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 …

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 …

Towards a precision calculation of in the Standard Model II: Neutrino decoupling in the presence of flavour oscillations and finite-temperature QED

JJ Bennett, G Buldgen, PF De Salas, M Drewes… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present in this work a new calculation of the standard-model benchmark value for the
effective number of neutrinos, $ N_ {\rm eff}^{\rm SM} $, that quantifies the cosmological …

[BOOK][B] Gauge/string duality, hot QCD and heavy ion collisions

J Casalderrey-Solana, H Liu, D Mateos, K Rajagopal… - 2014 - library.oapen.org
Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the nascent
universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal …

Event generators for high-energy physics experiments

JM Campbell, M Diefenthaler, TJ Hobbs… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We provide an overview of the status of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy
particle physics. Guided by the experimental needs and requirements, we highlight areas of …

New theories of relativistic hydrodynamics in the LHC era

W Florkowski, MP Heller… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The success of relativistic hydrodynamics as an essential part of the phenomenological
description of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC has motivated a significant body of …

Friction pressure on relativistic bubble walls

Y Gouttenoire, R **no, F Sala - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract During a cosmological first-order phase transition, particles of the plasma crossing
the bubble walls can radiate a gauge boson. The resulting pressure cannot be computed …

Transport coefficients in high temperature gauge theories, 2. Beyond leading log

P Arnold, GD Moore, LG Yaffe - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Results are presented of a full leading-order evaluation of the shear viscosity, flavor diffusion
constants, and electrical conductivity in high temperature QCD and QED. The presence of …

Jet quenching and medium response in high-energy heavy-ion collisions: a review

S Cao, XN Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Jet quenching has been used successfully as a hard probe to study properties of the quark–
gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at both the relativistic heavy-ion …

[BOOK][B] Nonequilibrium quantum field theory

EA Calzetta, BLB Hu - 2009 - library.oapen.org
Bringing together the key ideas from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and powerful
methodology from quantum field theory, this 2008 book captures the essence of …