The 5th edition of the international workshop series “QCD Challenges from pp to AA collisions” will be held in Muenster, Sept. 2-6, 2024.
The workshop is by invitation and in-person only.
The goal of the workshop is to discuss open questions in the field of QCD that are addressed by experiments studying high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions. Experimental physicists and theorists will discuss together open problems, possible solutions, and future theoretical and experimental directions.
The workshop is organized in plenary and round-table sessions related to the following six discussion tracks:
- Initial state and ultra-peripheral
- Jet production and properties in pp and in the medium
- Event properties and hydro in small and large systems
- Hadronization of light and heavy flavour across collision systems
- Energy loss and transport in the medium and in small systems
- QCD and astrophysics
In plenary sessions invited speakers will give an overview on their specific field of interest. The round-tables, one per track, consist in small groups (7-8 persons) in which new ideas and studies from both the experimental and theoretical sides can be discussed in details. The conveners of each track will steer the discussion and recap it in the last plenary session on the last day of the workshop.
Statement on the Russian war on Ukraine
The organizers strongly condemn the war that Russia conducts against Ukraine.
We subscribe to the statements on the war by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the European Physical Society (EPS), the German Physical Society (DPG), and the German Research Council (DFG).