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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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hep-ph2014★ 2 cited

Higher-twist contributions to the transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off large nuclei

Jia Jun Zhang, Jian-Hua Gao, Xin-Nian Wang

Multiple scattering leads to transverse momentum broadening of the struck quark in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scatterings (SIDIS). Nuclear broadening of the transverse momentu…

hep-ph2014★ 3 cited

The Electroweak Axion, Dark Energy, Inflation and Baryonic Matter

Larry McLerran

In a previous paper, the standard model was generalized to include an electroweak axion which carries baryon plus lepton number, . It was shown that such a model naturally giv…

hep-ph2014★ 74 cited

Analytical and numerical Gubser solutions of the second-order hydrodynamics

Long-Gang Pang, Yoshitaka Hatta, Xin-Nian Wang +1

Evolution of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) near equilibrium can be described by the second-order relativistic viscous hydrodynamic equations. Consistent and analytically verifiable nume…

hep-ph2014★ 3 cited

Medium-induced flavor conversion and kaon spectra in electron-ion collisions

Ning-bo Chang, Wei-tian Deng, Xin-Nian Wang

Multiple scattering and induced parton splitting lead to a medium modification of the QCD evolution for jet fragmentation functions and the final hadron spectra. Medium-induced par…

hep-ph2014★ 5 cited

Hadron formation from interaction among quarks

Z. G. Tan, C. B. Yang

This paper deals with the hadronization process of quark system. A phenomenological potential is introduced to describe the interaction between a quark pair. The potential depends…

hep-ph2014★ 21 cited

The spatial distributions of chiral magnetic field in the RHIC and LHC energy regions

Yang Zhong, Chun-Bin Yang, Xu Cai +1

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions can produce extremely strong magnetic field in the collision regions. The spatial variation features of the magnetic fields are analyzed in detail…

hep-ph2014★ 86 cited

Azimuthal asymmetries and the emergence of "collectivity" from multi-particle correlations in high-energy pA collisions

Adrian Dumitru, Larry McLerran, Vladimir Skokov

We show how angular asymmetries can arise in dipole scattering at high energies. We illustrate the effects due to anisotropic fluctuations of the saturation momentum…

hep-ph2014★ 34 cited

Spectator Scattering and Annihilation Contributions as a Solution to the and Puzzles within QCD Factorization Approach

Qin Chang, Junfeng Sun, Yueling Yang +1

The large branching ratios for pure annihilation and decays reported by CDF and LHCb collaborations recently and the so-…

hep-ph2014★ 65 cited

Multiple scattering effects on heavy meson production in p+A collisions at backward rapidity

Zhong-Bo Kang, Ivan Vitev, Enke Wang +2

We study the incoherent multiple scattering effects on heavy meson production in the backward rapidity region of p+A collisions within the generalized high-twist factorization form…

hep-ph2014★ 21 cited

Transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering at next-to-leading order

Zhong-Bo Kang, Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang +1

Within the framework of higher-twist collinear factorization, transverse momentum broadening for the final hadrons in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic collisions is studied at…

hep-ph2014★ 74 cited

A systematic study of magnetic field in Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions in the RHIC and LHC energy regions

Yang Zhong, Chunbin Yang, Xu Cai +1

The features of magnetic field in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are systematically studied by using a modified magnetic field model in this paper. The features of magnetic fiel…

hep-ph2014★ 26 cited

Υ Production in Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC

Kai Zhou, Nu Xu, Pengfei Zhuang

We investigate the Υ production in heavy ion collisions at LHC energy in the frame of a dynamical transport approach. Both the initial production and in-medium regeneration and bot…

hep-ph2014★ 1 cited

Cold nuclear matter effects on the color singlet J/psi production in d-Au collisions at RHIC

Zefang Jiang, Shengqin Feng, Zhongbao Yin +2

We use a Modified DKLMT model (called M-DKLMT model) to study the cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects on the color singlet J/psi production in dAu collisions at RHIC. The cold nuclea…

hep-ph2014★ 7 cited

Transverse momentum broadening at NLO and QCD evolution of

Hongxi Xing, Zhong-Bo Kang, Enke Wang +1

Within the framework of a high-twist approach, we show the first complete next-to-leading order calculation of transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic $e+…

hep-ph2014★ 6 cited

Probing the R-parity violating supersymmetric effects in the exclusive decays

Ru-Min Wang, Jie Zhu, Jin-Huan Sheng +2

A lot of branching ratios of the exclusive () decays have been quite accurately measured by CLEO-c, BELLE, BABAR, BES(I,II,III), ALEPH and MARKIII c…

hep-ph2014★ 30 cited

Geometrical Scaling and the Dependence of the Average Transverse Momentum on the Multiplicity and Energy for the ALICE Experiment

Larry McLerran, Michal Praszalowicz

We review the recent ALICE data on charged particle multiplicity in p-p collisions, and show that it exhibits Geometrical Scaling (GS) with energy dependence given with characteris…

hep-ph2014★ 23 cited

Flow harmonics within an analytically solvable viscous hydrodynamic model

Yoshitaka Hatta, Jorge Noronha, Giorgio Torrieri +1

Based on a viscous hydrodynamic model with anisotropically perturbed Gubser flow and isothermal Cooper-Frye freezeout at early times, we analytically compute the flow harmonics $v_…

hep-ph2014

Flow Effects on Jet Energy Loss with Detailed Balance

Luan Cheng, Jia Liu, Enke Wang

In the presence of collective flow a new model potential describing the interaction of the hard jet with scattering centers is derived based on the static color-screened Yukawa pot…

hep-ph2014★ 63 cited

Decays in the Aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet Model

Xin-Qiang Li, Jie Lu, Antonio Pich

The rare decays are analyzed within the general framework of the aligned two-Higgs doublet model. We present a complete one-loop calculation of the rel…

hep-ph2014★ 10 cited

Structure functions in deep inelastic scattering from gauge/string duality beyond single-hadron final states

Jian-Hua Gao, Zong-Gang Mou

We study deep inelastic scattering at large-'t Hooft coupling and finite from gauge/string duality beyond single-hadron final states which gives the leading large- contrib…

hep-ph2014★ 19 cited

Vorticity and magnetic field production in relativistic ideal fluids

Jian-Hua Gao, Bin Qi, Shou-Yu Wang

In the framework of relativistic ideal hydrodynamics, we study the production mechanism for vorticity and magnetic field in relativistic ideal fluids. It is demonstrated that in th…

hep-ph2014

Baseline measures for net-proton distributions in high energy heavy-ion collisions

P. K. Netrakanti, X. F. Luo, D. K. Mishra +3

We report a systematic comparison of the recently measured cumulants of the net-proton distributions for 0-5\% central Au+Au collisions in the first phase of the Beam Energy Scan (…

hep-ph2014

Polarization energy loss in hot viscous quark-gluon plasma

Bing-Feng Jiang, Defu Hou, Jia-Rong Li

The gluon polarization tensor for the quark-gluon plasma with shear viscosity is derived with the viscous chromohydrodynamics. The longitudinal and transverse dielectric functions…

hep-ph2014★ 62 cited

Matching Collinear and Small-x Factorization Calculations for Inclusive Hadron Production in pA Collisions

Anna M. Staśto, Bo-Wen Xiao, Feng Yuan +1

We construct a theoretical framework to match the formulas for forward inclusive hadron productions in pA collisions in the small-x saturation formalism and collinear factorization…