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SQM 2024
Preface
The 21st International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2024)
The international conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM) took place from 3 to 7 June, 2024, in Strasbourg, France. SQM is one of the major conferences for the experimental and theoretical physicists studying the role of the strange and heavy-flavour quarks in the field of ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) physics and in astrophysical phenomena.
The conference is focusing on the following scientific topics:
- Strangeness and heavy-quark production in nuclear collisions and hadronic interactions
- Hadron resonances in the sQGP (strongly-interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma)
- Bulk matter phenomena associated with strange and other heavy quarks
- Chirality, vorticity and spin polarisation phenomena
- Strangeness in astrophysics
- QCD phase structure
- Collectivity in small systems
- Open questions and new developments
The 2024 edition marked the 21st in the series and was held in France for the first time, following the 2022 edition in Pusan (Republic of South Korea) and the 2021 (online) edition co-organised by BNL and CERN. It was the first entirely “in-person” edition since the pandemic, succeeding the SQM 2019 edition in Bari (Italy).
This is the 21st edition of the conference series following the previous SQM conferences as below:
- SQM 2022 Pusan, Republic of South Korea
- SQM 2021 New York, USA (Online)
- SQM 2019 Bari, Italy
- SQM 2017 Utrecht, The Netherlands
- SQM 2016 Berkeley, USA
- SQM 2015 Dubna, Russia
- SQM 2013 Birmingham, UK
- SQM 2011 Krakow, Poland
- SQM 2009 Busios, Brazil
- SQM 2008 Beijing, China
- SQM 2007 Levoča, Slovakia
- SQM 2006 Los Angeles, USA
- SQM 2004 Cap Town, South Africa
- SQM 2003 Duke, USA
- SQM 2001 Frankfurt, Germany
- SQM 2000 Berkeley, USA
- SQM 1998 Padova, Italy
- SQM 1997 Santorini, Greece
- SQM 1996 Budapest, Hungary
- SQM 1995 Tucson, USA
- Symposium on Strangeness and Quark Matter (1994) Crete, Greece
- Workshop on Strange Quark Matter in physics and astrophysics (1991) Aarhus, Denmark
The conference was organised primarily by researchers of the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), faculty members and the Cellule Congrès of the University of Strasbourg as well as staff physicists from Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC) in Grenoble, from Institut de Physique des deux Infinis (IP2I) in Lyon and from Laboratoire de Physique des deux Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab) in Orsay. A total of 280 participants from 26 countries convened at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès in Strasbourg to discuss recent experimental and theoretical advancements during a week-long programme, which included social events such as the one held during the poster session and the conference dinner. For the 70 supported students, attendance started in the historical building of the Faculté de Physique et d’Ingénierie on Sunday 2 June, with lectures introducing the theoretical and experimental aspects of the field and given by senior experts: Auguste Besson, David Chinellato, Pol-Bernard Gossiaux and Jean-Yves Ollitrault.
The official opening, chaired by Berndt Müller, took place on Monday 3 June and featured addresses by Sandrine Courtin, director of IPHC, by Christelle Roy, director of the National Institute for nuclear and particle physics (IN2P3) of the French centre of scientific research (CNRS), by Rémi Barillon, vice-chancellor for research, doctoral studies and open science of the University of Strasbourg and by Olivier Becht, member of the French Parliament for the Upper Rhine and former Minister.
The conference featured a total of 42 plenary presentations with Monday’s sessions highlighting key experimental and theoretical findings and advancements. On Tuesday and Wednesday morning, 124 talks were presented across four parallel sessions, providing in-depth coverage of the main SQM topics. Additionally, 88 posters were displayed during a dedicated session on Tuesday afternoon. Plenary sessions resumed on Thursday morning and concluded on Friday afternoon with two comprehensive summary presentations.
During the award ceremony, JaeYoon Cho (Inha University) received the André Mischke Award for the best experimental talk, whereas Xin Wu (University of Science and Technology of China), Sarah Pucillo (Università di Torino) and Pooja (Indian Institute of Technology Goa) received prizes for the three best posters presented at the conference.
As conference chair, I sincerely appreciated the commitment of the LOC, the CCC and the IAC members whose efforts fostered a collegial atmosphere and played a crucial role in the success of SQM 2024. The next SQM will be hosted in 2026 by UCLA in the U.S.A. The next-to-next SQM will be hosted in Hefei in China in 2027, according to the decision of the IAC taken during the SQM 2024 edition.
