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 timetable
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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Profiling area: Accelerator and Subatomic Physics (University of Jyväskylä JYU)
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Related publications and other outputs
- Constraints for nuclear PDFs from the LHCb D-meson data (2019) Paukkunen, H.; et al.; A4; OA
- Correlated gluonic hot spots meet symmetric cumulants data at LHC energies (2019) Albacete, Javier L.; et al.; A1; OA
- Effective Field Theory and Lattice QCD approaches for hard probes in QCD matter (2019) Escobedo Espinosa, M.A.; A4; OA
- Effective field theory calculations in open charm and charmonium production in media (2019) Escobedo Espinosa, Miguel Angel; A4; OA
- EPPS16 : Bringing nuclear PDFs to the LHC era (2019) Eskola, Kari J.; et al.; A4; OA
- Hadroproduction of open heavy flavour for PDF analyses (2019) Paukkunen, H.; et al.; A4; OA
- Heavy-flavour production in the SACOT-mT scheme (2019) Paukkunen, H.; et al.; A4; OA
- Impact of CMS dijets in 5.02 TeV pPb and pp collisions on EPPS16 nuclear PDFs (2019) Eskola, K.; et al.; A4; OA
- Latest predictions from the EbyE NLO EKRT model (2019) Niemi, Harri; et al.; A1; OA
- Non-quadratic improved Hessian PDF reweighting and application to CMS dijet measurements at 5.02 TeV (2019) Eskola, Kari; et al.; A1; OA