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20242026
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8 papers

nucl-th2026

Studying the QCD Matter produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions using the MUSES Calculation Engine

Johannes Jahan, Kevin P. Pala, Yumu Yang +42

The equation of state of hot and dense matter is essential for describing heavy-ion collisions at all collision energies. Here, we explore the capabilities of the latest version of…

hep-ph2026

Jet Momentum Broadening in Viscous QCD Matter: A Moment Expansion Approach

Isabella Danhoni, Nicki Mullins, Jorge Noronha

We formulate out-of-equilibrium jet momentum broadening in QCD effective kinetic theory through a moment expansion of the medium distribution function, a method traditionally used…

hep-ph2026

Covariant diffusion tensor for jet momentum broadening out of equilibrium

Isabella Danhoni, Nicki Mullins, Jorge Noronha

Jets are produced in the earliest stages of heavy-ion collisions, where they can interact with a medium that is not yet close to local equilibrium. Motivated by this, we generalize…

hep-ph2026

Transport Coefficients from pQCD to the Hadron Resonance Gas at finite BSQ densities

Isabella Danhoni

We calculate the shear viscosity, , in two limits: perturbative QCD and an excluded-volume hadron resonance gas (HRG), at finite BSQ densities. Using an interpolation framework…

nucl-th2025

NuclearConfectionery: Multi-stage Simulation Framework for Modeling Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

Kevin P. Pala, Surkhab Kaur Virk, Dekrayat Almaalol +9

We present the NuclearConfectionery, a modular framework for simulating the full dynamical evolution of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Its core hydrodynamic module, CCAKE 2.0,…

nucl-th2025

Symmetry Energy of 2+1-flavor dense quark matter from perturbative QCD

Isabella Danhoni, Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert +1

The symmetry energy expansion was developed to connect isospin symmetric matter probed in nuclear experiments to asymmetric matter found in neutron stars. Using the isospin asymmet…