Central China Normal University

Analysis of Nuclear Fragmentation Functions for Pions with $A$ and $ν$ Dependence

Mengyang Li, Zijian Ye, Jun Gao +3

We present a QCD analysis of pion nuclear fragmentation functions (nFFs), which encode nuclear modifications to hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions. Within this framewo…

Revisiting the role of saturation in diffractive vector meson production

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Björn Schenke +2

We perform a global Bayesian analysis of coherent and incoherent diffractive $J / ψ$ photoproduction in $γ + p$ and $γ + Pb$ collisions using a Color Glass Condensate (…

Pion structure in Holographic QCD

Jiali Deng, Defu Hou, Xiaolong Wang +1

We employ a holographic model with a modified background that incorporates effective descriptions of key QCD features, including linear confinement and gluon condensation, to study…

Quantum simulating multi-particle processes in high energy nuclear physics: dijet production and color (de)coherence

João Barata, Meijian Li, Wenyang Qian +2

Hard scattering events in high-energy collisions produce highly virtual partons that subsequently fragment into collimated hadronic cascades. When such partonic showers evolve in a…

Nuclear structure and saturation effects from diffractive vector meson production

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Björn Schenke +2

We study exclusive vector meson production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of a wide range of nuclei, and assess the potential of measurements to constrain the small- $x$ struc…

Chiral Condensation and Chiral Phase Diagram under Combined Rotation and Chemical Potential in Holographic QCD

D. -Y. Long, S. -Q. Feng

We investigate the combined effects of rotation and finite quark chemical potential on inhomogeneous chiral condensation and the chiral phase diagram within the soft-wall holograph…

The non-topological $Z^{'}$ string in the 331 model and its classical stability

Zhengyang Bian, Ning Chen, Mian Guo +4

We study the classical stability of a non-topological $Z^{'}$ string in the minimal 331 model, which arises from the maximal symmetry breaking pattern of an $SU (6)$ toy mo…

Three-gluon decays of radially excited quarkonia $ψ (2 S)$ and $Υ (2 S)$ with both relativistic and QCD radiative corrections

Chao-Jie Fan, Jun-Kang He

For the radially excited heavy quarkonia $V = ψ (2 S)$ and $Υ (2 S)$ , the nodal structure of the wave function renders the three-gluon decay $V \to g g g$ acutely sensitive to relativistic…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

Directed flow of D and B mesons in an electrically and chirally conductive QGP at LHC energies

Ankit Kumar Panda, Pooja, Maria Lucia Sambataro +2

We investigate the directed flow of D and B mesons in the presence of electromagnetic fields incorporating finite electrical and chiral conductivities at LHC energies. The momentum…

Exploring Nucleon Structure and the Proton Mass Problem through Holographic QCD

Jiali Deng, Defu Hou

Understanding the internal structure of the proton-including the distributions of quarks and gluons and their contributions to proton properties such as mass-remains a central chal…

Open charm production and $Λ_{c}^{+} / D^{0}$ ratio in pp and Au+Au collisions at the RHIC

Bijun Fan, Chao Zhang, Liang Zheng +1

We study open charm hadrons production in pp and Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN} = 200$ ~GeV using an improved a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model. Specifically, we sho…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

Revisiting Singlet Fermion Dark Matter with a Scalar Portal: Connecting Higgs Phenomenology and Strong Electroweak Phase Transition

Jaydeb Das, Saurabh Niyogi, Tripurari Srivastava

We investigate a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a real singlet scalar and a singlet Dirac fermion acting as dark matter. Unlike a conventional singlet scalar setup, w…

Inclusive $J / ψ$ productions in pp collisions at $s =$ 5.02, 7, and 13 TeV with the PACIAE model

Jin-Peng Zhang, Guan-Yu Wang, Wen-Chao Zhang +7

We investigate the inclusive $J / ψ$ production in proton-proton (pp) collisions at center-of-mass energies $s = 5.02$ , 7, and 13 TeV using the PACIAE 4.0 model. This model ex…

(3+1)D event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions

Xiaojian Du, Sören Schlichting, Jie Zhu

So far a major source of uncertainty in the study of heavy-ion collisions arises from the early time dynamics which includes initial state and pre-equilibrium dynamics. The state-o…

Proton Structure from a Soft-Wall Holographic QCD Model: Mass Spectrum, Form Factors, and Mechanical Properties

Jiali Deng, Defu Hou

Understanding the internal structure of the proton-including its mass spectrum, electromagnetic and gravitational form factors, and mechanical properties-remains a central challeng…

Investigation of the Spectator Effect on Light Nuclei Production in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at High Baryon Density Region

Hongcan Li, Li'Ang Zhang, Junyi Han +4

The light nuclei yields and their yield ratios, regarded as sensitive probes of the QCD phase structure, have been extensively measured at various collision energies. However, due…

Eigen-microstate Signatures of Criticality in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Ranran Guo, Jin Wu, Mingmei Xu +4

We develop the eigen-microstate framework as a new approach to identify criticality in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We construct the original microstate, defined as the final…

Thermal photon emission from quark-gluon plasma: 1+1D magnetohydrodynamics results

Jie Xiong, Xiang Fan, Jing Jing +3

We investigate thermal photon production in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) under strong magnetic fields using a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) framework. Adopting the Bjorken flow model w…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Hadronic decay $D^{+} \to π^{+} η η$ and the $a_{0} (980)$ and $f_{0} (1370)$ contributions

Wen-Tao Lyu, Le-Le Wei, De-Min Li +1

Motivated by the resent BESIII Collaboration measurements of the process $D^{+} \to π^{+} η η$ , we investigate this process by considering the contribution from the resonance $a_{0} (980)$ , w…

Heavy quarkonium decay $V \to g g g$ with both relativistic and QCD radiative corrections

Hong-Mei Jiang, Chao-Jie Fan, Jun-Kang He +1

In the heavy quarkonium decay process $V \to g g g$ ( $V = J / ψ, Υ$ ), making a definite prediction including relativistic corrections has so far remained a significant challenge. In t…

Non-extensive NJL model study of QCD phase structure with chiral imbalance and strong magnetic fields

Xiang-Qiong Liu, Sheng-Qin Feng

Based on the two-flavor NJL model with Tsallis non-extensive statistics, this work explores the QCD phase structure and thermodynamic properties under strong magnetic fields and ch…

Studies of beauty hadron and non-prompt charm hadron production in pp collisions at $s$ =13 TeV within a transport model approach

Jialin He, Xinye Peng, Xiaoming Zhang +1

In high-energy proton proton ( $pp$ ) collisions at the LHC, non-prompt charm hadrons, originating from beauty hadron decays, provide a valuable probe for beauty quark dynamics, part…

Melting of heavy quarkonia in QGP using deep neural networks

Mohammad Yousuf Jamal, Fu-Peng Li, Long-Gang Pang +1

Machine learning techniques have emerged as powerful tools for tackling non-perturbative challenges in quantum chromodynamics. In this study, we introduce a data-driven framework e…