Publications (31)
Three models for charged hadron nuclear modification from light to heavy ions
Wilke van der Schee, Isobel Kolbé, Govert Nijs +3
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collided OO and NeNe isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collision…
Imaging the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions and nuclear structure across the nuclide chart
Jiangyong Jia, Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally +18
High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding nuclei informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition (IC) leading to the f…
Cool baryon and quark matter in holographic QCD
Takaaki Ishii, Matti Järvinen, Govert Nijs
We establish a holographic bottom-up model which covers both the baryonic and quark matter phases in cold and dense QCD. This is obtained by including the baryons using simple appr…
Yoctosecond imaging of the ground state of Xe at the Large Hadron Collider
Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Imaging a quantum many-body system requires probes that resolve the coordinates of its constituents in sufficiently large event samples, allowing measurements of correlation functi…
Holography in Quark-Gluon Plasma and Neutron Stars
Govert Nijs
In this thesis, QCD is studied from three different directions, with one overarching theme: holography. The holographic duality allows certain strongly coupled QFTs to be described…
Chromoelectric field correlator for quarkonium transport in the strongly coupled Yang-Mills plasma from AdS/CFT
Govert Nijs, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld, Xiaojun Yao
Previous studies have shown that a gauge-invariant correlation function of two chromoelectric fields connected by a straight timelike adjoint Wilson line encodes crucial informatio…