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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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Initial-state and final-state effects on hadron production in small collision systems

Ivan Vitev, Weiyao Ke

Heavy meson production in reactions with nuclei is an active new frontier to understand QCD dynamics and the process of hadronization in nuclear matter. Measurements in various col…

hep-ph2023★ 3 cited

Phenomenological study of the angle between jet axes in heavy-ion collisions

Jin-Wen Kang, Sa Wang, Lei Wang +1

This paper presents a phenomenological study on the angle between the Standard and the Winner-Take-All (WTA) jet axes () in high-energy nuclear collisi…

hep-ph2023★ 8 cited

Precision three-dimensional imaging of nuclei using recoil-free jets

Shen Fang, Weiyao Ke, Ding Yu Shao +1

In this study, we explore the azimuthal angle decorrelation of lepton-jet pairs in e-p and e-A collisions as a means for precision measurements of the three-dimensional structure o…

hep-ph2023★ 26 cited

Phase structure and critical phenomena in 2-flavor QCD by holography

Yan-Qing Zhao, Song He, Defu Hou +2

We explore the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with two dynamical quark flavors at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential, employing the non-perturbative…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

Energy dependence of production in pp collisions with the PACIAE model

Kai-Fan Ye, Qiang Wang, Jia-Hao Shi +6

In this work we investigate the production in proton-proton collisions at the center-of-mass energy () equal to 2.76, 5.02, 7, 8 and 13 TeV with a parton and hadron…

hep-ph2023★ 68 cited

Probing the Short-Distance Structure of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Energy Correlators

Zhong Yang, Yayun He, Ian Moult +1

Energy-energy-correlators (EEC's) are a promising observable to study the dynamics of jet evolution in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) through its imprint on angular scales in the ene…

hep-ph2023

QCD factorization for the decay beyond leading power

Bo-Yan Cui, Yue-Long Shen, Chao Wang +1

The radiative leptonic decay serves as an ideal platform to determine the -meson inverse moment which is a fundamental nonperturbative parameter for the …

hep-ph2023★ 25 cited

Ripples of the QCD Critical Point

Wei-jie Fu, Xiaofeng Luo, Jan M. Pawlowski +2

We investigate the impact of a critical end point (CEP) on the experimentally accessible baryon number fluctuations of different orders. By now, its potential location has been con…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Production of leptons from decay of heavy-flavor hadrons in high-energy nuclear collisions

Sa Wang, Yao Li, Shuwan Shen +2

This paper presents a theoretical study on the production of the heavy-flavour decay lepton (HFL) in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC. The pp-baseline is calculated by the…

hep-ph2023★ 12 cited

Drag force and heavy quark potential in a rotating background

Jun-Xia Chen, De-Fu Hou, Hai-Cang Ren

We explored the gravity dual of a rotating quark-gluon plasma by transforming the boundary coordinates of the large black hole limit of Schwarchild- metric. The Euler…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

Study of the decay due to the bound state

Xin-Qiang Li, Li-Juan Liu, En Wang +1

We study the decay by taking into account the -wave contributions from the pseudoscalar meson-pseudoscalar meson interactions within the unitary coupled-chann…

hep-ph2023★ 13 cited

Inverse magnetic catalysis and energy loss in holographic QCD model

Zhou-Run Zhu, Defu Hou

In this paper, we consider the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton holographic model for light quarks with nonzero magnetic field and chemical potential. First, we study the phase diagrams in…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

Configuration entropy of state in strong coupling plasma

Yan-Qing Zhao, Defu Hou

To better understand the effects of strong coupling and QCD at high temperature in QGP, by using holographic model, we investigate the dissociation effect of bottomonium under the…

hep-ph2023★ 17 cited

Constraining the equation of state with heavy quarks in the quasi-particle model of QCD matter

Feng-Lei Liu, Xiang-Yu Wu, Shanshan Cao +2

In a quasi-particle model of QCD matter at finite temperature with thermal masses for quarks and gluons from hard thermal loops, the equation of state (EOS) can be described by an…

hep-ph2023★ 8 cited

The study on the structure of exotic states via beauty-hadron decays in collisions at

Chun-tai Wu, Zhi-Lei She, Xin-Ye Peng +4

A dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence (DCPC) model was introduced to study the exotic state yield for three possible structures: tetraquark state, nucle…

hep-ph2023★ 81 cited

Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

Kai Zhou, Lingxiao Wang, Long-Gang Pang +1

In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly interac…

hep-ph2023★ 15 cited

Flavor dependence of jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions from a Bayesian analysis

Shan-Liang Zhang, Enke Wang, Hongxi Xing +1

We investigate the flavor dependence of jet quenching, by performing a systematic analysis of medium modifications on the inclusive jet, +jet, and -jet in Pb+Pb collisions at…

hep-ph2023★ 15 cited

Flavor hierarchy of parton energy loss in quark-gluon plasma from a Bayesian analysis

Wen-Jing Xing, Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin

The quenching of light and heavy flavor hadrons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions probes the color and flavor dependences of parton energy loss through a color-deconfined quark-…

hep-ph2023★ 12 cited

Investigating the elliptic anisotropy of identified particles in p--Pb collisions with a multi-phase transport model

Siyu Tang, Liang Zheng, Xiaoming Zhang +1

The elliptic azimuthal anisotropy coefficient () of the identified particles at midrapidity () was investigated in p--Pb collisions at 5.02…

hep-ph2023★ 8 cited

The peak could be a molecular state

Ye Lu, Chang Chen, Kai-Ge Kang +2

The analyses of the LHCb data on found in di- and systems are performed using a momentum-dependent {Flatté}-like parameterization. The use of the pole c…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

decays with visible final-state kinematics

Xin-Qiang Li, Xin Xu, Ya-Dong Yang +1

The semitauonic decay is optimal to scrutinize possible new physics effects in transitions as indicated by the current data on $R(D^…

hep-ph2023★ 10 cited

boson radiative decays to a -wave quarkonium at NNLO and NLL accuracy

Wen-Long Sang, De-Shan Yang, Yu-Dong Zhang

Within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization formalism, we compute QCD next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the helicity amplitudes as well as t…

hep-ph2023★ 60 cited

Phase diagram of holographic thermal dense QCD matter with rotation

Yan-Qing Zhao, Song He, Defu Hou +2

We study the rotation effects of the hot and dense QCD matter in a non-perturbative regime by the gauge/gravity duality. We use the gravitational model that is designated to match…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

De Haas - van Alphen Effect under Rotation

Shu-Yun Yang, Ren-Da Dong, Defu Hou +1

We explored the interplay between magnetic field and rotation in the de Hass - van Alphen oscillation. The effect is found to be reduced because of the re-weighting of different st…