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The quark-gluon plasma, which is produced at an early stage of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, is expected to be initially strongly populated with chromodynamic fields. We address the question how heavy quarks interact with such a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

In recent years the understanding on the limits of the smallest possible droplet of the Quark Gluon Plasma has been called into question. Experimental results from both the Large Hadron Collider and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Matthew D. Sievert , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

The heavy charm and bottom quarks are unique probes of the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions. A key challenge in this context is to embed the interactions of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Tharun Krishna , Ralf Rapp , Yu Fu , Steffen A. Bass , Weiyao Ke

The quark--gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy--ion collisions behaves as a nearly perfect fluid characterized by an exceptionally small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio. Understanding the microscopic origin of this small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Debmalya Mukhopadhyay

Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a QCD state of matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, has remarkable properties, including, for example, a low shear viscosity over entropy ratio. By detecting the collection of low-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Liliana Apolinário , Yen-Jie Lee , Michael Winn

The quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, is a strongly interacting many-body parton system. By comparison with strongly coupled electromagnetic plasmas (classical and non-relativistic) it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Markus H. Thoma

We study chemical equilibration in out-of-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma using the first principles method of QCD effective kinetic theory, accurate at weak coupling. In longitudinally expanding systems--relevant for relativistic nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-30 Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksas Mazeliauskas

In nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies a new kind of matter is created, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The phase diagram of such matter and the chemical freeze-out points will be presented in connection to the pseudo-critical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-27 Peter Braun-Munzinger , Anar Rustamov , Johanna Stachel

We emphasize that a knowledge of energy and entropy densities of quark gluon plasma - a thermalized de-confined matter, formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions fixes the formation temperature and the product of gluon fugacity and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-22 Dinesh K. Srivastava , Rupa Chatterjee , Munshi G. Mustafa

Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC provide the conditions to investigate regions of quark-gluon plasma that reach higher temperatures and that persist for longer periods of time compared to collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Scott Pratt , Christopher Plumberg

The dynamical development of expanding Quark-gluon Plasma (QGP) flow is studied in a 3+1D fluid dynamical model with a globally symmetric, initial condition. We minimize fluctuations arising from complex dynamical processes at finite impact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 D. J. Wang , L. P. Csernai , D. Strottman , Cs. Anderlik , Y. Cheng , D. M. Zhou , Y. L. Yan , X. Cai , B. H. Sa

We study open charm flavor observables in Pb+Pb collision at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 2.76$ TeV within the MARTINI framework. The space-time expansion of the quark-gluon plasma is described using the hydrodynamical approach-MUSIC with IP-Glasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-09 Mayank Singh , Manu Kurian , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

There is now a substantial body of evidence that a deconfined quark-gluon plasma is created in ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy nuclei. Some key observables which are used to gauge the production of the quark-gluon plasma are the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-24 Michael Strickland

Heavy quarks created in heavy-ion collisions serve as an excellent probe of the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The radiation pattern of jets formed from heavy quarks as they traverse the QGP exhibits a particularly interesting structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

The phase diagram of quark gluon plasma (QGP) formed at a very early stage just after the heavy ion collision is obtained by using a holographic dual model for the heavy ion collision. In this dual model colliding ions are described by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 I. Ya. Aref'eva , A. A. Bagrov , E. O. Pozdeeva

When the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) - a system of deconfined quarks and gluons - is in a nonequilibrium state, it is usually unstable with respect to color collective modes. The instabilities, which are expected to strongly influence dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Bjoern Schenke , Michael Strickland

Ultrarelativistic collisions between heavy nuclei briefly generate the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a new state of matter characterized by deconfined partons last seen microseconds after the Big Bang. The properties of the QGP are of intense…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Francesco Becattini , Jinfeng Liao , Michael Lisa

We study the production and the evolution of quark-gluon plasma expected to be formed in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions, within the color flux-tube model. We introduce the gluonic component in the Boltzmann equation, which we solve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gouranga C Nayak , V. Ravishankar

Fluidity of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is studied where interaction between quark and gluon is mapped through fugacity in particle distribution function using lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) results.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-17 Souvik Paul , Ankita Mishra , Jayanta Dey , Sarthak Satapathy , Sabyasachi Ghosh

The discovery of QGP phenomena in small collision systems like pp and p-Pb collisions have challenged the basic paradigms of heavy-ion and high-energy physics. These proceedings give a brief overview of the key findings and their…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-01-10 Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus