List for the 2014 Hot QCD White Paper Writing Group

["W.A. Zajc" <zajc AT nevis.columbia.edu>]

Hello all:

The version of the white paper that I uploaded just now is the version I 
intend to post tomorrow (of course, after removing “Draft” watermark and line 
numbers). 

The only difference from the version I circulated several hours ago is the 
inclusion of an abstract. It is basically a reworked version of the front 
matter in the Executive Summary:

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The past decade has seen huge advances in experimental measurements made in 
heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and more 
recently at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These new data, in combination 
with theoretical advances from calculations made in a variety of frameworks, 
have led to a broad and deep knowledge of the properties of thermal QCD 
matter.  Increasingly quantitative descriptions of the quark-gluon plasma 
(QGP) created in these collisions have established that the QGP is a strongly 
coupled liquid with the lowest value of specific viscosity ever measured. 
However, much remains to be learned about the precise nature of the initial 
state from which this liquid forms, how its properties vary across its phase 
diagram and how, at a microscopic level, the collective properties of this 
liquid emerge from the interactions among the individual quarks and gluons 
that must be visible if the liquid is probed with sufficiently high 
resolution. This white paper, prepared by the Hot QCD Writing Group as part 
of the U.S. Long Range Plan for Nuclear Physics, reviews the recent progress 
in the field of hot QCD and outlines the scientific opportunities in the next 
decade for resolving the outstanding issues in the field.
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At some point this will get posted to the arXiv with the same abstract.

Best regards,

Bill