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High energy nuclear physics meets Machine Learning
Wan-Bing He, Yu-Gang Ma, Long-Gang Pang +2
Though being seemingly disparate and with relatively new intersection, high energy nuclear physics and machine learning have already begun to merge and yield interesting results du…
Model dependence of the number of participant nucleons and observable consequences in heavy-ion collisions
Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Jan Steinheimer, Kai Zhou +2
The centrality determination and the estimated fluctuations of number of participant nucleons in Au-Au collisions at 1.23 GeV beam kinetic energy suffers from severe…
QCD Equation of State of Dense Nuclear Matter from a Bayesian Analysis of Heavy-Ion Collision Data
Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Jan Steinheimer, Kai Zhou +1
Bayesian methods are used to constrain the density dependence of the QCD Equation of State (EoS) for dense nuclear matter using the data of mean transverse kinetic energy and ellip…
Rethinking the ill-posedness of the spectral function reconstruction -- why is it fundamentally hard and how Artificial Neural Networks can help
Shuzhe Shi, Lingxiao Wang, Kai Zhou
Reconstructing hadron spectral functions through Euclidean correlation functions are of the important missions in lattice QCD calculations. However, in a Källen--Lehmann(KL) spectr…
Neural network reconstruction of the dense matter equation of state from neutron star observables
Shriya Soma, Lingxiao Wang, Shuzhe Shi +2
The Equation of State (EoS) of strongly interacting cold and hot ultra-dense QCD matter remains a major challenge in the field of nuclear astrophysics. With the advancements in mea…
An equation-of-state-meter for CBM using PointNet
Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Kai Zhou, Jan Steinheimer +2
A novel method for identifying the nature of QCD transitions in heavy-ion collision experiments is introduced. PointNet based Deep Learning (DL) models are developed to classify th…
Detecting Chiral Magnetic Effect via Deep Learning
Yuan-Sheng Zhao, Lingxiao Wang, Kai Zhou +1
The search of chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions has attracted long-term attentions. Multiple observables have been proposed but all suffer from obstacles due to…
Heavy quark potential in quark-gluon Plasma: Deep neural network meets lattice quantum chromodynamics
Shuzhe Shi, Kai Zhou, Jiaxing Zhao +2
Bottomonium states are key probes for experimental studies of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in high-energy nuclear collisions. Theoretical models of bottomonium productions…
A fast centrality-meter for heavy-ion collisions at the CBM experiment
Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Jan Steinheimer, Kai Zhou +2
A new method of event characterization based on Deep Learning is presented. The PointNet models can be used for fast, online event-by-event impact parameter determination at the CB…
Identifying the nature of the QCD transition in relativistic collision of heavy nuclei with deep learning
Yi-Lun Du, Kai Zhou, Jan Steinheimer +5
Using deep convolutional neural network (CNN), the nature of the QCD transition can be identified from the final-state pion spectra from hybrid model simulations of heavy-ion colli…
Kinetic approach to a relativistic BEC with inelastic processes
Richard Lenkiewicz, Alex Meistrenko, Hendrik van Hees +3
The phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation is investigated in the context of the Color-Glass-Condensate description of the initial state of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions…
Kinetic description of Bose-Einstein condensation with test particle simulations
Kai Zhou, Zhe Xu, Pengfei Zhuang +1
We present a kinetic description of Bose-Einstein condensation for particle systems being out of thermal equilibrium, which may happen for gluons produced in the early stage of ult…
Nonequilibrium photon production in partonic transport simulations
Moritz Greif, Florian Senzel, Heiner Kremer +3
We discuss the implementation of leading-order photon production in nonequilibrium partonic transport simulations. In this framework photons are produced by microscopic scatterings…
An equation-of-state-meter of QCD transition from deep learning
Long-Gang Pang, Kai Zhou, Nan Su +3
Supervised learning with a deep convolutional neural network is used to identify the QCD equation of state (EoS) employed in relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion coll…
Heavy ions at the Future Circular Collider
A. Dainese, U. A. Wiedemann, N. Armesto +60
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) Study is aimed at assessing the physics potential and the technical feasibility of a new collider with centre-of-mass energies, in the hadron-had…
Thermal Charm and Charmonium Production in Quark Gluon Plasma
Kai Zhou, Zhengyu Chen, Carsten Greiner +1
We study the effect of thermal charm production on charmonium regeneration in high energy nuclear collisions. By solving the kinetic equations for charm quark and charmonium distri…
Heavy Quark and Quarkonium Transport in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
Kai Zhou, Wei Dai, Nu Xu +1
The strong interaction between heavy quarks and the quark gluon plasma makes the open and hidden charm hadrons be sensitive probes of the deconfinement phase transition in high ene…
Kinetic approach to a relativistic Bose-Einstein condensate
Alex Meistrenko, Hendrik van Hees, Kai Zhou +1
We apply a Boltzmann approach to the kinetic regime of a relativistic Bose-Einstein condensate of scalar bosons by decomposing the one-particle distribution function in a condensat…
Excitation function Analysis for Charmonium Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Kai Zhou
Both color screening and regeneration are hot medium effects on charmonium production in heavy ion collisions. While they affect in an opposite way the charmonium yield, their comp…
Undersaturation of quarks at early stages of relativistic nuclear collisions: the hot glue initial scenario and its observable signatures
H. Stoecker, M. Beitel, T. S. Biró +17
The early stage of high multiplicity nuclear collisions is represented by a nearly quarkless, hot, deconfined pure gluon plasma. This new scenario should be characterized by a supp…
Glueballs amass at RHIC and LHC Colliders! - The early quarkless 1st order phase transition at MeV - from pure Yang-Mills glue plasma to GlueBall-Hagedorn states
Horst Stoecker, Kai Zhou, Stefan Schramm +18
The early stage of high multiplicity pp, pA and AA collider is represented by a nearly quarkless, hot, deconfined pure gluon plasma. According to pure Yang-Mills Lattice Gauge Theo…
Thermalization of gluons with Bose-Einstein condensation
Zhe Xu, Kai Zhou, Pengfei Zhuang +1
We study the thermalization of gluons far from thermal equilibrium in relativistic kinetic theory. The initial distribution of gluons is assumed to resemble that in the early stage…
Υ Production in Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC
Kai Zhou, Nu Xu, Pengfei Zhuang
We investigate the Υ production in heavy ion collisions at LHC energy in the frame of a dynamical transport approach. Both the initial production and in-medium regeneration and bot…
Heavy quarks and charmonium at RHIC and LHC within a partonic transport model
Jan Uphoff, Kai Zhou, Oliver Fochler +2
Heavy quark and charmonium production as well as their space-time evolution are studied in transport simulations of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. In the partonic transport…