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most citedProbing gluon saturation with next-to-leading order photon production at central rapidities in proton-nucleus collisions

62 citations · 197 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

hep-ph2026

Initial momentum anisotropies in the kT-factorization of the CGC I: Gradient Expansion

Oscar Garcia-Montero

We revisit single-inclusive gluon production in the dilute--dilute limit of the Color Glass Condensate and show that -factorization is only the zeroth order of a systemati…

nucl-th2026

Fundamental geometric limitations on disentangling nuclear-surface properties in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Hadi Mehrabpour, Behnaz Behzadmoghaddam, S. M. A. Tabatabaee Mehr +2

The extraction of the nuclear surface diffuseness from relativistic heavy ion collisions is limited by the intertwined responses of geometry-driven observables to surface diffusene…

hep-ph2026

Effect of Thermal Broadening on Light Hadron Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Q'inich Coc, Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas

The measured hadron yields in heavy-ion collisions are well described by thermal particle production at temperatures close to the QCD pseudo-critical transition. However, if partic…

hep-ph2026

3D Initial-State Dynamics across scales: A Comparative Study of saturation and string-based descriptions

Lucas Constantin, Oscar Garcia-Montero, Niklas Götz +1

We compare the longitudinal deposition of various conserved quantities in the initial condition models of a string based (SMASH) and a saturation based (McDipper) approach. SMASH h…

hep-ph2025

Saturation effects in exclusive vector meson production in DIS

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Yannik Hoffmann, Sören Schlichting

We investigate saturation effects in exclusive vector meson production in deep inelastic scattering (DIS), where we model fluctuations within the target protons as localized color-…

nucl-th2025

Effects of Subnucleonic Fluctuations on the Longitudinal Dynamics of Heavy-Ion Collisions

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Sören Schlichting, Jie Zhu

It is well understood that subnuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have an important impact on the creation of long-range correlations in the transvers…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Effective theories for nuclei at high energies

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Sören Schlichting

We discuss the application of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC), an effective field theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), to describe high-energy nuclear interactions. We first pr…

nucl-th2025

Effects of sub-nucleonic fluctuations on the longitudinal structure of heavy-ion collisions

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Sören Schlichting, Jie Zhu

Sub-nuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions impact not only transverse long-range correlations of small systems, but also the creation of longitudinal str…

hep-ph2024

Baryon stopping and charge deposition in heavy-ion collisions due to gluon saturation

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Sören Schlichting

We compute baryon and electric charge deposition in high-energy heavy-ion collisions using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) Effective Field Theory, where at leading order charge is…

hep-ph2024

Pre-equilibrium Photon and Dilepton Production

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Philip Plaschke +1

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute photon and dilepton production in the chemically equilibrating out-of-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma created in the early stages of high-energy…

hep-ph2024

Scaling of pre-equilibrium dilepton production in QCD Kinetic Theory

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Philip Plaschke, Sören Schlichting

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute dilepton production coming from the pre-equilibrium phase of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We demonstrate…

hep-ph2023

Pre-equilibrium photon production in QCD Kinetic Theory

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Philip Plaschke +1

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute photon production in the chemically equilibrating Quark-Gluon Plasma created in the early stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We show t…

hep-ph2023

Charge and energy deposition in the McDIPPER framework

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Sören Schlichting, Hannah Elfner

In this short note we present aspects of the energy and charge deposition within the McDIPPER, a novel 3D resolved model for the initial state of ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion collis…

nucl-th2023

Photon momentum anisotropies from the late stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Hannah Elfner, Niklas Götz, Oscar Garcia-Montero +2

The photon emission from the late stages of the dynamical evolution of heavy-ion reactions at the highest RHIC and LHC energies is investigated. A comparison between a calculation…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

The McDIPPER: A novel saturation-based 3+1D initial state model for Heavy Ion Collisions

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Hannah Elfner, Sören Schlichting

We present a new 3D resolved model for the initial state of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, based on the -factorized Color Glass Condensate hybrid approach. The Mc…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Pre-equilibrium photons from the early stages of heavy-ion collisions

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Philip Plaschke +1

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute photon production in the chemically equilibrating Quark-Gluon Plasma created in the early stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We do a d…

nucl-th2022★ 5 cited

Global angular momentum generation in heavy-ion reactions within a hadronic transport approach

Nils Sass, Marco Müller, Oscar Garcia-Montero +1

In 2017, the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured finite global angular momentum in heavy-ion collisions through a spin polarization measur…

hep-ph2022★ 28 cited

Isolated photon-hadron production in high energy and collisions at RHIC and LHC

Sanjin Benić, Oscar Garcia-Montero, Anton Perkov

We compute the isolated photon production in association with a charged hadron at mid rapidity in and based on the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework of high energy Q…

hep-ph2021

Out-of-Equilibrium Photon Production in the Late Stages of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Anna Schäfer, Oscar Garcia-Montero, Jean-François Paquet +2

In this work, we assess the importance of non-equilibrium dynamics in the production of photons from the late stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The p-differ…

hep-ph2021★ 21 cited

The role of proton-antiproton regeneration in the late stages of heavy-ion collisions

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Jan Staudenmaier, Anna Schäfer +2

We investigate the long-standing question of the effect of proton-antiproton annihilation on the (anti-)proton yield, while respecting detailed balance for the 5-body back-reaction…

hep-ph2021

Anomalous dilepton production from the Dirac sea in p+p collisions

Oscar Garcia-Montero

In a recent work from the ALICE collaboration an excess of relatively soft dilepton pairs was reported in p+p collisions at TeV. In the report no satisfactory explanation was…

hep-ph2020★ 18 cited

Probing Nucleons and Nuclei in High Energy Collisions

Christine A. Aidala, Elke Aschenauer, Fatma Aslan +87

This volume is a collection of contributions for the 7-week program "Probing Nucleons and Nuclei in High Energy Collisions" that was held at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Sea…

hep-ph2019★ 1 cited

Non-equilibrium photons from the bottom-up thermalization scenario

Oscar Garcia-Montero

In this work, I calculate the resolved spectra for the three stages of the \textit{bottom-up} scenario, which are comparable to the thermal contribution, particularly at…

hep-ph2019★ 17 cited

Probing the evolution of heavy-ion collisions using direct photon interferometry

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Nicole Löher, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +2

We investigate the measurement of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) photon correlations as an experimental tool to discriminate different sources of photon enhancement, which are proposed…