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most citedDense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions

189 citations · 3.2k across the 131 of their papers we have counts for

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131 papers

hep-ph2026

Why are the dilepton temperatures at the relativistic heavy-ion colliders are constant, T ~ 0.3 GeV?

Horst Stoecker, Leonid M. Satarov, Volodymyr Vovchenko

The STAR collaboration at RHIC and the ALICE collaboration at the LHC have reported dielectron spectra in the intermediate mass region, M = (1-3) GeV, which reveal a strikingly con…

nucl-th2026

Exploring the properties of the Hadronic Phase in Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC Energies via Partial Chemical Equilibrium

Rishabh Sharma, Chitrasen Jena, Volodymyr Vovchenko

The hadronic phase in heavy-ion collisions plays a crucial role in shaping the final-state hadron abundances. In this work, we study Au+Au collisions at = 7.7-2…

nucl-th2025

High-order cumulants and correlation functions near the critical point from molecular dynamics

Volodymyr A. Kuznietsov, Roman Poberezhniuk, Mark I. Gorenstein +2

We present a systematic investigation of particle number fluctuations in the crossover region near the critical endpoint of a first-order phase transition using molecular dynamics…

nucl-th2025

Systematics of the chemical freeze-out line in the high baryon density regime explored at SIS100

Emma Lilith Hofmann, Tom Reichert, Volodymyr Vovchenko +2

The systematic uncertainties of chemical freeze-out fits at SIS100 energies (Au+Au reactions at GeV) are studied using UrQMD simulations. Although hadron produc…

nucl-th2025

Proton cumulants from hydrodynamics in light of new STAR data

Volodymyr Vovchenko, Volker Koch

New measurements of proton number cumulants from the Beam Energy Scan Phase II (BES-II) program at RHIC by the STAR Collaboration provide unprecedented precision and insights into…

nucl-th2025★ 5 cited

Acceptance dependence of factorial cumulants, long-range correlations, and the antiproton puzzle

Adam Bzdak, Volker Koch, Volodymyr Vovchenko

We analyze joint factorial cumulants of protons and antiprotons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and point out that they obey the scaling $\hat{C}_{nm}^{p,\bar{p}} \propto \lan…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Correlations between nuclear incompressibility, liquid-gas critical point, and quarkyonic transition

Artemiy Lysenko, Mark I. Gorenstein, Tripp Moss +2

We systematically probe different parametrizations of the attractive nuclear force based on real gas models to construct the nuclear matter equation of state. In each of the cases,…

nucl-th2024

Quantum van der Waals quarkyonic matter at non-zero isospin asymmetry

Tripp Moss, Roman Poberezhniuk, Volodymyr Vovchenko

We extend the recently developed quantum van der Waals quarkyonic matter to non-zero isospin asymmetries by utilizing the two-component van der Waals equation with a generalized ex…

hep-ph2024★ 10 cited

Locating the QCD critical point through contours of constant entropy density

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +2

We propose a new method to investigate the existence and location of the conjectured high-temperature critical point of strongly interacting matter via contours of constant entropy…

nucl-th2024

Magnetic Field Effects on Hadron Yields and Fluctuations

Volodymyr Vovchenko

We explore the impact of an external magnetic field on hadron yields and fluctuations in a thermalized system within the hadron resonance gas (HRG) model using an expanded Thermal-…

hep-ph2024★ 6 cited

Density correlations under global and local charge conservation

Volodymyr Vovchenko

This work presents a formalism to compute spatial -point correlations of a conserved charge density in a large thermal system in the canonical ensemble, with explicit results pr…

nucl-th2024★ 13 cited

Chemical freeze-out curve in heavy-ion collisions and the QCD critical point

Artemiy Lysenko, Mark I. Gorenstein, Roman Poberezhniuk +1

The chemical freeze-out curve in heavy-ion collisions is investigated in the context of a quantum chromodynamics (QCD) critical point (CP) search at finite baryon densities. Taking…

nucl-th2024

Convergence properties of -Expansion Scheme: Hadron Resonance Gas and Cluster Expansion Model

Micheal Kahangirwe, Irene Gonzalez, Jorge A. Muñoz +2

In this study, we assess the effectiveness and robustness of the recently proposed -expansion scheme for expanding the equation of state of strongly interacting matter to finit…

hep-ph2024★ 12 cited

Magnetic field effect on hadron yield ratios and fluctuations in a hadron resonance gas

Volodymyr Vovchenko

This work studies the influence of an external magnetic field on hadron yields and fluctuations in a hadron resonance gas by performing calculations within an updated version of th…

nucl-th2024★ 7 cited

Coordinate versus momentum cuts and effects of collective flow on critical fluctuations

Volodymyr A. Kuznietsov, Mark I. Gorenstein, Volker Koch +1

We analyze particle number fluctuations in the crossover region near the critical endpoint of a first-order phase transition by utilizing molecular dynamics simulations of the clas…

nucl-th2024★ 13 cited

Might Normal Nuclear Matter be Quarkyonic?

Volker Koch, Larry McLerran, Gerald A. Miller +1

The possibility that nuclear matter might be Quarkyonic is considered. Quarkyonic matter is high baryon density matter that is confined but can be approximately thought of as a fil…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

The structure of the f_0(980) from system size dependent hadronic resonance ratios in p+p, p+Pb, and Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC

Tom Reichert, Jan Steinheimer, Volodymyr Vovchenko +3

It is shown that the hadronic phase in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions can be used to understand the properties of the resonance. In particular it is shown that…

hep-ph2023

Spinodal enhancement of fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions

Roman Poberezhnyuk, Oleh Savchuk, Volodymyr Vovchenko +4

Subensemble Acceptance Method (SAM) [1,2] is an essential link between measured event-by-event fluctuations and their grand canonical theoretical predictions such as lattice QCD. T…

nucl-th2023

QCD at finite temperature and density: Criticality

Volodymyr Vovchenko

We overview recent theoretical developments in the search for QCD critical point at finite temperature and density, including from lattice QCD, effective QCD theories, and proton n…

nucl-th2023

Quantum van der Waals theory meets quarkyonic matter

Roman V. Poberezhnyuk, Horst Stoecker, Volodymyr Vovchenko

We incorporate the empirical low-density properties of isospin symmetric nuclear matter into the excluded-volume model for quarkyonic matter by including attractive mean field in t…

hep-ph2023★ 6 cited

Effect of finite volume on thermodynamics of quark-hadron matter

Somenath Pal, Anton Motornenko, Volodymyr Vovchenko +3

The effects of a finite system volume on thermodynamic quantities, such as the pressure, energy density, specific heat, speed of sound, conserved charge susceptibilities and correl…

nucl-ex2023★ 4 cited

Hot QCD White Paper

M. Arslandok, S. A. Bass, A. A. Baty +170

Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities. Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at t…

hep-ph2023★ 67 cited

The Present and Future of QCD

P. Achenbach, D. Adhikari, A. Afanasev +400

This White Paper presents the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the Hot and Cold QCD Town Meeting that took place September 23-25, 2022 at MIT, as part of the Nuclea…

hep-ph2023★ 8 cited

Molecular dynamics analysis of particle number fluctuations in the mixed phase of a first-order phase transition

Volodymyr A. Kuznietsov, Oleh Savchuk, Roman V. Poberezhnyuk +3

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed for a finite non-relativistic system of particles with Lennard-Jones potential. We study the effect of liquid-gas mixed phase on partic…