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 …

Medium response in JEWEL and its impact on jet shape observables in heavy ion collisions

R Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, KC Zapp - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Realistic modeling of medium-jet interactions in heavy ion collisions is becoming
increasingly important to successfully predict jet structure and shape observables. In Jewel …

Angular structure of jet quenching within a hybrid strong/weak coupling model

J Casalderrey-Solana, DC Gulhan, JG Milhano… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Within the context of a hybrid strong/weak coupling model of jet quenching, we
study the modification of the angular distribution of the energy within jets in heavy ion …

Imaging the wakes of jets with energy-energy-energy correlators

H Bossi, AS Kudinoor, I Moult, D Pablos, A Rai… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract As the partons in a high energy jet propagate through the droplet of quark-gluon
plasma (QGP) produced in a heavy-ion collision they lose energy to, kick, and are kicked by …

Onset of many-body chaos in the model

D Chowdhury, B Swingle - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The growth of commutators of initially commuting local operators diagnoses the onset of
chaos in quantum many-body systems. We compute such commutators of local field …

Cryptographic censorship

N Engelhardt, Å Folkestad, A Levine… - Journal of High Energy …, 2025 - Springer
A bstract We formulate and take two large strides towards proving a quantum version of the
weak cosmic censorship conjecture. We first prove “Cryptographic Censorship”: a theorem …

Jet wake from linearized hydrodynamics

J Casalderrey-Solana, JG Milhano, D Pablos… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We explore how to improve the hybrid model description of the particles originating
from the wake that a jet produced in a heavy ion collision leaves in the droplet of quark …

Weak and strong coupling equilibration in nonabelian gauge theories

L Keegan, A Kurkela, P Romatschke… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We present a direct comparison studying equilibration through kinetic theory at
weak coupling and through holography at strong coupling in the same set-up. The set-up …

Resolution effects in the hybrid strong/weak coupling model

Z Hulcher, D Pablos, K Rajagopal - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract Within the context of a hybrid strong/weak coupling model of jet quenching, we
study the consequences of the fact that the plasma produced in a heavy ion collision cannot …

Paths to equilibrium in non-conformal collisions

M Attems, J Casalderrey-Solana, D Mateos… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We extend our previous analysis of holographic heavy ion collisions in non-
conformal theories. We provide a detailed description of our numerical code. We study …