Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC

CMS collaboration - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
We review key measurements performed by CMS in the context of its heavy ion physics
program, using event samples collected in 2010–2018 with several collision systems and …

Three ways to decipher the nature of exotic hadrons: multiplets, three-body hadronic molecules, and correlation functions

MZ Liu, YW Pan, ZW Liu, TW Wu, JX Lu, LS Geng - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, a plethora of hadronic states beyond the conventional quark model
of qq ̄ mesons and qqq baryons have been observed experimentally, which motivated …

[HTML][HTML] The present and future of QCD

P Achenbach, D Adhikari, A Afanasev, F Afzal… - Nuclear Physics A, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective
of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 …

Study of the ψ2 (3823) and χc1 (3872) states in B+→(J/ψπ+ π−) K+ decays

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract The decays B+→ J/ψπ+ π− K+ are studied using a data set corresponding to an
integrated luminosity of 9 fb− 1 collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions …

gamma-UPC: automated generation of exclusive photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral proton and nuclear collisions with varying form factors

HS Shao, D d'Enterria - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract The automated generation of arbitrary exclusive final states produced via photon
fusion in ultraperipheral high-energy collisions of protons and/or nuclei, AB\(\overset …

Exotic hadrons at LHCb

D Johnson, I Polyakov, T Skwarnicki… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
It has been 5 years since the data sample from the LHCb detector, the first experiment
optimized for heavy-flavor physics studies at a hadronic collider, was completed. These data …

Observation of the process in Pb+Pb collisions and constraints on the -lepton anomalous magnetic moment with the ATLAS detector

Atlas Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13478, 2022 - arxiv.org
This Letter reports the observation of $\tau $-lepton pair production in ultraperipheral lead-
lead collisions, $\text {Pb+ Pb}\to\text {Pb}(\gamma\gamma\to\tau\tau)\text {Pb} $, and …

NNLO nuclear parton distribution functions with electroweak-boson production data from the LHC

I Helenius, M Walt, W Vogelsang - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading
order and next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Our analyses are based on …

Exclusive dimuon production in ultraperipheral collisions at with ATLAS

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud, K Abeling… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Exclusive dimuon production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPC), resulting from photon-
photon interactions in the strong electromagnetic fields of colliding high-energy lead nuclei …

Report on progress in physics: observation of the Breit–Wheeler process and vacuum birefringence in heavy-ion collisions

JD Brandenburg, J Seger, Z Xu… - Reports on Progress in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Report on progress in physics: observation of the Breit–Wheeler process and vacuum
birefringence in heavy-ion collisions - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home …