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most citedProgress and Challenges in Small Systems

33 citations · 101 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

hep-ph2026

Revisiting the role of saturation in diffractive vector meson production

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Björn Schenke +2

We perform a global Bayesian analysis of coherent and incoherent diffractive photoproduction in and collisions using a Color Glass Condensate (…

hep-ph2026

Nuclear structure and saturation effects from diffractive vector meson production

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Björn Schenke +2

We study exclusive vector meson production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of a wide range of nuclei, and assess the potential of measurements to constrain the small- struc…

nucl-th2026

Signatures of QCD conductivities in heavy-ion collisions

Akihiko Monnai, Grégoire Pihan, Björn Schenke +1

Dissipative processes are pivotal for understanding the hydrodynamic evolution of hot and dense QCD matter created in relativistic nuclear collisions. The interplay of multiple con…

hep-ph2025

Probing gluon saturation with forward di-hadron correlations in proton-nucleus collisions

Paul Caucal, Zhong-Bo Kang, Piotr Korcyl +5

We present a detailed numerical investigation of semi-inclusive forward di-hadron production in proton-nucleus collisions employing the Color Glass Condensate effective theory. We…

nucl-th2025

Electromagnetic Radiation from Baryon-Rich Matter in Heavy-Ion Collisions

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

We perform a study of electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Beam Energy Scan (BES) and SPS energies using the iEBE-MUSIC frame…

nucl-th2025

Impact of QCD Energy Evolution on Observables in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen +1

We study how the inclusion of energy dependence as dictated by quantum chromodynamic (QCD) small- evolution equations affects key observables in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion col…

nucl-th2025

Pre-equilibrium charm quark dynamics and their impact on D-Meson observables

Manu Kurian, Mayank Singh, Charles Gale +2

We study the impact of pre-equilibrium evolution on the charm quark and in Pb+Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV. We observe that there is significant diffu…

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…

nucl-th2025

Neutron Skin from Conserved Charge Measurements at Collider Experiments

Grégoire Pihan, Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke +1

We propose a novel method for measuring the neutron skin of heavy nuclei using collider experiments. Specifically, we demonstrate that the neutron skin thickness of the lead nucleu…

nucl-th2025★ 3 cited

Charm quark evolution in the early stages of heavy-ion collisions

Mayank Singh, Manu Kurian, Björn Schenke +2

Heavy quarks are predominantly generated at the initial stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions such that heavy flavor observables have the potential to provide information on t…

nucl-th2025

Perturbative high-energy evolution in the IP-Glasma initial state

Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen +1

We include the perturbative JIMWLK energy evolution into the IP-Glasma initial state description used to simulate the early-time dynamics in heavy ion collisions. By numerically so…

nucl-ex2025

Nuclear Physics Confronts Relativistic Collisions Of Isobars

Giuliano Giacalone, Jiangyong Jia, Vittorio Somà +43

High-energy collisions involving the isobars Zr and Ru have been performed in 2018 at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) a…

hep-ph2025★ 9 cited

Global Bayesian Analysis of Photoproduction on Proton and Lead Targets

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Farid Salazar +3

We perform a global Bayesian analysis of diffractive production in and collisions using a color glass condensate (CGC) based calculation framew…

nucl-th2025

Four-dimensional QCD equation of state at finite chemical potentials

Akihiko Monnai, Grégoire Pihan, Björn Schenke +1

Exploration of the QCD phase diagram is pivotal in particle and nuclear physics. We construct a full four-dimensional equation of state of QCD with net baryon, electric charge, and…

nucl-th2025

Collision energy dependence in heavy ion collisions from nonlinear QCD evolution

Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen +1

We explore the effects of including the energy dependence determined from evolution equations within the color glass condensate framework on observables in ultra-relativistic heavy…

hep-ph2025

Hybrid Hadronization -- A Study of In-Medium Hadronization of Jets

A. Sengupta, R. J. Fries, M. Kordell +50

QCD jets are considered important probes for quark gluon plasma created in collisions of nuclei at high energies. Their parton showers are significantly altered if they develop ins…

hep-ph2024

Hard Photon Triggered Jets in - and - Collisions

C. Sirimanna, Y. Tachibana, A. Majumder +49

An investigation of high transverse momentum (high-) photon triggered jets in proton-proton (-) and ion-ion (-) collisions at and $5.02~\math…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Hydrodynamic Description of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Ulrich Heinz, Björn Schenke

We review the history and success of applying relativistic hydrodynamics to high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We emphasize the important role hydrodynamics has played in the discov…

hep-ph2024

Collectivity in ultra-peripheral heavy-ion and e+A collisions

Björn Schenke, Chun Shen, Wenbin Zhao

We review recent theoretical progress in describing collective effects in photon+nucleus collisions. The approaches considered range from the color glass condensate where correlati…

hep-ph2024★ 16 cited

Finite-size effects on small- evolution and saturation in proton and nuclear targets

Heikki Mäntysaari, Jani Penttala, Farid Salazar +1

Within the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory, we assess the importance of including a finite size for the target on observables sensitive to small- evolution. To thi…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Probing Nuclear Structure of Heavy Ions at the Large Hadron Collider

Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen +1

We perform high-statistics simulations to study the impacts of nuclear structure on the ratios of anisotropic flow observables in Pb+Pb and Xe+Xe co…

hep-ph2024

Simulating Charm Quarks in IP-Glasma Initial Stage and Quark-Gluon Plasma: A Hybrid Approach for charm quark phenomenology

Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon, Manu Kurian +2

We present phenomenological findings on charm quark transport while including its energy loss in both pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic stages of the evolution. We employed the MART…

nucl-th2024

Spatial imaging of polarized deuterons at the Electron-Ion Collider

Heikki Mäntysaari, Farid Salazar, Björn Schenke +2

We study diffractive vector meson production at small- in the collision of electrons and polarized deuterons . We consider the polarization dependence of the nuc…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Probing gluon saturation and nuclear structure in photon-nucleus collisions

Heikki Mäntysaari, Farid Salazar, Björn Schenke +2

We calculate exclusive vector meson photoproduction within the Color Glass Condensate framework in high-energy photon-nucleus scattering probed experimentally in ultra peripheral h…