English
Related papers

Related papers: Features of the IP-Glasma

200 papers

The purpose of this work is to study the effect of exchanging initial condition models in a modular hybrid approach. The focus lies on the event-by-event correlations of elliptic and triangular flow. This study is performed in the hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-11 Niklas Götz , Lucas Constantin , Hannah Elfner

Perturbative unitarization from non-linear effects is thought to deplete the gluon density for transverse momenta below the saturation scale. Such effects also modify the distribution of gluons produced in heavy-ion collisions in transverse…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Adrian Dumitru

The Glasma is a semiclassical nonequilibrium state describing the earliest stage in relativistic heavy-ion collisions predicted by the Color Glass Condensate effective theory. It is characterized by strong color fields, which are sourced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Markus Leuthner

Four models for the initial conditions of a fluid dynamic description of high energy heavy ion collisions are analysed and compared. We study expectation values and event-by-event fluctuations in the initial transverse energy density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-01 Stefan Floerchinger , Eduardo Grossi , Kianusch Vahid Yousefnia

In hydrodynamicalmodeling of heavy-ion collisions the initial state spatial anisotropies translate into momentum anisotropies of the final state particle distributions. Thus, understanding the origin of the initial anisotropies and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-26 M. Alvioli , H. Holopainen , K. J. Eskola , M. Strikman

High statistics data sets from experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with small and large collision species have enabled a wealth of new flow measurements, including the event-by-event…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-23 S. H. Lim , J. L. Nagle

Isobaric collisions provide a unique opportunity to investigate how variations in the charge to mass ratio affect the final state observables produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Most importantly, isobaric systems that differ in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Amit Paul , Rupa Chatterjee

The experimental observation of collective behaviour in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions poses a fundamental theoretical question regarding the proper characterization of the initial state underlying hydrodynamic evolution. While…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Gabriel Rabelo-Soares , Gojko Vujanovic , Giorgio Torrieri

The transition from a flowing to a static state in a granular material is studied using large-scale, 3D particle simulations. Similar to glasses, this transition is manifested in the development of a plateau in the contact normal force…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. E. Silbert , D. Ertas , G. S. Grest , T. C. Halsey , D. Levine

In the present work we propose a new initial state model for hydrodynamic simulation of relativistic heavy ion collisions based on Bjorken-like solution applied streak by streak in the transverse plane. Previous fluid dynamical calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 V. K. Magas , J. Gordillo , D. Strottman , Y. L. Xie , L. P. Csernai

We propose a redefinition of the principal component analysis (PCA) of anisotropic flow that makes it more directly connected to fluctuations of the initial geometry of the system. Then, using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations, we…

We simulate the real-time evolution of the $SU(3)$-glasma generated in the early stages of high-energy proton-nucleus collisions, employing classical lattice gauge theory techniques. Our setup incorporates a realistic modeling of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 Gabriele Parisi , Vincenzo Greco , Marco Ruggieri

One of the greatest uncertainties in heavy-ion collisions is the description of the initial state. Different models predict a wide range of initial energy density distributions based on their underlying assumptions. Final flow harmonics are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-28 Patrick Carzon , Matthew D. Sievert , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

In these proceedings, we report on our numerical lattice simulations of partons traversing the boost-invariant, non-perturbative glasma as created at the early stages of collisions at RHIC and LHC. Since these highly energetic partons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Andreas Ipp , David I. Müller , Daniel Schuh

Chemical and photometric models of elliptical galaxies with infall of primordial gas, and subsequent ejection of processed material via galactic winds, are described. Ensuring that these models are consistent with the present-day…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Brad K. Gibson , Francesca Matteucci

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 formation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), and the hydrodynamic…

We evaluate the effects of preequilibrium dynamics on observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We simulate the initial nonequilibrium phase within A MultiPhase Transport (AMPT) model, while the subsequent near-equilibrium…

A multi-phase transport model is used to understand the origin of long-range collective azimuthal correlations in small-system collisions. To disentangle between collectivity associated with initial-state intrinsic momentum anisotropy and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Maowu Nie , Li Yi , Jiangyong Jia , Guoliang Ma

The observation of collective flow phenomena in small collision systems challenges our understanding of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation and evolution. This complexity lies in the initial geometries, which are influenced by both nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 STAR Collaboration

It was argued in arXiv:1805.09342 and arXiv:1807.00825 that the systematics of the azimuthal anisotropy coefficients $v_{2,3}$ measured in ultrarelativistic light-heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC can be described in an initial state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-05 Mark Mace , Vladimir V. Skokov , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan