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We present full (3+1)D dynamical simulations to study collective behavior in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions (UPC) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the 3DGlauber+MUSIC+UrQMD framework. By extrapolating from asymmetric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao , Björn Schenke

Collective flow, its anisotropies and its event-to-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and the extraction of the specific shear viscosity of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) from collective flow data collected in heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-05 Ulrich W Heinz , Raimond Snellings

The observation of long-range collective correlations for particles emitted in high-multiplicity pp and pPb collisions has opened up new opportunities of investigating novel high-density QCD phenomena in small colliding systems. We review…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-10 Kevin Dusling , Wei Li , Bjoern Schenke

High-energy nuclear collisions exhibit collective flow, which emerges as a dynamical response of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) to the initial state geometry of the collision. Collective flow in heavy-ion collisions is usually described…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Victor E. Ambrus , Sören Schlichting , Clemens Werthmann

Using a model based on the Color Glass Condensate framework and the dilute-dense factorization, we systematically study the azimuthal angular correlations between a heavy flavor meson and a light reference particle in proton-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Cheng Zhang , Cyrille Marquet , Guang-You Qin , Yu Shi , Lei Wang , Shu-Yi Wei , Bo-Wen Xiao

Many features of multiparticle production in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions reflect the collision geometry and other collision characteristics determining the initial conditions. As the initial conditions affect to a different degree…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergei A. Voloshin

Correlations between particles separated by several units of pseudorapidity were discovered in high-multiplicity pp and p-Pb collisions at the LHC. These long-range structures observed in two-particle correlation functions are reminiscent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-04 Alice Ohlson

This contribution reports STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropies in produced particle distributions of the d+Au and $^{16}$O+$^{16}$O collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV, probing the origin of collectivity in small systems. We test…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhengxi Yan

The observation of collective flow phenomena in small collision systems challenges our understanding of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation and evolution. This complexity lies in the initial geometries, which are influenced by both nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 STAR Collaboration

PHENIX has measured elliptic and triangular flow of charged hadrons in $p/d/^{3}$He$+$Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon pair, and elliptic flow in $d$+Au collisions at 200, 62.4, and 39 GeV. In order to asses…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-15 Sylvia Morrow

Exploiting the first measurements of the same ion species in OO collisons at RHIC and LHC, we propose an observable to distinguish whether collective behavior builds up through a hydrodynamic expansion of a strongly interacting QGP or few…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Victor E. Ambrus , Sören Schlichting , Clemens Werthmann

The journal Nature recently published a letter titled "Creating small circular, elliptical, and triangular droplets of quark-gluon plasma" [1]. The basis for that claim is a combination of measured Fourier amplitudes $v_2$ and $v_3$ from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Thomas A. Trainor

Azimuthal anisotropy scaling functions for identified mesons and baryons are analyzed in large (Pb+Pb at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ and 5.02 TeV, Au+Au at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV), intermediate (Cu+Cu at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$~GeV), and small…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-12 Roy A. Lacey

In this article, we briefly review the recent progress on collective flow and hydrodynamics in large and small systems at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which includes the following topics: extracting the QGP viscosity from the flow data,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-03 Huichao Song , You Zhou , Katarina Gajdosova

Collective flow has been found to be similar between small colliding systems ($p$ $+$ $p$ and $p$ $+$ A collisions) and large colliding systems (peripheral A $+$ A collisions) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In order to study the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Shuang Guo , Han-Sheng Wang , Kai Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma

A central challenge in understanding the origin of collective flow-like signatures in small collision systems calls for a reliable method to disentangle genuine collective flow from substantial background correlations, especially those…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Shuang Guo , Jia-Lin Pei , Guo-Liang Ma , Adam Bzdak

The heavy-ion collisions (A--A) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies have confirmed the production of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a new state of nuclear matter where quarks and gluons are deconfined. The light-flavour hadrons…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-11-06 Rajendra Nath Patra

Collectivity, as interpreted to mean flow of a dense medium in high-energy A-A collisions described by hydrodynamics, has been attributed to smaller collision systems -- p-A and even p-p collisions -- based on recent analysis of LHC data.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Thomas A. Trainor

The collective phenomena are observed not only in heavy ion collisions, but also in the proton-nucleus and in high-multiplicity $pp$ collisions. The latest results from this area obtained in ATLAS are presented. In $p$+Pb collisions the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-06-14 Krzysztof W. Wozniak

A recent letter published in the journal Nature reports observation at the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation in small asymmetric collision systems denoted as $p$-Au, $d$-Au and $^3$He-Au. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-10 Thomas A. Trainor