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20182026
most citedInitial transverse-momentum broadening of Breit-Wheeler process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

78 citations · 338 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

nucl-th2026

Effective Contact Theory for Exotic Loosely Bound States in Strongly Interacting Expanding Matter

Xiaofeng Wang, Zebo Tang, Zhangbu Xu +2

Short-distance correlations generate universal relations that can be independent of microscopic details. Tan's contact is a prominent example, connecting close pairs, high-momentum…

hep-ph2026

Interference-induced entanglement in an effectively zero-lifetime particle pair

Xin Wu, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

Quantum entanglement in high-energy collisions is often obscured by finite lifetimes, dynamical evolution, and final-state interactions, complicating the identification of genuinel…

nucl-ex2025

Reducing Systematic Bias in Machine Learning Applications to Signal Extraction in High-Energy Nuclear Physics

Yan Wang, Rangrong Ma, Kaifeng Shen +2

Machine learning techniques are increasingly being applied in high-energy nuclear physics data analysis thanks to their outstanding performance. One key challenge in such applicati…

nucl-ex2025

Energy dependence of rescattering effect on vector mesons spin alignment at RHIC

Zihan Liu, Ziyang Li, Wangmei Zha +1

Spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions provides a novel probe of quark polarization and hadronization mechanism in quark-gluon plasma. Hadronic rescattering may af…

hep-ph2025

Probing the Collision Geometry via Two-Photon Processes in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Jiaxuan Luo, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +4

The initial collision geometry, including the reaction plane, is crucial for interpreting collective phenomena in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, yet it remains experimentally i…

hep-ph2025

Calculations of Di-Hadron Production via Two-Photon Processes in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Luobing Wang, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

Two-photon processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have emerged as a critical probe of quantum electrodynamics in ultra-intense electromagnetic fields, with recent focus ext…

hep-ph2025

Probing Gluon Shadowing in Heavy Nuclei through Bayesian Reweighting of J/ Photoproduction in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions

Pengzhong Lu, Zebo Tang, Xin Wu +1

The gluon distribution in nuclei plays a pivotal role in understanding quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme nuclear environments, yet remains poorly constrained compared to q…

nucl-th2025

Rescattering effects on spin-interference for photoproduction in heavy-ion collisions

Yusong Wang, Xinbai Li, Ziyang Li +3

Recent measurements by various experiments in ultra-peripheral collisions have observed spin-interference in photoproduction, marking a breakthrough in Fermi-scale quantum…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Centrality Manipulation in Exclusive Photoproduction at the Electron-Ion Collider

Xin Wu, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

In the context of future electron-ion collision experiments, particularly the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) and the Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), investigating exclusive pho…

nucl-ex2024★ 33 cited

Properties of the QCD Matter: A Review of Selected Results from the ALICE Experiment

Qi-Ye Shou, Yu-Gang Ma, Song Zhang +11

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, has been a pivotal tool in advancing our understanding of fundamental physics. By colli…

hep-ph2024

Exploring the photoproduction of and in hadronic heavy-ion collisions

Kaifeng Shen, Xin Wu, Zebo Tang +1

Significant enhancements of J/ production have been observed by various experiments at RHIC and LHC for very low transverse momenta in peripheral heavy-ion collisions, which has…

hep-ex2023

The PMT System of the TRIDENT Pathfinder Experiment

Fuyudi Zhang, Fan Hu, Shishen Xian +12

Next generation neutrino telescopes are highly anticipated to boost the development of neutrino astronomy. A multi-cubic-kilometer neutrino telescope, TRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Te…

nucl-ex2023

Quantifying Photoproduction Corrections to J/ψMeasurements in Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions at GeV

Zhejin Liu, Zebo Tang, Xin Wu +1

The contribution of J/ψproduction from coherent and incoherent photon-induced production is calculated in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at GeV. The yield and nuc…

nucl-th2023★ 8 cited

Correlations of Baryon and Charge Stopping in Heavy Ion Collisions

Wendi Lv, Yang Li, Ziyang Li +6

Baryon numbers are carried by valence quarks in the standard QCD picture of the baryon structure, while some theory proposed an alternative baryon number carrier, a non-perturbativ…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

The effect of initial nuclear deformation on dielectron photoproduction in hadronic heavy-ion collisions

Jiaxuan. Luo, Xinbai. Li, Zebo. Tang +2

Significant excesses of pair production at very low transverse momentum ( 0.15 GeV/c) were observed by the STAR collaboration in hadronic heavy-ion collisions. Such…

hep-ph2023

Exploring the higher-order QED effects on the differential distributions of Breit-Wheeler process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Xinbai. Li, Jiaxuan. Luo, Zebo. Tang +2

Extensive studies have been conducted in the past few decades to investigate potential signatures of higher-order QED effects in high-energy electromagnetic scattering processes. I…

hep-ph2023★ 18 cited

Reaction plane alignment with linearly polarized photon in heavy-ion collisions

Xin Wu, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

The collective observables play critical roles in probing the properties of quark-gluon-plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in which the information on initial col…

nucl-th2022★ 13 cited

Rescattering effect on the measurement of K* spin alignment in heavy-ion collisions

Ziyang Li, Wangmei Zha, Zebo Tang

Spin alignment of vector mesons in noncentral relativistic heavy ion collisions provides a novel probe of the global quark polarization and hadronization mechanism. In this paper,…

nucl-ex2021★ 61 cited

An experimental review of open heavy flavor and quarkonium production at RHIC

Zebo Tang, Wangmei Zha, Yifei Zhang

Open heavy flavor and quarkonium are unique probes of the hot-dense medium produced in heavy-ion collisions. Their production in p+p collisions also provide important test of QCD.…

hep-ph2021★ 22 cited

Discovery of higher order QED effect for the vacuum pair production

Wangmei Zha, Zebo Tang

The higher order quantum electrodynamics (QED) effect for vacuum pair production has been searched without success since 1954. In this paper, we show that the lowest order QED calc…

hep-ph2020★ 34 cited

Exploring the double-slit interference with linearly polarized photons

Wangmei Zha, James Daniel Brandenburg, Lijuan Ruan +2

The linearly polarized quasi-real photons from the highly Lorentz-contracted Coulomb fields of relativistic heavy ions can fluctuate to quark-antiquark pairs, scatter off a target…

hep-ph2020★ 6 cited

Acoplanarity of QED pairs accompanied by nuclear dissociation in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions

James Daniel Brandenburg, Wei Li, Lijuan Ruan +4

This paper investigates the transverse momentum broadening effect for electromagnetic production of dileptons in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions accompanied by nuclear dissoc…

nucl-th2018★ 78 cited

Initial transverse-momentum broadening of Breit-Wheeler process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Wangmei Zha, James Daniel Brandenburg, Zebo Tang +1

We calculate the cross section and transverse-momentum () distribution of the Breit-Wheeler process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and their dependence on collision…

hep-ph2018★ 36 cited

Double-slit experiment at fermi scale: coherent photoproduction in heavy-ion collisions

Wangmei Zha, Lijuan Ruan, Zebo Tang +2

The double-slit experiment has become a classic thought experiment, for its clarity in expressing the central puzzle of quantum mechanics -- wave-particle complementarity. Such wav…