Heavy ion collisions: the big picture and the big questions

W Busza, K Rajagopal… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Heavy ion collisions quickly form a droplet of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) with a remarkably
small viscosity. We give an accessible introduction to how to study this smallest and hottest …

Jet measurements in heavy ion physics

M Connors, C Nattrass, R Reed, S Salur - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
A hot, dense medium called a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy
ion collisions. Early in the collision, hard parton scatterings generate high momentum …

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 …

Bayesian analysis of heavy ion collisions with the heavy ion computational framework Trajectum

G Nijs, W Van Der Schee, U Gürsoy, R Snellings - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We introduce a model for heavy ion collisions named trajectum, which includes an
expanded initial stage with a variable free streaming velocity v fs and a hydrodynamic stage …

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 …

Transverse momentum differential global analysis of heavy-ion collisions

G Nijs, W Van Der Schee, U Gürsoy, R Snellings - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The understanding of heavy ion collisions and its quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation
requires a complicated interplay of rich physics in a wealth of experimental data. In this work …

Anisotropic Flow of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at

J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal, G Aglieri Rinella… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report the first results of elliptic (v 2), triangular (v 3), and quadrangular (v 4) flow of
charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of s NN …

Running the gamut of high energy nuclear collisions

B Schenke, C Shen, P Tribedy - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We present calculations of the bulk properties and multiparticle correlations in a large variety
of collision systems within a hybrid formalism consisting of impact-parameter-dependent …

Determination of the Neutron Skin of from Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

G Giacalone, G Nijs, W van der Schee - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Emergent bulk properties of matter governed by the strong nuclear force give rise to physical
phenomena across vastly different scales, ranging from the shape of atomic nuclei to the …

One fluid to rule them all: viscous hydrodynamic description of event-by-event central p+ p, p+ Pb and Pb+ Pb collisions at s= 5.02 TeV

RD Weller, P Romatschke - Physics Letters B, 2017 - Elsevier
The matter created in central p+ p, p+ Pb and Pb+ Pb collisions at s= 5.02 TeV is simulated
event-by-event using the superSONIC model, which combines pre-equilibrium flow, viscous …