A comprehensive guide to the physics and usage of PYTHIA 8.3

C Bierlich, S Chakraborty, N Desai… - SciPost Physics …, 2022 - scipost.org
This manual describes the Pythia event generator, the most recent version of an evolving
physics tool used to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. The program is most …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Event generators for high-energy physics experiments

JM Campbell, M Diefenthaler, TJ Hobbs… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We provide an overview of the status of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy
particle physics. Guided by the experimental needs and requirements, we highlight areas of …

Development of transverse flow at small and large opacities in conformal kinetic theory

VE Ambruş, S Schlichting, C Werthmann - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We employ an effective kinetic description, based on the Boltzmann equation in the
relaxation time approximation, to study the space-time dynamics and development of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Long-range near-side correlation in e+ e− Collisions at 183-209 GeV with ALEPH Archived Data

YC Chen, Y Chen, A Badea, A Baty, GM Innocenti… - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
The first measurement of two-particle angular correlations for charged particles with LEP-II
data is presented. The study is performed using archived hadronic e+ e− data collected by …

[HTML][HTML] Hadronic rescattering in pA and AA collisions

C Bierlich, T Sjöstrand, M Utheim - The European Physical Journal A, 2021 - Springer
In a recent article we presented a model for hadronic rescattering, and some results were
shown for pp pp collisions at LHC energies. In order to extend the studies to p A p A and AA …

[HTML][HTML] String interactions as a source of collective behaviour

C Bierlich - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
The discovery of collective effects in small collision systems has spurred a renewed interest
in hadronization models, and is also a source for collective effects all the way to large …

[HTML][HTML] Measurements of mixed harmonic cumulants in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physics letters B, 2021 - Elsevier
Correlations between moments of different flow coefficients are measured in Pb–Pb
collisions at s NN= 5.02 TeV recorded with the ALICE detector. These new measurements …

[HTML][HTML] Strangeness enhancement across collision systems without a plasma

C Bierlich, S Chakraborty, G Gustafson, L Lönnblad - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
We present novel rope hadronization results for strange hadron enhancement in pp, pPb,
and PbPb collisions using PYTHIA/Angantyr at LHC energies. With the rope model for string …