Mon·Dec 1, 2025Monday·December 1, 2025

1. 01*

   Relations between three-particle interactions in nuclear matter to observable quantities

   Wolfgang Bentz🇯🇵 · Ian C. Cloët🇺🇸

   In the first part of this paper, we use the framework of the Fermi liquid theory to derive model-independent relations between the slope parameters of the symmetry energy and of the incompressibility in nuclear matter to three-particle interaction parameters. Based on these relations, we present simple estimates and compare with the empirical information. In the second part, we discuss the general structure of the three-particle scattering amplitude in nuclear matter, and use methods similar to the Bethe-Brueckner-Goldstone theory to show how three-particle cluster diagrams emerge naturally in the Fermi liquid theory.

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2. 02*

   NuclearConfectionery: Multi-stage Simulation Framework for Modeling Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

   Kevin P. Pala🇧🇷 · Surkhab Kaur Virk · Dekrayat Almaalol🇺🇸 · Isabella Danhoni🇺🇸 · Nanxi Yao🇺🇸 · Isaac Long · Willian Serenone🇺🇸 · Jordi Salinas San Martín🇺🇸 · Alayna A. Yared · Christopher Plumberg🇺🇸 · Fernando Gardim🇧🇷 · Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler🇺🇸

   We present the NuclearConfectionery, a modular framework for simulating the full dynamical evolution of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Its core hydrodynamic module, CCAKE 2.0, represents a major advance over previous SPH-based relativistic hydrodynamic codes. CCAKE 2.0 simultaneously evolves energy-momentum and multiple conserved charges (B, S, Q) with a four-dimensional equation of state, and can be run in either Cartesian or hyperbolic coordinates, enabling consistent simulations from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan to LHC energies. We have implemented a particlization module that supports global BSQ charge conservation on the freeze-out surface; the resulting hadron ensemble is then propagated through a hadronic transport afterburner. A source term is included in the equations of motion to couple jets to the fluid, allowing simultaneous bulk and hard-probe evolution or, alternatively, for stopped baryons at low beam energies. The framework offers flexible choices of equations of motion (Israel-Stewart, DNMR, ADNH) and transport coefficients, along with GPU-ready performance via Kokkos/Cabana, offline equation of state inversion for 4D tables, and containerized portability. We validate the code with semi-analytical benchmarks (including BSQ Gubser and Landau-Khalatnikov solutions) and extensive convergence studies. The NuclearConfectionery provides a user-friendly, high-performance, open-source tool for event-by-event simulations across collision energies, offering flexibility to study QCD matter at both vanishing and finite densities.

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3. 03*

   Universal imprinting of short-range correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

   Pei Li🇨🇳 · Kai-Jia Sun🇨🇳 · Bo Zhou🇨🇳 · Guo-Liang Ma🇨🇳

   Protons and neutrons within atomic nuclei undergo intense and fleeting encounters driven by the strong force at short distances. These interactions generate close-proximity pairs, a phenomenon known as short-range correlations (SRCs). While the properties of SRCs have been extensively studied in cold nuclear matter, their behavior under extremely hot and dense conditions remains largely unexplored. Here, we incorporate correlated nucleon configurations into relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter present microseconds after the Big Bang, as a sensitive diagnostic tool. We find that these correlations induce substantial modifications to event-by-event geometry, which are quantitatively identified through higher-order moments of the transverse profile. Most importantly, we find a surprising linear relation between QGP geometry fluctuations and the SRC scale factor spanning systems from deuteron to lead, which reflects the universal imprinting of SRCs in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Our findings reveal the emergence of short-range structural effects across vastly different energy scales from low-energy electron scattering to high-energy nuclear collisions.

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* Reconstructed cohort: no mailing for this day survives in the archive. Papers are grouped by their submission times and arXiv's announcement cut-off, assuming announcement without delay; positions follow identifier order. Validated at ~91% exact-day agreement against the archived era.