08:00 → 11 Oct 2025, 18:00 Asia/Shanghai

In recent years, there has been significant progress in the study of the QCD phase diagram, driven by both experimental and theoretical advances. This workshop aims to bring together experts and young researchers for discussions of recent advancements and future research directions in view of the new era of high density experiments CBM and  CEE and others , new developments from running experiments such as STAR and HADES, as well as multi-messenger astronomy.

 

 

Organizers:

Heng-Tong Ding (Central China Normal University) 

Wei-jie Fu (Dalian University of Technology)

Fei Gao (Beijing Institute of Technology)

Yu-xin Liu (Peking University)

Xiaofeng Luo (Central China Normal University) 

Jan M. Pawlowski (University Heidelberg)

Fabian Rennecke (University Giessen)

 

Contact:

Wei-jie Fu  (email: wjfu@dlut.edu.cn)

 

Wednesday, 8 October

08:40 → 10:10 Session I

08:40 Welcome speech

Speaker: Prof. Zheng-xiong Wang

08:50 Selected Results from RHIC BES-II

Speaker: Nu Xu (CCNU)

09:30 TBA

Speaker: Jan M. Pawlowski (Heidelberg University)

10:10 → 10:40 Photo and Break

10:40 → 12:40 Session II

10:40 Search for the QCD Critical Endpoint at a Low Temperature from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Heng-Tong Ding (Central China Normal University)

11:20 Phase diagram at intermediate densities: constraints from lattice QCD

Speaker: Szabolcs Borsanyi (University of Wuppertal)

12:00 Large density QCD phase structure from strangeness fluctuations

Speaker: Paolo Parotto (Università and INFN Torino)

14:00 → 15:50 Session III

14:00 Probing Nucleon-Nucleon Short Range Correlations by Bremsstrahlung gamma-rays in Heavy Ion Collisions

Speaker: Prof. Zhigang Xiao

14:40 Manifestation of scale symmetry in medium

Speaker: Yong-Liang Ma (Theoretical Physics Center for Science Facilities, CAS.)

15:20 TBA

Speaker: Andreas Geißel (TU Darmstadt)

16:20 → 18:00 Session IV

16:20 Probing QCD phase structure and thermodynamics via finite density observables

Speaker: Dr Yi Lu

16:50 TBA

Speaker: Dr Franz Sattler

Thursday, 9 October

08:30 → 10:30 Session I

08:30 Emergent conformality in dense QCD matter: some lessons from a holographic QCD model

Speaker: Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)

09:10 Determination of High-Density Symmetry Energy in the Multi-Messenger Era

Speaker: Lie-Wen Chen (S)

09:50 Chiral phase transition under rotation and acceleration

Speaker: Xu-Guang Huang (Fudan University)

10:50 → 12:40 Session II

10:50 Searching for rare particles in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Pengfei Zhuang (Tsinghua University)

11:30 QCD phase transitions at high baryon density

Speaker: fei gao (Beijing Institute of technology)

12:10 Fluctuations and correlations of quark spin near CEP

Speaker: Dr Hao-Lei Chen

14:00 → 15:40 Session III

14:00 Complex heavy quark potential from lattice QCD - where do we stand?

Speaker: Alexander Rothkopf (Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics)

14:40 The quark spectral function and (heavy) quark diffusion

Speaker: Dr Jonas Wessely

15:10 First Principle QCD within fRG approach

Speaker: Dr Chuang Huang

16:00 → 17:40 Session IV

16:00 Correlations and fluctuations in a magnetized quark matter with and without inverse magnetic catalysis effect at finite temperature and density

Speaker: Shijun Mao (Department of physics of Tsinghua University)

16:40 Leading-Order QCD EoS in Strong Magnetic Fields at Nonzero Baryon Chemical Potential

Speaker: Arpith Kumar (Central China Normal University)

17:10 Finite-volume analysis and universal scaling signatures near the chiral phase transition in (2+1)-flavor QCD

Speaker: Sabarnya Mitra (Bielefeld University)

Friday, 10 October

08:30 → 10:30 Session I

08:30 QCD phase transitions under extreme conditions

Speaker: Prof. Mei Huang

09:10 TBA

Speaker: Guo-Liang Ma (Fudan University)

09:50 TBA

Speaker: Fabian Rennecke (Justus Liebig University Giessen)

10:50 → 12:50 Session II

10:50 TBA

Speaker: Yuxin Liu (PKU)

11:30 FRG study of chiral phase transition with repulsive interactions

Speaker: Defu Hou (CCNU)

12:10 transport properties and phase diagram of nuclear matter

Speaker: Prof. Jun Xu

14:00 → 15:40 Session III

14:00 Effects of Chiral Phase Transition on Light Nuclei and Dilepton Production

Speaker: KaiJia Sun (Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University)

14:40 Stochastic charge transport in relativistic hydrodynamics

Speaker: Baochi Fu (Peking University)

15:10 Dissecting the moat regime at low energies

Speaker: Dr Shi Yin

16:00 → 18:00 Session IV

16:00 Distangling the nature of radial flow and the momentum fluctuations at the RHIC-STAR experiment

Speaker: Chunjian Zhang (Fudan University)

16:40 Dileptons and Direct Photons in Beam Energy Scan: Recent and Future

Speaker: Prof. Chi Yang

17:20 Dilepton emission as a new probe of critical end point

Speaker: Gaoqing Cao (Sun Yat-sen University)

Saturday, 11 October

08:30 → 10:20 Session I

08:30 QCD equation of state from dee learning

Speaker: LongGang Pang (Central China Normal University)

09:10 Discriminating the signal of critical point from the conservation background

Speaker: Shuzhe Shi (Tsinghua University)

09:50 Baryon Electric Charge Correlation as a Magnetometer of QCD

Speaker: Dr Jin-Biao Gu

10:40 → 12:00 Session II

10:40 model H in stochastic fluids

Speaker: Jingyi Chao (jiangxi normal u)

11:20 Baryon-strangeness Correlation and QCD Phase diagram

Speaker: Dr Rui Wen

11:50 Workshop closing

Speaker: Prof. Wei-jie Fu