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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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Inclusive productions in pp collisions at 5.02, 7, and 13 TeV with the PACIAE model

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

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

hep-ph2025

(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…

hep-ph2025

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…

hep-ph2025

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…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

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 and the and contributions

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

Motivated by the resent BESIII Collaboration measurements of the process , we investigate this process by considering the contribution from the resonance , w…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Heavy quarkonium decay with both relativistic and QCD radiative corrections

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

In the heavy quarkonium decay process (), making a definite prediction including relativistic corrections has so far remained a significant challenge. In t…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ph2025

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

Jialin He, Xinye Peng, Xiaoming Zhang +1

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

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Deciphering the nature of with the PACIAE model

Jian Cao, Wen-Chao Zhang, Jin-Peng Zhang +7

Inspired by the BESIII newest observation of an axial-vector particle in the process, we simulate its production in collisions at $\sqr…

hep-ph2025

Jet cone size dependence of single inclusive jet suppression due to jet quenching in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV

Qing-Fei Han, Man Xie, Han-Zhong Zhang

Jet suppression in high-energy heavy-ion collisions results from jet energy loss and transverse-momentum broadening during jet propagation through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Investigating jet induced identified hadron productions from the relative transverse activity classifier in pp collision at LHC

Yuhao Peng, Yan Wu, Xinye Peng +2

In this work, we systematically investigate the jet associated identified hadron productions of pions, kaons, and protons based on the event topological separation method in proton…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Electroweak Phase Transition, Gravitational Waves and Collider Probes in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Scenarios

Tripurari Srivastava, Jaydeb Das, Anupam Ghosh +1

We study scalar singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM), focusing on scenarios where dark matter (DM) is stabilized by a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetry. In the minimal single-scal…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

QCD phase transition at finite temperature and chemical potential with the non-extensive statistics

Zhi-Ying Qin, Jia-Hao Shi, Jin-Peng Zhang +5

The intrinsic fluctuations, memory effects and long-range color interactions in high energy nuclear collisions imply the presence of non-Markovian processes in the fireball evoluti…

hep-ph2025

Extracting the kinetic freeze-out properties of high energy pp collisions at the LHC with event shape classifiers

Jialin He, Xinye Peng, Zhongbao Yin +1

Event shape measurements are crucial for understanding the underlying event and multiple-parton interactions (MPIs) in high energy proton-proton (pp) collisions. In this paper, the…

hep-ph2025

Investigation of in collisions at = 7 TeV with the PACIAE model

Qiang Wang, Zhi-Lei She, An-Ke Lei +5

We have used the parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE together with the Dynamically Constrained Phase-space Coalescence model (DCPC) to study the producti…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Multiprocess imaging of nuclear modifications on parton distributions in proton-nucleus collisions

Meng-Quan Yang, Peng Ru, Ben-Wei Zhang

Nuclear modifications to collinear parton distribution functions are conventionally quantified by the ratios $ r^{\textrm{A}}_i(x,Q^2) = f^\textrm{A,proton}_i(x,Q^2) / f^\textrm{pr…

hep-ph2025

The effect of recoils on soft-drop-groomed observables in -tagged jets in a multistage approach

Y. Tachibana, C. Sirimanna, A. Majumder +49

We investigate medium-induced modifications to jet substructure observables that characterize hard components in central Pb-Pb collisions at ~TeV. Using a multi…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Global analysis of fragmentation functions to light neutral hadrons

Jun Gao, ChongYang Liu, Mengyang Li +4

Fragmentation functions (FFs) are crucial non-perturbative components in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), playing a vital role in predictions and understanding of the hadronization pr…

hep-ph2025★ 6 cited

Quark anomalous magnetic moments and neutral pseudoscalar meson dynamics with three-flavor NJL model in magnetized quark matter

Chang-Yong Yang, Sheng-Qin Feng

We investigate the influence of quark anomalous magnetic moments (AMMs) on the mass spectra of neutral pseudoscalar mesons (, , , ) under external magnetic fields,…

hep-ph2025

Suppression of elliptic anisotropy inside jets: A new perspective for jet quenching

Meng-Quan Yang, Wei-Xi Kong, Peng Ru +1

Particle azimuthal anisotropies inside jets, defined within the momentum plane perpendicular to the jet axis, carry the information of the QCD cascade process for jet formation. In…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Coalescence production of sexaquark with three diquarks in high-energy nuclear collisions

Zhi-Lei She, An-Ke Lei, Dai-Mei Zhou +4

The coalescence production of sexaquark, a hypothetical stable state with quark content , is investigated by the parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE in collisions…