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Topical issue on Exploring Strongly Interacting Matter at High Densities - NICA White Paper

David Blaschke, Jörg Aichelin, Elena Bratkovskaya, Volker Friese, Marek Gazdzicki, Jørgen Randrup, Oleg Rogachevsky, Oleg Teryaev and Viacheslav Toneev

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 267

Published online: 29 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16267-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Exploring dense and cold QCD in magnetic fields

E. J. Ferrer and V. de la Incera

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 266

Published online: 29 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16266-y

Review

Particle correlations and the chiral magnetic effect

Adam Bzdak, Volker Koch and Jinfeng Liao

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 265

Published online: 29 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16265-0

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Letter

Evidence for creation of strong electromagnetic fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

V. Toneev, O. Rogachevsky and V. Voronyuk

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 264

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16264-1

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Magnetic fields in QCD vacuum: A lattice view

P. V. Buividovich

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 263

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16263-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Imprints of a critical point on photon emission

F. Wunderlich and B. Kämpfer

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 262

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16262-3

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

From soft photon study at Nuclotron and U-70 to NICA - Soft photons

E. Ardashev, V. Avdeichikov, V. Balandin, G. Bogdanova, V. Dunin, O. Gavrishchuk, V. Golovkin, S. Golovnya, S. Gorokhov, A. Isupov et al. (22 more)

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 261

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16261-4

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Letter

Solving the problem of anomalous J/ suppression by the MPD experiment on the NICA collider

A. B. Kurepin and N. S. Topilskaya

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 260

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16260-5

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Diphoton and dipion productions at the Nuclotron/NICA

Kh. U. Abraamyan, A. B. Anisimov, M. I. Baznat, K. K. Gudima, M. A. Kozhin, V. I. Kukulin, M. A. Nazarenko, S. G. Reznikov and A. S. Sorin

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 259

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16259-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Dilepton and meson production in elementary and nuclear collisions at the NICA fixed-target experiment

György Wolf and Miklós Zétényi

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 258

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16258-y

Review

Thermal electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions

R. Rapp and H. van Hees

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 257

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16257-0

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

NICA fixed target mode: Soft jet studies in the relative 4-velocity space

V. A. Okorokov

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 256

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16256-1

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

NICA-MPD: Azimuthal and femtoscopic particle correlations

V. A. Okorokov

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 255

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16255-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Analogy of QCD hadronization and Hawking-Unruh radiation at NICA

Abdel Nasser Tawfik

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 254

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16254-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Axiomatic nonextensive statistics at NICA energies

Abdel Nasser Tawfik

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 253

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16253-4

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Letter

Importance of third moments of fluctuations of conserved charges in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Masayuki Asakawa, Shinji Ejiri and Masakiyo Kitazawa

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 252

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16252-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Complete strangeness measurements in heavy-ion collisions

Boris Tomášik and Evgeni E. Kolomeitsev

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 251

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16251-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Net baryon fluctuations from a crossover equation of state

J. Kapusta, M. Albright and C. Young

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 250

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16250-7

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Scaling in heavy-ion collisions and the low-energy frontier

Giorgio Torrieri

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 249

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16249-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Perspectives of anisotropic flow measurements at NICA

V. L. Korotkikh, I. P. Lokhtin, L. V. Malinina, S. V. Petrushanko and A. M. Snigirev

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 248

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16248-1

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies

Yu. B. Ivanov and A. A. Soldatov

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 247

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16247-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Directed flow is a sensitive probe of deconfinement transition

Yu. B. Ivanov and A. A. Soldatov

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 246

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16246-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at NICA: What is interesting to measure?

L. V. Bravina and E. E. Zabrodin

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 245

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16245-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Light cluster production at NICA

N. -U. Bastian, P. Batyuk, D. Blaschke, P. Danielewicz, Yu. B. Ivanov, Iu. Karpenko, G. Röpke, O. Rogachevsky and H. H. Wolter

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 244

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16244-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Search for scaling onset in exclusive reactions with the lightest nuclei

Yu. N. Uzikov

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 243

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16243-6

Review

Relativistic ion collisions as the source of hypernuclei

A. S. Botvina, M. Bleicher, J. Pochodzalla and J. Steinheimer

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 242

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16242-7

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Measurement of strange particle production in the NICA fixed-target programme

Volker Friese

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 241

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16241-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Phenomena at the QCD phase transition in nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics (N FD)

Marlene Nahrgang and Christoph Herold

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 240

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16240-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Spinodal amplification and baryon number fluctuations in nuclear collisions at NICA

Jan Steinheimer and Jørgen Randrup

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 239

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16239-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Baryon stopping probes deconfinement

