Heavy-Ion Physics Journal Club (WS 25)

About the Journal Club

Welcome to the Heavy-Ion Physics Journal Club at Wayne State University for the Winter 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 12:30 PM to 1:30 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
  • 3+1D initialization and evolution of the glasma
• Pre-equilibrium physics
  • Far-from-equilibrium attractors with Full Relativistic Boltzmann approach in 3+1 D: moments of distribution function and anisotropic flows vn
  • Collective dynamics in heavy and light-ion collisions -- I) Kinetic Theory vs. Hydrodynamics
  • Collective dynamics in heavy and light-ion collisions -- II) Determining the origin of collective behavior in high-energy collisions
  • Comparing matching prescriptions between pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic models in high-energy nuclear collisions
• 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
• 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
• Jets
  • Modified Coherence and the Transverse Extent of Jets
• Photons & Dileptons
  • The exploration of hot and dense nuclear matter: introduction to relativistic heavy-ion physics (Sec. 5.11)
• 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
• HBT
  • Concepts of heavy ion physics (Sec. 5)

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

Useful Links

• arXiv
• iNSPIRE HEP