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most citedCollision geometry fluctuations and triangular flow in heavy-ion collisions

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135 papers

nucl-ex2026

Measurement of isolated prompt photon production in + collisions at GeV with the sPHENIX detector

sPHENIX Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, U. Acharya +217

The differential cross section of isolated prompt photon production is measured as a function of photon transverse energy () in proton--proton (+) collision…

nucl-ex2026

Measurement of dijet transverse momentum imbalance and azimuthal acoplanarity in + collisions at GeV with the sPHENIX detector

sPHENIX Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, U. Acharya +326

This Letter reports on measurements of dijet transverse momentum () imbalance and azimuthal acoplanarity in proton-proton collisions at ~GeV, using da…

nucl-ex2026

Longitudinal Dynamics of Large and Small Systems from a 3D Bayesian Calibration of RHIC Top-energy Collision Data

A. Mankolli, C. Shen, M. Luzum +53

A comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the 3D dynamics of high-energy nuclear collisions is presented. We perform a systematic model-to-data comparison using simulations of large and…

nucl-th2025★ 2 cited

Transport-based initial conditions for heavy-ion collisions at finite densities

H. Roch, G. Pihan, A. Monnai +53

We employ the SMASH transport model to provide event-by-event initial conditions for the energy-momentum tensor and conserved charge currents in hydrodynamic simulations of relativ…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Effects of hadronic reinteraction on jet fragmentation from small to large systems

Hendrik Roch, Aaron Angerami, Ritu Arora +49

We investigate the impact of the hadronic phase on jet quenching in nuclear collider experiments, an open question in heavy-ion physics. Previous studies in a simplified setup sugg…

hep-ph2025

Extraction of jet-medium interaction details through jet substructure for inclusive and gamma-tagged jets

Y. Tachibana, C. Sirimanna, A. Majumder +49

We present a comprehensive study of jet substructure modifications in high-energy heavy-ion collisions using both inclusive jets and -tagged jets, based on a multi-stage jet evo…

nucl-ex2025★ 2 cited

Measurement of the transverse energy density in Au+Au collisions at GeV with the sPHENIX detector

sPHENIX Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, U. Acharya +302

This paper reports measurements of the transverse energy per unit pseudorapidity () produced in Au+Au collisions at GeV, performed with the sPHENIX…

nucl-ex2025★ 3 cited

Measurement of charged hadron multiplicity in Au+Au collisions at GeV with the sPHENIX detector

sPHENIX Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, U. Acharya +302

The pseudorapidity distribution of charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of GeV is measured using data collected by t…

hep-ph2025

The effect of recoils on soft-drop-groomed observables in -tagged jets in a multistage approach

Y. Tachibana, C. Sirimanna, A. Majumder +49

We investigate medium-induced modifications to jet substructure observables that characterize hard components in central Pb-Pb collisions at ~TeV. Using a multi…

hep-ph2025

Hybrid Hadronization -- A Study of In-Medium Hadronization of Jets

A. Sengupta, R. J. Fries, M. Kordell +50

QCD jets are considered important probes for quark gluon plasma created in collisions of nuclei at high energies. Their parton showers are significantly altered if they develop ins…

physics.ins-det2025

Intelligent experiments through real-time AI: Fast Data Processing and Autonomous Detector Control for sPHENIX and future EIC detectors

J. Kvapil, G. Borca-Tasciuc, H. Bossi +30

This R\&D project, initiated by the DOE Nuclear Physics AI-Machine Learning initiative in 2022, leverages AI to address data processing challenges in high-energy nuclear experiment…

hep-ph2024

Hard Photon Triggered Jets in - and - Collisions

C. Sirimanna, Y. Tachibana, A. Majumder +49

An investigation of high transverse momentum (high-) photon triggered jets in proton-proton (-) and ion-ion (-) collisions at and $5.02~\math…

hep-ph2024★ 23 cited

Bayesian Inference analysis of jet quenching using inclusive jet and hadron suppression measurements

R. Ehlers, Y. Chen, J. Mulligan +50

The JETSCAPE Collaboration reports a new determination of the jet transport parameter in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) using Bayesian Inference, incorporating all availabl…

hep-ph2024

A soft-hard framework with exact four momentum conservation for small systems

I. Soudi, W. Zhao, A. Majumder +50

A new framework, called x-scape, for the combined study of both hard and soft transverse momentum sectors in high energy proton-proton (-) and proton-nucleus (-) collis…

nucl-th2024

Photon-triggered jets as probes of multi-stage jet modification

C. Sirimanna, Y. Tachibana, A. Angerami +50

Prompt photons are created in the early stages of heavy ion collisions and traverse the QGP medium without any interaction. Therefore, photon-triggered jets can be used to study th…

hep-ph2024

Measuring jet quenching with a Bayesian inference analysis of hadron and jet data by JETSCAPE

R. Ehlers, A. Angerami, R. Arora +50

The JETSCAPE Collaboration reports the first multi-messenger study of the QGP jet transport parameter using Bayesian inference, incorporating all available hadron and jet…

nucl-th2023

3D Multi-system Bayesian Calibration with Energy Conservation to Study Rapidity-dependent Dynamics of Nuclear Collisions

Andi Mankolli, Aaron Angerami, Ritu Arora +48

Considerable information about the early-stage dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is encoded in the rapidity dependence of measurements. To leverage the large amount of experimental…

physics.ins-det2023

A demonstrator for a real-time AI-FPGA-based triggering system for sPHENIX at RHIC

J. Kvapil, G. Borca-Tasciuc, H. Bossi +28

The RHIC interaction rate at sPHENIX will reach around 3 MHz in pp collisions and requires the detector readout to reject events by a factor of over 200 to fit the DAQ bandwidth of…

hep-ph2023

A multistage framework for studying the evolution of jets and high- probes in small collision systems

Abhijit Majumder, Aaron Angerami, Ritu Arora +48

Understanding the modification of jets and high- probes in small systems requires the integration of soft and hard physics. We present recent developments in extending the JET…

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…

hep-ph2023

A new metric improving Bayesian calibration of a multistage approach studying hadron and inclusive jet suppression

W. Fan, G. Vujanovic, S. A. Bass +52

We study parton energy-momentum exchange with the quark gluon plasma (QGP) within a multistage approach composed of in-medium DGLAP evolution at high virtuality, and (linearized) B…

hep-ph2023

Multiscale evolution of heavy flavor in the QGP

G. Vujanovic, A. Angerami, R. Arora +52

Shower development dynamics for a jet traveling through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a multiscale process, where the heavy flavor mass is an important scale. During the high vir…

nucl-ex2023★ 4 cited

Hot QCD White Paper

M. Arslandok, S. A. Bass, A. A. Baty +170

Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities. Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at t…

hep-ph2023★ 67 cited

The Present and Future of QCD

P. Achenbach, D. Adhikari, A. Afanasev +400

This White Paper presents the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the Hot and Cold QCD Town Meeting that took place September 23-25, 2022 at MIT, as part of the Nuclea…