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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-th2022★ 4 cited

Neutron density fluctuation and neutron-proton correlation from AMPT model

Zuman Zhang, Ning Yu, Hongge Xu

Using the multiphase transport (AMPT) model, we study the relative neutron density fluctuation and neutron-proton correlation in matter produced by Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\te…

nucl-th2022★ 4 cited

Revisiting the centrality definition and observable centrality dependence of relativistic heavy-ion collisions in PACIAE model

Yu-Liang Yan, Dai-Mei Zhou, An-Ke Lei +6

We improve the centrality definition in impact parameter in PACIAE model responding the fact reported by the ALICE, ATLAS, and CMS collaborations that the maximum impact parameter…

nucl-th2022★ 10 cited

Jet radius and momentum splitting fraction with dynamical grooming in heavy-ion collisions

Lei Wang, Jin-Wen Kang, Qing Zhang +4

We investigate the medium modifications of momentum splitting fraction and groomed jet radius with both dynamical grooming and soft drop algorithms in heavy-ion collisions. In the…

nucl-th2022★ 26 cited

Medium Response and Jet-Hadron Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin

High-energy heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider have evolved from qualitative understanding into precise extraction of the pro…

nucl-th2022★ 3 cited

Interactions between heavy quarks and tilted QGP fireballs in 200 AGeV Au+Au collisions

Ze-Fang Jiang, Shanshan Cao, Wen-Jing Xing +2

Heavy quark observables are applied to probe the initial energy density distribution with violation of longitudinal boost invariance produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.…

nucl-th2022★ 1 cited

Intermittency of charged particles in the hybrid UrQMD+CMC model at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Jin Wu, Zhiming Li, Xiaofeng Luo +2

Within the framework of intermittency analysis, a search for critical fluctuations is ongoing to locate the possible critical point in the quantum chromodynamics phase diagram. In…

nucl-th2022★ 16 cited

Multi-scale evolution of charmed particles in a nuclear medium

JETSCAPE collaboration, W. Fan, G. Vujanovic +57

Parton energy-momentum exchange with the quark gluon plasma (QGP) is a multi-scale problem. In this work, we calculate the interaction of charm quarks with the QGP within the highe…

nucl-th2022★ 5 cited

Hydrodynamic simulations of directed flow for light hadrons in Au+Au and isobar collisions 200 GeV

Jing Jing, Ze-Fang Jiang, C. B. Yang +1

Using a (3+1)-D hydrodynamic model CLVisc, we study the directed flow () of light hadrons produced in Au+Au, Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at 200 GeV.…

nucl-th2022★ 22 cited

Impacts of anomaly on nuclear and neutron star equation of state based on a parity doublet model

Bikai Gao, Takuya Minamikawa, Toru Kojo +1

We examine the role of the anomaly in a parity doublet model of nucleons which include the chiral variant and invariant masses. Our model expresses the anomaly by…

nucl-th2022★ 23 cited

Deep learning assisted jet tomography for the study of Mach cones in QGP

Zhong Yang, Yayun He, Wei Chen +3

Mach cones are expected to form in the expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP) when energetic quarks and gluons (called jets) traverse the hot medium at a velocity faster than the speed…

nucl-th2022★ 8 cited

Evolution of global polarization in relativistic heavy-ion collisions within a perturbative approach

Xiaowen Li, Ze-Fang Jiang, Shanshan Cao +1

Extremely large angular orbital momentum can be produced in non-central heavy-ion collisions, leading to a strong transverse polarization of partons that scatter through the quark-…

nucl-th2022★ 6 cited

Overview of intermittency analysis in heavy-ion collisions

Zhiming Li

In this paper, a search for power-law fluctuations with fractality and intermittency analysis to explore the QCD phase diagram and the critical point is summarized. Experimental da…

nucl-th2022★ 29 cited

Probing the initial longitudinal density profile and electromagnetic field in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions with heavy quarks

Ze-Fang Jiang, Shanshan Cao, Wen-Jing Xing +3

Heavy quarks are valuable probes of the electromagnetic field and the initial condition of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions. Within an…

nucl-th2022★ 20 cited

Lorentz-covariant kinetic theory for massive spin-1/2 particles

Xin-Li Sheng, Qun Wang, Dirk H. Rischke

We construct a matrix-valued spin-dependent distribution function (MVSD) for massive spin-1/2 fermions and study its properties under Lorentz transformations. Such transformations…

nucl-th2022

Practical considerations for the effect of finite coverage on the azimuthal dependence of global spin alignment

Chao Zhang, Peng Yang, Feng Liu +1

The global spin alignment of vector mesons is a powerful probe to study the vorticity field of the system produced in non-central relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Since the exper…