Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC

CMS collaboration - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
We review key measurements performed by CMS in the context of its heavy ion physics
program, using event samples collected in 2010–2018 with several collision systems and …

Hot QCD phase diagram from holographic Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton models

R Rougemont, J Grefa, M Hippert, J Noronha… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this review, we provide an up-to-date account of quantitative bottom-up holographic
descriptions of the strongly coupled quark–gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic …

Footprints of the QCD crossover on cosmological gravitational waves at pulsar timing arrays

G Franciolini, D Racco, F Rompineve - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have reported evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW)
background at nanohertz frequencies, possibly originating in the early Universe. We show …

High-energy collision of quarks and mesons in the Schwinger model: From tensor networks to circuit QED

R Belyansky, S Whitsitt, N Mueller, A Fahimniya… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
With the aim of studying nonperturbative out-of-equilibrium dynamics of high-energy particle
collisions on quantum simulators, we investigate the scattering dynamics of lattice quantum …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Pion valence-quark generalized parton distribution at physical pion mass

HW Lin - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
We present the first lattice-QCD x-dependent pion valence-quark generalized parton
distribution (GPD) calculated directly at physical pion mass using the Large-Momentum …

Quantum thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes in lattice gauge theories

Z Davoudi, C Jarzynski, N Mueller, G Oruganti… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A key objective in nuclear and high-energy physics is to describe nonequilibrium dynamics
of matter, eg, in the early Universe and in particle colliders, starting from the standard model …

Unveiling baryon charge carriers through charge stop** in isobar collisions

G Pihan, A Monnai, B Schenke, C Shen - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Utilizing a comprehensive (3+ 1) D relativistic hydrodynamic framework with multiple
conserved charge currents and charge-dependent lattice-QCD-based equation of state, we …

Systematic improvement of -dependent unpolarized nucleon generalized parton distributions in lattice-QCD calculation

J Holligan, HW Lin - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We present a first study of the effects of renormalization-group resummation (RGR) and
leading-renormalon resummation (LRR) on the systematic errors of the unpolarized …

Transverse momentum moments

O Del Rio, A Prokudin, I Scimemi, A Vladimirov - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We establish robust relations between Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions
(TMDs) and collinear distributions. We define weighted integrals of TMDs that we call …