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 …

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 …

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 …

Matching the nonequilibrium initial stage of heavy ion collisions to hydrodynamics with QCD kinetic theory

A Kurkela, A Mazeliauskas, JF Paquet, S Schlichting… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
High-energy nuclear collisions produce a nonequilibrium plasma of quarks and gluons
which thermalizes and exhibits hydrodynamic flow. There are currently no practical …

Effective kinetic description of event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

A Kurkela, A Mazeliauskas, JF Paquet, S Schlichting… - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
We develop a macroscopic description of the space-time evolution of the energy-momentum
tensor during the pre-equilibrium stage of a high-energy heavy-ion collision. Based on a …

The First fm/c of Heavy-Ion Collisions

S Schlichting, D Teaney - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We present an introductory review of the early-time dynamics of high-energy heavy-ion
collisions and the kinetics of high-temperature quantum chromodynamic matter. The …

Imprints of fluctuating proton shapes on flow in proton-lead collisions at the LHC

H Mäntysaari, B Schenke, C Shen, P Tribedy - Physics Letters B, 2017 - Elsevier
Results for particle production in s= 5.02 TeV p+ Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
within a combined classical Yang–Mills and relativistic viscous hydrodynamic calculation …

Strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions

E Shuryak - Reviews of modern physics, 2017 - APS
A decade ago, a brief summary of the field of the relativistic heavy ion physics could be
formulated as the discovery of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, sQGP for short, a near …