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20102026
most citedImprints of fluctuating proton shapes on flow in proton-lead collisions at the LHC

167 citations · 755 across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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50 papers

hep-ph2026

Diffractive structure functions from JIMWLK evolution

Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari, Pyry Runko

We compute diffractive structure functions from Wilson line configurations whose energy evolution is given by the JIMWLK equation. We use a JIMWLK evolution setup that has already…

hep-ph2026

Confronting Color Glass Condensate at next-to-leading order with HERA data

Carlisle Casuga, Heikki Mäntysaari

We perform a global analysis of HERA total inclusive cross section and charm quark production data to extract the non-perturbative initial condition for the next-to-leading order B…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

The DIS dipole picture cross section at finite energy

Magnus Bertilsson, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari +1

We implement a finite energy constraint in the dipole picture of deep inelastic scattering, by restricting the invariant mass of the produced partonic system by the virtual photon-…

hep-ph2025

Bayesian constraint of the initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at NLO

Carlisle Casuga, Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari

We use Bayesian inference to constrain the parameters describing the initial amplitude input to the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation at next-to-leading order accuracy against…

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…

hep-ph2025

Diffractive deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture: the contribution in exact kinematics

Abhiram Kaushik, Heikki Mäntysaari, Jani Penttala

We compute the contribution to the diffractive structure functions in high-energy deep inelastic scattering. The obtained result corresponds to a finite part of the nex…

hep-ph2025

Exclusive production off a dilute proton within a refined hotspot description

Heikki Mäntysaari, Anh Dung Le

We revisit the calculation of exclusive production in electron-proton scattering within the QCD dipole model, employing a refined description of the proton in terms…

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…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at next-to-leading order

Carlisle Casuga, Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari

We determine the initial condition of the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy using HERA deep inelastic scattering data. Posterior distrib…

hep-ph2025

Nucleon Energy Correlators for the Odderon

Heikki Mäntysaari, Yossathorn Tawabutr, Xuan-Bo Tong

We investigate the T-odd nucleon energy correlator (NEC) at small and establish its connection with the spin-dependent odderon. Probing the T-odd NEC involves measuring a singl…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

The Large Hadron electron Collider as a bridge project for CERN

F. Ahmadova, K. André, N. Armesto +39

The LHeC is the project for delivering electron-nucleon collisions at CERN using the HL-LHC beams. An Energy Recovery Linac in racetrack configuration will provide 50 GeV electrons…

hep-ph2025

Inclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral collisions

Patricia Gimeno-Estivill, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari

We compute the differential cross section for inclusive production in ultraperipheral collisions within the Color Glass Condensate framework. Our predictions are fou…

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…

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…

hep-ph2024

Inclusive production in forward proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at high energy

Patricia Gimeno-Estivill, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari

We calculate the cross section for forward production in proton-proton and minimum bias proton-lead collisions using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) and Non-Relativ…

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…

hep-ph2023

Coherently diffractive dissociation in electron-hadron collisions: from HERA to the future EIC

Tuomas Lappi, Anh Dung Le, Heikki Mäntysaari

We present numerical results on diffractive dissociation with large invariant mass diffractive final states in the scattering of an electron off a hadron. The diffractive large-mas…

hep-ph2023

Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Dipole Picture at Next-to-Leading Order

G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi +2

We calculate the contribution from the state production to the diffractive cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at high energy. The obtained cross section is fi…

hep-ph2023

Single-Inclusive Particle Production from Collision at Next-to-Leading Order

Heikki Mäntysaari, Yossathorn Tawabutr

We present the first fully consistent NLO calculation of the single-inclusive forward hadron production in proton-nucleus (pA) collisions under the color glass condensate (CGC) fra…

hep-ph2023

Collider physics with no PDFs

Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari, Hannu Paukkunen +1

Measurements of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) provide a powerful tool to probe the fundamental structure of protons and other nuclei. The DIS cross sections can be expressed in t…

hep-ph2023

Proton structure functions in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order

Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari, Risto Paatelainen +1

We predict heavy quark production cross sections in Deep Inelastic Scattering at high energy by applying the CGC effective theory. We demonstrate that when the calculation is perfo…

hep-ph2023★ 14 cited

The case for an EIC Theory Alliance: Theoretical Challenges of the EIC

Raktim Abir, Igor Akushevich, Tolga Altinoluk +167

We outline the physics opportunities provided by the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). These include the study of the parton structure of the nucleon and nuclei, the onset of gluon satu…

physics.acc-ph2022

The ECFA Early Career Researcher's Panel: composition, structure, and activities, 2021 -- 2022

ECFA Early-Career Researcher Panel, :, Andrei Alexandru Geanta +74

The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) Early Career Researcher's (ECR) panel, which represents the interests of the ECR community to ECFA, officially began its activ…