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It is argued that, in heavy ion collisions, thermal dileptons are good probes of the transport properties of the medium created in such events, and also of its early-time dynamics, usually inaccessible to hadronic observables. In this work…

We have studied the viscous properties as well as the Bjorken expansion of a rotating QGP medium. In the noncentral events of heavy-ion collisions, the produced medium can carry a finite angular momentum with a finite range of angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-10 Shubhalaxmi Rath , Nicolás A. Neill

We develop a macroscopic description of the space-time evolution of the energy-momentum tensor during the pre-equilibrium stage of a high-energy heavy-ion collision. Based on a weak coupling effective kinetic description of the microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Jean-François Paquet , Sören Schlichting , Derek Teaney

We develop a far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamic model to evolve ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions in event-by-event simulations. Anisotropic hydrodynamics is designed to better handle the strong and highly anisotropic expansion during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-14 Mike McNelis

We demonstrate how to match pre-equilibrium dynamics of a 0+1 dimensional quark gluon plasma to 2nd-order viscous hydrodynamical evolution. The matching allows us to specify the initial values of the energy density and shear tensor at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Mauricio Martinez , Michael Strickland

To describe theoretically the creation and evolution of the quark-gluon plasma, one typically employs three ingredients: a model for the initial state, non-hydrodynamic early time evolution, and hydrodynamics. In this paper we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 V. Balasubramanian , A. Bernamonti , J. de Boer , B. Craps , L. Franti , F. Galli , E. Keski-Vakkuri , B. Müller , A. Schäfer

A possible resolution of the early thermalisation puzzle is provided by the notion of far-from-equilibrium attractors which arise due to the specific kinematics of heavy-ion collisions. Attractors appear in a wide variety of dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-29 Michał Spaliński

Measuring the energy loss of energetic jet partons may provide experimental opportunities to constrain the initial nonequilibrium stages in heavy-ion collisions, which requires theoretical predictions for the jet-medium potential. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-05 Alois Altenburger , Kirill Boguslavski , Florian Lindenbauer

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

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions generate ultra-strong magnetic fields that interact with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a key focus of high-energy physics research.This study investigates QGP energy density evolution under time-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Huang-Jing Zheng , Sheng-Qin Feng

We study the viscosity and thermodynamic properties of QGP at RHIC by employing the recently extracted equilibrium distribution functions from two hot QCD equations of state of $O(g^5)$ and $O(g^6\ln(1/g))$ respectively. After obtaining the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Vinod Chandra , V. Ravishankar

While the existence of a strongly interacting state of matter, known as 'quark-gluon plasma' (QGP), has been established in heavy ion collision experiments in the past decade, the task remains to map out the transition from the hadronic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-04 Jussi Auvinen , Hannah Petersen

The thermalization of quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions is crucial for understanding its behavior as a relativistic fluid and the thermodynamic properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This study investigates the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 Yu-Shan Mu , Jing-An Sun , Li Yan , Xu-Guang Huang

We study the chiral vortical effect far from equilibrium in a strongly coupled holographic field theory. Rotation is represented as a perturbation via a gravito-magnetic field on top of a five-dimensional charged AdS Vaidya metric. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Sergio Morales-Tejera , Karl Landsteiner

The early stage of a heavy-ion collision is marked by rapid entropy production and the transition from a gluon saturated initial condition to a plasma of quarks and gluons that evolves hydrodynamically. However, during the early times of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-15 Andrew Gordeev , Steffen A. Bass , Berndt Mueller , Jean-Francois Paquet

We perform a global analysis of deep-inelastic $e+p$ scattering data from HERA and transverse energy distributions in $p+p$ and $p+\mathrm{Pb}$ collisions, alongside charged hadron multiplicities in $\mathrm{Pb}+\mathrm{Pb}$ collisions at…

We solve a Boltzmann equation for massless quark and gluon fluids in a transversally homogeneous, longitudinally boost-invariant expansion. Quarks can be out of chemical equilibrium and the relaxation times of the two species are assumed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Ferdinando Frascà , Andrea Beraudo , Michael Strickland

High-energy nuclear collisions produce a nonequilibrium plasma of quarks and gluons which thermalizes and exhibits hydrodynamic flow. There are currently no practical frameworks to connect the early particle production in classical field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-30 Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Jean-François Paquet , Sören Schlichting , Derek Teaney

We use effective kinetic theory to study the pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. We describe the evolution of linearized energy perturbations on top of out-of-equilibrium background to the energy-momentum tensor at a time when…

A phenomenological analysis of the experimental measurements of transverse momentum spectra of identified charged hadrons and strange hyperons in Pb-Pb and Xe-Xe collisions at the LHC is presented. The analysis is based on the relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-21 L. Vermunt , Y. Seemann , A. Dubla , S. Floerchinger , E. Grossi , A. Kirchner , S. Masciocchi , I. Selyuzhenkov