Introductory literature

• The Phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics http://inspirehep.net/record/829349
• Lattice QCD at finite density: An Introductory review http://inspirehep.net/record/622059
• Lattice QCD at high temperature and density http://inspirehep.net/record/559076
• Physics of Strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma http://inspirehep.net/record/791083
• Hadron Production in Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Collisions: Quarkyonic Matter and a Triple Point in the Phase Diagram of QCD http://inspirehep.net/record/837853
• Theory overview of Heavy Ion collisions https://inspirehep.net/record/1486890
• The Hot QCD White Paper: Exploring the Phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC https://inspirehep.net/record/1343793
• Hydrodynamic description of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions https://inspirehep.net/record/619869
• Book (non-free): http://materials.springer.com/bp/docs/978-3-642-01539-7
  • Individual chapters of the book (free): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=Landolt-Bornstein+23+2010&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0

• Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisions https://inspirehep.net/record/674863
• Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration https://inspirehep.net/record/661031
• Quark gluon plasma and color glass condensate at RHIC? The Perspective from the BRAHMS experiment https://inspirehep.net/record/661961

• Collective phenomena in non-central nuclear collisions https://inspirehep.net/record/796871
• Collective flow and viscosity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/1210682

• Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions: event shape engineering http://inspirehep.net/record/1180050
• Methods for analyzing anisotropic flow in relativistic nuclear collisions https://inspirehep.net/record/470390
• Effects of non-uniform acceptance in anisotropic flow measurement http://inspirehep.net/record/757158
• Flow analysis with cumulants: Direct calculations http://inspirehep.net/record/871528

• The Chiral Magnetic Effect http://inspirehep.net/record/793742
• The Effects of topological charge change in heavy ion collisions: Event by event P and CP violation http://inspirehep.net/record/766870
• Azimuthal Charged-Particle Correlations and Possible Local Strong Parity Violation http://inspirehep.net/record/830686
• Parity violation in hot QCD: How to detect it http://inspirehep.net/record/653267
• Chiral magnetic and vortical effects in high-energy nuclear collisions—A status report http://inspirehep.net/record/1404185

• Global polarization measurement in Au+Au collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/750410
• Global hyperon polarization at local thermodynamic equilibrium with vorticity, magnetic field and feed-down http://inspirehep.net/record/1490909
• Global Lambda hyperon polarization in nuclear collisions: evidence for the most vortical fluid http://inspirehep.net/record/1510474

• Hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at chemical freeze-out http://inspirehep.net/record/698839

• ALICE at CERN LHC http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html
  • Performance of the ALICE Experiment at the CERN LHC http://inspirehep.net/record/1281831
  • ALICE: Physics performance report, volume I http://inspirehep.net/record/666602
  • ALICE: Physics performance report, volume II http://inspirehep.net/record/733684
• STAR at BNL RHIC https://www.star.bnl.gov
  • STAR detector overview http://inspirehep.net/record/608101
• PHENIX at BNL RHIC http://www.phenix.bnl.gov
  • PHENIX detector overview http://inspirehep.net/record/627886
• NA61/SHINE at CERN SPS
  • NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system http://inspirehep.net/record/1278235
• HADES at GSI https://www-hades.gsi.de
  • The High-Acceptance Dielectron Spectrometer HADES http://inspirehep.net/record/813810
• CBM at FAIR http://www.fair-center.eu/for-users/experiments/cbm.html
  • The CBM physics book: Compressed baryonic matter in laboratory experiments http://inspirehep.net/record/892576
  • Challenges in QCD matter physics - The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR http://inspirehep.net/record/1474181
• MPD at JINR NICA http://nica.jinr.ru/projects/mpd.php
  • Performance of the MPD at NICA http://nica.jinr.ru/files/CDR_MPD/MPD_CDR_en.pdf

• GLAUBER
  • Glauber modeling in high energy nuclear collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/742696
  • Glauber modeling of high-energy nuclear collisions at the subnucleon level http://inspirehep.net/record/1434335
  • Improved version of the PHOBOS Glauber Monte Carlo http://inspirehep.net/record/1310629?ln=en
• AMPT http://inspirehep.net/record/665548
• HIJING
  • HIJING: A Monte Carlo model for multiple jet production in p p, p A and A A collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/318107
  • HIJING 1.0: A Monte Carlo program for parton and particle production in high-energy hadronic and nuclear collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/382687
• UrQMD
  • Relativistic hadron hadron collisions in the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics model http://inspirehep.net/record/507334
  • UrQMD v2.3: Changes and Comparisons http://inspirehep.net/record/785010
• MUSIC
  • (3+1)D hydrodynamic simulation of relativistic heavy-ion collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/851203
  • Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy-Ion Collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/1216054
  • MARTINI: An Event generator for relativistic heavy-ion collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/830920
• VISHNU
  • The iEBE-VISHNU code package for relativistic heavy-ion collisions http://inspirehep.net/record/1319339
• PYTHIA
  • High-energy physics event generation with PYTHIA 5.7 and JETSET 7.4 http://inspirehep.net/record/363605
• HERWIG
  • HERWIG 6: An Event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes) http://inspirehep.net/record/537586