Speaker
Description
The Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) provides us a unique opportunity to study the phase structure of QCD matter at finite temperatures and densities. Phase II of the RHIC BES program will provide precision measurements for heavy-ion collisions below 20 GeV in collision energy. This talk will highlight recent theoretical progress towards a full-fledged (3+1)D dynamical description of relativistic nuclear collisions. Such dynamical frameworks play an indispensable role in mapping heavy-ion collisions to the QCD phase diagram event-by-event and extracting the equation of state and transport properties of the QCD matter at finite densities. Challenges and opportunities to access dynamics associated with critical point and first-order phase transition will be discussed when confronting the upcoming RHIC BES phase II measurements.
