The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE Collaboration alice-publications@ cern … - The European Physical …, 2024‏ - Springer
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation 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 …

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 …

Determining the jet transport coefficient from inclusive hadron suppression measurements using Bayesian parameter estimation

S Cao, Y Chen, J Coleman, J Mulligan, PM Jacobs… - Physical Review C, 2021‏ - APS
We report a new determination of q ̂, the jet transport coefficient of the quark-gluon plasma.
We use the JETSCAPE framework, which incorporates a novel multistage theoretical …

Inclusive jet and hadron suppression in a multistage approach

A Kumar, Y Tachibana, C Sirimanna, G Vujanovic… - Physical Review C, 2023‏ - APS
We present a new study of jet interactions in the quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy
heavy-ion collisions, using a multistage event generator within the jetscape framework. We …

Heavy ion collisions: the big picture and the big questions

W Busza, K Rajagopal… - Annual Review of …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
Heavy ion collisions quickly form a droplet of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) with a remarkably
small viscosity. We give an accessible introduction to how to study this smallest and hottest …

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 …

Toward the determination of heavy-quark transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma

S Cao, G Coci, SK Das, W Ke, SYF Liu, S Plumari… - Physical Review C, 2019‏ - APS
Several transport models have been employed in recent years to analyze heavy-flavor
meson spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-quark transport coefficients …

Hot QCD white paper

M Arslandok, SA Bass, AA Baty, I Bautista… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities.
Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at the …

Pseudorapidity distribution and decorrelation of anisotropic flow within the open-computing-language implementation CLVisc hydrodynamics

LG Pang, H Petersen, XN Wang - Physical Review C, 2018‏ - APS
Studies of fluctuations and correlations of soft hadrons and hard and electromagnetic probes
of the dense and strongly interacting medium require event-by-event hydrodynamic …