Georg Wolschin

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 238

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16238-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Baryon stopping in heavy-ion collisions at E_lab = 2A-200A GeV

Yu. B. Ivanov and D. Blaschke

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 237

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16237-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Observables of non-equilibrium phase transition^⋆

Boris Tomášik, Martin Schulc, Ivan Melo and Renata Kopečná

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 236

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16236-5

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Missing baryonic resonances in the Hagedorn spectrum

Pok Man Lo, Michał Marczenko, Krzysztof Redlich and Chihiro Sasaki

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 235

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16235-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Investigating the QCD phase diagram with hadron multiplicities at NICA

F. Becattini and R. Stock

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 234

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16234-7

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Strangeness production at high baryon density

Helmut Satz

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 233

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16233-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Neutron star mass limit at 2M_⊙ supports the existence of a CEP

D. Alvarez-Castillo, S. Benic, D. Blaschke, Sophia Han and S. Typel

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 232

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16232-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Supporting the search for the CEP location with nonlocal PNJL models constrained by lattice QCD

Gustavo A. Contrera, A. Gabriela Grunfeld and David Blaschke

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 231

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16231-x

Review

Combined chiral and diquark fluctuations along QCD critical line and enhanced baryon production with parity doubling

Zhao Zhang and Teiji Kunihiro

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 230

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16230-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Glueballs and vector mesons at NICA

Denis Parganlija

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 229

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16229-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Isentropic thermodynamics and scalar-mesons properties near the QCD critical end point

Pedro Costa

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 228

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16228-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

New signals of quark-gluon-hadron mixed phase formation

K. A. Bugaev, V. V. Sagun, A. I. Ivanytskyi, D. R. Oliinychenko, E. -M. Ilgenfritz, E. G. Nikonov, A. V. Taranenko and G. M. Zinovjev

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 227

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16227-6

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

From ultra-dense QCD towards NICA densities: Color-flavor locking and other color superconductors

Andreas Schmitt

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 226

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16226-7

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Consequences of simultaneous chiral symmetry breaking and deconfinement for the isospin symmetric phase diagram

Tobias Fischer, Thomas Klähn and Matthias Hempel

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 225

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16225-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Probing the hadron-quark mixed phase at high isospin and baryon density - Sensitive observables

Massimo Di Toro, Maria Colonna, Vincenzo Greco and Guo-Yun Shao

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 224

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16224-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Comments on manifestation of in-medium effects in heavy-ion collisions

D. N. Voskresensky

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 223

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16223-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Strangeness as a probe to baryon-rich QCD matter at NICA

Kenji Fukushima

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 222

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16222-y

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Studying the interplay of strong and electromagnetic forces in heavy-ion collisions with NICA

A. Rybicki, A. Szczurek, M. Kłusek-Gawenda and I. Sputowska

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 221

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16221-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Novel QCD physics at NICA

Stanley J. Brodsky

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 220

Published online: 15 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16220-1

Review

Observables and open problems for NICA

E. L. Bratkovskaya, W. Cassing, P. Moreau and A. Palmese

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 219

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16219-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Exploring high-density baryonic matter: Maximum freeze-out density

Jørgen Randrup and Jean Cleymans

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 218

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16218-7

Review

Nuclear matter physics at NICA

P. Senger

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 217

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16217-8

Open Access

Letter

Multi-purpose detector at the JINR NICA collider in the landscape of heavy-ion projects

Marek Gazdzicki

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 216

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16216-9

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Spin physics experiments at NICA-SPD with polarized proton and deuteron beams

I. Savin, A. Efremov, D. Pshekhonov, A. Kovalenko, O. Teryaev, O. Shevchenko, A. Nagajcev, A. Guskov, V. Kukhtin and N. Toplilin

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 215

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16215-x

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Simulation and analysis software for the NICA experiments

K. Gertsenberger, S. Merts, O. Rogachevsky and A. Zinchenko

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 214

Published online: 11 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16214-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

The fixed target experiment for studies of baryonic matter at the Nuclotron (BM@N)

Mikhail Kapishin

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 213

Published online: 09 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16213-0

Review

The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) of the collider experiment

V. Golovatyuk, V. Kekelidze, V. Kolesnikov, O. Rogachevsky and A. Sorin

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 212

Published online: 09 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16212-1

Review

Three stages of the NICA accelerator complex

V. D. Kekelidze, R. Lednicky, V. A. Matveev, I. N. Meshkov, A. S. Sorin and G. V. Trubnikov

Eur. Phys. J. A, 52 8 (2016) 211

Published online: 08 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16211-2

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