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nucl-th2024

Effects of chiral symmetry restoration on dilepton production in heavy ion collisions

Wen-Hao Zhou, Che Ming Ko, Kai-Jia Sun

Because of their weak interactions with the strongly interacting matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, dileptons provide an ideal probe of the early dynamics of the…

nucl-th2024

Softening of the Hypertriton Transverse Momentum Spectrum in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Dai-Neng Liu, Che Ming Ko, Yu-Gang Ma +5

Understanding the properties of hypernuclei helps to constrain the interaction between hyperon and nucleon, which is known to play an essential role in determining the properties o…

nucl-th2023★ 36 cited

Kinetic approach of light-nuclei production in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

Rui Wang, Yu-Gang Ma, Lie-Wen Chen +3

We develop a kinetic approach to the production of light nuclei up to mass number in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions by including them as dynamic degre…

nucl-th2023★ 189 cited

Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions

Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133

The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interact…

nucl-th2022★ 2 cited

Unveiling the dynamics of nucleosynthesis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Kai-Jia Sun, Rui Wang, Che Ming Ko +2

Like nucleosynthesis during the early universe, light nuclei are also produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Although the deuteron () yields in these collisions can be w…

nucl-th2022★ 2 cited

Spinodal Enhancement of Light Nuclei Yield Ratio in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Kai-Jia Sun, Wen-Hao Zhou, Lie-Wen Chen +4

Using a relativistic transport model to describe the evolution of the quantum chromodynamic matter produced in Au+Au collisions at GeV, we study the effect of…

nucl-th2022★ 9 cited

Event-by-event anti-deuteron multiplicity fluctuation in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV

Kai-Jia Sun, Che Ming Ko

Using the nucleon coalescence model based on kinetic freeze-out nucleons from the hybrid model of MUSIC hydrodynamics and UrQMD hadronic transport, we study the production of anti-…

nucl-th2021★ 6 cited

Relativistic kinetic approach to light nuclei production in high-energy nuclear collisions

Kai-Jia Sun, Rui Wang, Che Ming Ko +2

Understanding the production mechanism of light (anti-)nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions and cosmic rays has been a long-standing problem in nuclear physics. In the present…

nucl-th2021★ 42 cited

Multiplicity Scaling of Light Nuclei Production in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Wenbin Zhao, Kai-jia Sun, Che Ming Ko +1

Using the nucleon coalescence model based on kinetic freeze-out nucleons from the 3D MUSIC+UrQMD and the 2D VISHNU hybrid model with a crossover equation of state, we study the mul…

nucl-th2020★ 54 cited

Nuclear liquid-gas phase transition with machine learning

Rui Wang, Yu-Gang Ma, R. Wada +4

The machine-learning techniques have shown their capability for studying phase transitions in condensed matter physics. Here, we employ the machine-learning techniques to study the…

nucl-th2020★ 19 cited

Effects of QCD critical point on light nuclei production

Kai-Jia Sun, Che Ming Ko, Feng Li

Using the nucleon coalescence model, which can naturally take into account the correlations in the nucleon density distribution, we study the effects of QCD critical point on light…

nucl-th2020★ 37 cited

Light nuclei production in relativistic heavy ion collisions from the AMPT model

Kai-Jia Sun, Che Ming Ko

Based on an improved multiphase transport (AMPT) model, which gives a good description of proton production with a smooth quark matter to hadronic matter transition in relativistic…

nucl-th2020★ 14 cited

Enhanced yield ratio of light nuclei in heavy ion collisions with a first-order QCD phase transition

Kai-Jia Sun, Che Ming Ko, Feng Li +2

Using a transport model that includes a first-order chiral phase transition between the partonic and the hadronic matter, we study the development of density fluctuations in the ma…

nucl-th2019★ 57 cited

Charmed hadron chemistry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Shanshan Cao, Kai-Jia Sun, Shu-Qing Li +4

We develop for charmed hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions a comprehensive coalescence model that includes an extensive set of and -wave hadronic states a…

nucl-th2019★ 45 cited

Light Nuclei Production in Au+Au Collisions at = 5-200 GeV from JAM model

Hui Liu, Dingwei Zhang, Shu He +3

Light nuclei production is sensitive to the baryon density fluctuations and can be used to probe the QCD phase transition in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this work, we stu…

nucl-th2019★ 20 cited

Isospin splitting of pion elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

He Liu, Feng-Tao Wang, Kai-Jia Sun +2

Based on the framework of an extended multiphase transport model with mean-field potentials in both the partonic phase and the hadronic phase, we explain the elliptic flow differen…

nucl-th2019★ 39 cited

Charmed hadron production in an improved quark coalescence model

Sungtae Cho, Kai-Jia Sun, Che Ming Ko +2

We study the production of charmed hadrons and in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using an improved quark coalescence model. In particular, we extend the usual co…

nucl-th2018★ 108 cited

Suppression of light nuclei production in collisions of small systems at the Large Hadron Collider

Kai-Jia Sun, Che Ming Ko, Benjamin Dönigus

We show that the recently observed suppression of the yield ratio of deuteron to proton and of helium-3 to proton in p+p collisions compared to those in p+Pb or Pb+Pb collisions by…

nucl-th2018★ 4 cited

Extracting strange quark freeze-out information in Pb+Pb collisions at =2.76 TeV from and production

Jie Pu, Kai-Jia Sun, Lie-Wen Chen

Using a covariant quark coalescence model combined with a blast-wave-like analytical parametrization for (anti-)strange quark phase-space freeze-out configuration, we extract infor…

nucl-th2018★ 117 cited

Light nuclei production as a probe of the QCD phase diagram

Kai-Jia Sun, Lie-Wen Chen, Che Ming Ko +2

It is generally believed that the quark-hadron transition at small values of baryon chemical potentials is a crossover but changes to a first-order phase transition with an a…

nucl-th2017★ 117 cited

Probing QCD critical fluctuations from light nuclei production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Kai-Jia Sun, Lie-Wen Chen, Che Ming Ko +1

Based on the coalescence model for light nuclei production, we show that the yield ratio of , d, and H in heav…

nucl-th2017★ 41 cited

Analytical coalescence formula for particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Kai-Jia Sun, Lie-Wen Chen

Based on a covariant coalescence model with a blast-wave-like parametrization for the phase-space configuration of constituent particles at freeze-out, we derive an approximate ana…

nucl-th2016★ 13 cited

Production of and in central Pb+Pb collisions at =2.76 TeV within a covariant coalescence model

Kai-Jia Sun, Lie-Wen Chen

We study the production of and exotic states in central Pb+Pb collisions at TeV at LHC via both hadron and quark coalescence within…

nucl-th2016★ 29 cited

Isospin properties of quark matter from a 3-flavor NJL model

He Liu, Jun Xu, Lie-Wen Chen +1

We have studied the properties of hot and dense quark matter based on the 3-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model as well as its Polyakov-loop extension (pNJL) with scalar-isovecto…