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hep-ph2026

Photon-calibrated event-activity bias and subcollision geometry in d+Au collisions at = 200 GeV with PYTHIA 8 Angantyr

Muhammad Ajaz, Haifa I. Alrebdi, Muhammad Waqas

Event-activity selections in small nuclear collision systems couple collision geometry to the soft response accompanying a hard scattering. We examine this coupling in d+Au collisi…

nucl-th2026

Harmonic-dependent geometry-to-flow transfer in AMPT Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr isobar collisions

Murad Badshah, Muhammad Ajaz

We present a fixed- study of geometry-to-flow transfer in string-melting AMPT simulations of and collision…

hep-ph2026

A B-factory continuum retune of PYTHIA 8 hadronization parameters using BELLE and BABAR identified-hadron data

Muhammad Ajaz, Haifa I. Alrebdi

We refine the hadronization sector of a pp PYTHIA~8 tune in production using selected BELLE and BABAR measurements near the region. The study is perform…

hep-ph2026

Kinetic freeze-out and diffusion dynamics in small-system asymmetric collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV in light of a generalized Fokker-Planck distribution

M. Waqas, Wolfgang Bietenholz, Khusniddin K. Olimov +4

A generalized Fokker-Planck solution is used to examine the transverse momentum () spectra of neutral pions generated in small-system asymmetric collisions, -Al, -Au,…

hep-ph2026

Comparing EPOS-4, EPOS-LHC, and SMASH for identified-hadron observables in the NICA energy range

Murad Badshah, Haifa I. Alrebdi, Sana Raza Khan +1

We present a systematic simulation study of identified hadron production in minimum bias Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 6, 7, and 8 GeV. The event samples were generated with thre…

hep-ph2026

Sequential retuning of PYTHIA~8.316 to a global soft-QCD basis in pp collisions at $\sqrts=0.9-13$ TeV

Haifa I. Alrebdi, Muhammad Ajaz

We present a sequential nine-parameter retune of PYTHIA 8.316, built on the Monash 2013 baseline, for soft-QCD observables in proton--proton collisions at -- TeV.…

hep-ph2026

Collectivity Signatures in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions from Hybrid Hydro+Tsallis Modeling of Pion Spectra

Murad Badshah, Haifa I. Alrebdi, Muhammad Waqas +2

The transverse momentum (pT) distributions up to pT = 20 GeV/c for pions produced in the ten different multiplicity classes (MCs) of symmetric pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV have…

hep-ph2025

Thermodynamic Analysis of Transverse Momentum Spectra in Pb-Pb Collisions at 2.76 TeV: Centrality Dependence of Temperature, Freezeout Parameters and Non-Extensitivity

M. Waqas, Hassan Ali Khan, Wolfgang Bietenholz +4

We study properties of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV in mid-rapidity, , based on data by the ALICE Collaboration. In particular, we examine the transverse momentum ()…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Comment on "Evaluation of kinetic freeze-out properties in different relativistic heavy-ion collision systems at \sqrtsNN = 200 GeV'' (Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2025) 140:179) https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06119-0

M. U. Ashraf

The comment raises serious concerns regarding the authors claims about the phase transition from the QGP phase to the hadron gas phase. Additionally, the comment critiques the fund…

hep-ph2024

Investigating the Bulk Properties of Charged Particles in Different Bins Using a Modified Tsallis Model

Haifa I. Alrebdi, Muhammad Ajaz, Murad Badshah +2

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the double-differential distributions of charged particles in twelve distinct pseudorapidity regions of equal width in co…

hep-ph2024★ 7 cited

Thermodynamic Signatures and Phase Transitions in High-Energy Au-Au Collisions

Murad Badshah, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Ajaz +3

In this study, we systematically investigate the dynamics of various hadrons namely \( π^+ \), \( π^- \), \( K^+ \), \( K^- \), \( p \), \( \bar{p} \), \( Λ\), \( \barΛ \), \( Ξ^-…

hep-ph2022

Analyses of the collective properties of hadronic matter in Au-Au collisions at 54.4 GeV

M. Waqas, G. X. Peng, M. Ajaz +2

We investigated the strange hadrons transverse momentum () spectra in Au-Au collision at = 54.4 GeV in the framework of modified Hagedorn function with embedd…

nucl-th2022★ 8 cited

Investigation of the freeze-out parameters in B-B, O-O, Ca-Ca and Au-Au collisions at 39 GeV

Muhammad Waqas, Guang Xiong Peng, Fu-Hu Liu +2

We analyzed the transverse momentum spectra of proton, deuteron and triton in Boron-Boron (B-B), Oxygen-Oxygen (O-O), and Calcium-Calcium (Ca-Ca) central collisions, as well as in…

hep-ph2022★ 6 cited

Particle species and energy dependencies of freeze-out parameters in high-energy proton-proton collisions

Muhammad Waqas, Guang Xiong Peng, Fu-Hu Liu +4

We used blast wave model with Tsallis statistics to analyze the experimental data measured by ALICE Collaboration in proton-proton collisions at Large Hadron Collider and extracted…

nucl-th2022★ 22 cited

Extraction of different temperatures and kinetic freeze-out volume in high energy collisions

M. Waqas, G. -X. Peng, M. Ajaz +3

We analyze the transverse momentum () spectra, [(1/2) /], of kaon, proton, deuteron and triton in different centrality events in gold-gold…

hep-ph2022★ 16 cited

Analyzing transverse momentum spectra by a new method in high-energy collisions

Li-Li Li, Fu-Hu Liu, Muhammad Waqas +1

We analyzed the transverse momentum spectra of positively and negatively charged pions ( and ), positively and negatively charged kaons ( and ), protons and ant…

hep-ph2021

Study of pT spectra of light particles using modified Hagedorn function and cosmic rays Monte Carlo event generators in proton-proton collisions at 900 GeV center of mass energy

Muhammad Ajaz, Muhammad Waqas, Guang-Xiong Peng +3

Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles including pions, kaons and (anti-)protons measured by ALICE experiment in the pT range of 0.1-2.5 GeV/c and pseudorapidity less tha…

hep-ph2021

Extraction of freezeout parameters and their dependence on collision energy and collision cross-section

Muhammad Waqas, Guang-Xiong Peng, Muhammad Ajaz +3

We used the Blast wave model with Boltzmann Gibbs statistics and analyzed the experimental data of transverse momentum spectra () measured by NA61/SHINE and NA 49 Collaboratio…

hep-ph2021

Observation of different scenarios in different temperatures in small and large collision systems

Muhammad Waqas, Lu-Meng Liu, Guang-Xiong Peng +1

We used the modified Hagedron function and analyzed the experimental data measured by the BRAHMS, STAR, PHENIX and ALICE Collaborations in Copper-Copper, Gold-Gold, deuteron-Gold,…

nucl-th2021★ 1 cited

Freezeout properties of different light nuclei at the RHIC Beam Energy Scan

M. Waqas, G. X. Peng, Rui-Qin Wang +2

We study the transverse momentum spectra of light nuclei (deuteron, anti-deuteron and triton) produced in Gold-Gold (Au-Au) collisions in different centrality bins by the blast wav…

hep-ph2021★ 17 cited

Study of kinetic freeze-out parameters as function of rapidity in pp collisions at CERN SPS energies

Muhammad Waqas, H. M. Chen, Guang Xiong Pen +6

We used the blast wave model with Boltzmann Gibbs statistics and analyzed the experimental data measured by NA61/SHINE Collaboration in inelastic (INEL) proton-proton collisions at…