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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-th2017★ 13 cited

Accelerating hydrodynamic description of pseudorapidity density and the initial energy density in p+p, Cu+Cu, Au+Au, and Pb+Pb collisions at RHIC and LHC

Jiang Ze-Fang, Yang Chun-Bin, Mate Csanad +1

A known class of analytic, exact, accelerating solutions of prefect relativistic hydrodynamics with longitudinal acceleration is utilized to describe results on the pseudorapidity…

nucl-th2017★ 17 cited

Drag Induced Radiation and Multi-Stage Effects in Heavy-Flavor Energy Loss

Shanshan Cao, Abhijit Majumder, Guang-You Qin +1

It is argued that heavy-quarks traversing a Quark Gluon Plasma, undergo a multi-stage modification process, similar to the case of light flavors. Such an approach is applied to hea…

nucl-th2017★ 87 cited

A quark coalescence model for polarized vector mesons and baryons

Yang-guang Yang, Ren-hong Fang, Qun Wang +1

A non-relativistic quark coalescence model is formulated for polarized vector mesons and baryons of spin-1/2 octet and spin-3/2 decuplet. With the spin density matrix, one can comp…

nucl-th2017★ 136 cited

Anomalous Chiral Transport in Heavy Ion Collisions from Anomalous-Viscous Fluid Dynamics

Shuzhe Shi, Yin Jiang, Elias Lilleskov +1

Chiral anomaly is a fundamental aspect of quantum theories with chiral fermions. How such microscopic anomaly manifests itself in a macroscopic many-body system with chiral fermion…

nucl-th2017★ 39 cited

The deuteron-radius puzzle is alive: A new analysis of nuclear structure uncertainties

Oscar Javier Hernandez, Andreas Ekström, Nir Nevo Dinur +3

To shed light on the deuteron radius puzzle we analyze the theoretical uncertainties of the nuclear structure corrections to the Lamb shift in muonic deuterium. We find that the di…

nucl-th2017★ 701 cited

Decoding the phase structure of QCD via particle production at high energy

A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1

Recent studies based on non-perturbative lattice Monte-Carlo solutions of Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, demonstrated that at high temperature there is…

nucl-th2017★ 53 cited

Varying the chiral magnetic effect relative to flow in a single nucleus-nucleus collision

Hao-jie Xu, Jie Zhao, Xiaobao Wang +4

We propose a novel method to search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy ion collisions. We argue that the relative strength of the magnetic field (mainly from spectator p…

nucl-th2017★ 18 cited

Effects of finite coverage on global polarization observables in heavy ion collisions

Shaowei Lan, Zi-Wei Lin, Shusu Shi +1

In non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions, the created matter possesses a large initial orbital angular momentum. Particles produced in the collisions could be polarized glo…

nucl-th2017★ 93 cited

Importance of isobar density distributions on the chiral magnetic effect search

Hao-jie Xu, Xiaobao Wang, Hanlin Li +4

Under the approximate chiral symmetry restoration, quark interactions with topological gluon fields in quantum chromodynamics can induce chirality imbalance and parity violation in…

nucl-th2017★ 1 cited

High cumulants of conserved charges and their statistical uncertainties

Li-Zhu Chen, Ye-Yin Zhao, Xue Pan +2

We study the influence of measured high cumulants of conserved charges on their associated statistical uncertainties in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. With a given number of ev…

nucl-th2017

Measures of azimuthal correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions

G. L. Li, C. B. Yang, D. M. Zhou

Based on the initial state geometrical symmetry for collisions between two identical heavy ions at high energy, the general form for the one- and two-particle azimuthal distributio…

nucl-th2017★ 26 cited

Enhancement of elliptic flow can signal a first order phase transition in high energy heavy ion collisions

Yasushi Nara, Harri Niemi, Akira Ohnishi +3

The beam energy dependence of the elliptic flow,, is studied in mid-central Au+Au collisions in the energy range of GeV within the microscopic tr…

nucl-th2017★ 33 cited

Are minimal conditions for collectivity met in e+e- collisions?

J. L. Nagle, R. Belmont, K. Hill +5

Signatures of collective behavior have been measured in highly relativistic p+p collisions, as well as in p+A, d+A, and 3He+A collisions. Numerous particle correlation measurements…

nucl-th2017★ 18 cited

Chiral phase transition in linear sigma model with non-extensive statistical mechanics

Ke-Ming Shen, Hui Zhang, De-Fu Hou +2

From the non-extensive statistical mechanics, we investigate the chiral phase transition at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential in the framework of the linea…

nucl-th2017★ 8 cited

Solving the puzzle with and scale dependence

Amit Kumar, Evan Bianchi, Jacob Elledge +3

We present here a possible resolution of the jet quenching parameter puzzle by exploring the momentum fraction and scale dependence of , in addition to…

nucl-th2017★ 2 cited

Low- Physics in Collisions and at the EIC

Bo-Wen Xiao

In this proceeding, I review what we have learned, and what we will be able to learn, about low- physics from proton-nucleus () collisions at RHIC and the LHC, and how this…

nucl-th2017★ 88 cited

Multistage Monte-Carlo simulation of jet modification in a static medium

JETSCAPE Collaboration, Shanshan Cao, Chanwook Park +31

The modification of hard jets in an extended static medium held at a fixed temperature is studied using three different Monte-Carlo event generators (LBT, MATTER, MARTINI). Each ev…

nucl-th2017★ 43 cited

Properties and uses of factorial cumulants in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Masakiyo Kitazawa, Xiaofeng Luo

We discuss properties and applications of factorial cumulants of various particle numbers and for their mixed channels measured by the event-by-event analysis in relativistic heavy…

nucl-th2017★ 2 cited

Phenomenological QCD equations of state for neutron star mergers

Toru Kojo

Thermal QCD equations of state at high baryon density are sensitive to the phase structure and the resulting excitation modes. The leading contribution at low temperature can be ei…

nucl-th2017★ 15 cited

Local and global polarization in a vortical fluid

Hui Li, Hannah Petersen, Long-Gang Pang +3

We compute the fermion spin distribution in the vortical fluid created in off-central high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We employ the event-by-event (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic mod…

nucl-th2017★ 14 cited

Extension of the Bjorken energy density formula of the initial state for relativistic heavy ion collisions

Zi-Wei Lin

For relativistic heavy ion collisions, the Bjorken formula is very useful for estimating the initial energy density once an initial time is specified. However, it cannot be t…

nucl-th2017★ 144 cited

Effects of jet-induced medium excitation in -hadron correlation in A+A collisions

Wei Chen, Shanshan Cao, Tan Luo +2

Coupled Linear Boltzmann Transport and hydrodynamics (CoLBT-hydro) is developed for co-current and event-by-event simulations of jet transport and jet-induced medium excitation (j.…

nucl-th2017★ 141 cited

Heavy and light flavor jet quenching at RHIC and LHC energies

Shanshan Cao, Tan Luo, Guang-You Qin +1

The Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model coupled to hydrodynamical background is extended to include transport of both light partons and heavy quarks through the quark-gluon plas…

nucl-th2017★ 83 cited

Improved Quark Coalescence for a Multi-Phase Transport Model

Yuncun He, Zi-Wei Lin

The string melting version of a multi-phase transport model is often applied to high-energy heavy-ion collisions since the dense matter thus formed is expected to be in parton degr…