QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
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 …

Lepton flavor symmetries

F Feruglio, A Romanino - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
A general classification of flavor symmetries is provided according to their interplay with the
proper Poincaré and gauge groups and to their linear or nonlinear action in field space. The …

Setting the string shoving picture in a new frame

C Bierlich, S Chakraborty, G Gustafson… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Based on the recent success of the Angantyr model in describing multiplicity
distributions of the hadronic final state in high energy heavy ion collisions, we investigate …

Transport of hard probes through glasma

ME Carrington, A Czajka, S Mrówczyński - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We calculate the transverse momentum broadening q ̂ and collisional energy loss d E/dx of
hard probes traversing an evolving glasma during the earliest phase of a relativistic heavy …

[HTML][HTML] Jet quenching in glasma

ME Carrington, A Czajka, S Mrówczyński - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
We discuss the transverse momentum broadening of hard probes traversing an evolving
glasma, which is the earliest phase of the matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions …

Spin polarization and correlation of quarks from the glasma

A Kumar, B Müller, DL Yang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We investigate the interaction of strong color fields in the glasma stage of high-energy
nuclear collisions with the spins of quarks and antiquarks. We employ the perturbative …

collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider comparing clustering versus substructure

N Summerfield, BN Lu, C Plumberg, D Lee… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Collisions of. light and heavy nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been shown to
be sensitive to nuclear structure. With a proposed O 16 O 16 run at the CERN Large Hadron …

3D glasma initial state for relativistic heavy ion collisions

B Schenke, S Schlichting - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We extend the impact-parameter-dependent Glasma model to three dimensions using
explicit small-x evolution of the two incoming nuclear gluon distributions. We compute …

High gluon densities in heavy ion collisions

JP Blaizot - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The early stages of heavy ion collisions are dominated by high density systems of gluons
that carry each a small fraction x of the momenta of the colliding nucleons. A distinguishing …

Initial conditions for hydrodynamics from weakly coupled pre-equilibrium evolution

L Keegan, A Kurkela, A Mazeliauskas… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We use effective kinetic theory, accurate at weak coupling, to simulate the
preequilibrium evolution of transverse energy and flow perturbations in heavy-ion collisions …