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20152026
most citedQCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

229 citations · 2k across the 62 of their papers we have counts for

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60 papers

hep-ph2026

Effect of Thermal Broadening on Light Hadron Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Q'inich Coc, Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas

The measured hadron yields in heavy-ion collisions are well described by thermal particle production at temperatures close to the QCD pseudo-critical transition. However, if partic…

nucl-ex2026

Constraining the Low- Ratio for Direct-Photon Analyses with Blast-Wave Fits to , , and Spectra

Klaus Reygers, Andreas Kirchner, Aleksas Mazeliauskas

We predict the ratio at low () using the measured charged ratio and model input from a blast-wave framework with feeddown contrib…

hep-ph2026

Light-Ion Collisions: Bridging Small and Large QCD Systems

Aleksas Mazeliauskas

Light-ion collisions at the LHC bridge the gap between small proton-proton and large heavy-ion collision systems, providing a unique laboratory to study the onset of QCD collective…

hep-ph2026

A compendium of cold-nuclear matter baseline predictions in light-ion collisions

Florian Jonas, Constantin Loizides, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +2

The recent light-ion collision programme at RHIC and the LHC provides a unique opportunity to investigate the onset of quark-gluon plasma formation and parton energy loss in small…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Minijet thermalization and jet transport coefficients in QCD kinetic theory

Kirill Boguslavski, Florian Lindenbauer, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +2

We apply weakly coupled QCD kinetic theory to investigate the thermalization of high-momentum on-shell partons (minijets) in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Our approach incorporates i…

hep-ph2025

Adiabatic hydrodynamization and quasinormal modes of nonthermal attractors

Matisse De Lescluze, Michal P. Heller, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +2

Nonthermal attractors govern the emergent self-similar dynamics of far-from-equilibrium quantum systems, from ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions to cold-atom experiments. Within…

hep-ph2025

Energy loss baseline for light hadrons in oxygen-oxygen collisions at

Aleksas Mazeliauskas

I present predictions for inclusive charged hadron spectra in minimum-bias proton-proton and oxygen-oxygen collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.36\,\t…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Few is different: deciphering many-body dynamics in mesoscopic quantum gases

Juergen Berges, Sandra Brandstetter, Jasmine Brewer +27

Emergent macroscopic descriptions of matter, such as hydrodynamics, are central to our description of complex physical systems across a wide spectrum of energy scales. The conventi…

hep-ph2025★ 5 cited

Supercooled Goldstone Bosons at the QCD Chiral Phase Transition

Adrien Florio, Eduardo Grossi, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +2

We discuss a universal non-equilibrium enhancement of long-wavelength Goldstone bosons induced by quenches to the broken phase in Model G -- the dynamical universality class of an…

hep-lat2025★ 3 cited

Quenching through the QCD chiral phase transition

Adrien Florio, Eduardo Grossi, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +2

We present a detailed numerical and analytical study of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of Model G, the dynamical universality class relevant to the chiral phase transition. We per…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 2 cited

Hydrodynamic attractor in periodically driven ultracold quantum gases

Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Tilman Enss

Hydrodynamic attractors are a universal phenomenon of strongly interacting systems that describe the hydrodynamic-like evolution far from local equilibrium. In particular, the rapi…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics in the Density Frame: Numerical Tests and Comparisons

Jay Bhambure, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Jean-Francois Paquet +4

We conduct a numerical study of relativistic viscous fluid dynamics in the Density Frame for one-dimensional fluid flows. The Density Frame is a formulation of relativistic viscous…

hep-ph2024★ 11 cited

No-quenching baseline for energy loss signals in oxygen-oxygen collisions

Jannis Gebhard, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Adam Takacs

In this work, we perform computations of inclusive jet, and semi-inclusive jet-hadron cross sections for minimum bias oxygen-oxygen collisions at RHIC and LHC collision energies. W…

hep-ph2024

Pre-equilibrium Photon and Dilepton Production

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Philip Plaschke +1

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute photon and dilepton production in the chemically equilibrating out-of-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma created in the early stages of high-energy…

hep-ph2024★ 12 cited

Minijet quenching in non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma

Fabian Zhou, Jasmine Brewer, Aleksas Mazeliauskas

We study the energy deposition and thermalisation of high-momentum on-shell partons (minijets) travelling through a non-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma using QCD kinetic theory. For…

hep-ex2024

QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions -- 4th edition

Javira Altmann, Carlota Andres, Anton Andronic +57

This paper is a write-up of the ideas that were presented, developed and discussed at the fourth International Workshop on QCD Challenges from pp to AA, which took place in Februar…

hep-ph2023

Pre-equilibrium photon production in QCD Kinetic Theory

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Philip Plaschke +1

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute photon production in the chemically equilibrating Quark-Gluon Plasma created in the early stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We show t…

nucl-th2023

Thermalization of a jet wake in QCD kinetic theory

Fabian Zhou, Jasmine Brewer, Aleksas Mazeliauskas

We study the energy deposition of a high-momentum parton traveling through a Quark-Gluon Plasma using QCD kinetic theory. We show that the energy is first transported to the soft s…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Pre-equilibrium photons from the early stages of heavy-ion collisions

Oscar Garcia-Montero, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Philip Plaschke +1

We use QCD kinetic theory to compute photon production in the chemically equilibrating Quark-Gluon Plasma created in the early stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We do a d…

hep-th2023★ 15 cited

Prescaling relaxation to nonthermal attractors

Michal P. Heller, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Thimo Preis

We study how isotropic and homogeneous far-from-equilibrium quantum systems relax to nonthermal attractors, which are of interest for cold atoms and nuclear collisions. We demonstr…

nucl-ex2023★ 18 cited

Predictions for the sPHENIX physics program

Ron Belmont, Jasmine Brewer, Quinn Brodsky +25

sPHENIX is a next-generation detector experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, designed for a broad set of jet and heavy-flavor probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created i…

hep-ph2023★ 41 cited

Bayesian uncertainty quantification of perturbative QCD input to the neutron-star equation of state

Tyler Gorda, Oleg Komoltsev, Aleksi Kurkela +1

The equation of state of neutron-star cores can be constrained by requiring a consistent connection to the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations at high densities.…

hep-ph2022★ 6 cited

Medium-enhanced radiation

Maximilian Attems, Jasmine Brewer, Gian Michele Innocenti +5

We show that the same QCD formalism that accounts for the suppression of high- hadron and jet spectra in heavy-ion collisions predicts medium-enhanced production of …

hep-ph2022

Longitudinal spin polarization of hyperons in a thermal model

Wojciech Florkowski, Avdhesh Kumar, Aleksas Mazeliauskas +1

We briefly review the thermal model predictions related to longitudinal spin polarization of hyperons emitted from a hot and rotating hadronic medium produced in the non-centra…