The Catania Unit of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), and the Physics and Astronomy Department (DFA) of the University of Catania, are pleased to announce the organization of the topical workshop on Nuclear, Hadronic and High-Temperature QCD Physics in High Energy Collisions. The meeting will be held at the DFA of Catania on May 11 and 12, 2026.
The workshop has an informal character and aims at stimulating new ideas along the core business of high temperature QCD investigations at the Large Hadron Collider, specifically towards interdisciplinary aspect of nuclear and hadronic physics.
The workshop will cover interdisciplinary topics, including:
- Nuclear phenomena in ultra-peripheral collisions at LHC and RHIC energies
- Transmutation
- Neutron skin thickness and its impact of symmetry energy and neutron stars
- Femtoscopy and resonance decays
- Mechanisms of composite particle production
- Properties of the QCD medium
The scientific sessions will consist of invited oral presentations, followed by open discussions on possible new ideas in view of the future perspectives offered by the ALICE3 apparatus at CERN-LHC.