3 papers
nucl-th2025
Transmutation of O and Ne at the Large Hadron Collider
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide OO and NeNe isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion colli…
nucl-ex2024
Imaging the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions and nuclear structure across the nuclide chart
Jiangyong Jia, Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally +18
High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding nuclei informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition (IC) leading to the f…
nucl-th2024
Effective temperatures of the QGP from thermal photon and dilepton production
Olaf Massen, Govert Nijs, Mike Sas +2
Thermal electromagnetic radiation is emitted by the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) throughout its space-time evolution, with production rates that depend characteristically on the temper…