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In ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons is formed within $1$ fm/c of the nuclei's impact. The complex dynamics of the collision before $\approx 1$ fm/c is often described with parametric models,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-24 Matthew R. Heffernan , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Jean-François Paquet

We extend the well-studied midrapidity TRENTo initial-conditions model to three dimensions, thus facilitating (3+1)D modeling and analysis of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. TRENTo-3D is a fast, parametric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Derek Soeder , Weiyao Ke , J. -F. Paquet , Steffen A. Bass

Anisotropic flow coefficients v_1-v_5 in heavy ion collisions are computed by combining a classical Yang-Mills description of the early time glasma flow with the subsequent relativistic viscous hydrodynamic evolution of matter through the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Bjoern Schenke , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan

We introduce a model for heavy ion collisions named Trajectum, which includes an expanded initial stage with a variable free streaming velocity $v_{\rm fs}$ and a hydrodynamic stage with three varying second order transport coefficients. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Govert Nijs , Wilke van der Schee , Umut Gürsoy , Raimond Snellings

Due to their weak final state interactions, the $\phi$ meson and $\Omega$ baryon provide unique probes of the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Using the quark recombination model with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-18 Zhidong Yang , Lie-Wen Chen

We explore the effects of including the energy dependence determined from evolution equations within the color glass condensate framework on observables in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This amounts to integrating the JIMWLK…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Heikki Mäntysaari , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

We review integrated dynamical approaches to describe heavy ion reaction as a whole at ultrarelativistic energies. Since final observables result from all the history of the reaction, it is important to describe all the stages of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Tetsufumi Hirano , Pasi Huovinen , Koichi Murase , Yasushi Nara

We present a formulation of the initial state of heavy ion collisions that generalizes the 2+1D boost invariant IP-Glasma \cite{Schenke:2012wb} to 3+1D through JIMWLK rapidity evolution of the pre-collision Wilson lines. The rapidity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Scott McDonald , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Energy correlators have recently been proposed as a class of jet substructure observables that directly link experimental measurements of the asymptotic energy flux with the field theoretic description of the underlying microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

In this paper, we propose a method for numerical modeling of the nuclear matter properties within the framework of relativistic heavy-ion collisions using a holographic equation of state. Machine learning methods were applied to address the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 A. V. Anufriev , V. N. Kovalenko

We investigate the possibility of selecting heavy ion collision events with certain features in the initial state ("event engineering"). Anisotropic flow measurements in heavy ion reactions have confirmed the almost ideal fluid dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Hannah Petersen , Berndt Muller

We compute initial conditions in heavy-ion collisions within the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework by combining the impact parameter dependent saturation model (IP-Sat) with the classical Yang-Mills description of initial Glasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-20 Bjoern Schenke , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan

The collective expansion of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions suggests that geometry-inspired approaches can be useful in extracting information about the QGP. In this work, a systematic study of observables based…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Federica Capellino , Andrea Dubla , Silvia Masciocchi , Govert Nijs , Daniel Spitz

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions has exhibited properties of a mostly perfect fluid. These properties can be observed through the hydrodynamic expansion of the QGP. Experimentally, this was…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-21 Victor Valencia Torres

We present phenomenological findings on charm quark transport while including its energy loss in both pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic stages of the evolution. We employed the MARTINI event generator for the production and evolution of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Manu Kurian , Björn Schenke , Mayank Singh

Modelling Quark-Gluon Plasma formation and decay in high energy heavy ion reactions is presented in a framework of a multi-module setup. The collective features, governing the equlibrated fluid dynamical stages of the model are emphasized.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. P. Csernai , A. Anderlik , Cs. Anderlik , A. Keranen , V. K. Magas , J. Manninen , E. Molnar , A. Nyiri , B. R. Schlei , D. D. Strottman , K. Tamosiunas

We present a simple way to construct 3D initial conditions for relativistic heavy-ion collisions based on the Glauber collision geometry. Local energy and momentum conservation conditions are imposed to set non-trivial constraints on our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Chun Shen , Sahr Alzhrani

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

We discuss differences between the IP-Glasma model and typical wounded-nucleon model like initial conditions. We point out that the IP-Glasma initial state is more compact in the transverse plane and produces a significant initial flow,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Prithwish Tribedy

This work presents a Bayesian inference study for relativistic heavy-ion collisions in the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. The theoretical model simulates event-by-event (3+1)D collision dynamics using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Syed Afrid Jahan , Hendrik Roch , Chun Shen