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Flow plus coalescence explain hadron nuclear modification and high- anisotropy
Wilke van der Schee, Isobel Kolbé
It has long been a puzzle why the nuclear modification factor in relativistic Pb collisions is consistent with unity, while the high- elliptic flow is significantly positiv…
Yoctosecond imaging of the ground state of Xe at the Large Hadron Collider
Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Imaging a quantum many-body system requires probes that resolve the coordinates of its constituents in sufficiently large event samples, allowing measurements of correlation functi…
Three Predictions for Partonic Energy Loss from Light to Heavy Ion Collisions
Wilke van der Schee, Isobel Kolbé, Govert Nijs +3
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collided OO and NeNe isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collision…
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…
The unexpected uses of a bowling pin: exploiting Ne isotopes for precision characterizations of collectivity in small systems
Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally, Govert Nijs +16
Whether or not femto-scale droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) are formed in so-called small systems at high-energy colliders is a pressing question in the phenomenology of the st…
Ultracentral heavy ion collisions, transverse momentum and the equation of state
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Ultracentral heavy ion collisions due to their exceptionally large multiplicity probe an interesting regime of quark-gluon plasma where the size is (mostly) fixed and fluctuations…
Hard probes in isobar collisions as a probe of the neutron skin
Wilke van der Schee, Yen-Jie Lee, Govert Nijs +1
We present an estimate of the yield of hard probes expected for collisions of the isobars Ru and Zr at collision energies reachable at RHIC and the LHC\@. T…
Determination of the neutron skin of Pb from ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions
Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Emergent bulk properties of matter governed by the strong nuclear force give rise to physical phenomena across vastly different scales, ranging from the shape of atomic nuclei to t…
A generalized hydrodynamizing initial stage for Heavy Ion Collisions
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
We present an extended Bayesian analysis using Trajectum where the initial condition can now include binary scaling. For the far-from-equilibrium evolution before hydrodynamics we…
A dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter
Christian Ecker, Elias Kiritsis, Wilke van der Schee
According to the inflationary theory of cosmology, most elementary particles in the current universe were created during a period of reheating after inflation. In this work we self…
Medium-enhanced radiation
Maximilian Attems, Jasmine Brewer, Gian Michele Innocenti +5
We show that the same QCD formalism that accounts for the suppression of high- hadron and jet spectra in heavy-ion collisions predicts medium-enhanced production of …
Imaging the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions and nuclear structure across the nuclide chart
Jiangyong Jia, Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally +18
High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding nuclei informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition (IC) leading to the f…
The hadronic nucleus-nucleus cross section and the nucleon size
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Even though the total hadronic nucleus-nucleus cross section is among the most fundamental observables, it has only recently been measured precisely for lead-lead collisions at the…
Hard probe path lengths and event-shape engineering of the quark-gluon plasma
Caitlin Beattie, Govert Nijs, Mike Sas +1
As particles traverse the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed during a heavy ion collision they undergo energy loss depending on the distance travelled. We study several temperature- a…
The medium-modified splitting function in the BDMPS-Z formalism
Maximilian Attems, Jasmine Brewer, Gian Michele Innocenti +4
The formalism of Baier-Dokshitzer-Mueller-Peigné-Schiff and Zakharov determines the modifications of parton splittings in the QCD plasma that arise from medium-induced gluon radiat…
Inferring nuclear structure from heavy isobar collisions using Trajectum
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
Nuclei with equal number of baryons but varying proton number (isobars) have many commonalities, but differ in both electric charge and nuclear structure. Relativistic collisions o…
Holographic Evolution with Dynamical Boundary Gravity
Christian Ecker, Wilke van der Schee, David Mateos +1
Holography has provided valuable insights into the time evolution of strongly coupled gauge theories in a fixed spacetime. However, this framework is insufficient if this spacetime…
Ratios of jet and hadron spectra at LHC energies: measuring high- suppression without a reference
Jasmine Brewer, Alexander Huss, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +1
We analyze the reliability of several techniques for computing jet and hadron spectra at different collision energies. This is relevant for discovering energy loss in the upcoming…
Bayesian analysis of heavy ion collisions with the heavy ion computational framework Trajectum
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee, Umut Gürsoy +1
We introduce a model for heavy ion collisions named Trajectum, which includes an expanded initial stage with a variable free streaming velocity and a hydrodynamic stag…
A transverse momentum differential global analysis of Heavy Ion Collisions
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee, Umut Gürsoy +1
The understanding of heavy ion collisions and its quark-gluon plasma formation requires a complicated interplay of rich physics in a wealth of experimental data. In this work we co…
Predicting parton energy loss in small collision systems
Alexander Huss, Aleksi Kurkela, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +3
Medium induced parton energy loss is not conclusively established neither in very peripheral heavy-ion collisions nor in proton-ion collisions. However, the standard interpretation…
Discovering partonic rescattering in light nucleus collisions
Alexander Huss, Aleksi Kurkela, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +3
We demonstrate that oxygen-oxygen (OO) collisions at the LHC provide unprecedented sensitivity to parton energy loss in a system whose size is comparable to those created in very p…
Jet shape modifications in holographic dijet systems
Jasmine Brewer, Andrey Sadofyev, Wilke van der Schee
We present a coherent model that combines jet production from perturbative QCD with strongly-coupled jet-medium interactions described in holography. We use this model to study the…
Evolution of the Mean Jet Shape and Dijet Asymmetry Distribution of an Ensemble of Holographic Jets in Strongly Coupled Plasma
Jasmine Brewer, Krishna Rajagopal, Andrey Sadofyev +1
Some of the most important probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions come from the analysis of how the shape and energy of jets are modified by passag…