Phenomenological constraints on the transport properties of QCD matter with data-driven model averaging

D Everett, W Ke, JF Paquet, G Vujanovic, SA Bass… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
Using combined data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion and Large Hadron Colliders, we
constrain the shear and bulk viscosities of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at temperatures of∼ …

Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter

D Everett, W Ke, JF Paquet, G Vujanovic, SA Bass… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We study the properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma with a multistage model
of heavy-ion collisions that combines the TR ENTo initial condition ansatz, free-streaming …

Quantifying properties of hot and dense QCD matter through systematic model-to-data comparison

JE Bernhard, PW Marcy, CE Coleman-Smith… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We systematically compare an event-by-event heavy-ion collision model to data from the
CERN Large Hadron Collider. Using a general Bayesian method, we probe multiple model …

[HTML][HTML] New constraints for QCD matter from improved Bayesian parameter estimation in heavy-ion collisions at LHC

JE Parkkila, A Onnerstad, SF Taghavi, C Mordasini… - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
The transport properties of quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
are quantified by an improved global Bayesian analysis using the CERN Large Hadron …

Bayesian estimation of the specific shear and bulk viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma with additional flow harmonic observables

JE Parkkila, A Onnerstad, DJ Kim - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
The transport properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma created in
ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are extracted by Bayesian parameter estimate methods …

Bayesian estimation of the specific shear and bulk viscosity of quark–gluon plasma

JE Bernhard, JS Moreland, SA Bass - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy atomic nuclei produce an extremely hot and dense phase
of matter, known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP), which behaves like a near-perfect fluid with …

Viscosities of the baryon-rich quark-gluon plasma from beam energy scan data

C Shen, B Schenke, W Zhao - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
This work presents the first Bayesian inference study of the (3+ 1) D dynamics of relativistic
heavy-ion collisions and quark-gluon plasma viscosities using an event-by-event (3+ 1) D …

Applying Bayesian parameter estimation to relativistic heavy-ion collisions: simultaneous characterization of the initial state and quark-gluon plasma medium

JE Bernhard, JS Moreland, SA Bass, J Liu, U Heinz - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We quantitatively estimate properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic
heavy-ion collisions utilizing Bayesian statistics and a multiparameter model-to-data …

Shear and bulk viscosities of the gluon plasma in a quasiparticle description

M Bluhm, B Kämpfer, K Redlich - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2011 - APS
Shear and bulk viscosities of deconfined gluonic matter are investigated within an effective
kinetic theory by describing the strongly interacting medium phenomenologically in terms of …

Bayesian parameter estimation for relativistic heavy-ion collisions

JE Bernhard - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06469, 2018 - arxiv.org
I develop and apply a Bayesian method for quantitatively estimating properties of the quark-
gluon plasma (QGP), an extremely hot and dense state of fluid-like matter created in …