Dec. 2024
Chair, Boris Hippolyte
(Université de Strasbourg)
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee
Committees
Chair
| Boris Hippolyte (Chair) | Université de Strasbourg / IPHC, France |
| Christian Kuhn (Co-Chair) | IPHC, France |
| Antonin Maire (Co-Chair) | IPHC, France |
International Advisory Committee (IAC)
| Jörg Aichelin | SUBATECH Nantes, France |
| Yasuyuki Akiba | RIKEN / BNL, Japan |
| Federico Antinori | INFN Padova, Italy |
| Francesco Becattini | Firenze University / INFN Firenze, Italy |
| Francesca Bellini | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Marcus Bleicher | HFHF / Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
| Peter Braun-Munzinger | EMMI / GSI, Germany |
| Helen Caines | Yale University, USA |
| Andrea Dainese | INFN Padova, Italy |
| Xin Dong | LBNL, USA |
| Hannah Elfner | FIAS / GSI, Germany |
| Domenico Elia | INFN Bari, Italy |
| Laura Fabbietti | Technical University of Munich, Germany |
| Wojtek Florkowski | Jagiellonian University, Poland |
| Tetyana Galatyuk | Technical University Darmstadt / GSI, Germany |
| Paolo Giubellino | GSI / FAIR, Germany |
| Katarzyna Grebieszkow | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland |
| Tetsufumi Hirano | Sophia University, Japan |
| Mei Huang | GUCAS, China |
| Huan Z. Huang | UCLA, USA |
| Alexander Kalweit | CERN, Switzerland |
| Maria Paola Lombardo | INFN Firenze, Italy |
| Christina Markert | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Bedangadas Mohanty | NISER, India |
| Berndt Müller | Duke University, USA |
| Grazyna Odyniec | LBNL, USA |
| Jean-Yves Ollitrault | IPhT, France |
| Claudia Ratti | University of Houston, USA |
| Lijuan Ruan | BNL, USA |
| Chihiro Sasaki | University of Wrocław, Poland |
| Horst Stöcker | FIAS / Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| Joachim Stroth | Goethe University of Frankfurt / GSI, Germany |
| Fuqiang Wang | Purdue University, USA |
| Nu Xu | LBNL, USA |
| Zhangbu Xu | BNL, USA |
| In-Kwon Yoo | Pusan University, Korea |
| Pengfei Zhuang | Tsinghua University, China |
Code of Conduct Committee (CCC)
| Christina Markert | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Claudia Ratti | University of Houston, USA |
| Boris Hippolyte | Université de Strasbourg / IPHC, France |
Local Organizing Committee (LOC)
| Nicolas Arbor | Université de Strasbourg / IPHC |
| Jérôme Baudot | Université de Strasbourg / IPHC |
| Iouri Belikov | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Catherine Berger | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Nicolas Busser | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Cvetan Cheshkov | IP2I (Lyon) |
| Claude Colledani | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Gustavo Conesa Balbastre | LPSC (Grenoble) |
| Rachid Guernane | LPSC (Grenoble) |
| Josiane Heidmann | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Christine Hu | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Marc Imhoff | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Éric Kieffer | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Fouad Rami | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Alessia Romagnoli | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Serhiy Senyukov | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Yves Schutz | IPHC (Strasbourg) |
| Antonio Uras | IP2I (Lyon) |
| Marc Winter | IJCLab (Orsay) |
Special thanks
Special thanks to all members who helped and reviewed the papers submitted to these proceedings which were edited by Cvetan Cheshkov, Rachid Guernane and Antonin Maire, to the network and computing teams of IPHC for their expertise and great help as well as to Catherine Berger who supervised the graphic design for all the documents of the conference.
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SQM 2022
Preface
The 20th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2022)
The international conference on SQM (Strangeness in Quark Matter) is one of the mostly efficient and attractive conferences, which are being currently held in world class, for the experimental and theoretical physicists studying the role of the strange and heavy flavor quarks in high energy heavy-ion (nucleus-nucleus) collisions and in astrophysical phenomena.
The SQM 2022 took place during June 13 - 17, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. It was held mainly in-person since SQM 2019 in Bari, but also via online as well for some participants from the countries yet under pandemic situations.
This is the 20th edition of the conference series following the previous SQM conferences as below:
- SQM 2021 New York, USA (Online)
- SQM 2019 Bari, Italy
- SQM 2017 Utrecht, The Netherlands
- SQM 2016 Berkeley, USA
- SQM 2015 Dubna, Russia
- SQM 2013 Birmingham, UK
- SQM 2011 Krakow, Poland
- SQM 2009 Busios, Brazil
- SQM 2008 Beijing, China
- SQM 2007 Levoča, Slovakia
- SQM 2006 Los Angeles, USA
- SQM 2004 Cap Town, South Africa
- SQM 2003 Duke, USA
- SQM 2001 Frankfurt, Germany
- SQM 2000 Berkeley, USA
- SQM 1998 Padova, Italy
- SQM 1997 Santorini, Greece
- SQM 1996 Budapest, Hungary
- SQM 1995 Tucson, USA
- Symposium on Strangeness and Quark Matter (1994) Crete, Greece
- Workshop on Strange Quark Matter in physics and astrophysics (1991) Aarhus, Denmark
The conference is focusing on the following scientific issues:
- Strangeness and heavy quark production in nuclear collisions and hadronic interactions
- Hadron resonances in the sQGP (strongly-interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma)
- Bulk matter phenomena associated with strange and other heavy quarks
- Strangeness in astrophysics
- QCD phase structure
- Collectivity in small systems
- Open questions and new development
Hosted by the Heavy Ion Meeting (HIM) members and the Pusan National University in Republic of Korea (South Korea) and sponsored by 7 national and 10 international organizations, total 362 participants (134 in-person and 228 via online) from 41 countries enjoyed the recent experimental and theoretical developments with social programs such as the reception dinner, the public lecture ‘Dr. Strange’ and the conference banquet.
