High-energy nuclear physics meets machine learning

WB He, YG Ma, LG Pang, HC Song, K Zhou - Nuclear Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Although seemingly disparate, high-energy nuclear physics (HENP) and machine learning
(ML) have begun to merge in the last few years, yielding interesting results. It is worthy to …

Recent development of hydrodynamic modeling in heavy-ion collisions

C Shen, L Yan - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2020 - Springer
We present a concise review of the recent development of relativistic hydrodynamics and its
applications to heavy-ion collisions. Theoretical progress on the extended formulation of …

Probing the short-distance structure of the quark-gluon plasma with energy correlators

Z Yang, Y He, I Moult, XN Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Energy-energy correlators (EECs) are promising observables to study the dynamics of jet
evolution in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) through its imprint on angular scales in the …

Shear-induced spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions

B Fu, SYF Liu, L Pang, H Song, Y Yin - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study the spin polarization generated by the hydrodynamic gradients. In addition to the
widely studied thermal vorticity effects, we identify an undiscovered contribution from the …

The BEST framework for the search for the QCD critical point and the chiral magnetic effect

X An, M Bluhm, L Du, GV Dunne, H Elfner, C Gale… - Nuclear Physics A, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration was formed with the goal of
providing a theoretical framework for analyzing data from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) …

The iEBE-VISHNU code package for relativistic heavy-ion collisions

C Shen, Z Qiu, H Song, J Bernhard, S Bass… - Computer Physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
The iEBE-VISHNU code package performs event-by-event simulations for relativistic heavy-
ion collisions using a hybrid approach based on (2+ 1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics …

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 …

Linearized Boltzmann transport model for jet propagation in the quark-gluon plasma: Heavy quark evolution

S Cao, T Luo, GY Qin, XN Wang - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
A linearized Boltzmann transport (LBT) model coupled with hydrodynamical background is
established to describe the evolution of jet shower partons and medium excitations in high …

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 …

The QCD phase diagram and Beam Energy Scan physics: a theory overview

L Du, A Sorensen, M Stephanov - International Journal of Modern …, 2024 - World Scientific
We review recent theoretical developments relevant to heavy-ion experiments carried out
within the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Our main focus …