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most citedPredictions on global properties in O+O collisions at the Large Hadron Collider using a multi-phase transport model

34 citations · 226 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

hep-ph2026

Evolution of the underlying event and non-extensive thermodynamics in pp collisions from RHIC to LHC energies

Suraj Prasad, Aditya Nath Mishra, Guy Paić +1

We investigate the geometrical and thermodynamical aspects of particle production in pp collisions over a broad center-of-mass energy, ranging from GeV to 13 TeV us…

hep-ph2026

Constraining -cluster compactness in and at TeV energies using azimuthal anisotropy

Aswathy Menon Kavumpadikkal Radhakrishnan, Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick +2

Anisotropic flow in ultra-relativistic light-ion collisions is sensitive to the initial geometry of the colliding nuclei. We investigate whether elliptic flow measurements can cons…

hep-ph2026

MAGE-HEP: Monte Carlo Analysis and Graphical Environment for High-Energy Physics

Rishabh Gupta, Kangkan Goswami, Suraj Prasad +1

Monte Carlo event generators are central to high-energy physics analysis. However, workflows based on handwritten scripts can be difficult to reuse, modify, and reproduce when mult…

hep-ph2026

Inferring identified hadron production in collisions with physics-informed machine learning at the LHC

Rishabh Gupta, Kangkan Goswami, Suraj Prasad +1

Machine learning has become a powerful tool in high-energy collider experiments, which enables the studies based on data-driven approaches to complex reconstruction and regression…

hep-ph2026

Nuclear geometry driven symmetry plane correlations in OO and Ne--Ne collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Suraj Prasad, Raghunath Sahoo

Symmetry-plane correlations (SPCs) are key observables sensitive to the medium's transport properties and are driven by participant-plane correlations (PPCs) in the nuclear overlap…

hep-ph2026

Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma at Finite Chemical Potential with a Deep Neural Network Framework

Rishabh Kumar Tiwari, Kangkan Goswami, Suraj Prasad +3

The characteristics of a thermal system depend strongly on its response to thermal gradients and the underlying microscopic interactions among constituents. In the present study, w…

hep-ph2026

Probing the microscopic origin of prompt and non-prompt production through event-shape engineering in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

Aswathy Menon Kavumpadikkal Radhakrishnan, Suraj Prasad, Purnima Srivastava +1

Heavy-flavour hadrons are produced in the early stages of ultra-relativistic collisions at the LHC via hard partonic interactions and experience the whole system evolution. The stu…

hep-ph2025

Topological production of charmonia with event-shape engineering in collisions at TeV using PYTHIA8

Aswathy Menon Kavumpadikkal Radhakrishnan, Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick +1

The production of heavy quarks (charm and beauty) in high-energy hadronic and nuclear collisions provides an excellent testing ground for the theory of strong interactions and vali…

hep-ph2025

Machine learning driven identification of heavy flavor decay leptons in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Raghunath Sahoo, Kangkan Goswami, Suraj Prasad

The study of heavy-flavor hadrons is topical in the era of precision measurements, which is useful to test theories based on pQCD. The heavy-flavor hadrons are produced initially d…

nucl-th2025★ 7 cited

Mean free path of photons in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Jajati K. Nayak, Rupa Chatterjee

Electromagnetic probes, such as photons and dileptons, play a key role in diagnosing the initial temperature of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma (QGP) matter created in relativ…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Event Topology Classifiers at the Large Hadron Collider

Suraj Prasad, Sushanta Tripathy, Bhagyarathi Sahoo +1

Event classifiers are the most fundamental observables to probe the event topology of hadronic and nuclear collisions at relativistic energies. Over the last five decades, signific…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Probing the sensitivity of anisotropic flow coefficients to the initial nuclear structure in pO and OO collisions at the LHC

Aswathy Menon Kavumpadikkal Radhakrishnan, Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick +2

