Parton distributions and QCD matter in LHC nuclear collisions
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Funder's project number: 297058
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 581 000,00
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Project start date: 01/09/2016
Project end date: 31/08/2020
Summary
Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions test the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) sector in the Standard Model of particle physics, aiming at determining the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). We are developing a simultaneous theory-study of various observables, to pin down these properties from the CERN-LHC and BNL-RHIC heavy-ion data. The modeling covers the whole nuclear collision: determination of the detailed nuclear gluon and quark structure, perturbative computation of the initial QGP production, description of the QCD matter spacetime evolution with hydrodynamics, and computation of various observables in the final state. Our calculational methods are perturbation theory of QCD, relativistic hydrodynamics, kinetic theory, and numerical Monte Carlo simulations. The project involves researcher training at all levels, and is very timely since with the ongoing LHC heavy-ion experiments the field is in a most exciting phase.
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Related publications and other outputs
- EPPS21 : a global QCD analysis of nuclear PDFs (2022) Eskola, Kari J.; et al.; A1; OA
- Exclusive J/ψ photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider calculated at next-to-leading order perturbative QCD (2022) Eskola, K. J.; et al.; A1; OA
- The dipole picture and the non-relativistic expansion (2022) Escobedo, Miguel Ángel; et al.; A4; OA
- Towards EPPS21 nuclear PDFs (2022) Eskola, Kari; et al.; A4; OA
- A first estimate of η/s in Au+Au reactions at Elab = 1.23 AGeV (2021) Reichert, Tom; et al.; A1; OA
- Evidence of shadowing in inelastic nucleon-nucleon cross section (2021) Eskola, Kari J.; et al.; A4; OA
- Impact of dijet and D-meson data from 5.02 TeV p+Pb collisions on nuclear PDFs (2021) Eskola, Kari J.; et al.; A1; OA
- Longitudinal dynamics of multiple conserved charges (2021) Fotakis, Jan A.; et al.; A1
- A QCD analysis of LHCb D-meson data in p+Pb collisions (2020) Eskola, Kari J.; et al.; A1; OA
- Diffusion processes involving multiple conserved charges : a study from kinetic theory and implications to the fluid-dynamical modeling of heavy ion collisions (2020) Fotakis, Jan A.; et al.; A1; OA
