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most citedHeavy Ion Collisions at the LHC - Last Call for Predictions

318 citations · 2.1k across the 57 of their papers we have counts for

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58 papers

nucl-th2025

Analytical solution and Lie algebra of the relativistic Boltzmann equation

Yi Wang, Xuan Zhao, Zhe Xu +1

In this work, we present a novel and more efficient approach to constructing the relativistic Bobylev, Krook, and Wu (BKW) solution [A. V. Bobylev, Sov. Phys. Dokl. 20, 820 (1976);…

hep-ph2023★ 9 cited

Persistent nonequilibrium effects in generalized Langevin dynamics of nonrelativistic and relativistic particles

Weiguo Chen, Carsten Greiner, Zhe Xu

Persistent nonequilibrium effects such as the memory of the initial state, the ballistic diffusion, and the break of the equipartition theorem and the ergodicity in Brownian motion…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Propagation of spin channel waves

Jin Hu, Zhe Xu

A mutilated model is constructed to approximate the collision term of spin Boltzmann equation that incorporates newly appearing collisional invariants i.e, the total angular moment…

hep-ph2021★ 2 cited

Incomplete electromagnetic response of hot QCD matter

Zeyan Wang, Jiaxing Zhao, Carsten Greiner +2

The electromagnetic response of hot QCD matter to decaying external magnetic fields is investigated. We examine the validity of Ohm's law and find that the induced electric current…

hep-ph2017★ 2 cited

Collectivity in small systems - Initial state vs. final state effects

Moritz Greif, Carsten Greiner, Björn Schenke +2

Observations of long rang azimuthal correlations in small collision systems (p+p/A) have triggered an enormous excitement in the heavy-ion community. However, it is presently uncle…

hep-ph2017★ 19 cited

Magnetic field influence on the early time dynamics of heavy-ion collisions

Moritz Greif, Carsten Greiner, Zhe Xu

In high energy heavy-ion collisions the magnetic field is very strong right after the nuclei penetrate each other and a non-equilibrium system of quarks and gluons builds up. Even…

hep-ph2017★ 13 cited

Kinetic description of Bose-Einstein condensation with test particle simulations

Kai Zhou, Zhe Xu, Pengfei Zhuang +1

We present a kinetic description of Bose-Einstein condensation for particle systems being out of thermal equilibrium, which may happen for gluons produced in the early stage of ult…

hep-ph2016★ 28 cited

Nonequilibrium photon production in partonic transport simulations

Moritz Greif, Florian Senzel, Heiner Kremer +3

We discuss the implementation of leading-order photon production in nonequilibrium partonic transport simulations. In this framework photons are produced by microscopic scatterings…

hep-ph2016★ 4 cited

Dynamical scheme for hadronization with first-order phase transition

Bohao Feng, Zhe Xu, Carsten Greiner

We present a dynamical scheme for hadronization with first-order confinement phase transition. The thermodynamical conditions of phase equilibrium, the fluid velocity profile, and…

hep-ph2016★ 6 cited

The different energy loss mechanisms of inclusive and b-tagged reconstructed jets within ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Florian Senzel, Jan Uphoff, Zhe Xu +1

The phenomenon of jet quenching provides essential information about the properties of hot and dense matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Recent results from…

hep-ph2015★ 8 cited

Charmonium Production with QGP and Hadron Gas Effects at SPS and FAIR

Baoyi Chen

The production of charmonium in heavy-ion collisions is investigated based on Boltzmann-type transport model for charmonium evolution and langevin equation for charm quark evolutio…

hep-ph2015★ 2 cited

Undersaturation of quarks at early stages of relativistic nuclear collisions: the hot glue initial scenario and its observable signatures

H. Stoecker, M. Beitel, T. S. Biró +17

The early stage of high multiplicity nuclear collisions is represented by a nearly quarkless, hot, deconfined pure gluon plasma. This new scenario should be characterized by a supp…

hep-ph2015★ 29 cited

Glueballs amass at RHIC and LHC Colliders! - The early quarkless 1st order phase transition at MeV - from pure Yang-Mills glue plasma to GlueBall-Hagedorn states

Horst Stoecker, Kai Zhou, Stefan Schramm +18

The early stage of high multiplicity pp, pA and AA collider is represented by a nearly quarkless, hot, deconfined pure gluon plasma. According to pure Yang-Mills Lattice Gauge Theo…

hep-ph2015★ 83 cited

Magnetic Field Effect on Charmonium Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

Xingyu Guo, Shuzhe Shi, Nu Xu +2

It is important to understand the strong external magnetic field generated at the very beginning of high energy nuclear collisions. We study the effect of the magnetic field on the…

hep-ph2014★ 47 cited

Thermalization of gluons with Bose-Einstein condensation

Zhe Xu, Kai Zhou, Pengfei Zhuang +1

We study the thermalization of gluons far from thermal equilibrium in relativistic kinetic theory. The initial distribution of gluons is assumed to resemble that in the early stage…

hep-ph2014★ 69 cited

Elastic and radiative heavy quark interactions in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Jan Uphoff, Oliver Fochler, Zhe Xu +1

Elastic and radiative heavy quark interactions with light partons are studied with the partonic transport description BAMPS (Boltzmann Approach to MultiParton Scatterings). After c…

nucl-th2014★ 111 cited

Electric conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma investigated using a perturbative QCD based parton cascade

Moritz Greif, Ioannis Bouras, Zhe Xu +1

Electric conductivity is sensitive to effective cross sections among the particles of the partonic medium. We investigate the electric conductivity of a hot plasma of quarks and gl…

cond-mat.stat-mech2014★ 20 cited

Simulation of stationary Gaussian noise with regard to the Langevin equation with memory effect

Julian Schmidt, Alex Meistrenko, Hendrik van Hees +1

We present an efficient method for simulating a stationary Gaussian noise with an arbitrary covariance function and then study numerically the impact of time-correlated noise on th…

hep-ph2014★ 59 cited

Elliptic flow and nuclear modification factor in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions within a partonic transport model

Jan Uphoff, Oliver Fochler, Florian Senzel +3

The quark gluon plasma produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions exhibits remarkable features. It behaves like a nearly perfect liquid with a small shear viscosity to ent…

nucl-th2014★ 185 cited

Medium Effects on Charmonium Production at ultrarelativistic energies available at the CERN Large Haron Collider

Kai Zhou, Nu Xu, Zhe Xu +1

We investigate with a transport approach the cold and hot nuclear matter effects on the charmonium transverse momentum distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The newly…

hep-ph2014★ 26 cited

Mach cones in viscous heavy-ion collisions

I. Bouras, B. Betz, Z. Xu +1

The formation of Mach cones is studied in a full -dimensional setup of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, considering a transverse and longitudinal expanding medium at…

hep-ph2013★ 3 cited

Heavy vs. light flavor energy loss within a partonic transport model

Jan Uphoff, Oliver Fochler, Zhe Xu +1

The full space-time evolution of gluons, light and heavy quarks in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied within the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach to Mult…

hep-ph2013★ 11 cited

Momentum imbalance of D mesons in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at LHC

Jan Uphoff, Florian Senzel, Zhe Xu +1

As a new observable for heavy flavor correlations the momentum imbalance of D mesons is proposed. It is defined analogously to the jet momentum imbalance of fully recon…

hep-ph2013★ 39 cited

Influence of multiple in-medium scattering processes on the momentum imbalance of reconstructed di-jets

Florian Senzel, Oliver Fochler, Jan Uphoff +2

Experimental data measured in sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC show a significant enhancement of events with an unbalanced pair of reconstructed jet momenta in comparis…