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-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 …

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 …

Bayesian analysis of heavy ion collisions with the heavy ion computational framework Trajectum

G Nijs, W Van Der Schee, U Gürsoy, R Snellings - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We introduce a model for heavy ion collisions named trajectum, which includes an
expanded initial stage with a variable free streaming velocity v fs and a hydrodynamic stage …

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 …

Transverse momentum differential global analysis of heavy-ion collisions

G Nijs, W Van Der Schee, U Gürsoy, R Snellings - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The understanding of heavy ion collisions and its quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation
requires a complicated interplay of rich physics in a wealth of experimental data. In this work …

Alternative ansatz to wounded nucleon and binary collision scaling in high-energy nuclear collisions

JS Moreland, JE Bernhard, SA Bass - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We introduce a new parametric initial-condition model for high-energy nuclear collisions
based on eikonal entropy deposition via a “reduced-thickness” function. The model …

Particle production and equilibrium properties within a new hadron transport approach for heavy-ion collisions

J Weil, V Steinberg, J Staudenmaier, LG Pang… - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
The microscopic description of heavy-ion reactions at low beam energies is achieved within
hadronic transport approaches. In this article a new approach called “Simulating Many …

Properties of hot and dense matter from relativistic heavy ion collisions

P Braun-Munzinger, V Koch, T Schäfer, J Stachel - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the progress achieved in extracting the properties of hot and dense matter from
relativistic heavy ion collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven …

One fluid to rule them all: viscous hydrodynamic description of event-by-event central p+ p, p+ Pb and Pb+ Pb collisions at s= 5.02 TeV

RD Weller, P Romatschke - Physics Letters B, 2017 - Elsevier
The matter created in central p+ p, p+ Pb and Pb+ Pb collisions at s= 5.02 TeV is simulated
event-by-event using the superSONIC model, which combines pre-equilibrium flow, viscous …