Anisotropic Flow and Jet Quenching in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

The exploration of the strong-interaction matter under extreme conditions is one of the main goals of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We provide some of the main results on the novel properties of quark-gluon plasma, with particular focus given to the strong collectivity and the color opaqueness exhibited by such hot and dense matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and the LHC.

Comments: 38 pages, 26 figures, invited review for IJMPE