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Deconfinement and the Charge Susceptibility Matrix of QCD
Christopher Grace, Brady Mowbray, Christopher Plumberg
At sufficiently high temperatures, lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations predict that nuclear matter undergoes a rapid crossover to a novel, deconfined state known as t…
Searching for the QCD critical point with relativistic viscous hydrodynamics
Kevin P. Pala, Surkhab K. Virk, Isabella Danhoni +3
With the STAR's Beam Energy Scan II, a rich amount of data exists to search for the QCD critical point. However, a central challenge is that the critical point cannot be directly e…
Studying the QCD Matter produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions using the MUSES Calculation Engine
Johannes Jahan, Kevin P. Pala, Yumu Yang +42
The equation of state of hot and dense matter is essential for describing heavy-ion collisions at all collision energies. Here, we explore the capabilities of the latest version of…
NuclearConfectionery: Multi-stage Simulation Framework for Modeling Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions
Kevin P. Pala, Surkhab Kaur Virk, Dekrayat Almaalol +9
We present the NuclearConfectionery, a modular framework for simulating the full dynamical evolution of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Its core hydrodynamic module, CCAKE 2.0,…
Unlocking "imprints" of conserved charges in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions
Fernando G. Gardim, Dekrayat Almaalol, Jordi Salinas San Martín +2
Hydrodynamic approaches to modeling relativistic high-energy heavy-ion collisions are based on the conservation of energy and momentum. However, the medium formed in these collisio…
BSQ Conserved Charges in Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics solved with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Christopher Plumberg, Dekrayat Almaalol, Travis Dore +8
Conservation laws play a crucial role in the modeling of heavy-ion collisions, including the those for charges such as baryon number (B), strangeness (S), and electric charge (Q).…
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…
Exploring freeze out and flow using exact solutions of conformal hydrodynamics
Owen Bradley, Christopher Plumberg
Exact solutions to the equations of hydrodynamics provide valuable benchmark tests for numerical hydrodynamic codes and also provide useful insights into the nature of hydrodynamic…
Theoretical and Experimental Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense and Hot Matter
Rajesh Kumar, Veronica Dexheimer, Johannes Jahan +57
This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results…
Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interact…
Using Baryonic Charge Balance Functions to Resolve Questions about the Baryo-Chemistry of the QGP
Scott Pratt, Dmytro Oliinychenko, Chris Plumberg
Baryon annihilations during the hadronic stage of heavy-ion collisions affects final-state baryon and antibaryon yields and final-state correlations of baryons and antibaryons. Und…
Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars
Alessandro Lovato, Travis Dore, Robert D. Pisarski +61
Since the release of the 2015 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Physics, major events have occurred that reshaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear matter at l…
Embedding a Critical Point in a Hadron to Quark-Gluon Crossover Equation of State
Joseph Kapusta, Tom Welle, Christopher Plumberg
It is shown how to embed a critical point in a smooth background equation of state so as to yield the critical exponents and critical amplitude ratios expected of a transition in t…
Applications of Persistent Homology in Nuclear Collisions
Greg Hamilton, Travis Dore, Christopher Plumberg
We introduce a novel set of observables associated to the rapidly developing field of persistent homology for the quantitative characterization of nuclear collisions and their evol…
Embedding a critical point in a hadron to quark-gluon crossover equation of state
J. I. Kapusta, C. Plumberg, T. Welle
Lattice QCD simulations have shown unequivocally that the transition from hadrons to quarks and gluons is a crossover when the baryon chemical potential is zero or small. Many mode…
Charge Balance Functions for Heavy-Ion Collisions at LHC Energies
Scott Pratt, Christopher Plumberg
Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC provide the conditions to investigate regions of quark-gluon plasma that reach higher temperatures and that persist for longer periods of time compa…
at RHIC and the LHC comparing clustering vs substructure
Nicholas Summerfield, Bing-Nan Lu, Christopher Plumberg +3
Collisions of light and heavy nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been shown to be sensitive to nuclear structure. With a proposed run…
Causality violations in realistic simulations of heavy-ion collisions
Christopher Plumberg, Dekrayat Almaalol, Travis Dore +2
Causality is violated in the early stages of state-of-the-art heavy-ion hydrodynamic simulations. Such violations are present in up to 75% of the fluid cells in the initial time an…
The Shape of the Correlation Function
Jakub Cimerman, Chrisopher Plumberg, Boris Tomášik
The correlation function measured in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions is strongly non-Gaussian. Using two different models we study which effects can influence its shape and ho…
The Multiplicity Dependence of Pion Interferometry in Hydrodynamics
Christopher Plumberg
Understanding the origins of collective, fluid-like behavior in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions constitutes one of the biggest open challenges in the field. In this Letter, it…
Hanbury Brown--Twiss Interferometry and Collectivity in Small Systems
Christopher Plumberg
Hanbury Brown--Twiss interferometry (HBT) provides crucial insights into both the space-time structure and the momentum-space evolution of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at f…
Calculating Fluctuations and Self-Correlations Numerically for Causal Charge Diffusion in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Aritra De, Christopher Plumberg, Joseph I. Kapusta
We study the propagation and diffusion of electric charge fluctuations in the Bjorken hydrodynamic model with both white and Catteneo noise using purely numerical methods. We show…
Dynamics of critical fluctuations: Theory -- phenomenology -- heavy-ion collisions
M. Bluhm, M. Nahrgang, A. Kalweit +27
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions during the Rapid Reaction Task Force "Dynamics of critical fluctuations: Theory -- phenomenology -- heavy-ion collisions",…