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 …

Heavy Quark Diffusion from Flavor Lattice QCD with 320 MeV Pion Mass

L Altenkort, O Kaczmarek, R Larsen, S Mukherjee… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present the first calculations of the heavy flavor diffusion coefficient using lattice QCD
with light dynamical quarks corresponding to a pion mass of around 320 MeV. For …

[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 …

Comparative study of quarkonium transport in hot QCD matter

A Andronic, PB Gossiaux, P Petreczky, R Rapp… - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
This document summarizes the efforts of the EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on
“Suppression and (re) generation of quarkonium in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC” …

Quark Mass Dependence of Heavy Quark Diffusion Coefficient from Lattice QCD

L Altenkort, D de la Cruz, O Kaczmarek, R Larsen… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We present the first study of the quark mass dependence of the heavy quark momentum and
spatial diffusion coefficients using lattice QCD with light dynamical quarks corresponding to …

Bottom hadrochemistry in high-energy hadronic collisions

M He, R Rapp - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The hadrochemistry of bottom quarks (b) produced in hadronic collisions encodes valuable
information on the mechanism of color neutralization in these reactions. Since the b-quark …

Heavy quark diffusion coefficient in heavy-ion collisions via kinetic theory

K Boguslavski, A Kurkela, T Lappi, F Lindenbauer… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We compute the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient κ using QCD kinetic theory for
a system going through bottom-up isotropization in the initial stages of a heavy ion collision …

Heavy quark drag and diffusion coefficients in the prehydrodynamic QCD plasma

X Du - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
Kinetic and chemical equilibrations play important roles in the formation of the quark-gluon
plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions (HICs). These processes further influence …

Recombination of mesons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

B Wu, Z Tang, M He, R Rapp - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
High-energy heavy-ion collisions have been suggested as a favorable environment for the
production of B c mesons, due to a much larger abundance of charm and bottom quarks …

Second-order dissociation and transition of heavy quarkonia in the quark-gluon plasma

S Zhao, M He - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We revisit the dissociation of heavy quarkonia by thermal partons at the next-to-leading
order (NLO, also known as inelastic parton scattering dissociation) in the quark-gluon …