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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

The longitudinal structure of the quark-gluon plasma(QGP) remains a key challenge in heavy-ion physics. In this Letter, we propose a novel observable, event-by-event mean transverse momentum fluctuations Var$_{\langle p_{T} \rangle}$, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 Lu-Meng Liu , Jinhui Chen , Xu-Guang Huang , Jiangyong Jia , Chun Shen , Chunjian Zhang

The quark gluon plasma produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions exhibits remarkable features. It behaves like a nearly perfect liquid with a small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio and leads to the quenching of highly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-25 Jan Uphoff , Oliver Fochler , Florian Senzel , Christian Wesp , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

Heavy quarks are valuable probes of the electromagnetic field and the initial condition of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions. Within an improved Langevin model that is coupled to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Ze-Fang Jiang , Shanshan Cao , Wen-Jing Xing , Xiang-Yu Wu , C. B. Yang , Ben-Wei Zhang

I review recent developments in the phenomenological study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) transport properties based on a personal selection of results that were presented at Quark Matter 2019. The constraints on the temperature dependence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Chun Shen

The strong longitudinal expansion characteristic of heavy-ion collisions leads to universal attractor behavior of the resulting drop of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) already at very early times. Assuming approximate boost invariance and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Xin An , Michał Spaliński

Two-photon intensity interferometry is shown to provide an accurate measurement of lifetime of quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions via the difference of outward and sidewardcorrelation radii. Under the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Dinesh K. Srivastava , Charles Gale

The hydrodynamic expansion of quark-gluon plasmas with spherical and longitudinally boost-invariant geometries is studied as a function of the initial energy density. The sensitivity of the collective flow pattern to uncertainties in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Dirk H. Rischke , Miklos Gyulassy

This study investigates the evolution of quark gluon plasma (QGP) within a generalized Bjorken flow framework. The medium under consideration is assumed to possess a finite transverse size and to expand both radially and along the beam…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 M. Karimabadi , A. F. Kord , B. Azadegan

The quark-gluon plasma produced by collisions between ultra-relativistic heavy nuclei is well described in the language of hydrodynamics. Non-central collisions are characterized by very large angular momentum, which in a fluid system…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-03-10 Francesco Becattini , Michael Lisa

High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding nuclei informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition (IC) leading to the formation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), and the hydrodynamic…

This study investigates Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions through two avenues: high-$p_{\perp}$ frameworks and hydrodynamic modeling. Using the T$_{\text{R}}$ENTo model, we find that IP-Glasma mimicking $p=0$ value aligns…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-27 Bithika Karmakar , Dusan Zigic , Pasi Huovinen , Marko Djordjevic , Magdalena Djordjevic , Jussi Auvinen

Heavy flavor observables provide valuable information on the properties of the hot and dense Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Various microscopic models have successfully described many of…

Central nuclear collisions at energies far above 1 GeV/nucleon may provide for conditions, where the transition from highly excited hadronic matter into quark matter or quark-gluon plasma can be probed. Here I review our current…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Berndt Mueller

Valuable information on the dynamics of expanding fluids can be inferred from the response of such systems to perturbations in their initial geometry. We apply this technique in high-energy $^{96}$Ru+$^{96}$Ru and $^{96}$Zr+$^{96}$Zr…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Jiangyong Jia , Giuliano Giacalone , Chunjian Zhang

Using a relativistic hadron transport model, we investigate the utility of the elliptic flow excitation function as a probe for the stiffness of nuclear matter and for the onset of a possible quark-gluon-plasma (QGP) phase-transition at AGS…

Dynamical models based on relativistic fluid dynamics provide a powerful tool to extract the properties of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced by ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. The largest source of uncertainty in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 J. Scott Moreland

Since the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) reveals some obvious similarities to the well-known electromagnetic plasma (EMP), an accumulated knowledge on EMP can be used in the QGP studies. After discussing similarities and differences of the two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Markus H. Thoma

Rapidity decorrelation in high energy heavy-ion collisions is one of the hot topics in understanding longitudinal dynamics of the quark gluon plasma (QGP). In this study we employ an integrated dynamical model with full three dimensional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Azumi Sakai , Koichi Murase , Tetsufumi Hirano

The physics of heavy-ion collisions is one of the most exciting and challenging directions of science for the last four decades. On the theoretical side one deals with a non-abelian field theory, while on the experimental side today's…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-22 Marcus Bleicher , Elena Bratkovskaya