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The physics case for the operation of high-luminosity proton-nucleus ($pA$) collisions during Run 3 and 4 at the LHC is reviewed. The collection of $\mathcal{O}$(1-10 pb$^{-1}$) of proton-lead ($p$Pb) collisions at the LHC will provide…

Signatures of collectivity, including azimuthally anisotropic and radial flow as well as characteristic hadrochemical dependencies, have been observed since long in (ultra)relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. They underpin the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-30 Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus , Urs Achim Wiedemann

New constraints for the nuclear equation of state at suprasaturation densities have been obtained by measuring collective particle flows in heavy-ion reactions at relativistic energies. Ratios and differences of neutron and hydrogen flows…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-13 W. Trautmann , H. H. Wolter

Highlights of the results from ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at CERN-SPS are reviewed. In particular, I discuss how the experimental results indicate that a collective strongly interacting system has been produced, and what are the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. J. Eskola

We study the development of heavy-flavor flow harmonics in high-energy nuclear collisions. The elliptic and triangular flow of heavy-flavor hadrons, arising from the finite impact parameter of the two nuclei and from event-by-event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , M. Monteno , M. Nardi , F. Prino

It has been shown that the evolution of collectivity in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision is manifested in the variation of various HBT radii with invariant mass ($M$) extracted from the correlation functions of two lepton pairs. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-25 Jan-e Alam

Recent experimental results in proton-proton and in proton-nucleus collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies show a strong similarity to those observed in nucleus-nucleus collisions, where the formation of a quark-gluon plasma is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Paolo Castorina , Alfredo Iorio , Daniele Lanteri , Martin Spousta , Helmut Satz

Data from the Large Hadron Collider on elliptic flow correlations at low and high $p_T$ from Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$~TeV are analyzed and interpreted in the framework of the HYDJET++ model. This model allows us to…

How can we gain a detailed insight into the hydrodynamic response of the system created in heavy ion collisions to the fluctuating initial geometry and viscous effects? Do we create a strongly interacting medium in proton-nucleus and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-05-18 Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras

In collisions between heavy nuclei, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, hydrodynamic models have successfully related measured azimuthal momentum anisotropies to the transverse shape of the collision region. For an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Christian Bierlich , Peter Christiansen , Gösta Gustafson , Leif Lönnblad , Robin Törnkvist , Korinna Zapp

A brief review is given on the discovery and the first five decades of the Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect and its generalized applications in high energy nuclear and particle physics, that includes a meta-review. Interesting and inspiring new…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 T. Csorgo

Discoveries at the LHC will soon set the physics agenda for future colliders. This report of a CERN Theory Institute includes the summaries of Working Groups that reviewed the physics goals and prospects of LHC running with 10 to 300/fb of…

High-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at the LHC may exhibit collective phenomena such as elliptic flow. We study this issue using DIPSY, a brand-new Monte Carlo event generator which features almost-NLO BFKL dynamics and describes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-15 E. Avsar , Y. Hatta , C. Flensburg , J. Y. Ollitrault , T. Ueda

In the framework of various Glauber-like models we compute several correlation observables in nuclear collisions at the SPS, RHIC, and LHC energies. We analyze fluctuations of the eccentricity of the fireball created in the collision, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-24 Maciej Rybczynski , Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek

A large anti-correlation signal between elliptic flow $v_2$ and average transverse momentum $[p_{\mathrm{T}}]$ was recently measured in small collision systems, consistent with a final-state hydrodynamic response to the initial geometry.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 Chunjian Zhang , Arabinda Behera , Somadutta Bhatta , Jiangyong Jia

Collective behaviour has been observed in hadronic measurements of high multiplicity proton+lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as well as in (proton, deuteron, helium-3)+gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Chun Shen , Jean-François Paquet , Gabriel S. Denicol , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We consider collective effects in pp-collisions at the LHC energies related to presence of the large orbital angular momentum in the initial state and role of this orbital momentum in the elliptic flow behavior.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 S. M. Troshin , N. E. Tyurin

Recent measurements of event-by-event elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV exhibit large relative fluctuations of about 40~50%. The data are well described by fluctuations in the shape of the initial collision region, as…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven Manly

Event-by-event fluctuations in the amplitudes of flow harmonics offer a novel approach to probing the initial-state characteristics in heavy-ion collisions. In this study, we conduct a systematic investigation of correlations among various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Zaining Wang , Jinhui Chen , Jiangyong Jia , Yu-Gang Ma , Chunjian Zhang

We study the effects of low-$p_T$ collective flow on radiative energy loss from high-$p_T$ partons traversing the QCD medium created in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. We illustrate this idea through three examples. Due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 N. Armesto