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 …

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 …

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∼ …

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 …

Freezing out fluctuations in near the QCD critical point

M Pradeep, K Rajagopal, M Stephanov, Y Yin - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We introduce a freeze-out procedure to convert the critical fluctuations in a droplet of quark-
gluon plasma (QGP) that has, as it expanded and cooled, passed close to a posited critical …

Local and global polarization of hyperons across RHIC-BES energies: The roles of spin hall effect, initial condition, and baryon diffusion

XY Wu, C Yi, GY Qin, S Pu - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We perform a systematic study on the local and global spin polarization of Λ and Λ¯
hyperons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at beam energy scan energies via the (3+ 1) …

Applications of emulation and Bayesian methods in heavy-ion physics

JF Paquet - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Heavy-ion collisions provide a window into the properties of many-body systems of
deconfined quarks and gluons. Understanding the collective properties of quarks and …

Open charm phenomenology with a multistage approach to relativistic heavy-ion collisions

M Singh, M Kurian, S Jeon, C Gale - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We study open charm flavor observables in Pb+ Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV within the
MARTINI framework. The space-time expansion of the quark-gluon plasma is described …

Interplay between core and corona components in high-energy nuclear collisions

Y Kanakubo, Y Tachibana, T Hirano - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We establish the updated version of dynamical core-corona initialization framework (DCCI2)
as a unified description from small to large colliding systems and from low-to high-transverse …

Efficient emulation of relativistic heavy ion collisions with transfer learning

D Liyanage, Y Ji, D Everett, M Heffernan, U Heinz… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Measurements from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC) can be used to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma. Systematic constraints on …