Warming up with the 4 on-line lectures in theory and experiment for students on Sunday (June 12), 9 experimental and 6 theoretical plenary talks introduce the most updated results on Monday. Total 107 parallel talks in 4 topical sessions are narrowly but smoothly proceeded on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The 35 plenary talks categorized into 5 specific topics (bulk, light/heavy flavors, resonance, detector and others) are presented on Wednesday afternoon to Friday morning. Finally, the 3 extended summary and prospect talks are given by senior experts (Nu Xu, Berndt Müller and Peter Braun-Munzinger) with active questions and discussions. The poster session was held exceptionally only in on-line booths on Tuesday late afternoon.
As a chair of the SQM 2022 conference, I sincerely appreciate the LOC members, the ROC members and the IAC members for their devotion to the successful conference. The next SQM 2024 will be held in Strasbourg, France and the next-to-next SQM is decided by the IAC meeting to be hosted by UCLA in U.S.A. in 2026.
Feb. 2023
Chair, In-Kwon Yoo (Pusan National University)
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee
Committees
Chair
| In-Kwon Yoo (Chair) | Pusan National University |
| Byungsik Hong (Co-Chair) | Korea University |
| Su Houng Lee (Co-Chair) | Yonsei University |
International Advisory Committee
| Joerg Aichelin | SUBATECH Nantes, France |
| Federico Antinori | INFN Padova, Italy |
| Francesco Becattini | INFN Firenze, Italy |
| Marcus Bleicher | HFHF, Germany |
| Peter Braun-Munzinger | EMMI/GSI, Germany |
| Helen Caines | Yale University, USA |
| Andrea Dainese | INFN Padova, Italy |
| Domenico Elia | INFN Bari, Italy |
| Laura Fabbietti | Technical University Munich, Germany |
| Marek Gaździcki | Kielce University, Poland |
| Paolo Giubellino | INFN Torino, Italy |
| Boris Hippolyte | University of Strasbourg, France |
| Sangyong Jeon | McGill University, Canada |
| Alexander Kalweit | CERN Geneva, Switzerland |
| Kangseog Lee | Chonnam National University, Korea |
| Maria Paola Lombardo | INFN Firenze, Italy |
| Christina Markert | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Berndt Müller | BNL and Duke University, USA |
| Grazyna Odyniec | LBNL, USA |
| Alexander Sorin | JINR Dubna, Russia |
| Horst Stöcker | FIAS/Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Joachim Stroth | University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| Fuqiang Wang | Purdue University, USA |
| Nu Xu | CCNU, China |
| Zhangbu Xu | BNL, USA |
| Pengfei Zhuang | Tsinghua University, China |
| Huan Z. Huang | UCLA, USA |
| Wojtek Florkowski | Jan Kochanowski University, Poland |
| Claudia Ratti | Houston University, USA |
| Tetyana Galatyuk | GSI, Germany |
| Mei huang | GUCAS, China |
| Dennis Perepelitsa | Colorado University, USA |
| Cesar Da Silva | Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA |
| Chihiro Sasaki | Wroclaw University, Poland |
| Azwinndini Muronga | Nelson-Mandela University, South Africa |
| Xin Dong | LBNL, USA |
| Lijuan Ruan | BNL, USA |
| Yen-Jie Lee | MIT Cambridge, USA |
Regional Organizing Committee
| Sadhana Dash | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India |
| Heng-Tong Ding | CCNU, China |
| Shinichi Esumi | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Taku Gunji | University of Tokyo, CNS, Japan |
| Tetsufumi Hirano | Sophia University, Japan |
| Masakiyo Kitazawa | Osaka University, Japan |
| Lokesh Kumar | Panjab University, Chandigarh, India |
| Feng Liu | CCNU, China |
| Bedanga Mohanty | NISER, Bhubaneswar, India |
| Subrat Pal | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India |
| Victor Roy | NISER, Bhubaneswar, India |
| Kenta Shigaki | Hiroshima University, Japan |
| Qun Wang | University of Science and Technology of China, China |
| Yaping Wang | CCNU, China |
| Yifei Zhang | University of Science and Technology of China, China |
Local Organizing Committee
| In-Kwon Yoo (Chair) | Pusan National University |
| Byungsik Hong (Co-Chair) | Korea University |
| Su Houng Lee (Co-Chair) | Yonsei University |
| Sungtae Cho (Sci. Secretary) | Kangwon National University |
| Minjung Kweon (Sci. Secretary) | Inha University |
| Eunjoo Kim | Chonbuk National University |
| Yongsun Kim | Sejong University |
| Youngman Kim | Institute of Basic Science |
| Chang-Hwan Lee | Pusan National University |
| Sanghoon Lim | Pusan National University |
| Dong Ho Moon | Chonnam National University |
| Seungil Nam | Pukyung National University |
| Inkyu Park | University of Seoul |
| Jinhee Yoon | Inha University |
Special thanks
Special thanks to all members who helped review the papers submitted to these proceedings.
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