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The $p$-Pb collision system occupies a unique position regarding physical interpretation of high-energy particle data. More-peripheral $p$-Pb is indistinguishable from $p$-$p$ collision while more-central $p$-Pb overlaps an interval of…
Identified-hadron (PID) $p_t$ spectra from 13 TeV $p$-$p$ collisions are compared with a two-component (soft+hard) model (TCM) that accurately distinguishes jet-related hadron production (hard component) from nonjet projectile-nucleon…
Identified-hadron (PID) spectra from 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb and $p$-$p$ collisions are analyzed via a two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production in high-energy nuclear collisions. The PID TCM is adapted with minor changes from a…
This is the second part of a two-part article on precision modeling of identified-hadron (PID) $p_t$ spectra from 5 TeV $p$-Pb collisions. In Part I a revised two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of PID spectra was introduced, an…
Small collision systems, e.g. $p$-$p$ and $p$-Pb collisions, comprise a potential reference for more-central A-A collisions with regard to production (or not) of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Small systems with low particle…
Identified-hadron (PID) spectra from 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb and $p$-$p$ collisions are analyzed via a two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production in high-energy nuclear collisions. The Pb-Pb TCM is adopted with minor changes from a…
Identified-hadron spectra from 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb and $p$-$p$ collisions are analyzed via a two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production in high-energy nuclear collisions. The object of study is evidence for jet suppression in…
The ALICE collaboration at the large hadron collider (LHC) recently reported high-statistics $p_t$ spectrum data from 5 TeV and 13 TeV $p$-$p$ collisions. Particle data for each energy were partitioned into event classes based on the total…
In a recent analysis of high-statistics $p_t$ spectra from 5 and 13 TeV $p$-$p$ collisions a two-component (soft+hard) model (TCM) of hadron production near midrapidity, based on fixed model functions independent of collision multiplicity…
A three component model, consisting of the hydrodynamical blast-wave term and two power-law terms, is proposed for an improved fitting of the hadron spectra measured at midrapidity and for arbitrary transverse momenta ($p_\textrm{T}$) in pp…
Measurements of event-ensemble mean transverse momentum $\langle p_t \rangle$ vs charged-hadron multiplicity $n_{ch}$ for $p_t$ spectra from 5 TeV p-Pb and 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions and from p-p collisions for several energies have been…
The blast-wave (BW) spectrum model has been applied extensively to nucleus-nucleus collision data with the intention to demonstrate formation of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in more-central A-A collisions. More recently the BW model has been…
The hydrodynamic (hydro) model has been extensively applied to heavy ion data from the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC). Results are interpreted to conclude that a dense QCD medium nearly opaque to most partons, a strongly-coupled…
A two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production in high-energy nuclear collisions is applied to ensemble-mean $p_t$ (denoted by $\bar p_t$) data for $p$-$p$, $p$-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions from the relativistic heavy ion…
In recent years certain experimental results from small collision systems (e.g. p-p, d-Au, p-Pb) at the RHIC and LHC have been reinterpreted as evidence for formation therein of a dense flowing medium (QGP) despite small collision volumes.…
A recent study of 5 TeV $p$-Pb centrality combined a Glauber model of $p$-Pb collision geometry with an assumption of linear scaling between $n_{ch}$ (charge) integrated within some $\eta$ acceptance and the number of nucleon participants…
The first measurement of pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle distributions relative to the momentum vector of a Z boson for low transverse momentum ($p_\mathrm{T}$) charged hadrons in lead-lead (PbPb) collisions is presented. By studying the…
There is little doubt that in heavy ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC, we observe a hydrodynamically expanding system, providing strong evidence for the formation of a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) in the early stage of such collisions. These…
A two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production in yields and spectra derived from the charge-multiplicity dependence of 200 GeV p-p collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) is extended to describe p-p…
We investigate the heavy flavor dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium created in p-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics model describing QGP medium, the dynamics of…