• Matching the Nonequilibrium Initial Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions to Hydrodynamics with QCD Kinetic Theory 

      Kurkela, Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas; Paquet, Jean-Francois; Schlichting, Sören; Teaney, Derek (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03)
      High-energy nuclear collisions produce a nonequilibrium plasma of quarks and gluons which thermalizes and exhibits hydrodynamic flow. There are currently no practical frameworks to connect the early particle production in ...
    • New benchmarks in the modelling of X-ray atomic form factors 

      Thorkildsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Analytical representations of X-ray atomic form factor data have been determined. The original data, f0(s;Z), are reproduced to a high degree of accuracy. The mean absolute errors calculated for all s = sin θ/λ and Z values ...
    • New G2-conifolds in M-theory and their field theory interpretation 

      Svanes, Eirik Eik; Acharya, Bobby S.; Foscolo, Lorenzo; Najjar, Marwan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A recent theorem of Foscolo-Haskins-Nordström [1] which constructs complete G2-holonomy orbifolds from circle bundles over Calabi-Yau cones can be utilised to construct and investigate a large class of generalisations of ...
    • A new variational discretization technique for initial value problems bypassing governing equations 

      Rothkopf, Alexander Karl; Nordström, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)
      Motivated by the fact that both the classical and quantum description of nature rest on causality and a variational principle, we develop a novel and highly versatile discretization prescription for classical initial value ...
    • No room to hide: implications of cosmic-ray upscattering for GeV-scale dark matter 

      Alvey, James; Bringmann, Torsten; Kolesova, Helena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The irreducible upscattering of cold dark matter by cosmic rays opens up the intriguing possibility of detecting even light dark matter in conventional direct detection experiments or underground neutrino detectors. The ...
    • Nonequilibrium attractor in high-temperature QCD plasmas 

      Almaalol, Dekrayat; Kurkela, Aleksi; Strickland, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly coupled gauge theory undergoing one-dimensional Bjorken expansion. We demonstrate that the resulting far-from-equilibrium evolution is insensitive ...
    • On-shell recursion relations for nonrelativistic effective field theories 

      Mojahed, Martin Aria; Brauner, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)
      We derive on-shell recursion relations for nonrelativistic effective field theories (EFTs) with enhanced soft limits. The recursion relations are illustrated through analytic calculation of tree-level scattering amplitudes ...
    • Opacity dependence of elliptic flow in kinetic theory 

      Kurkela, Aleksi; Wiedemann, Urs Achim; Wu, Bin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)
      The observation of large azimuthal anisotropies vn in the particle spectra of proton–proton (pp) and proton–nucleus (pA) collisions challenges fluid dynamic interpretations of vn, as it remains unclear how small collision ...
    • Open-quantum-systems approach to in-medium heavy quarkonium dynamics 

      Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Heavy quarkonium continues to play a central role in the study of nuclear matter under extremes of temperature and density in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this talk I report on recent developments in the theoretical ...
    • Predicting parton energy loss in small collision systems 

      Huss, Alexander; Kurkela, Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas; Paatelainen, Risto; van der Schee, Wilke; Wiedemann, Urs Achim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Medium induced parton energy loss is not conclusively established either in very peripheral heavy-ion collisions or in proton-ion collisions. However, the standard interpretation of azimuthal momentum anisotropies in these ...
    • Proper static potential in classical lattice gauge theory at finite T 

      Lehmann, Alexander; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We compute the proper real-time interaction potential between a static quark and antiquark in classical lattice gauge theory at finite temperature. Our central result is the determination of the screened real-part of this ...
    • Pulsar timing array stochastic background from light Kaluza-Klein resonances 

      Megías, Eugenio; Nardini, Germano; Quirós, Mariano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-11)
      We investigate the potential of the warped extradimension framework as an explanation for the recently observed stochastic gravitational background at nHz frequencies in pulsar timing arrays (PTA). Our analysis reveals ...
    • Quantum dynamical dissociation of quarkonia by wave function decoherence in quark-gluon plasma 

      Kajimoto, Shiori; Akamatsu, Yukinao; Asakawa, Masayuki; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02)
      In this study, we investigate the real-time evolution of quarkonium bound states in a quark-gluon plasma in an improved QCD based stochastic potential model. This model describes the quarkonium dynamics in terms of a ...
    • Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review 

