activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

hep-ph2026

Scaling of the Surface Free Energy as a Probe of the QCD Critical Region

Joseph I. Kapusta, Mayank Singh, Shensong Wan

The QCD phase diagram is expected to have a critical point that separates the crossover and first-order transition lines. A realistic model that incorporates phase boundary effects…

hep-ph2026

Causally connected regions in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Olivia Chabowski, Joseph I. Kapusta

Quantifying causal connections within fireballs resulting from high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions is pertinent to assessing the viability of several proposed mechanisms that di…

nucl-ex2026

Isospin-symmetry violation -- kaons and beyond (ISO-BREAK 25: summary and outlook)

Marek Gazdzicki, Francesco Giacosa, Katarzyna Grebieszkow +40

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions during the ISO-BREAK 25 Workshop ``Isospin symmetry violation: kaons and beyond'', which was held at Jan Kochanowski Univer…

nucl-th2025

Relativistic hydrodynamics with spinodal decomposition

Joseph Kapusta, Mayank Singh, Thomas Welle

We introduce the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics that incorporate phase separation via spinodal decomposition. These equations consider surface effects between the two phas…

hep-ph2025

Relaxation times for disoriented isospin condensates in high energy heavy ion collisions

Olivia Chabowski, Joseph I. Kapusta, Mayank Singh

Fluctuations between charged and neutral kaons measured by the ALICE Collaboration in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC exceed conventional explanations. Previously it was shown that if…

hep-ph2024

Covariant formulation of spinodal decomposition in rapidly expanding quark gluon plasma

Joseph I. Kapusta, Mayank Singh, Thomas Welle

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is expected to have a first order phase transition between the confined hadron gas and the deconfined quark gluon plasma at high baryon densities. This…