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Yoctosecond imaging of the ground state of Xe at the Large Hadron Collider
Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Imaging a quantum many-body system requires probes that resolve the coordinates of its constituents in sufficiently large event samples, allowing measurements of correlation functi…
Towards a topological data analysis for heavy-ion collisions
Federica Capellino, Andrea Dubla, Silvia Masciocchi +2
The collective expansion of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions suggests that geometry-inspired approaches can be useful in extracting information about th…
Three Predictions for Partonic Energy Loss from Light to Heavy Ion Collisions
Wilke van der Schee, Isobel Kolbé, Govert Nijs +3
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collided OO and NeNe isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collision…
Nuclear Physics Confronts Relativistic Collisions Of Isobars
Giuliano Giacalone, Jiangyong Jia, Vittorio Somà +43
High-energy collisions involving the isobars Zr and Ru have been performed in 2018 at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) a…
Transmutation of O and Ne at the Large Hadron Collider
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide OO and NeNe isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion colli…
Effective temperatures of the QGP from thermal photon and dilepton production
Olaf Massen, Govert Nijs, Mike Sas +2
Thermal electromagnetic radiation is emitted by the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) throughout its space-time evolution, with production rates that depend characteristically on the temper…
Anisotropic flow in fixed-target Pb+Ne collisions as a probe of quark-gluon plasma
Giuliano Giacalone, Wenbin Zhao, Benjamin Bally +19
The System for Measuring Overlap with Gas (SMOG2) at the LHCb detector enables the study of fixed-target ion-ion collisions at relativistic energies ( GeV…
The unexpected uses of a bowling pin: exploiting Ne isotopes for precision characterizations of collectivity in small systems
Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally, Govert Nijs +16
Whether or not femto-scale droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) are formed in so-called small systems at high-energy colliders is a pressing question in the phenomenology of the st…
Quarkonium transport in weakly and strongly coupled plasmas
Govert Nijs, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld, Xiaojun Yao
We report on progress in the nonperturbative understanding of quarkonium dynamics inside a thermal plasma. The time evolution of small-size quarkonium is governed by two-point corr…
Ultracentral heavy ion collisions, transverse momentum and the equation of state
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Ultracentral heavy ion collisions due to their exceptionally large multiplicity probe an interesting regime of quark-gluon plasma where the size is (mostly) fixed and fluctuations…
Generalized Gluon Distribution for Quarkonium Dynamics in Strongly Coupled Yang-Mills Theory
Govert Nijs, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld, Xiaojun Yao
We study the generalized gluon distribution that governs the dynamics of quarkonium inside a non-Abelian thermal plasma characterizing its dissociation and recombination rates. Thi…
Quarkonium transport in strongly coupled plasmas
Govert Nijs, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld, Xiaojun Yao
Suppression of open heavy flavors and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions is among the most informative probes of the quark-gluon plasma. Interpreting the full wealth of data obtaine…
Hard probes in isobar collisions as a probe of the neutron skin
Wilke van der Schee, Yen-Jie Lee, Govert Nijs +1
We present an estimate of the yield of hard probes expected for collisions of the isobars Ru and Zr at collision energies reachable at RHIC and the LHC\@. T…
Determination of the neutron skin of Pb from ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions
Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Emergent bulk properties of matter governed by the strong nuclear force give rise to physical phenomena across vastly different scales, ranging from the shape of atomic nuclei to t…
A generalized hydrodynamizing initial stage for Heavy Ion Collisions
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
We present an extended Bayesian analysis using Trajectum where the initial condition can now include binary scaling. For the far-from-equilibrium evolution before hydrodynamics we…
Chromoelectric field correlator for quarkonium transport in the strongly coupled Yang-Mills plasma from AdS/CFT
Govert Nijs, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld, Xiaojun Yao
Previous studies have shown that a gauge-invariant correlation function of two chromoelectric fields connected by a straight timelike adjoint Wilson line encodes crucial informatio…
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…
Imaging the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions and nuclear structure across the nuclide chart
Jiangyong Jia, Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally +18
High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding nuclei informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition (IC) leading to the f…
The hadronic nucleus-nucleus cross section and the nucleon size
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Even though the total hadronic nucleus-nucleus cross section is among the most fundamental observables, it has only recently been measured precisely for lead-lead collisions at the…
Hard probe path lengths and event-shape engineering of the quark-gluon plasma
Caitlin Beattie, Govert Nijs, Mike Sas +1
As particles traverse the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed during a heavy ion collision they undergo energy loss depending on the distance travelled. We study several temperature- a…
Inferring nuclear structure from heavy isobar collisions using Trajectum
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Nuclei with equal number of baryons but varying proton number (isobars) have many commonalities, but differ in both electric charge and nuclear structure. Relativistic collisions o…
Predictions and postdictions for relativistic lead and oxygen collisions with Trajectum
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
We introduce a global analysis of relativistic heavy ion collisions using Trajectum of a significantly higher precision and including a new option to vary the normalization of the…
On the interplay between magnetic field and anisotropy in holographic QCD
Umut Gürsoy, Matti Järvinen, Govert Nijs +1
We investigate the combined effects of anisotropy and a magnetic field in strongly interacting gauge theories by the gauge/gravity correspondence. Our main motivation is the quark-…
Bayesian analysis of heavy ion collisions with the heavy ion computational framework Trajectum
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee, Umut Gürsoy +1
We introduce a model for heavy ion collisions named Trajectum, which includes an expanded initial stage with a variable free streaming velocity and a hydrodynamic stag…