The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE Collaboration alice-publications@ cern … - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of …

Hydrodynamic attractors in heavy ion collisions: a review

A Soloviev - The European Physical Journal C, 2022 - Springer
A review of the recent progress of relativistic hydrodynamic attractors is presented, with a
focus on applications in heavy ion collisions and the quark gluon plasma. Pedagogical …

Hydrodynamic attractors in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

J Jankowski, M Spaliński - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the many physical questions that have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions
at RHIC and the LHC concerns the validity of hydrodynamic modelling at the very early …

Jet polarisation in an anisotropic medium

S Hauksson, E Iancu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study the evolution of an energetic jet which propagates in an anisotropic quark-
gluon plasma, as created in the intermediate stages of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions …

Exponential approach to the hydrodynamic attractor in Yang-Mills kinetic theory

X Du, MP Heller, S Schlichting, V Svensson - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We use principal component analysis to study the hydrodynamic attractor in Yang-Mills
kinetic theory undergoing the Bjorken expansion with color glass condensate initial …

Hot QCD white paper

M Arslandok, SA Bass, AA Baty, I Bautista… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities.
Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at the …

Probing the equilibration of the QCD matter created in heavy-ion collisions with dileptons

XY Wu, L Du, C Gale, S Jeon - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
A systematic study of intermediate invariant mass dilepton production in Pb+ Pb collisions at
s NN= 5.02 TeV is performed, using next-to-leading order (NLO) thermal QCD dilepton …

Bayesian quantification of strongly interacting matter with color glass condensate initial conditions

M Heffernan, C Gale, S Jeon, JF Paquet - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
A global Bayesian analysis of relativistic Pb+ Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV is performed,
using a multistage model consisting of an ip-glasma initial state, a viscous fluid dynamical …

Far-from-equilibrium attractors for massive kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation

H Alalawi, M Strickland - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We investigate whether early and late time attractors for non-conformal kinetic
theories exist by computing the time-evolution of a large set of moments of the one-particle …

Transverse mass scaling of dilepton radiation off a quark-gluon plasma

M Coquet, X Du, JY Ollitrault, S Schlichting, M Winn - Nuclear Physics A, 2023 - Elsevier
The spectrum of dileptons produced by the quark-gluon plasma in an ultrarelativistic nucleus-
nucleus collision depends only, to a good approximation, on the transverse mass M t of the …