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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-th2015★ 33 cited

Elliptic Anisotropy May Be Dominated by Particle Escape instead of Hydrodynamic Flow

Zi-Wei Lin, Liang He, Terrence Edmonds +3

It is commonly believed that azimuthal anisotropies in relativistic heavy ion collisions are generated by hydrodynamic evolution of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma. Her…

nucl-th2015★ 4 cited

Anisotropic emission of direct photons from Au+Au collisions at with EPOS3 and IP-Glasma

Fu-Ming Liu, Sheng-Xu Liu, Klaus Werner

The observed large elliptic flow () of direct photons in relativistic heavy ion collisions challenges us to explain. In this paper we consider only two sources of direct photo…

nucl-th2015★ 4 cited

Two-gluon rapidity correlations of strong colour field in , and collisions

Ye-Yin Zhao, Ming-Mei Xu, Heng-Ying Zhang +1

Using the CGC formalism, we calculate the two-gluon rapidity correlations of strong colour fields in , and collisions, respectively. If one trigger gluon is fixed at…

nucl-th2015★ 88 cited

Decorrelation of anisotropic flows along the longitudinal direction

Long-Gang Pang, Hannah Petersen, Guang-You Qin +2

The initial energy density distribution and fluctuation in the transverse direction lead to anisotropic flows of final hadrons through collective expansion in high-energy heavy-ion…

nucl-th2015★ 5 cited

Heavy-flavor dynamics in relativistic p-Pb collisions at TeV

Yingru Xu, Shanshan Cao, Marlene Nahrgang +4

We investigate the heavy flavor dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium created in p-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the (3+1)-dimensional viscous…

nucl-th2015★ 7 cited

Gluon contribution to open heavy-meson production in heavy-ion collisions

Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin, Xin-Nian Wang

A sizable contribution to heavy quark production in high-energy hadronic and nuclear collisions comes from heavy quark-antiquark pair production from gluon splitting during the par…

nucl-th2015★ 3 cited

Physics perspectives of heavy-ion collisions at very high energy

Ning-bo Chang, Shanshan Cao, Bao-yi Chen +18

Heavy-ion collisions at very high colliding energies are expected to produce a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at the highest temperature obtainable in a laboratory setting. Experimental…

nucl-th2015

Pseudorapidity dependence of short-range correlations from a multi-phase transport model

Meijuan Wang, Gang Chen, Guoliang Ma +1

Using a multi-phase transport model (AMPT) that includes both initial partonic and hadronic interactions, we study neighboring bin multiplicity correlations as a function of pseudo…

nucl-th2015★ 8 cited

Factorization of event-plane correlations over transverse momentum in relativistic heavy ion collisions in a multi-phase transport model

Kai Xiao, Feng Liu, Fuqiang Wang

Momentum-space azimuthal harmonic event planes (EP) are constructed from final-state midrapidity particles binned in transverse momentum (pT ) in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisi…

nucl-th2015★ 2 cited

Survival rate of initial azimuthal anisotropy in a multi-phase transport model

Liang Zhang, Feng Liu, Fuqiang Wang

We investigate the survival rate of an initial momentum anisotropy (), not spatial anisotropy, to the final state in a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model in Au+Au coll…

nucl-th2015★ 13 cited

Properties of light (anti)nuclei and (anti) hypertriton production in Pb-Pb collisions at = 2.76 TeV

Zhi-Lei She, Gang Chen, Hong-ge Xu +2

We investigate the properties of light (anti)nuclei and (anti)hypertriton production in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV, based on the parton and hadron cascade an…

nucl-th2015★ 215 cited

Halos in medium-heavy and heavy nuclei with covariant density functional theory in continuum

Jie Meng, Shan-Gui Zhou

The covariant density functional theory with a few number of parameters has been widely used to describe the ground-state and excited-state properties for the nuclei all over the n…

nucl-th2015★ 33 cited

Quantifying jet transport properties via large hadron production

Zhi-Quan Liu, Hanzhong Zhang, Ben-Wei Zhang +1

Nuclear modification factor for large single hadron is studied in a next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) parton model with medium-modified fragmentati…

nucl-th2015★ 25 cited

meson production of high-energy nuclear collisions at NLO

Wei Dai, Xiao-Fang Chen, Ben-Wei Zhang +1

The transverse momentum spectrum of meson in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied at the next-to-leading-order (NLO) within the perturbative QCD, where the jet quenchin…

nucl-th2015★ 9 cited

Probing Shadowed Nuclear Sea with Massive Gauge Bosons in the Future Heavy-Ion Collisions

Peng Ru, Ben-Wei Zhang, Enke Wang +1

The production of the massive bosons and could provide an excellent tool to study cold nuclear matter effects and the modifications of nuclear parton distribution f…

nucl-th2015★ 41 cited

Modeling of heavy-flavor pair correlations in Au-Au collisions at 200 A GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin, Steffen A. Bass

We study the nuclear modification of angular and momentum correlations between heavy quark pairs in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The evolution of heavy quarks inside the…

nucl-th2015★ 167 cited

Energy loss, hadronization and hadronic interactions of heavy flavors in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin, Steffen A. Bass

We construct a theoretical framework to describe the evolution of heavy flavors produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The in-medium energy loss of heavy quarks is describe…

nucl-th2015★ 33 cited

A Tale of Tails: Photon Rates and Flow in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Larry McLerran, Bjoern Schenke

We consider the possibility that quark and gluon distributions in the medium created in high energy heavy ion collisions may be modified by a power law tail at energies much higher…

nucl-th2015★ 4 cited

Influence of statistics on the measured moments of conserved quantities in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Lizhu Chen, Zhiming Li, Xia Zhong +2

We study statistics dependence of the probability distributions and the means of measured moments of conserved quantities, respectively. The required statistics of all interested m…

nucl-th2015★ 2 cited

Jet propagation within a Linearized Boltzmann Transport Model

Tan Luo, Yayun He, Xin-Nian Wang +1

A Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model has been developed for the study of jet propagation inside a quark-gluon plasma. Both leading and thermal recoiled partons are transported…

nucl-th2015★ 233 cited

Linear Boltzmann Transport for Jet Propagation in the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Elastic Processes and Medium Recoil

Yayun He, Tan Luo, Xin-Nian Wang +1

A Linear Boltzmann Transport model within perturbative QCD is developed for the study of parton propagation inside the quark-gluon plasma. Both leading partons and thermal recoil p…

nucl-th2015★ 143 cited

Anisotropic parton escape is the dominant source of azimuthal anisotropy in transport models

Liang He, Terrence Edmonds, Zi-Wei Lin +3

We trace the development of elliptic anisotropy () via parton-parton collision history in two transport models. The parton is studied as a function of the number of coll…