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20182026
most citedNon-equilibrium attractor in high-temperature QCD plasmas

70 citations · 224 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

nucl-th2026

Studying the QCD Matter produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions using the MUSES Calculation Engine

Johannes Jahan, Kevin P. Pala, Yumu Yang +42

The equation of state of hot and dense matter is essential for describing heavy-ion collisions at all collision energies. Here, we explore the capabilities of the latest version of…

nucl-th2025

NuclearConfectionery: Multi-stage Simulation Framework for Modeling Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

Kevin P. Pala, Surkhab Kaur Virk, Dekrayat Almaalol +9

We present the NuclearConfectionery, a modular framework for simulating the full dynamical evolution of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Its core hydrodynamic module, CCAKE 2.0,…

nucl-th2024

Unlocking "imprints" of conserved charges in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions

Fernando G. Gardim, Dekrayat Almaalol, Jordi Salinas San Martín +2

Hydrodynamic approaches to modeling relativistic high-energy heavy-ion collisions are based on the conservation of energy and momentum. However, the medium formed in these collisio…

nucl-th2024

BSQ Conserved Charges in Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics solved with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Christopher Plumberg, Dekrayat Almaalol, Travis Dore +8

Conservation laws play a crucial role in the modeling of heavy-ion collisions, including the those for charges such as baryon number (B), strangeness (S), and electric charge (Q).…

hep-ph2023

Influence of baryon number, strangeness, and electric charge fluctuations at the LHC

Christopher Plumberg, Dekrayat Almaalol, Travis Dore +8

At the Large Hadron Collider it is possible to generate BSQ (baryon, strangeness, and electric) charge density fluctuations from gluon splittings into quark/anti-quark pairs, gener…

nucl-th2022★ 18 cited

Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars

Alessandro Lovato, Travis Dore, Robert D. Pisarski +61

Since the release of the 2015 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Physics, major events have occurred that reshaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear matter at l…

hep-th2022★ 4 cited

Stability of multi-component relativistic viscous hydrodynamics from Israel-Stewart and reproducing DNMR from maximizing the entropy

Dekrayat Almaalol, Travis Dore, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

The Quark Gluon Plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions has three relevant conserved charges: baryon number (B), strangeness (S), and electric charge (Q). Here we derive the Israel…

hep-th2022

Non-equilibrium attractor in high-temperature QCD plasmas

Dekrayat Almaalol, Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela +1

We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly-coupled gauge theory undergoing 0+1d Bjorken expansion which goes beyond the energy-momentum tensor to the…

nucl-th2021★ 52 cited

Causality violations in realistic simulations of heavy-ion collisions

Christopher Plumberg, Dekrayat Almaalol, Travis Dore +2

Causality is violated in the early stages of state-of-the-art heavy-ion hydrodynamic simulations. Such violations are present in up to 75% of the fluid cells in the initial time an…

hep-ph2020★ 70 cited

Non-equilibrium attractor in high-temperature QCD plasmas

Dekrayat Almaalol, Aleksi Kurkela, Michael Strickland

We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly-coupled gauge theory undergoing one-dimensional Bjorken expansion. We demonstrate that the resulting far-fr…

hep-ph2018

Anisotropic hydrodynamics for Au-Au collisions at 200 GeV

Mubarak Alqahtani, Dekrayat Almaalol, Michael Strickland

In this proceedings, we review the basics of quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP). Thenwe present phenomenological comparisons between 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic…

nucl-th2018★ 11 cited

Anisotropic hydrodynamics with number-conserving kernels

D. Almaalol, M. Alqahtani, M. Strickland

We compare anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro) results obtained using the relaxation-time approximation (RTA) and leading-order (LO) scalar λϕ^4 collisional kernels. We extend previ…

hep-ph2018★ 6 cited

Anisotropic hydrodynamic modeling of heavy-ion collisions at LHC and RHIC

Mubarak Alqahtani, Dekrayat Almaalol, Mohammad Nopoush +2

In this proceedings contribution, we review 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP). Then, we show some recent phenomenological comparisons between the aHydroQP mod…

nucl-th2018★ 34 cited

Anisotropic hydrodynamic modeling of 200 GeV Au-Au collisions

Dekrayat Almaalol, Mubarak Alqahtani, Michael Strickland

We compare phenomenological results from 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP) with experimental data collected in RHIC 200 GeV Au-Au collisions. We present compa…

hep-ph2018★ 29 cited

Anisotropic hydrodynamics with a scalar collisional kernel

Dekrayat Almaalol, Michael Strickland

Prior studies of non-equilibrium dynamics using anisotropic hydrodynamics have used the relativistic Anderson-Witting scattering kernel or some variant thereof. In this paper, we m…