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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-th2020★ 17 cited

Radial profile of bottom quarks in jets in high-energy nuclear collisions

Sa Wang, Wei Dai, Ben-Wei Zhang +1

Angular correlations between heavy quark (HQ) and its tagged jet are potentially new tools to gain insight into the in-medium partonic interactions in relativistic heavy-ion collis…

nucl-th2020★ 2 cited

Influence of modified light-flavor hadron spectra on particle yields in the statistical hadronization model

A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, D. Gündüz +4

Hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions is well described in the framework of the Statistical Hadronization Model (SHM). We investigate the influence on SHM prediction…

nucl-th2020★ 61 cited

Quark-hadron crossover equations of state for neutron stars: constraining the chiral invariant mass in a parity doublet model

Takuya Minamikawa, Toru Kojo, Masayasu Harada

We construct an equation of state (EOS) for neutron stars by interpolating hadronic EOS at low density and quark EOS at high density. A hadronic model based on the parity doublet s…

nucl-th2020★ 40 cited

Beam Energy dependence of Light Nuclei Production in Au+Au Collisions

Wenbin Zhao, Chun Shen, Che Ming Ko +2

We study the collision energy dependence of (anti-)deuteron and (anti-)triton production in the most central Au+Au collisions at 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62…

nucl-th2020★ 2 cited

Radial profile of heavy quarks in jets in high-energy nuclear collisions

Sa Wang, Wei Dai, Ben-Wei Zhang +1

In high energy nuclear collisions, heavy flavor tagged jets are useful hard probes to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this talk, we present the first theor…

nucl-th2020★ 5 cited

Identifying the nature of the QCD transition in heavy-ion collisions with deep learning

Yi-Lun Du, Kai Zhou, Jan Steinheimer +5

In this proceeding, we review our recent work using deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify the nature of the QCD transition in a hybrid modeling of heavy-ion collision…

nucl-th2020★ 9 cited

Predictions for production of and in isobaric Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at = 200 GeV

Zhi-Lei She, Gang Chen, Dai-Mei Zhou +3

The production of and , as well as , , , and are studied in centra…

nucl-th2020★ 33 cited

Global polarization effect and spin-orbit coupling in strong interaction

Jian-Hua Gao, Zuo-Tang Liang, Qun Wang +1

In non-central high energy heavy ion collisions the colliding system posses a huge orbital angular momentum in the direction opposite to the normal of the reaction plane. Due to th…

nucl-th2020★ 71 cited

Improved quark coalescence model for spin alignment and polarization of hadrons

Xin-Li Sheng, Qun Wang, Xin-Nian Wang

We propose an improved quark coalescence model for spin alignment of vector mesons and polarization of baryons by spin density matrix with phase space dependence. The spin density…

nucl-th2020★ 5 cited

Impact of single string structure and multiple string interaction on strangeness production in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV

Dai-Mei Zhou, Liang Zheng, Zhi-Hong Song +5

We present a systematic study on the strange and multi-strange particles production in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV based on the PACIAE model simulations. Two dif…

nucl-th2020

Heavy flavor dynamics across system size at the LHC

Roland Katz, Caio A. G. Prado, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler +1

One of the fundamental signatures of the Quark Gluon Plasma has been the suppression of heavy flavor (specifically D mesons), which has been measured via the nuclear modification f…

nucl-th2020★ 18 cited

Heavy flavor quenching and flow: the roles of initial condition, pre-equilibrium evolution and in-medium interaction

Shu-Qing Li, Wen-Jing Xing, Feng-Lei Liu +2

Within an advanced Langevin-hydrodynamics framework coupled to a hybrid fragmentation-coalescence hadronization model, we study heavy flavor quenching and flow in relativistic heav…

nucl-th2020★ 12 cited

Chiral phase transition in a rotating sphere

Zheng Zhang, Chao Shi, Xiaofeng Luo +1

We study the chiral phase transition of the two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model in a rotating sphere, which includes both rotation and finite size effects. We find that rotat…

nucl-th2020★ 2 cited

Longitudinal dependence of B and D meson nuclear modifications in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC

Caio A. G. Prado, Wen-Jing Xing, Shanshan Cao +2

It is widely acknowledged that heavy flavor probes are sensitive to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and are often considered an important tool for the plasma tomography st…

nucl-th2020★ 2 cited

Chirality and Magnetic Field

Defu Hou, Anping Huang, Jinfeng Liao +2

We present a brief overview on recent developments of theory and phenomenology for novel many-body phenomena related to the chirality and magnetic field, with an emphasis on their…

nucl-th2020

Extracting the jet transport coefficient of cold nuclear matter from world data

Peng Ru, Zhong-Bo Kang, Enke Wang +2

We present the first global extraction of the jet transport coefficient () for cold nuclear matter within the framework of higher-twist expansion. The analysis takes into a…

nucl-th2020★ 3 cited

Accelerating longitudinal expansion of resistive relativistic-magneto-hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions

M. Haddadi Moghaddam, W. M. Alberico, Duan She +2

We study the evolution of the longitudinal expansion of an ideal fluid with finite electrical conductivity, which is subject to the EM fields. In the framework of resistive relativ…

nucl-th2020★ 1 cited

Rotation Effects on Mesonic Condensations in Isospin Matter

Hui Zhang, Defu Hou, Jin-feng Liao

We investigate the rotation effects on the mesonic condensation in isospin matter . Using the two-flavor NJL effective model with a global rotation, we demonstrate two important ef…

nucl-th2020★ 18 cited

Local Spin Polarization in 200 GeV Au+Au and 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb Collisions

Hong-Zhong Wu, Long-Gang Pang, Xu-Guang Huang +1

We calculated the azimuthal angle dependence of the local spin polarization of hyperons in 200 GeV Au+Au and 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions in the framework of the (3+1)D viscous hydrod…

nucl-th2020

Beryllium-9 in Cluster Effective Field Theory

Elena Filandri, Paolo Andreatta, Carlo A. Manzata +3

We study the 9 Be ground-state energy with non-local n and potentials derived from Cluster Effective Field Theory. The short-distance dependence of the interaction is reg…

nucl-th2020★ 9 cited

Radial distribution of charm quarks in jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Sa Wang, Wei Dai, Jun Yan +2

Heavy flavor physics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is a promising and active area to study the mass dependence of the "jet quenching" effects both at the RHIC and the LHC. In…

nucl-th2020★ 2 cited

Number of constituent quark scaling of elliptic flows in high multiplicity p-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV

Wenbin Zhao, Che Ming Ko, Yu-Xin Liu +2

We briefly summarize our recent study on the number of constituent quark (NCQ) scaling of hadron elliptic flows in high multiplicity p-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV. W…