Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter 2024 -- Bulk Properties

Prabhakar Palni, Amal Sarkar, Santosh K. Das, Anuraag Rathore, Syed Shoaib, Arvind Khuntia, Amaresh Jaiswal, Victor Roy, Ankit Kumar Panda, Partha Bagchi, Hiranmaya Mishra, Deeptak Biswas, Peter Petreczky, Sayantan Sharma, Kshitish Kumar Pradhan, Ronald Scaria, Dushmanta Sahu, Raghunath Sahoo, Arpan Das, Ranjita K Mohapatra, Jajati K. Nayak, Rupa Chatterjee, Munshi G Mustafa, Aswathy Menon K. R., Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick, Pushpa Panday, Binoy Krishna Patra, Paramita Deb, Raghava Varma, Ashutosh Dwibedi, Thandar Zaw Win, Subhalaxmi Nayak, Cho Win Aung, Sabyasachi Ghosh, Sesha Vempati, Sunny Kumar Singh, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra, Soham Banerjee, Sumit, Rohit Kumar, Rajkumar Mondal, Nilanjan Chaudhuri, Pradip Roy, Sourav Sarkar, Lokesh Kumar

Published 2024-12-14Version 1

The second Hot QCD Matter 2024 conference at IIT Mandi focused on various ongoing topics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, encompassing theoretical and experimental perspectives. This proceedings volume includes 19 contributions that collectively explore diverse aspects of the bulk properties of hot QCD matter. The topics encompass the dynamics of electromagnetic fields, transport properties, hadronic matter, spin hydrodynamics, and the role of conserved charges in high-energy environments. These studies significantly enhance our understanding of the complex dynamics of hot QCD matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in high-energy nuclear collisions. Advances in theoretical frameworks, including hydrodynamics, spin dynamics, and fluctuation studies, aim to improve theoretical calculations and refine our knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of strongly interacting matter. Experimental efforts, such as those conducted by the ALICE and STAR collaborations, play a vital role in validating these theoretical predictions and deepening our insight into the QCD phase diagram, collectivity in small systems, and the early-stage behavior of strongly interacting matter. Combining theoretical models with experimental observations offers a comprehensive understanding of the extreme conditions encountered in relativistic heavy-ion and proton-proton collisions.