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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-th2014★ 13 cited

An upgraded issue of the parton and hadron cascade model, PACIAE 2.2

Dai-Mei Zhou, Yu-Liang Yan, Xing-Long Li +4

The parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE 2.1 (cf. Comput. Phys. Commun.184 (2013) 1476) has been upgraded to the new issue of PACIAE 2.2. By this new issue the lepton-nucleon and…

nucl-th2014★ 18 cited

Productions of and in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at the LHC

Peng Ru, Ben-Wei Zhang, Luan Cheng +2

The productions of massive gauge bosons, and , in heavy-ion reactions at the LHC, provide an excellent tool to study the cold nuclear matter effects in high-energy n…

nucl-th2014★ 16 cited

Jet transport and photon bremsstrahlung via longitudinal and transverse scattering

Guang-You Qin, Abhijit Majumder

We study the effect of multiple scatterings on the propagation of hard partons and the production of jet-bremsstrahlung photons inside a dense medium in the framework of deep-inela…

nucl-th2014★ 62 cited

Longitudinal Decorrelation of Anisotropic Flows in Heavy-ion Collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Long-Gang Pang, Guang-You Qin, Victor Roy +2

Fluctuations in the initial transverse energy-density distribution lead to anisotropic flows as observed in central high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Studies of longitudinal fluctu…

nucl-th2014★ 9 cited

Charmonium Transverse Momentum Distribution in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

Zebo Tang, Nu Xu, Kai Zhou +1

The Charmonium transverse momentum distribution is more sensitive to the nature of the hot QCD matter created in high energy nuclear collisions, in comparison with the yield. Takin…

nucl-th2014★ 103 cited

Parameterization of Deformed Nuclei for Glauber Modeling in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Q. Y. Shou, Y. G. Ma, P. Sorensen +3

The density distributions of large nuclei are typically modeled with a Woods-Saxon distribution characterized by a radius and skin depth . Deformation parameters are…

nucl-th2014★ 2 cited

Quantitative extraction of the jet transport parameter from combined data at RHIC and LHC

Xin-Nian Wang

Using theoretical tools developed by the JET Collaboration in which one employes 2+1D or 3+1D hydrodynamic models for the bulk medium evolution and jet quenching models, the combin…

nucl-th2014★ 10 cited

Heavy Flavor Dynamics in QGP and Hadron Gas

Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin, Steffen Bass

We study heavy flavor evolution in the quark-gluon plasma matter and the subsequent hadron gas created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The motion of heavy quarks inside…

nucl-th2014★ 5 cited

Theory of Jet Quenching in Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Guang-You Qin

We present a short overview of recent progress in the theory of jet quenching in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions, including phenomenological studies of jet quenching at RHIC…

nucl-th2014★ 16 cited

Energy-Dependence of Nucleus-Nucleus Potential and Friction Parameter in Fusion Reactions

Kai Wen, Fumihiko Sakata, Zhu-Xia Li +3

Applying a macroscopic reduction procedure on the improved quantum molecular dynamics (ImQMD) model, the energy dependences of the nucleus-nucleus potential, the friction parameter…

nucl-th2014★ 79 cited

Systematic study of breakup effects on complete fusion at energies above the Coulomb barrier

Bing Wang, Wei-Juan Zhao, P. R. S. Gomes +2

A large number of complete fusion excitation functions of reactions including the breakup channel were measured in recent decades, especially in the last few years. It allows us to…

nucl-th2014★ 11 cited

Building up the elliptic flow: analytical insights

Yoshitaka Hatta, Bo-Wen Xiao

In this paper, we present a fully analytical description of the early-stage formation of elliptic flow in relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. We first construct an elliptic deforma…

nucl-th2014★ 4 cited

What hard probes tell us about the quark-gluon plasma: Theory

Xin-Nian Wang

In the study of the quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, hard and electromagnetic (EM) processes play an essential role as probes of the properties of the dense…

nucl-th2014★ 12 cited

Dynamical Evolution, Hadronization and Angular De-correlation of Heavy Flavor in a Hot and Dense QCD Medium

Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin, Steffen A Bass

We study heavy flavor evolution and hadronization in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The in-medium evolution of heavy quarks is described using our modified Langevin framework t…

nucl-th2014★ 62 cited

Multidimensionally-constrained relativistic mean-field study of triple-humped barriers in actinides

Jie Zhao, Bing-Nan Lu, Dario Vretenar +2

Potential energy surfaces (PES's) of actinide nuclei are characterized by a two-humped barrier structure. At large deformations beyond the second barrier the occurrence of a third…

nucl-th2014★ 14 cited

The Influence of Initial State Fluctuations on Heavy Quark Energy Loss in Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

Shanshan Cao, Yajing Huang, Guang-You Qin +1

We study the effects of initial state fluctuations on the dynamical evolution of heavy quarks inside a quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The evolutio…

nucl-th2014★ 1 cited

The Search for Gluon Saturation in pA Collisions

Bo-Wen Xiao

In this talk, I reviewed the recent theoretical progress towards the exploration of the gluon saturation phenomenon in collisions at both RHIC and the LHC. Two important pilla…

nucl-th2014★ 36 cited

Geometrical Scaling of Direct-Photon Production in Hadron Collisions from RHIC to the LHC

Christian Klein-Bösing, Larry McLerran

We consider pp, dAu and AuAu production of photons at RHIC energies, and PbPb collisions at LHC energy. We show that the inclusive spectrum of photons in the transverse momentum ra…

nucl-th2014★ 11 cited

Nuclear suppression of azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off polarized targets

Yu-kun Song, Zuo-tang Liang, Xin-Nian Wang

We extend the study of nuclear dependence of the transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions and azimuthal asymmetries to semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (…

nucl-th2014★ 46 cited

Initial Conditions for Modified DGLAP Evolution of the Modified Fragmentation Functions in Nuclear Medium

Ning-Bo Chang, Wei-Tian Deng, Xin-Nian Wang

Initial conditions are required to solve medium modified DGLAP (mDGLAP) evolution equations for modified fragmentation functions due to multiple scatterings and parton energy loss.…

nucl-th2014★ 2 cited

Studying the baryon properties through chiral soliton model at finite temperature and denstity

Song Shu, Jia-Rong Li

We have studied the chiral soliton model in a thermal vacuum. The soliton equations are solved at finite temperature and density. The temperature or density dependent soliton solut…

nucl-th2014★ 185 cited

Medium Effects on Charmonium Production at ultrarelativistic energies available at the CERN Large Haron Collider

Kai Zhou, Nu Xu, Zhe Xu +1

We investigate with a transport approach the cold and hot nuclear matter effects on the charmonium transverse momentum distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The newly…