{"total":21,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.07578","ref_index":3,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Light-Ion Collisions: Bridging Small and Large QCD Systems","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-08T10:49:11+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Light-ion collisions at the LHC provide evidence of quark-gluon plasma formation in small systems, bridging proton-proton and heavy-ion regimes.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.02342","ref_index":4,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Measurement of isolated-prompt photon$-$hadron correlations in Pb$-$Pb collisions at $\\mathbf{\\sqrt{\\textit{s}_{\\rm NN}} = 5.02}$ TeV","primary_cat":"nucl-ex","submitted_at":"2026-05-04T08:44:58+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"ALICE observes strong suppression of associated hadron yields per trigger photon in central Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV, extending the kinematic reach of photon-hadron correlation measurements.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Acharia, \"The ALICE experiment - A journey through QCD\",Eur . 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(ALICE), Elliptic flow of charged par-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.21971","ref_index":1,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Hydrodynamics and Energy Correlators","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-23T18:00:01+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Energy-energy correlators in heavy-ion collisions exhibit classical hydrodynamic scaling from collective flow at large angles within the small-angle regime, collective modes at smaller angles, and light-ray OPE at even smaller angles.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"collective behavior from this description remains a major challenge. Remarkably, this question can be experimentally studied through deep inelastic scat- tering and heavy-ion collisions (HIC), which provide access to the structure and dynamics of QCD matter across a wide range of scales. For example, in HICs, this includes the hot and dense matter created in conditions similar to those of the early Universe [1, 2]. A major outcome of the HIC program has been the discovery that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in such collisions behaves as an almost ideal fluid, with relativistic hy- drodynamics providing a successful effective description of much of its bulk evolution, see e.g. [3, 4]. This collective behavior has been established most clearly through the"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.15737","ref_index":8,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Bayesian inference constraints on jet quenching across centrality, beam energy, and observable classes in LHC heavy-ion collisions","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-17T06:23:04+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Bayesian posteriors from JETSCAPE jet-quenching model are largely compatible across centrality but exhibit shifts across beam energy and observable class, with varying ability to predict complementary datasets.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"(2005), arXiv:nucl-ex/0410022 [nucl-ex]. [5] W. Busza, K. Rajagopal, and W. van der Schee, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci.68, 339 (2018), arXiv:1802.04801 [hep-ph]. [6] P. 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These measurements provide strong evidence for jet quenching in O+O collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV, offering new insight into quark-gluon plasma formation in small collision systems. Quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a state of matter com- posed of unbound quarks and gluons (collectively called \"partons\") [1, 2], with interactions governed by Quan- tum Chromodynamics (QCD). QGP filled the universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang, and is recreated and studied in the laboratory using high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) [3-6] and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [7, 8]. Analysis of heavy-ion data reveals long-range correla-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.11616","ref_index":2,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Quantum simulating multi-particle processes in high energy nuclear physics: dijet production and color (de)coherence","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-13T15:22:42+00:00","verdict":null,"verdict_confidence":null,"novelty_score":null,"formal_verification":null,"one_line_summary":null,"context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) [1]. Closely related information is obtained from the production of energetic hadrons and jets in nuclear environments, such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) generated in heavy-ion collisions, where interactions between the emerg- ing partonic cascade and the surrounding medium are imprinted on the final-state parti- cle distributions [2]. Experimentally, the study of such processes is a major focus of the physics programs at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [3], and will remain a central component of the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) program [4] and the Electron Ion Collider in China (EicC) [5]. An important theoretical challenge in describing such processes lies in the treatment of"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.07564","ref_index":7,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Statistical hadronization: successes and some open issues","primary_cat":"nucl-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-08T20:05:58+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The statistical hadronization model successfully describes hadron production in nuclear collisions over broad energies, with implications for QCD phase structure.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"matter, is restored. Such a deconfined, chirally symmetric state of matter, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) [5], is likely to have existed in the Early Universe between the electroweak phase transition at picoseconds after the Bib Bang and for up to 10 microseconds [6]. It can be studied experimentally and theoretically via collisions of nuclei at high energies [7, 8]. One stage in the complex dynamics of the system produced in heavy-ion collisions is that of the chemical freeze-out, at which the abundances of hadron species are fixed. Chemical freeze-out is addressed phenomenologically within the statistical hadronization model (SHM) [9, 10, 11]. The value of the pseudo- critical temperateT c for the chiral crossover transition at vanishingµ B is"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.06248","ref_index":2,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Relativistic Barnett effect and Curie law in a rigidly rotating free Fermi gas","primary_cat":"nucl-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-06T17:37:35+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"In a rigidly rotating free Fermi gas, the relativistic Barnett effect produces different Fermi energies for spin-up and spin-down fermions, leading to a moment of inertia that scales as 1/T at high temperature, analogous to the Curie law.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"fromr= 0andr̸= 0contributions, respectively. Hence, the only nonvanishing contribution in (A.8) arises from r= 0. This leads to S= ∞X j=1 (−1)j+1 j αj = ln (1 +α),(A.10) as is claimed in (II.17). 11 [1] W.Busza, K.RajagopalandW.vanderSchee,Heavy-ion collisions: The big picture, and the big questions, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci.68, 339 (2018), arXiv:1802.04801 [hep-ph]. [2] A. Lovato, T. Dore, R. D. Pisarski, B. Schenke, K. Chatziioannou, J. S. Read, P. Landry, P. Danielewicz, D. Lee and S. Pratt,et al. Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars, arXiv:2211.02224 [nucl-th]. [3] G. Aarts, J. Aichelin, C. Allton, A. Athenodorou, D. Bachtis, C. Bonanno, N. Brambilla, E. Bratkovskaya,"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.00618","ref_index":6,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Absorption of 1$P$-wave heavy charmonium $\\chi_{c1}(1P)$ in nuclei","primary_cat":"nucl-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-01T08:24:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":3.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Calculations of excitation functions, momentum spectra, and transparency ratios for χ_c1(1P) on 12C and 184W nuclei demonstrate sensitivity to different absorption cross-section scenarios, proposed for extraction via future CEBAF data.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2603.27846","ref_index":2,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Full energy fraction and angular dependence of medium-induced splittings in the large-$N_c$ limit","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-03-29T20:07:48+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"In large-Nc and harmonic oscillator limits, medium-induced splittings are computed analytically double-differential in z and θ, with an improved semi-hard approximation validated for high-energy partons.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"5, while the right panelF med as a function ofzat fixedθ= 0.2 As in theq→qgcase, the SHA shows sizable deviations from the large-N c-HO result in both panels, whereas the ISHA provides a much more robust approximation at intermediate values ofz. 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