Dense nuclear matter equation of state from heavy-ion collisions

A Sorensen, K Agarwal, KW Brown, Z Chajęcki… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and
experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear …

Transport model comparison studies of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

H Wolter, M Colonna, D Cozma, P Danielewicz… - Progress in Particle and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transport models are the main method to obtain physics information on the nuclear equation
of state and in-medium properties of particles from low to relativistic-energy heavy-ion …

[HTML][HTML] The present and future of QCD

P Achenbach, D Adhikari, A Afanasev, F Afzal… - Nuclear Physics A, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective
of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 …

Multimessenger heavy-ion collision physics

C Gale, JF Paquet, B Schenke, C Shen - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
This work studies the production of direct photons in relativistic nuclear collisions, along with
the production of hadrons. Radiation from the very first instants to the final moments of the …

Future physics opportunities for high-density QCD at the LHC with heavy-ion and proton beams

Z Citron, A Dainese, JF Grosse-Oetringhaus… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The future opportunities for high-density QCD studies with ion and proton beams at the LHC
are presented. Four major scientific goals are identified: the characterisation of the …

Charm production in Pb+ Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

T Song, H Berrehrah, D Cabrera, W Cassing… - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We study charm production in Pb+ Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV in the parton-hadron-
string-dynamics (PHSD) transport approach and the charm dynamics in the partonic and …

Modelling relativistic heavy-ion collisions with dynamical transport approaches

M Bleicher, E Bratkovskaya - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We discuss the basic ideas of relativistic transport models used for the interpretation and
description of experimental data from heavy-ion collisions at high collision energies. We …

Toward the determination of heavy-quark transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma

S Cao, G Coci, SK Das, W Ke, SYF Liu, S Plumari… - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
Several transport models have been employed in recent years to analyze heavy-flavor
meson spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-quark transport coefficients …

The QCD phase diagram and Beam Energy Scan physics: a theory overview

L Du, A Sorensen, M Stephanov - International Journal of Modern …, 2024 - World Scientific
We review recent theoretical developments relevant to heavy-ion experiments carried out
within the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Our main focus …

Parton-hadron-quantum-molecular dynamics: A novel microscopic -body transport approach for heavy-ion collisions, dynamical cluster formation, and hypernuclei …

J Aichelin, E Bratkovskaya, A Le Fèvre, V Kireyeu… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Cluster and hypernuclei production in heavy-ion collisions is presently under active
experimental and theoretical investigation. Since clusters are weekly bound objects, their …