RHIC and LHC have injected nuclei in their accelerator complexes with a focus on investigating collectivity and the origin of quark-gluon plasma signatures in small co…

nucl-th2025★ 3 cited

Higher order flow coefficients -- A Messenger of QCD medium formed in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Suraj Prasad, Aswathy Menon K R, Raghunath Sahoo +1

Anisotropic flow and fluctuations are sensitive observables of the initial state effects in heavy ion collisions and are characterized by the medium properties and final state inte…

hep-ph2025

Exploring the effects of -clustered structure of nuclei in anisotropic flow fluctuations in - collisions at the LHC within a CGC+Hydro framework

Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick, Raghunath Sahoo +1

In this paper, we explore the effects of the presence of clustered nuclear structure of in the final state elliptic flow fluctuations through - collisions…

hep-ph2025

Prompt and non-prompt production of charm hadrons in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider using machine learning

Raghunath Sahoo, Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick +2

In this contribution, we use machine learning (ML) based models to separate the prompt and non-prompt production of heavy flavour hadrons, such as and J/, in proton-proton…

nucl-ex2025★ 1 cited

Event-shape dependence of symmetry plane correlations using the Gaussian estimator in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC using a multiphase transport model

Sarthak Tripathy, Suraj Prasad, Raghunath Sahoo

The study of symmetry plane correlations (SPCs) can be useful in characterizing the direction of the anisotropic emission of produced particles in the final state. The study of SPC…

nucl-th2024

Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter 2024 -- Bulk Properties

Prabhakar Palni, Amal Sarkar, Santosh K. Das +44

The second Hot QCD Matter 2024 conference at IIT Mandi focused on various ongoing topics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, encompassing theoretical and experimental perspectives…

hep-ph2024

A Deep Learning Based Estimator for Light Flavour Elliptic Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC Energies

Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi, Neelkamal Mallick, Suraj Prasad +2

We developed a deep learning feed-forward network for estimating elliptic flow () coefficients in heavy-ion collisions from RHIC to LHC energies. The success of our model is m…

hep-ph2024★ 5 cited

Probing strangeness with event topology classifiers in pp collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with the rope hadronization mechanism in PYTHIA

Suraj Prasad, Bhagyarathi Sahoo, Sushanta Tripathy +2

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the formation of a deconfined and thermalized state of partons, known as quark-gluon plasma (QGP), leads to enhanced production of strange had…

nucl-th2024★ 13 cited

Anisotropic flow fluctuation as a possible signature of clustered nuclear geometry in O-O collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick, Raghunath Sahoo +1

Nuclei having number of nucleons are theorized to possess clusters of particles (He nucleus). The Oxygen nucleus (O) is a doubly magic nucleus, where the presen…

nucl-th2024★ 4 cited

Role of clustered nuclear geometry in particle production through p-C and p-O collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Aswathy Menon K R, Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick +1

Long-range multi-particle correlations in heavy-ion collisions have shown conclusive evidence of the hydrodynamic behavior of strongly interacting matter and are associated with th…

hep-ph2024★ 6 cited

A machine learning-based study of open-charm hadrons in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Kangkan Goswami, Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick +2

n proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions, the study of charm hadrons plays a pivotal role in understanding the QCD medium and provides an undisputed testing ground for the theory o…

hep-ph2023★ 3 cited

Investigating radial flow-like effects via pseudorapidity and transverse spherocity dependence of particle production in pp collisions at the LHC

Aswathy Menon Kavumpadikkal Radhakrishnan, Suraj Prasad, Sushanta Tripathy +2

Recent observations of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) like signatures in high multiplicity proton-proton (pp) collisions, have compelled the heavy-ion physics community to re-examine sma…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

Inclusive, prompt and non-prompt identification in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider using machine learning

Suraj Prasad, Neelkamal Mallick, Raghunath Sahoo

Studies related to meson, a bound state of charm and anti-charm quarks (), in heavy-ion collisions, provide genuine testing grounds for the theory of strong in…