Recommended Reading

Some review articles that are friendly to new graduate students

• A review on High-Energy Nuclear Phyiscs
  Hannah Elfner and Berndt Müller, The exploration of hot and dense nuclear matter: introduction to relativistic heavy-ion physics, J. Phys. G 50 (2023) 10, 103001 (link)
• A review on Jet Phyiscs in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
  Xin-Nian Wang and Urs Achim Wiedemann, QGP@50: More than Four Decades of Jet Quenching, arXiv:2508.18794 (link)

Some useful tools

• Pythia: a Monte-Carlo event generator for proton-proton collisions (link)
• JETSCAPE: a Monte-Carlo framework for high-energy nuclear collisions (link)
• FONLL: a generator for heavy quark spectra produced by proton-proton collisions (link)
• LBT: a Monte-Carlo event generator we develop for jet interaction with the QGP (still under development) (link)