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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A transverse momentum differential global analysis of Heavy Ion Collisions
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee, Umut Gürsoy +1
The understanding of heavy ion collisions and its quark-gluon plasma formation requires a complicated interplay of rich physics in a wealth of experimental data. In this work we co…