The present and future of QCD

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2024.122874
• Publication Date: 2024-04-15T16:14:23Z
• Authors: P. Achenbach; D. Adhikari; A. Afanasev; F. Afzal; C.A. Aidala; A. Al-bataineh; D.K. Almaalol; M. Amaryan; D. Androić; W.R. Armstrong; M. Arratia; J. Arrington; A. Asaturyan; E.C. Aschenauer; H. Atac; H. Avakian; T. Averett; C. Ayerbe Gayoso; X. Bai; K.N. Barish; N. Barnea; G. Basar; M. Battaglieri; A.A. Baty; I. Bautista; A. Bazilevsky; C. Beattie; S.C. Behera; V. Bellini; R. Bellwied; J.F. Benesch; F. Benmokhtar; C.A. Bernardes; J.C. Bernauer; H. Bhatt; S. Bhatta; M. Boer; T.J. Boettcher; S.A. Bogacz; H.J. Bossi; J.D. Brandenburg; E.J. Brash; R.A. Briceño; W.J. Briscoe; S.J. Brodsky; D.A. Brown; V.D. Burkert; H. Caines; I.A. Cali; A. Camsonne; D.S. Carman; J. Caylor; D.S. Cerci; S. Cerci; M. Chamizo Llatas; S. Chatterjee; J.P. Chen; Y. Chen; Y.-C. Chen; Y.-T. Chien; P.-C. Chou; X. Chu; E. Chudakov; E. Cline; I.C. Cloët; P.L. Cole; M.E. Connors; M. Constantinou; W. Cosyn; S. Covrig Dusa; R. Cruz-Torres; U. D'Alesio; C. da Silva; Z. Davoudi; C.T. Dean; D.J. Dean; M. Demarteau; A. Deshpande; W. Detmold; A. Deur; B.R. Devkota; S. Dhital; M. Diefenthaler; S. Dobbs; M. Döring; X. Dong; R. Dotel; K.A. Dow; E.J. Downie; J.L. Drachenberg; A. Dumitru; J.C. Dunlop; R. Dupre; J.M. Durham; D. Dutta; R.G. Edwards; R.J. Ehlers; L. El Fassi; M. Elaasar; L. Elouadrhiri; M. Engelhardt; R. Ent; S. Esumi; O. Evdokimov; O. Eyser; C. Fanelli; R. Fatemi; I.P. Fernando; F.A. Flor; N. Fomin; A.D. Frawley; T. Frederico; R.J. Fries; C. Gal; B.R. Gamage; L. Gamberg; H. Gao; D. Gaskell; F. Geurts; Y. Ghandilyan; N. Ghimire; R. Gilman; C. Gleason; K. Gnanvo; R.W. Gothe; S.V. Greene; H.W. Grießhammer; S.K. Grossberndt; B. Grube; D.C. Hackett; T.J. Hague; H. Hakobyan; J.-O. Hansen; Y. Hatta; M. Hattawy; L.B. Havener; O. Hen; W. Henry; D.W. Higinbotham; T.J. Hobbs; A.M. Hodges; T. Holmstrom; B. Hong; T. Horn; C.R. Howell; H.Z. Huang; M. Huang; S. Huang; G.M. Huber; C.E. Hyde; E.L. Isupov; P.M. Jacobs; J. Jalilian-Marian; A. Jentsch; H. Jheng; C.-R. Ji; X. Ji; J. Jia; D.C. Jones; M.K. Jones; S. Joosten; N. Kalantarians; G. Kalicy; Z.B. Kang; J.M. Karthein; D. Keller; C. Keppel; V. Khachatryan; D.E. Kharzeev; H. Kim; M. Kim; Y. Kim; P.M. King; E. Kinney; S.R. Klein; H.S. Ko; V. Koch; M. Kohl; Y.V. Kovchegov; G.K. Krintiras; V. Kubarovsky; S.E. Kuhn; K.S. Kumar; T. Kutz; J.G. Lajoie; J. Lauret; I. Lavrukhin; D. Lawrence; J.H. Lee; K. Lee; S. Lee; Y.-J. Lee; S. Li; W. Li; Xiaqing Li; Xuan Li; J. Liao; H.-W. Lin; M.A. Lisa; K.-F. Liu; M.X. Liu; T. Liu; S. Liuti; N. Liyanage; W.J. Llope; C. Loizides; R. Longo; W. Lorenzon; S. Lunkenheimer; X. Luo; R. Ma; B. McKinnon; D.G. Meekins; Y. Mehtar-Tani; W. Melnitchouk; A. Metz; C.A. Meyer; Z.