Heavy-Ion Physics Journal Club (FS 25)

About the Journal Club

Welcome to the Heavy-Ion Physics Journal Club at Wayne State University for the Fall Semester 2025! This club provides an opportunity to discuss recent advances in heavy-ion collision phenomenology and related topics in nuclear and particle physics.

Schedule

The journal club meets weekly on Fridays from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM in Room 312, Physics Building, Wayne State University.

Topic Suggestions

• Initial state physics in heavy-ion collisions
  • Bayesian quantification of strongly-interacting matter with color glass condensate initial conditions
  • Heavy-Ion Collisions as Probes of Nuclear Structure
  • Hydrodynamic-like behaviour of glasma
  • MC-EKRT: Monte Carlo event generator with saturated minijet production for initializing 3+1 D fluid dynamics in high energy nuclear collisions
  • Imaging nuclei by smashing them at high energies: how are their shapes revealed after destruction?
  • Unlocking the initial neutron density distribution from the two-pion HBT correlation function in heavy-ion collisions
  • Probing Neutron Skin through Event-by-Event Pion Asymmetry in Heavy-ion collisions
  • Probing the Three-dimension Emission Source and Neutron Skin via Pion-Pion Correlations in Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Pre-equilibrium physics
  • Far-from-equilibrium attractors with Full Relativistic Boltzmann approach in 3+1 D: moments of distribution function and anisotropic flows vn
  • Comparing matching prescriptions between pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic models in high-energy nuclear collisions
  • On the Approach Towards Equilibrium Through Momentum-Dependent Relaxation:Insights from Evolution of the Moments in Kinetic Theory
  • Extended applicability domain of viscous anisotropic hydrodynamics in (2+1)-D Bjorken flow with transverse expansion
• Hydrodynamic modeling
  • Accessing the speed of sound in relativistic ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions using the mean transverse momentum
  • BHAC-QGP: three-dimensional MHD simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, I. Methods and tests
  • BHAC-QGP: three-dimensional MHD simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, II. Application to Au-Au collisions
  • Sources of longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy nuclear collisions
  • The applicability of hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions at SqrtsNN = 2.4-7.7 GeV
  • Stochastic baryon charge transport in relativistic hydrodynamics
  • Exploring the fluid behavior in p+p collisions at SqrtsNN​ = 13 TeV with viscous anisotropic hydrodynamics
• Hadronization mechanisms
  • Particlization in hybrid models
  • Particle Production via Strings and Baryon Stopping within a Hadronic Transport Approach
  • Jet Fragmentation via Recombination of Parton Showers
• Hadronic transport
  • Particle productions and anisotropic flows from the AMPT model for Cu+Au collisions at SqrtsNN = 200 GeV
  • Further developments of a multi-phase transport model for relativistic nuclear collisions
  • Bayesian analysis of a (3+1)D hybrid approach with initial conditions from hadronic transport
• Jets
  • Modified Coherence and the Transverse Extent of Jets
  • Jet shape modification in a transport calculation
  • Jet broadening and radiation in the early anisotropic plasma in heavy-ion collisions
• Photons & Dileptons
  • The exploration of hot and dense nuclear matter: introduction to relativistic heavy-ion physics (Sec. 5.11)
  • Electromagnetic Radiation from Baryon-Rich Matter in Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Balance functions
  • Using baryonic charge balance functions to resolve questions about the baryo-chemistry of the quark gluon plasma
• Heavy-flavor physics
  • Quarkonia and Deconfined Quark-Gluon Matter in Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Equation of State
  • A Gaussian Process Generative Model for QCD Equation of State
  • Can the speed of sound of quark-gluon plasma be measured from the multiplicity and mean pT of ultracentral heavy-ion collisions?
  • New constraints on equation of state of hot QCD matter
• HBT
  • Concepts of heavy ion physics (Sec. 5)
• Neutron stars
  • Far-from-equilibrium bulk-viscous transport coefficients in neutron star mergers
• Machine learning
  • Bayesian model-data comparison incorporating theoretical uncertainties
  • Emulators for scarce and noisy data: Application to auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo for the deuteron
  • Fast prediction of the hydrodynamic QGP evolution in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions using Fourier Neural Operators
• Anisotropic flow
  • Initial-State Charge Density Predicts Final-State Net Charge Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions
  • Bayesian reconstruction of anisotropic flow fluctuations at fixed impact parameter
  • Explaining higher-order correlations between elliptic and triangular flow

Longer Reviews

• Progress and Challenges in Small Systems
• Jet Quenching: From Theory to Simulation
• The QCD phase diagram and Beam Energy Scan physics: a theory overview
• QCD masterclass lectures on jet physics and machine learning
• A Decade of Collectivity in Small Systems
• Concepts of heavy ion physics
• The exploration of hot and dense nuclear matter: introduction to relativistic heavy-ion physics
• Mining for Gluon Saturation at Colliders

Useful Links

• arXiv
• iNSPIRE HEP