We analyze the pattern of the onset of complete absorption (the black limit) in the high energy hadron-hadron collisions. The black limit arises due to the hard and soft interaction dynamics as a function of the impact parameters b. Both hard and soft mechanisms provide universal dependence of the partial amplitude of the high energy elastic hadronhadron scattering on the impact parameter b and...

Lattice Gauge Theory enables an ab initio study of the low-energy properties of Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of the strong interaction. I begin these lectures by presenting the lattice formulation of QCD, and then outline the benchmark calculation of lattice QCD, the light-hadron spectrum. I then proceed to explore the predictive power of lattice QCD, in particular as it pertains to hadro...

Transport equations for composite nucleons and deconfined quarks in quark-nuclear matter (QNM) are derived. QNM is a many-body system containing hadrons and deconfined quarks. The starting point is a microscopic quark-meson coupling (QMC) Hamiltonian with a density-dependent quark-quark interaction. An effective quark-hadron Hamiltonian containing canonical hadron and quark field operators is c...

The pT-differential production cross section of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in the rapidity range −1.06 < ycms < 0.14 in p-Pb collisions at √ sNN = 5.02 TeV has been measured with ALICE. The cross section of electrons from beauty-hadron decays, isolated based on their larger average displacement from the interaction vertex, is presented as well as the nuclear modification factor ...

I discuss the prospects of using femtoscopy in high-energy protonproton and heavy-ion collisions to learn about low-energy J/? -nucleon interaction. Femtoscopy is a technique that makes it possible obtain spatiotemporal information on particle production sources at femtometer scale through measurements two-hadron momentum correlation functions. These functions also provide hadron-hadron forces ...