Relativistic hadron-hadron collisions in the ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics model

M Bleicher, E Zabrodin, C Spieles… - Journal of Physics G …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Hadron-hadron (hh) collisions at high energies are investigated in the ultra-relativistic
quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) approach. This microscopic transport model …

Effects of overlap** strings in pp collisions

C Bierlich, G Gustafson, L Lönnblad… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract In models for hadron collisions based on string hadronization, the strings are
usually treated as independent, allowing no interaction between the confined colour fields …

De-confinement and clustering of color sources in nuclear collisions

MA Braun, JD de Deus, AS Hirsch, C Pajares… - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
A brief introduction of the relationship of string percolation to the Quantum Chromo
Dynamics (QCD) phase diagram is presented. The behavior of the Polyakov loop close to …

[HTML][HTML] Collectivity without plasma in hadronic collisions

C Bierlich, G Gustafson, L Lönnblad - Physics Letters B, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a microscopic model for collective effects in high multiplicity proton–proton
collisions, where multiple partonic subcollisions give rise to a dense system of strings. From …

ALICE: Physics performance report, volume I

F Carminati, P Foka, P Giubellino… - Journal of Physics G …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly
interacting matter and the quark–gluon plasma in nucleus–nucleus collisions at the LHC. It …

Central rapidity densities of charged particles at RHIC and LHC

N Armesto, C Pajares - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2000 - World Scientific
Predictions on central rapidity densities of charged particles at energies of the relativistic
heavy ion collider and the large hadron collider, for central collisions between the largest …

Percolation Approach to Quark-Gluon Plasma and Suppression

N Armesto, MA Braun, EG Ferreiro, C Pajares - Physical Review Letters, 1996 - APS
It is shown that the critical threshold for percolation of the overlap** strings exchanged in
heavy ion collisions can naturally explain the sharp strong suppression of J/ψ shown by the …

Implications of color-string percolation on multiplicities, correlations, and the transverse momentum

MA Braun, C Pajares - The European Physical Journal C-Particles and …, 2000 - Springer
In the color-string model, the impact of string percolation on multiplicities, ⟨p_T^2⟩, and
their long-range (forward–backward) correlations is studied. It is assumed that different …

[HTML][HTML] Strangeness enhancement across collision systems without a plasma

C Bierlich, S Chakraborty, G Gustafson, L Lönnblad - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
We present novel rope hadronization results for strange hadron enhancement in pp, pPb,
and PbPb collisions using PYTHIA/Angantyr at LHC energies. With the rope model for string …

Correlations between multiplicities and average transverse momentum in the percolating color strings approach

MA Braun, RS Kolevatov, C Pajares… - The European Physical …, 2004 - Springer
Long range multiplicity-multiplicity, p T 2-multiplicity and p 2 Tp 2 T correlations are studied
in the percolating color string picture under different assumptions of the dynamics of the …