      Addazi, A.; Alvarez-Muniz, J.; Alves Batista, Batista; Amelino-Camelia, G.; Antonelli, V.; Arzano, M.; Asorey, M.; Atteia, J.-L.; Bahamonde, S.; Bajardi, F.; Ballesteros, A.; Baret, B.; Barreiros, D.M.; Basilakos, S.; Benisty, D.; Birnholtz, O.; Blanco-Pillado, J.J.; Blas, D.; Bolmont, J.; Boncioli, D.; Bosso, P.; Calcagni, G.; Capozziello, S.; Carmona, J.M.; Cerci, S.; Chernyakova, M.; Clesse, S.; Coelho, J.A.B.; Colak, S.M.; Cortes, J.L.; Das, S.; D'Esposito, V.; Demirci, M.; Di Luca, Luca; di Matteo, Matteo; Dimitrijevic, D.; Djordjevic, G.; Prester, D. Dominis; Eichhorn, A.; Ellis, J.; Escamilla-Rivera, C.; Fabiano, G.; Franchino-Viñas, S.A.; Frassino, A.M.; Frattulillo, D.; Funk, S.; Fuster, A.; Gamboa, J.; Gent, A.; Gergely, L.A.; Giammarchi, M.; Giesel, K.; Glicenstein, J.-F.; Gracia-Bondía, J.; Gracia-Ruiz, R.; Gubitosi, G.; Guendelman, E.I.; Gutierrez-Sagredo, I.; Haegel, L.; Heefer, S.; Held, A.; Herranz, F.J.; Hinderer, T.; Illana, J.I.; Ioannisian, A.; Jetzer, P.; Joaquim, F.R.; Kampert, K.-H.; Uysal, A. Karasu; Katori, T.; Kazarian, N.; Kerszberg, D.; Kowalski-Glikman, J.; Kuroyanagi, S.; Lämmerzahl, C.; Said, J. Levi; Liberati, S.; Lim, E.; Lobo, I.P.; López-Moya, M.; Luciano, G.G.; Manganaro, M.; Marcianò, A.; Martín-Moruno, P.; Martinez, Manel; Martinez, Mario; Martínez-Huerta, H.; Martínez-Miravé, P.; Masip, M.; Mattingly, D.; Mavromatos, N.; Mazumdar, A.; Méndez, F.; Mercati, F.; Micanovic, S.; Mielczarek, J.; Miller, A.L.; Milosevic, M.; Minic, D.; Miramonti, L.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moniz, P.; Mukherjee, S.; Nardini, Germano; Navas, S.; Niechciol, M.; Nielsen, A.B.; Obers, N.A.; Oikonomou, Foteini; Oriti, D.; Paganini, C.F.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Pasechnik, R.; Pasic, V.; Pérez de los Heros, de; Pfeifer, C.; Pieroni, M.; Piran, T.; Platania, A.; Rastgoo, S.; Relancio, J.J.; Reyes, M.A.; Ricciardone, Angelo; Risse, M.; Frias, M.D. Rodriguez; Rosati, G.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.; Sahlmann, H.; Sakellariadou, M.; Salamida, F.; Saridakis, E.N.; Satunin, P.; Schiffer, M.; Schüssler, F.; Sigl, G.; Sitarek, J.; Peracaula, J. Solà; Sopuerta, C.F.; Sotiriou, T.P.; Spurio, M.; Staicova, D.; Stergioulas, N.; Stoica, S.; Strišković, J.; Stuttard, T.; Cerci, D. Sunar; Tavakoli, Y.; Ternes, C.A.; Terzić, T.; Thiemann, T.; Tinyakov, P.; Torri, M.D.C.; Tórtola, M.; Trimarelli, C.; Trześniewski, T.; Tureanu, A.; Urban, Federico; Vagenas, E.C.; Vernieri, D.; Vitagliano, V.; Wallet, J.-C.; Zornoza, J.D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The exploration of the universe has recently entered a new era thanks to the multi-messenger paradigm, characterized by a continuous increase in the quantity and quality of experimental data that is obtained by the detection ...
    • Quantum tunnelling, real-time dynamics and Picard-Lefschetz thimbles 

      Mou, Zonggang; Saffin, Paul M.; Tranberg, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11)
      We follow up the work, where in light of the Picard-Lefschetz thimble approach, we split up the real-time path integral into two parts: the initial density matrix part which can be represented via an ensemble of initial ...
    • Quarkonium phenomenology from a generalised Gauss law 

      Lafferty, David; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05)
      We present an improved analytic parametrisation of the complex in-medium heavy quark potential derived rigorously from the generalised Gauss law. To this end we combine in a self-consistent manner a non-perturbative vacuum ...
    • Second-Order PDEs in 3D with Einstein–Weyl Conformal Structure 

      Berjawi, S.; Ferapontov, E.V.; Kruglikov, Boris; Novikov, V.S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Einstein–Weyl geometry is a triple (D,g,ω) where D is a symmetric connection, [g] is a conformal structure and ω is a covector such that ∙ connection D preserves the conformal class [g], that is, Dg=ωg ; ∙ trace-free part ...
    • Simulations of a bubble wall interacting with an electroweak plasma 

      Mou, Zong-Gang; Saffin, Paul M.; Tranberg, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)
      We perform large-scale real-time simulations of a bubble wall sweeping through an out-of-equilibrium plasma. The scenario we have in mind is the electroweak phase transition, which may be first order in extensions of the ...
    • Soft Interactions in Cold Quark Matter 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)
      Accurate knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of zero-temperature, high-density quark matter plays an integral role in attempts to constrain the behavior of the dense QCD matter found inside neutron-star cores, ...
    • Soft photon propagation in a hot and dense medium to next-to-leading order 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Österman, Juuso; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Schicho, Philipp; Seppänen, Kaapo; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We present the first complete calculation of the soft photon self-energy to the next-to-leading order in a hot and/or dense ultrarelativistic plasma in QED. The calculation is performed within the real-time formalism ...