-E. Meziani; R. Michaels; J.K.L. Michel; R.G. Milner; H. Mkrtchyan; P. Mohanmurthy; B. Mohanty; V.I. Mokeev; D.H. Moon; I.A. Mooney; C. Morningstar; D.P. Morrison; B. Müller; S. Mukherjee; J. Mulligan; C. Munoz Camacho; J.A. Murillo Quijada; M.J. Murray; S.A. Nadeeshani; P. Nadel-Turonski; J.D. Nam; C.E. Nattrass; G. Nijs; J. Noronha; J. Noronha-Hostler; N. Novitzky; M. Nycz; F.I. Olness; J.D. Osborn; R. Pak; B. Pandey; M. Paolone; Z. Papandreou; J.-F. Paquet; S. Park; K.D. Paschke; B. Pasquini; E. Pasyuk; T. Patel; A. Patton; C. Paudel; C. Peng; J.C. Peng; H. Pereira Da Costa; D.V. Perepelitsa; M.J. Peters; P. Petreczky; R.D. Pisarski; D. Pitonyak; M.A. Ploskon; M. Posik; J. Poudel; R. Pradhan; A. Prokudin; C.A. Pruneau; A.J.R. Puckett; P. Pujahari; J. Putschke; J.R. Pybus; J.-W. Qiu; K. Rajagopal; C. Ratti; K.F. Read; R. Reed; D.G. Richards; C. Riedl; F. Ringer; T. Rinn; J. Rittenhouse West; J. Roche; A. Rodas; G. Roland; F. Romero-López; P. Rossi; T. Rostomyan; L. Ruan; O.M. Ruimi; N.R. Saha; N.R. Sahoo; T. Sakaguchi; F. Salazar; C.W. Salgado; G. Salmè; S. Salur; S.N. Santiesteban; M.M. Sargsian; M. Sarsour; N. Sato; T. Satogata; S. Sawada; T. Schäfer; B. Scheihing-Hits...; B. Schenke; S.T. Schindler; A. Schmidt; R. Seidl; M.H. Shabestari; P.E. Shanahan; C. Shen; T.-A. Sheng; M.R. Shepherd; A.M. Sickles; M.D. Sievert; K.L. Smith; Y. Song; A. Sorensen; P.A. Souder; N. Sparveris; S. Srednyak; A.G. Stahl Leiton; A.M. Stasto; P. Steinberg; S. Stepanyan; M. Stephanov; J.R. Stevens; D.J. Stewart; I.W. Stewart; M. Stojanovic; I. Strakovsky; S. Strauch; M. Strickland; D. Sunar Cerci; M. Suresh; B. Surrow; S. Syritsyn; A.P. Szczepaniak; A.S. Tadepalli; A.H. Tang; J.D. Tapia Takaki; T.J. Tarnowsky; A.N. Tawfik; M.I. Taylor; C. Tennant; A. Thiel; D. Thomas; Y. Tian; A.R. Timmins; P. Tribedy; Z. Tu; S. Tuo; T. Ullrich; E. Umaka; D.W. Upton; J.P. Vary; J. Velkovska; R. Venugopalan; A. Vijayakumar; I. Vitev; W. Vogelsang; R. Vogt; A. Vossen; E. Voutier; V. Vovchenko; A. Walker-Loud; F. Wang; J. Wang; X. Wang; X.-N. Wang; L.B. Weinstein; T.J. Wenaus; S. Weyhmiller; S.W. Wissink; B. Wojtsekhowski; C.P. Wong; M.H. Wood; Y. Wunderlich; B. Wyslouch; B.W. Xiao; W. Xie; W. Xiong; N. Xu; Q.H. Xu; Z. Xu; D. Yaari; X. Yao; Z. Ye; Z.H. Ye; C. Yero; F. Yuan; W.A. Zajc; C. Zhang; J. Zhang; F. Zhao; Y. Zhao; Z.W. Zhao; X. Zheng; J. Zhou; M. Zurek
• Keywords: QCD matter; Dense matter

This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective QCD research, based on community inputs scientific conclusions from 2022 Hot Cold Town Meeting. We present progress made in last decade toward a deep understanding both fundamental structure sub-atomic matter nucleon nucleus cold QCD, hot heavy ion collisions. identify key questions research plausible paths to obtaining answers those near future, hence defining priorities our over coming decades.