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20132025
most citedTowards the determination of heavy-quark transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma

160 citations · 1.1k across the 52 of their papers we have counts for

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53 papers

hep-ph2025

Open heavy-flavor transport and hadronization in heavy-ion collisions

Yu Fu, Tharun Krishna, Weiyao Ke +2

We develop a comprehensive model for heavy-quark evolution in a realistic QGP, from their production in the initial collision to hadronic freeze-out. Heavy-quark transport is descr…

hep-ph2023

Effects of multi-scale jet-medium interactions on jet substructures

JETSCAPE Collaboration, Y. Tachibana, A. Angerami +57

We utilize event-by-event Monte Carlo simulations within the JETSCAPE framework to examine scale-dependent jet-medium interactions in heavy-ion collisions. The reduction in jet-med…

nucl-th2023★ 2 cited

Bayesian parameter estimation with a new three-dimensional initial-conditions model for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Derek Soeder, Weiyao Ke, J. -F. Paquet +1

We extend the well-studied midrapidity TRENTo initial-conditions model to three dimensions, thus facilitating (3+1)D modeling and analysis of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions…

hep-ph2023★ 14 cited

The case for an EIC Theory Alliance: Theoretical Challenges of the EIC

Raktim Abir, Igor Akushevich, Tolga Altinoluk +167

We outline the physics opportunities provided by the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). These include the study of the parton structure of the nucleon and nuclei, the onset of gluon satu…

nucl-ex2023★ 18 cited

Predictions for the sPHENIX physics program

Ron Belmont, Jasmine Brewer, Quinn Brodsky +25

sPHENIX is a next-generation detector experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, designed for a broad set of jet and heavy-flavor probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created i…

hep-ph2023

eHIJING: an Event Generator for Jet Tomography in Electron-Ion Collisions

Weiyao Ke, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Hongxi Xing +1

We develop the first event generator, the electron-Heavy-Ion-Jet-INteraction-Generator (eHIJING), for the jet tomography study of electron-ion collisions. In this generator, energe…

hep-ph2023

Bayesian inference of the path-length dependence of jet energy loss

Jordan Wu, Weiyao Ke, Xin-Nian Wang

A simple model for medium modification of the jet function can be used to extract the jet energy loss distribution through a parameterized form. We carry out a comprehensive Bayesi…

hep-ph2023★ 9 cited

Probing cold nuclear matter with energy correlators

Kyle Devereaux, Wenqing Fan, Weiyao Ke +2

The future electron-ion collider (EIC) will produce the first-ever high energy collisions between electrons and a wide range of nuclei, opening a new era in the study of cold nucle…

hep-ph2023

Understanding parton evolution in matter from renormalization group analysis

Weiyao Ke, Ivan Vitev

We perform a renormalization group (RG) analysis of collinear hadron production in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei. We consider the limit where the parent parton energy is…

hep-ph2023★ 15 cited

Hard jet substructure in a multistage approach

Y. Tachibana, A. Kumar, A. Majumder +56

We present predictions and postdictions for a wide variety of hard jet-substructure observables using a multistage model within the JETSCAPE framework. The details of the multistag…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Comprehensive Study of Multi-scale Jet-medium Interaction

Y. Tachibana, A. Angerami, R. Arora +55

We explore jet-medium interactions at various scales in high-energy heavy-ion collisions using the JETSCAPE framework. The physics of the multi-stage modeling and the coherence eff…

nucl-th2022

Far-from-equilibrium slow modes and momentum anisotropy in expanding plasma

Jasmine Brewer, Weiyao Ke, Li Yan +1

The momentum distribution of particle production in heavy-ion collisions encodes information about thermalization processes in the early-stage quark-gluon plasma. We use kinetic th…

hep-ph2022★ 3 cited

Global constraint on the jet transport coefficient from single hadron, dihadron and -hadron spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Man Xie, Weiyao Ke, Hanzhong Zhang +1

Modifications of large transverse momentum single hadron, dihadron, and -hadron spectra in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are direct consequences of parton-medium interaction…

nucl-th2022★ 14 cited

Does quark-gluon plasma feature an extended hydrodynamic regime?

Weiyao Ke, Yi Yin

We investigate the response of the near-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to perturbation at non-hydrodynamic gradients. We propose a conceivable scenario under which sound mode…

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★ 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…

hep-ph2022★ 45 cited

Information field based global Bayesian inference of the jet transport coefficient

Man Xie, Weiyao Ke, Hanzhong Zhang +1

Bayesian statistical inference is a powerful tool for model-data comparisons and extractions of physical parameters that are often unknown functions of system variables. Existing B…

hep-ph2022★ 56 cited

Inclusive jet and hadron suppression in a multistage approach

A. Kumar, Y. Tachibana, C. Sirimanna +57

We present a new study of jet interactions in the quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, using a multistage event generator within the JETSCAPE framework.…

hep-ph2022★ 21 cited

Searching for QGP droplets with high- hadrons and heavy flavor

Weiyao Ke, Ivan Vitev

The search for the smallest quark-gluon plasma (QGP) droplets in nature has motivated recent small collisions system programs at RHIC and LHC. Unambiguous identification of jet que…

hep-ph2022★ 14 cited

Role of bulk viscosity in deuteron production in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

D. Everett, D. Oliinychenko, M. Luzum +53

We use a Bayesian-calibrated multistage viscous hydrodynamic model to explore deuteron yield, mean transverse momentum and flow observables in LHC Pb-Pb collisions. We explore theo…

hep-ph2021★ 57 cited

From hydro to jet quenching, coalescence and hadron cascade: a coupled approach to solving the puzzle

Wenbin Zhao, Weiyao Ke, Wei Chen +2

Hydrodynamics and jet quenching are responsible for the elliptic flow and suppression of large transverse momentum () hadrons, respectively, two of the most important ph…

hep-ph2021★ 46 cited

Search for the elusive jet-induced diffusion wake in -jets with 2D jet tomography in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Zhong Yang, Wei Chen, Yayun He +3

Diffusion wake is an unambiguous part of the jet-induced medium response in high-energy heavy-ion collisions that leads to a depletion of soft hadrons in the opposite direction of…

nucl-th2021★ 10 cited

Hydrodynamic description of meson production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Chi Ding, Wei-Yao Ke, Long-Gang Pang +1

The large values and the constituent-quark-number (NCQ) scaling of the elliptic flow of low- mesons imply that charm quarks, initially produced through hard processes, mig…

nucl-th2020

Beyond the wake: non-hydrodynamic response of an expanding Quark-gluon plasma

Weiyao Ke, Yi Yin

We study the response function which describes the evolution of energy density induced by an initial disturbance for a Bjorken-expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We compare the re…