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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