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20142026
most citedEffective kinetic description of event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

185 citations · 521 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

nucl-th2026

Mathematical foundations and numerical simulations of BDNK hydrodynamics: from heavy-ion collisions to astrophysics

Teerthal Patel, Henry V. Hirvonen, Fábio S. Bemfica +3

We present new developments in the mathematical foundations and numerical simulations of the causal and stable first-order relativistic viscous hydrodynamic theory by Bemfica, Disc…

nucl-th2026

Relativistic viscous hydrodynamics in the Density Frame for heavy-ion collisions

Jean-François Paquet, Mayank Singh, Derek Teaney

We present a numerical study of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics in the Density Frame for boost-invariant flows in 2+1 dimensions. The Density Frame is a formulation of relativis…

hep-ph2026

Electromagnetic probes of concurrent minijet-hydrodynamics evolution

Soham Banerjee, Mayank Singh, Charles Gale +3

We investigate direct photon and dilepton production in a concurrent minijet-hydrodynamics framework that consistently incorporates event-by-event initial-state fluctuations and dy…

nucl-th2025

What happens in hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions when causality is violated?

Lorenzo Gavassino, Henry Hirvonen, Jean-Francois Paquet +2

We summarize our recent investigations on how causality violations in Israel-Stewart-type relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations can give rise to both analytical and numeric…

nucl-th2025

Electromagnetic radiation from Quark-Gluon Plasma at finite baryon density

Xiang-Yu Wu, Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon +3

Using the Bayesian calibrated iEBE-MUSIC framework, we compute the production of electromagnetic radiation from hot hadronic matter at finite baryon density. Results for thermal ph…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Feasibility of measuring the speed of sound of the quark-gluon plasma from the multiplicity and mean of ultracentral heavy-ion collisions

Lorenzo Gavassino, Henry Hirvonen, Jean-François Paquet +2

The mean transverse momentum of hadrons has been observed experimentally and in numerical simulations to have a power-law dependence on the hadronic multiplic…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Quark flavor equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma

Andrew Gordeev, Steffen A. Bass, Berndt Mueller +1

The early stage of a heavy-ion collision is marked by rapid entropy production and the transition from a gluon saturated initial condition to a plasma of quarks and gluons that evo…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics in the Density Frame: Numerical Tests and Comparisons

Jay Bhambure, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Jean-Francois Paquet +4

We conduct a numerical study of relativistic viscous fluid dynamics in the Density Frame for one-dimensional fluid flows. The Density Frame is a formulation of relativistic viscous…

nucl-th2023★ 15 cited

Applications of emulation and Bayesian methods in heavy-ion physics

Jean-François Paquet

Heavy-ion collisions provide a window into the properties of many-body systems of deconfined quarks and gluons. Understanding the collective properties of quarks and gluons is poss…

nucl-th2023★ 3 cited

Additive Multi-Index Gaussian process modeling, with application to multi-physics surrogate modeling of the quark-gluon plasma

Kevin Li, Simon Mak, J. -F Paquet +1

The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is a unique phase of nuclear matter, theorized to have filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. A critical challenge in studying the QGP is that…

nucl-th2023

Thermal photon production in Gubser inviscid relativistic fluid dynamics

Jean-François Paquet

The Gubser solution to inviscid relativistic fluid dynamics is used to examine the role of transverse expansion on the energy spectrum of photons radiated by quark-gluon plasma. Tr…

nucl-th2023★ 5 cited

Computational budget optimization for Bayesian parameter estimation in heavy ion collisions

Brandon Weiss, Jean-François Paquet, Steffen A. Bass

Bayesian parameter estimation provides a systematic approach to compare heavy ion collision models with measurements, leading to constraints on the properties of nuclear matter wit…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Conglomerate Multi-Fidelity Gaussian Process Modeling, with Application to Heavy-Ion Collisions

Yi Ji, Henry Shaowu Yuchi, Derek Soeder +5

In an era where scientific experimentation is often costly, multi-fidelity emulation provides a powerful tool for predictive scientific computing. While there has been notable work…

nucl-th2022

Electromagnetic measurement of the temperature of quark-gluon plasma produced in central ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

Jean-François Paquet, Steffen A. Bass

Ultrarelativistic collisions of large nuclei produce a short-lived plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons. Of all the GeV-energy photons detected in these nuclear collisions, only…

stat.ME2021★ 1 cited

A graphical multi-fidelity Gaussian process model, with application to emulation of heavy-ion collisions

Yi Ji, Simon Mak, Derek Soeder +2

With advances in scientific computing and mathematical modeling, complex scientific phenomena such as galaxy formations and rocket propulsion can now be reliably simulated. Such si…

nucl-th2021★ 87 cited

Multi-messenger heavy-ion collision physics

Charles Gale, Jean-François Paquet, Björn Schenke +1

This work studies the production of direct photons in relativistic nuclear collisions, along with the production of hadrons. Radiation from the very first instants to the final mom…

hep-ph2020★ 13 cited

Parton energy loss in a hard-soft factorized approach

Tianyu Dai, Jean-François Paquet, Derek Teaney +1

An energetic parton travelling through a quark-gluon plasma loses energy via occasional hard scatterings and frequent softer interactions. Whether or not these interactions admit a…

nucl-th2019★ 4 cited

Effective viscosities in a hydrodynamically expanding boost-invariant QCD plasma

Jean-François Paquet, Steffen A. Bass

Background: The near-equilibrium properties of a QCD plasma can be encoded into transport coefficients such as bulk and shear viscosity. In QCD, the ratio of these transport coeffi…

nucl-th2019

Parton energy loss in the reformulated weakly-coupled kinetic approach

Tianyu Dai, Steffen A. Bass, Jean-François Paquet +1

Interactions between hard partons and the quark-gluon plasma range from frequent soft interactions to rare hard scatterings. The larger number of soft interactions makes possible a…

hep-ph2018★ 185 cited

Effective kinetic description of event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Aleksi Kurkela, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Jean-François Paquet +2

We develop a macroscopic description of the space-time evolution of the energy-momentum tensor during the pre-equilibrium stage of a high-energy heavy-ion collision. Based on a wea…

nucl-th2017★ 99 cited

Effects of bulk viscosity and hadronic rescattering in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC

Sangwook Ryu, Jean-François Paquet, Chun Shen +4

We describe ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC with a hybrid model using the IP-Glasma model for the earliest stage and viscous hydrodynamics and microscop…

nucl-th2017★ 17 cited

Probing the spacetime evolution of heavy ion collisions with photons and dileptons

Jean-François Paquet

Photons and dileptons are emitted throughout the evolution of the deconfined nuclear medium produced in heavy ion collisions. As such they can provide valuable information about th…

nucl-th2016

Electromagnetic probes of heavy ion collisions: recent developments

Jean-François Paquet

The current status of photon and dilepton emission in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed, and recent developments are highlighted. The importance of emissions at e…

hep-ph2016★ 34 cited

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…