output
19932026
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

3.4k citations

Showing hep-phShow all

154 papers · 1 filter

hep-ph2026

Production of muonic kaon atoms at high-energy colliders

Xiaofeng Wang, Zebo Tang, Zhangbu Xu +3

We develop a framework for the formation of exotic muonic kaon atoms () in semileptonic decays, using the effective weak Hamiltonian, a helicity-based treatment of the…

hep-ph2026★ 3 cited

Medium separation scheme effects on the magnetized and cold two-flavor superconducting quark matter

Francisco X. Azeredo, Dyana C. Duarte, Ricardo L. S. Farias

We analyze the impact of the Medium Separation Scheme (MSS) on two-flavor color superconducting (2SC) dense quark matter under the influence of a constant external magnetic field.…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Speed of sound peak in two-color dense QCD: confronting effective models with lattice data

Arthur E. B. Pasqualotto, Dyana C. Duarte, Ricardo L. S. Farias +1

Lattice simulations of two-color, two-flavor Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at finite quark chemical potential have revealed a distinctive peak structure in the sound velocity. Altho…

hep-ph2025

Understanding baryon stopping at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider top energies

Niseem Magdy, Prithwish Tribedy, Chun Yuen Tsang +1

The nucleon exhibits a rich internal structure governed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), where its electric charge arises from valence quarks, while its spin and mass emerge from c…

hep-ph2024★ 6 cited

Search for baryon junctions in e+A collisions at the Electron Ion Collider

Niseem Magdy, Abhay Deshpande, Roy Lacey +3

Constituent quarks in a nucleon are the essential elements in the standard ``quark model" associated with the electric charge, spin, mass, and baryon number of a nucleon. Quantum C…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Approaching the conformal limit of quark matter with different chemical potentials

Connor Brown, Veronica Dexheimer, Rafael Bán Jacobsen +1

We study in detail the influence of different chemical potentials (baryon, charged, strange, and neutrino) on how and how fast a free gas of quarks in the zero-temperature limit re…