The RHIC beam energy scan program allows for the investigation of the phase diagram of QCD matter by varying the beam energy in the region where the change from crossover to first order phase transition is expected to occur. The nature of the quark-hadron transition can be studied through analyzing the space-time structure of the hadron emission source. One of the best tools to gain...
Bose-Einstein correlations of identical hadrons reveal information about hadron creation from the sQGP formed in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The measurement of three particle correlations may in particular shed light on hadron creation mechanisms beyond thermal/chaotic emission. In this talk we show the status of PHENIX measurements of three pion correlations as a function of...
A global theoretical description of hadron's transverse momentum spectra in high-energy particle collisions is still an open question today. However, identified hadron spectra measured in the experiments can be described well with non-extensive statistical approach. This method is motivated by the fact that, negative binomial (NBD) multiplicity of the particle number distribution results the...
In the high-energy heavy-ion physics community the FORTRAN based HIJING Heavy Ion Jet Interaction Generator code is commonly used, originally developed by Xin-Nian Wang and Miklos Gyulassy [1] -- more than 2 decades ago. Although it was intended to describe the heavy-ion collisions occurring at RHIC energies, it has still many applications with todays higher collision energies. However, the...
Heavy charm and beauty quarks are sensitive probes to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Because of their large masses, they are produced in the initial stage of the collision and therefore explore the entire evolution of the produced medium. ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment located at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is a dedicated experiment...
Heavy-flavour (beauty and charm) quarks are produced almost
exclusively in initial hard processes, and their yields remain largely
unchanged throughout a heavy-ion reaction.
Nevertheless, they interact with the nuclear matter in all the stages of
its evolution. Thus, heavy quarks serve as ideal self-generated
penetrating probes of the strongly interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma...
