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20182026
most citedExploring the double-slit interference with linearly polarized photons

34 citations · 79 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

nucl-th2026

Effective Contact Theory for Exotic Loosely Bound States in Strongly Interacting Expanding Matter

Xiaofeng Wang, Zebo Tang, Zhangbu Xu +2

Short-distance correlations generate universal relations that can be independent of microscopic details. Tan's contact is a prominent example, connecting close pairs, high-momentum…

hep-ph2026

Probing Quantum Numbers and Decay Branching Ratios of Exotic States via Entanglement-Enabled Spin Interference

Di Zhang, Zhangbu Xu, Chi Yang

Ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) coherently photo-produce vector mesons through two spatially separated and quantum-mechanically indistinguishable production sites, who…

nucl-ex2026

Measure charge transport in high-energy nuclear collisions with an energy scan of isobaric collisions

Wendi Lv, Niseem Magdy, Rongrong Ma +4

We present a method to measure electric-charge transport in high-energy nuclear collisions using a beam-energy scan of isobaric systems. Comparing collisions of nuclei with identic…

nucl-th2026

Chemical potential differentials in the QCD phase diagram from heavy-ion isobar collisions

Joaquin Grefa, Chun Yue Tsang, Rajesh Kumar +3

Temperature and baryon, charge, and strangeness chemical potentials characterize QCD matter under extreme conditions. Differences between these chemical potentials and their ratios…

nucl-ex2025★ 4 cited

Probing Quantum Phenomena through Photoproduction in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

James Daniel Brandenburg, Spencer R. Klein, Zhangbu Xu +3

Photoproduction in ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions displays many unique features, often involving quantum mechanical coherence and two-source interference betwee…

hep-ph2025

Understanding baryon stopping at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider top energies

Niseem Magdy, Prithwish Tribedy, Chun Yuen Tsang +1

The nucleon exhibits a rich internal structure governed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), where its electric charge arises from valence quarks, while its spin and mass emerge from c…

nucl-th2025

Projective Imaging of High-Energy Nuclei via Coherent Exclusive Vector Meson Production in Electron-Nucleus Collisions

Maci Kesler, Ashik Ikbal Sheikh, Rongrong Ma +3

One of the major goals of modern nuclear experiments is to study the distributions of gluons inside nuclei at high energy. A key measurement is the coherent exclusive vector meson…

hep-ph2024

Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC

Xiaofeng Wang, Frank Geurts, Zebo Tang +4

The discovery of exotic mounic atoms, including antimatter hydrogen muonic atoms and kaon mounic atoms, constitutes a milestone in our ability to make and study new forms of matter…

nucl-th2024★ 4 cited

Beam energy dependence of net-hyperon yield and its implication on baryon transport mechanism

Chun Yuen Tsang, Rongrong Ma, Prithwish Tribedy +1

In the constituent quark model, each quark inside a baryon carries 1/3 unit of the baryon number. An alternative picture exists where the center of a Y-shaped topology of gluon fie…

hep-ph2024★ 6 cited

Search for baryon junctions in e+A collisions at the Electron Ion Collider

Niseem Magdy, Abhay Deshpande, Roy Lacey +3

Constituent quarks in a nucleon are the essential elements in the standard ``quark model" associated with the electric charge, spin, mass, and baryon number of a nucleon. Quantum C…

hep-ph2024

Entanglement Enabled Intensity Interferometry in ultrarelativistic ultraperipheral nuclear collisions

James Daniel Brandenburg, Haowu Duan, Zhoudunming Tu +2

An important tool in studying the sub-femtoscale spacetime structure of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) intensity interferometry of id…

nucl-th2023★ 8 cited

Correlations of Baryon and Charge Stopping in Heavy Ion Collisions

Wendi Lv, Yang Li, Ziyang Li +6

Baryon numbers are carried by valence quarks in the standard QCD picture of the baryon structure, while some theory proposed an alternative baryon number carrier, a non-perturbativ…

hep-ph2020★ 34 cited

Exploring the double-slit interference with linearly polarized photons

Wangmei Zha, James Daniel Brandenburg, Lijuan Ruan +2

The linearly polarized quasi-real photons from the highly Lorentz-contracted Coulomb fields of relativistic heavy ions can fluctuate to quark-antiquark pairs, scatter off a target…

hep-ph2018★ 23 cited

Coherent photo-produced J and dielectron yields in isobaric collisions

Wangmei Zha, Lijuan Ruan, Zebo Tang +2

Recently, significant enhancements of J/ and pair production at very low transverse momenta were observed by the STAR and ALICE collaboration in peripheral hadroni…