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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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nucl-th2026

Causality and Stability of First-Order Relativistic Spin Hydrodynamics with Conserved Charges

Wei Lu, Yang Zhong, Sheng-Qin Feng

We study the causality and stability of first-order relativistic spin hydrodynamics with particle-number conservation. By deriving the complete dispersion relations of linear pertu…

nucl-th2026

Centrifugal-corrected harmonic oscillator model for spherical proton emitters

Xiao-Yan Zhu, Wei Gao, Jia Liu +3

In the present work, we propose an improved harmonic oscillator model to systematically evaluate the proton radioactivity half-lives in spherical nuclei, incorporating centrifugal…

nucl-th2026★ 1 cited

An improved linear Boltzmann transport model for hadron and jet suppression in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Yichao Dang, Wen-Jing Xing, Shanshan Cao +1

Jets serve as powerful tomographic probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. While the expanding landscape of jet observables reveals mul…

nucl-th2025

Dilepton emission assists the search for the QCD critical point

Gaoqing Cao, Xiaofeng Luo, Weijie Fu

In this work, we propose that dilepton emission rate (DER) could possibly carry the characteristic structures associated with the chiral criticality of the QCD system based on the…

nucl-th2025

Emergence of thermal recoil jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Peng Jing, Yichao Dang, Lejing Zhang +4

In the established paradigm of jet quenching in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jets from initial hard parton scatterings are suppressed due to their interaction with the quark-…

nucl-th2025

Nuclear modification of heavy flavor decayed dielectrons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Lejing Zhang, Wen-Jing Xing, Shanshan Cao +1

Dielectrons from heavy flavor hadron decays not only constitute a crucial background to their thermal spectrum in high-energy nuclear collisions, from which the temperature of the…

nucl-th2025

Fermi-liquid view of viscosity in cold and dense nucleon matter

Jianing Li, Weiyao Ke, Jin Hu

We develop a framework to calculate transport properties in cold, dense relativistic quasiparticle system within the Fermi-liquid theory at the mean-field level. Building on our pr…

nucl-th2025

A deep learning approach for predicting multiple observables in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Jun-Qi Tao, Xiang Fan, Yang Liu +4

We develop a neural network model, based on the processes of high-energy heavy-ion collisions, to study and predict several experimental observables in Au+Au collisions. We present…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

D-meson production via sequential hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions

Zi-Xuan Xu, Wei Dai, Ben-Wei Zhang +2

Heavy flavor production serves as an ideal probe of the hadronization mechanism of the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We study charm-quark hadroni…

nucl-th2025★ 2 cited

Transport-based initial conditions for heavy-ion collisions at finite densities

H. Roch, G. Pihan, A. Monnai +53

We employ the SMASH transport model to provide event-by-event initial conditions for the energy-momentum tensor and conserved charge currents in hydrodynamic simulations of relativ…

nucl-th2025★ 4 cited

Nonperturbative Heavy-Flavor Transport Approach for Hot QCD Matter

Tharun Krishna, Ralf Rapp, Yu Fu +2

The heavy charm and bottom quarks are unique probes of the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions. A key chall…

nucl-th2025

System-size dependence of -jet modifications in heavy-ion collisions

Yu-Xin Xiao, Qing-Fei Han, He-Xia Zhang +1

Medium modifications of the -triggered jets are investigated with the Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model in heavy-ion collisions with varying system sizes, focusing on centr…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Probing of EoS with clusters and hypernuclei

Yingjie Zhou, Susanne Glässel, Yue-Hang Leung +12

The study of the nuclear equation-of-state (EoS) is a one of the primary goals of experimental and theoretical heavy-ion physics. The comparison of recent high statistics data from…

nucl-th2025

Covariant Energy Density Functionals for Neutron Star Matter Equation of State Modeling: Cross-Comparison Analysis Using \texttt{CompactObject}

João Cartaxo, Chun Huang, Tuhin Malik +5

This study analyzes and contrasts different phenomenological methods used to model the nuclear equation of state (EOS) for neutron star matter based on covariant energy density fun…

nucl-th2025

Magnetodynamic Characteristics and QGP Energy Dissipation in RMHD Framework with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Huang-Jing Zheng, Sheng-Qin Feng

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions generate ultra-strong magnetic fields that interact with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a key focus of high-energy physics research.This study inve…

nucl-th2025

Quantum fluctuation energies over a spatially inhomogeneous field background in a chiral soliton model

Jiarui Xia, Song Shu, Xiaogang Li

Based on chiral soliton models, the quantum fluctuation energies of quarks over a spatially inhomogeneous meson field background have been thoroughly studied. We have used a system…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Transport coefficients of dense nucleon matter at low temperature

Jianing Li, Weiyao Ke

The transport property of cold and dense nucleon matter is important for nuclear physics but is relatively less studied than that at finite temperatures. In this paper, we present…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Identifying weak critical fluctuations of intermittency in heavy-ion collisions with topological machine learning

Rui Wang, Chengrui Qiu, Chuan-Shen Hu +2

Large density fluctuations of conserved charges have been proposed as a promising signature for exploring the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. These fluctuations are exp…

nucl-th2024

Collective excitations in the hot QCD medium and the propagation of Heavy Quarks

Mohammad Yousuf Jamal, Bedangadas Mohanty

This review explores the current understanding of collective excitations and the dynamics of heavy quark propagation in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic heavy-io…

nucl-th2024★ 3 cited

The elliptic flow difference between baryons and anti-baryons in heavy collision with SMASH Model

Shuai Zhou, Shusu Shi

A significant difference in the elliptic flow for particles and their corresponding antiparticles, which is more pronounced for baryons and anti-baryons, was observed in the…

nucl-th2024★ 10 cited

Relativistic second-order spin hydrodynamics: A Kubo-type formulation for the quark-gluon plasma

Duan She, Yi-Wei Qiu, Defu Hou

Building upon Zubarev's nonequilibrium statistical operator formalism, we derive a relativistic canonical-like second-order spin hydrodynamics for two power-counting schemes. We ob…

nucl-th2024★ 6 cited

Anti-flow of Mesons in the High Baryon Density Region

Zuo-Wen Liu, Shusu Shi

The E895 and STAR experiments demonstrate that the slopes of directed flow with respect to rapidity () of mesons are negative in the low transverse momentum ()…

nucl-th2024★ 5 cited

Non-extensive (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamics for relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Jia-Hao Shi, Zhi-Ying Qin, Jin-Peng Zhang +4

A non-extensive (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamic model for multi-particle production processes, NEX-CLVisc, is developed in the framework of CLVisc where the viscous corrections are…

nucl-th2024★ 4 cited

External magnetic field induced paramagnetic squeezing effect in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

Ze-Fang Jiang, Zi-Han Zhang, Xue-Fei Yuan +1

In non-central heavy-ion collisions, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) encounters the most intense magnetic field ever produced in nature, with a strength of approximately 10$^{19 - 20}…