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most citedNet baryon diffusion in fluid dynamic simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

166 citations · 1.1k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

nucl-th2026

Signatures of QCD conductivities in heavy-ion collisions

Akihiko Monnai, Grégoire Pihan, Björn Schenke +1

Dissipative processes are pivotal for understanding the hydrodynamic evolution of hot and dense QCD matter created in relativistic nuclear collisions. The interplay of multiple con…

nucl-th2025

Probing momentum dependence of hydrodynamization in heavy-ion collisions

Akihiko Monnai

The fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter is a key characteristic of the medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We extend the framework of the relativistic hydrodyn…

nucl-th2025★ 2 cited

Transport-based initial conditions for heavy-ion collisions at finite densities

H. Roch, G. Pihan, A. Monnai +53

We employ the SMASH transport model to provide event-by-event initial conditions for the energy-momentum tensor and conserved charge currents in hydrodynamic simulations of relativ…

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…

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-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-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

Hydrodynamic model of heavy-ion collisions with low momentum components

Akihiko Monnai

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions suggest that low momentum regions of the observed particle spectra are thermal and hydrodynamic, while medium-high momentum regions are non-therma…

nucl-th2022★ 10 cited

QCD equation of state with Tsallis statistics for heavy-ion collisions

K. Kyan, A. Monnai

Nonextensive statistics has attracted attention as a description of particle spectra in nuclear collisions at QCD energies. First, we construct the equation of state by incorporati…

nucl-th2022★ 8 cited

Direct Photons in Hydrodynamic Modeling of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Akihiko Monnai

We review direct photons in the phenomenology of nuclear collisions at relativistic energies. Direct photons carry information about the space-time evolution of nuclear collisions…

nucl-th2021

Hydrodynamic analyses of nuclear collisions in Landau and Eckart frames

Akihiko Monnai

Relativistic dissipative hydrodynamic model at finite density is a promising tool for analyzing the dense QCD matter created in the beam energy scan experiments. The hydrodynamic f…

nucl-th2021★ 52 cited

QCD Equation of State at Finite Chemical Potentials for Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen

We review the equation of state of QCD matter at finite densities. We discuss the construction of the equation of state with net baryon number, electric charge, and strangeness usi…

nucl-th2020★ 4 cited

QCD equation of state at finite densities for nuclear collisions

Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen

We construct the QCD equation of state at finite chemical potentials including net baryon, electric charge, and strangeness based on the results of lattice QCD simulations and the…

nucl-th2020★ 8 cited

Signatures of the vortical quark-gluon plasma in hadron yields

P Collaboration, Hidetoshi Taya, Aaron Park +10

We investigate the hadron production from the vortical quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Based on the quark-coalescence and statistical hadronization models, we s…

nucl-th2019★ 21 cited

Prompt, pre-equilibrium, and thermal photons in relativistic nuclear collisions

Akihiko Monnai

The direct photon emission model in relativistic nuclear colliders has been improved in recent years for reducing the discrepancy between theoretical estimations and experimental d…

nucl-th2019★ 16 cited

Landau and Eckart frames for relativistic fluids in nuclear collisions

Akihiko Monnai

The quark matter created in relativistic nuclear collisions is interpreted as a nearly-perfect fluid. The recent efforts to explore its finite-density properties in the beam energy…

nucl-th2019★ 135 cited

Equation of state at finite densities for QCD matter in nuclear collisions

Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen

We construct the QCD equation of state at finite chemical potentials including net baryon, electric charge, and strangeness, based on the conserved charge susceptibilities determin…

nucl-th2018

Possible non-prompt photons in collisions and their effects in analyses

Akihiko Monnai

Direct photons are a powerful tool for elucidating the properties of the hot QCD matter in heavy-ion collisions. They are conventionally estimated by assuming prompt photon contrib…

nucl-th2018★ 166 cited

Net baryon diffusion in fluid dynamic simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Gabriel S. Denicol, Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon +3

A hybrid (hydrodynamics + hadronic transport) theoretical framework is assembled to model the bulk dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at energies accessible in the Beam…

nucl-th2018★ 10 cited

Off-equilibrium corrections to energy and conserved charge densities in the relativistic fluid in heavy-ion collisions

Akihiko Monnai

Dissipative processes in relativistic fluids are known to be important in the analyses of the hot QCD matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In this work, I consider d…

nucl-th2017★ 15 cited

Constraining the equation of state with identified particle spectra

Akihiko Monnai, Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We show that in a central nucleus-nucleus collision, the variation of the mean transverse mass with the multiplicity is determined, up to a rescaling, by the variation of the energ…

nucl-th2017★ 40 cited

A hybrid approach to relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the RHIC BES energies

Chun Shen, Gabriel Denicol, Charles Gale +3

Using a hybrid (viscous hydrodynamics + hadronic cascade) framework, we model the bulk dynamical evolution of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (…

nucl-th2017★ 3 cited

Effects of enhanced bulk viscosity near the QCD critical point

Akihiko Monnai, Swagato Mukherjee, Yi Yin

Search for the conjectured QCD critical point is one of the major scientific goals for the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. The growth of the correlation length is a universal fea…