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We consider high energy scattering in the effective theory of the Color Glass Condensate. The most convenient degrees of freedom are Wilson lines encoding multiple gluon exchanges, whose evolution with energy follows the JIMWLK equation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 T. Lappi , D. N. Triantafyllopoulos

We present a simple description of the energy density profile created in a nucleus-nucleus collision, motivated by high-energy QCD. The energy density is modeled as the sum of contributions coming from elementary collisions between…

Basic problems of the semiclassical microscopic modelling of strongly interactingsystems are discussed within the framework of Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD). This model allows to study the influence of several types of nucleonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 C. Hartnack , Rajeev K. Puri , J. Aichelin , J. Konopka , S. A. Bass , H. Stoecker , W. Greiner

In this thesis the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework, which describes quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at high energy, is applied to various scattering processes. Higher order corrections to the CGC evolution equations, known as the BK and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Heikki Mäntysaari

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

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jet quenching in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been extensively studied, revealing important insights into the properties of the color deconfined nuclear matter. Over the past decade, there has been a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-05 Yang He , Mengxue Zhang , Maowu Nie , Shanshan Cao , Li Yi

The impact of non-equilibrium effects on the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is investigated by comparing a non-equilibrium transport approach, the Parton-Hadron-String-Dynamics (PHSD), to a 2D+1 viscous hydrodynamical model, which is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 Pierre Moreau , Yingru Xu , Taesoo Song , Marlene Nahrgang , Steffen Bass , Elena Bratkovskaya

The impact of non-equilibrium effects on the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is investigated by comparing a non-equilibrium transport approach, the Parton-Hadron-String-Dynamics (PHSD), to a 2D+1 viscous hydrodynamical model, which is…

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-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with temperatures extracted from relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Jürgen Berges , Michal P. Heller , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Raju Venugopalan

In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collided $^{16}$O$^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne$^{20}$Ne isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collisions. One of the key motivations for this run is to discover…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Wilke van der Schee , Isobel Kolbé , Govert Nijs , Kumail Ruhani , Ishtiaq Ahmed , Shahin Iqbal

We present our work on the simulation of the early stages of heavy-ion collisions with finite longitudinal thickness in the laboratory frame in 3+1 dimensions. In particular we study the effects of nuclear thickness on the production of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Daniil Gelfand , Andreas Ipp , David Müller

Relativistic hydrodynamics simulations of quark-gluon plasma play a pivotal role in our understanding of heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. They are based on a phenomenological description due to Mueller, Israel, Stewart (MIS) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-08 Michal P. Heller , Romuald A. Janik , Michal Spalinski , Przemyslaw Witaszczyk

Using the recently published model for the collisional energy loss of heavy quarks (Q) in a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), based on perturbative QCD (pQCD) with a running coupling constant, we study the interaction between heavy quarks and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 P. B. Gossiaux , R. Bierkandt , J. Aichelin

The evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is typically understood as a process that transmutes the initial geometry of the system into the final momentum distribution of observed hadrons, which can be described via a cumulant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Jefferson Sousa , Jorge Noronha , Matthew Luzum

We discuss dense states of QCD matter formed in high-energy hadronic and heavy-ion collisions from the point of view of statistical physics of non-equilibrium processes. For this sake, we first propose a formulation of the dynamical entropy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-27 Robi Peschanski

We study multi-particle production with rapidity correlations in high-energy p+A collisions. In the context of the Color Glass Condensate, the evolution for such correlations is governed by a generalization of the JIMWLK equation which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Iancu , D. N. Triantafyllopoulos

We show that a measurement of the reaction energy dependence of relative hadron resonance yields in heavy ion collisions can be used to study the phase structure of the dense QCD matter created in these collisions, and investigate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Giorgio Torrieri , Johann Rafelski

We study the production of heavy quarkonium states in high energy proton-nucleus collisions. Following earlier work of Blaizot, Fujii, Gelis, and Venugopalan, we systematically include both small $x$ evolution and multiple scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-21 Zhong-Bo Kang , Yan-Qing Ma , Raju Venugopalan

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…