Jiaxing Zhao

Quantum Localization Limit of Transport-Based Femtoscopy

Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin, Elena Bratkovskaya

Femtoscopic correlations in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions are commonly calculated using emission sources from microscopic transport models, where emitted particles are rep…

Charmonium production in p+A collisions at SPS and FAIR energies

Taesoo Song, Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin +1

We employ the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach to investigate the influence of baryon-rich matter on charmonium production and dissociation. The Remler forma…

Color screening versus thermal decay as the mechanism of $Υ$ suppression in high energy nuclear collisions

Yida Yang, Baoyi Chen, Jiaxing Zhao +1

To clearly identify the mechanism behind the suppression of heavy quarkonium in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, we study $Υ$ production at RHIC energies by solving its transport…

Resolving the $ϕ$ -meson directed-flow puzzle by multi-step meson--baryon dynamics

Yingjie Zhou, Taesoo Song, Susanne Glässel +8

Recent STAR measurements at fixed-target Beam Energy Scan energies have revealed an unexpectedly large directed flow of $ϕ$ mesons in Au+Au collisions, comparable to that of proton…

Heavy quark coalescence probability in the presence of a potential

Taesoo Song, Jiaxing Zhao

In this study, we explore the role of the heavy quark potential in heavy quark coalescence, whose probability is expected to be unity at low momentum. To this end, we develop a phe…

From hyperon--nucleon interactions to deuteron--hyperon femtoscopy

Jiaxing Zhao

I investigate the low-energy scattering and femtoscopic correlation functions of the $d - Λ$ , $d - Σ$ , and $d - Ξ$ systems within a microscopic folding approach. The effective deuteron--…

Charmonium production at SPS and FAIR energies

Taesoo Song, Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin +1

In this study we apply the Remler formalism to charmonium production at SPS and GSI/FAIR energies in order to investigate the effects of baryon-rich matter on charmonium production…

Gaussian vs. Real Wavefunction of Nuclear Clusters and Hypernuclei

Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin, Elena Bratkovskaya

We compare realistic $N$ -body wave functions obtained from solutions of the Schrödinger equation with Gaussian ansätze constrained to the same rms radius. The microscopic wave func…

$D^{0}$ - $D_{s}^{+}$ Elliptic-Flow Splitting under Event-Shape Engineering: A Probe of Sequential Charm Hadronization

Yu-Jie Huang, Wei Dai, Jiaxing Zhao +3

Recent work has proposed sequential hadronization of open-charm hadrons in the quark-gluon plasma, wherein more tightly bound species such as $D_{s}^{+}$ form earlier near $1.2 T_{c}$ an…

Sequential Clusterization of Light Nuclei and Hypernuclei in Heavy-Ion Collisions within a Wigner Function Coalescence Framework

Junyi Han, Yue-Hang Leung, Jiaxing Zhao +3

We investigate the formation of light nuclei and hypernuclei in Au+Au collisions at $s_{N N} = 3 GeV$ within a coalescence framework embedded in the microscopic N-body…

Accessing Exotic Hadronic States via Charmed-Meson Femtoscopy in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Jiaxing Zhao, Taesoo Song, Elena Bratkovskaya +1

The two-particle correlation function measured in femtoscopic analyses provides access to the interaction potentials between emitted particles. This offers a unique opportunity to…

System-size dependence of the $D^{0}$ -- $D_{s}^{+}$ flow splitting from early $D_{s}^{+}$ formation at $s_{N N} = 5.36$ ~TeV

Hui Du, Xiao-Wei Hao, Wei Dai +3

We investigate the elliptic-flow splitting between prompt $D^{0}$ and $D_{s}^{+}$ mesons within a heavy-quark transport framework with sequential hadronization, in which $D_{s}^{+}$ forms at…

Probe charmonium-nucleon interactions in high energy proton-proton collisions

Jiaxing Zhao, Taesoo Song, Joerg Aichelin +3

We investigate charmonium production and the charmonium-nucleon correlation function in pp collisions using the EPOS4+CATS framework. For the first time, the emission source of cha…

Bayesian Inference of Heavy-Quark Dissipation and Jet Transport Parameters from D-Meson observables in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC energies

Xu-Fei Xue, Zi-Xuan Xu, Wei Dai +2

We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian inference of the temperature-dependent heavy-quark spatial diffusion coefficient $2 π T D_{s}$ and the scaled jet transport coeffici…

The influence of heavy quark potential on quarkonium production in quark-gluon plasma

Taesoo Song, Jiaxing Zhao

Remler formalism is the Wigner projection of a two particle state to bound states, which is carried out when the bound state begins to exist or when one of the two particles scatte…

hep-ph2025

Correlations between heavy mesons and the creation of the charmonia, bottomonia, and $B_{c}$ mesons in high energy $pp$ collisions

Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin, Pol Bernard Gossiaux +1

The different QCD processes, which can produce a heavy quark-antiquark ( $Q Q ˉ$ ) pair, induce different correlations between the heavy quarks. Employing the EPOS4HQ event generat…

Formulation of fully covariant Quantum-Molecular Dynamics for an N-body system with scalar and vector potentials

Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin, Elena Bratkovskaya

We present a fully covariant transport framework for Molecular Dynamics that enables a consistent description of the evolution of relativistic N-body systems. We derive relativisti…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

D-meson production via sequential hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions

Zi-Xuan Xu, Wei Dai, Ben-Wei Zhang +2

Heavy flavor production serves as an ideal probe of the hadronization mechanism of the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We study charm-quark hadroni…

hep-ph2025

Heavy flavor correlations and Quarkonia production in high energy pp collisions in the EPOS4 framework

Jiaxing Zhao, Taesoo Song, Pol Bernard Gossiaux +3

In QCD, the production of heavy quark-antiquark pairs can proceed through different mechanisms, each imprinting characteristic correlations between the heavy quarks. In this work,…

Wigner Phase-Space Densities of Nuclear Clusters and Hypernuclei

Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin, Elena Bratkovskaya

We solve the Schrödinger equation for few-body systems to obtain the wave function for light nuclear clusters and hypernuclei from d to $_{ΛΛ}^{5} He$ employing realistic nucleon-…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Probing of EoS with clusters and hypernuclei

Yingjie Zhou, Susanne Glässel, Yue-Hang Leung +12

The study of the nuclear equation-of-state (EoS) is a one of the primary goals of experimental and theoretical heavy-ion physics. The comparison of recent high statistics data from…