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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…

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-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…

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…

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…

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…

nucl-th2024

Four-dimensional QCD equation of state with multiple chemical potentials

Akihiko Monnai, Grégoire Pihan, Björn Schenke +1

We construct a four-dimensional version of the equation of state (EoS) model NEOS, NEOS-4D, as a function of the temperature and chemical potentials of baryon, electric charge, and…

nucl-th2024

Unveiling baryon charge carriers through charge stopping in isobar collisions

Gregoire Pihan, Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke +1

Utilizing a comprehensive (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamic framework with multiple conserved charge currents and charge-dependent Lattice-QCD-based equation of state, we study the…

nucl-th2024

Anisotropic flow in fixed-target Pb+Ne collisions as a probe of quark-gluon plasma

Giuliano Giacalone, Wenbin Zhao, Benjamin Bally +19

The System for Measuring Overlap with Gas (SMOG2) at the LHCb detector enables the study of fixed-target ion-ion collisions at relativistic energies ( GeV…

nucl-th2024

Vector meson production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions

Björn Schenke, Heikki Mäntysaari, Farid Salazar +2

We review model calculations of exclusive vector meson production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. We highlight differences and similarities between different dipole models…

nucl-th2024★ 33 cited

Progress and Challenges in Small Systems

Jorge Noronha, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen +1

We present a comprehensive review of the theoretical and experimental progress in the investigation of novel high-temperature quantum chromodynamics phenomena in small systems at b…

nucl-th2023★ 1 cited

Tracing baryon and electric charge transport in isobar collisions

Gregoire Pihan, Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke +1

It is of fundamental interest to understand the carrier of conserved quantum charges within protons and nuclei at high energy. Preliminary data from isobar collisions at RHIC revea…

nucl-th2023★ 1 cited

The effects of pseudorapidity-dependent observables on (3+1)D Bayesian Inference of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Chun Shen, Björn Schenke, Wenbin Zhao

This proceeding highlights the effects of pseudorapidity-dependent charged hadron observables and in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV on constraini…

nucl-th2023

Probing nuclear structure at the Electron-Ion Collider and in ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions

Heikki Mäntysaari, Farid Salazar, Björn Schenke +2

Within the Color Glass Condensate framework, we demonstrate that exclusive vector meson production at high energy is sensitive to the geometric deformation of the target nucleus an…

nucl-th2023

Effects of nuclear structure and quantum interference on diffractive vector meson production in ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions

Heikki Mäntysaari, Farid Salazar, Björn Schenke +2

We study diffractive vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of heavy nuclei, utilizing a theoretical framework based on the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) form…

nucl-th2023★ 2 cited

Viscosities of the Baryon-Rich Quark-Gluon Plasma from Beam Energy Scan Data

Chun Shen, Björn Schenke, Wenbin Zhao

This work presents the first Bayesian inference study of the (3+1)D dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) viscosities using an event-by-event (…

nucl-th2023

Early time dynamics far from equilibrium via holography

Matthias Kaminski, Casey Cartwright, Marco Knipfer +3

We investigate the early time dynamics of heavy ion collisions studying the time evolution of the energy-momentum tensor as well as energy-momentum correlations within a uniformly…