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most citedProgress and Challenges in Small Systems

33 citations · 49 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 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-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

Testing hydrodynamic response to initial-state geometry in Pb+ collisions

Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen +1

Deuterons with different polarization states have distinct shapes for their wavefunctions. This offers a unique opportunity to experimentally control the initial-state collision ge…

hep-ph2025

Nuclear Suppression in Diffractive Vector Meson Production within the Color Glass Condensate Framework

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Farid Salazar +3

We extend a recent global Bayesian analysis of diffractive production in and collisions within the color glass condensate (CGC) framework to in…

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…

hep-ph2025

Nuclear suppression in diffractive vector meson production within the color glass condensate framework

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Farid Salazar +3

We perform a global Bayesian analysis of diffractive production in and collisions within a Color Glass Condensate based framework. Using data f…

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…

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-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…

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…

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…

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

The role of longitudinal decorrelations for measurements of anisotropic flow in small collision systems

Sangwook Ryu, Bjoern Schenke, Chun Shen +1

Within a (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model we compute anisotropic flow in small system collisions as performed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and measured by the STAR and P…

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…