Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

Heavy quarks and jets as probes of the QGP

L Apolinário, YJ Lee, M Winn - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP), a QCD state of matter created in ultra-relativistic
heavy-ion collisions, has remarkable properties including, for example, a low shear viscosity …

Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration

K Adcox, SS Adler, S Afanasiev, C Aidala… - Nuclear Physics A, 2005 - Elsevier
Extensive experimental data from high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions were recorded
using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The comprehensive …

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 …

Bayesian estimation of the specific shear and bulk viscosity of quark–gluon plasma

JE Bernhard, JS Moreland, SA Bass - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy atomic nuclei produce an extremely hot and dense phase
of matter, known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP), which behaves like a near-perfect fluid with …

Anisotropy as a signature of transverse collective flow

JY Ollitrault - Physical Review D, 1992 - APS
We show that anisotropies in transverse-momentum distributions provide an unambiguous
signature of transverse collective flow in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. We …

Thermal phenomenology of hadrons from 200A GeV S+S collisions

E Schnedermann, J Sollfrank, U Heinz - Physical Review C, 1993 - APS
We develop a complete and consistent description for the hadron spectra from heavy ion
collisions in terms of a few collective variables, in particular temperature, longitudinal, and …

Quantum chromodynamics and the theory of superdense matter

EV Shuryak - Physics Reports, 1980 - Elsevier
At high enough density and/or temperature ordinary matter undergoes a transition into a
plasma-like phase, consisting of quarks and gluons rather than of separate hadrons. Due to …

Applying Bayesian parameter estimation to relativistic heavy-ion collisions: simultaneous characterization of the initial state and quark-gluon plasma medium

JE Bernhard, JS Moreland, SA Bass, J Liu, U Heinz - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We quantitatively estimate properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic
heavy-ion collisions utilizing Bayesian statistics and a multiparameter model-to-data …

Hydrodynamic modeling of heavy-ion collisions

C Gale, S Jeon, B Schenke - International Journal of Modern …, 2013 - World Scientific
We review progress in the hydrodynamic description of heavy-ion collisions, focusing on
recent developments in modeling the fluctuating initial state and event-by-event viscous …