Selected Publications led by the Rice Group

2024

CMS Collaboration, “Observation of enhanced long-range elliptic anisotropies inside high-multiplicity jets in pp collisions at 13 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133 (2024) 142301.
CMS Collaboration, “Extracting the speed of sound in the strongly interacting matter created in ultrarelativistic lead-lead collisions at the LHC”, Rept. Prog. Phys. 87 (2024), 077801.

CMS Collaboration, “Probing small Bjorken-x nuclear gluonic structure via coherent J/ photoproduction in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 (2023) 262301.
Austin Baty, Parker Gardner, Wei Li, “Collective evolution of a parton in the vacuum: the ultimate partonic ‘droplet’, non-perturbative QCD and quantum entanglement”, Phys. Rev. C 107 (2023) 064908.

Darin Acosta, Wei Li, et. al., “The Potential of a TeV-Scale Muon-Ion Collider”, submitted to JINST, arXiv:2203.06258 (2022).
Darin Acosta, Wei Li, “A Muon-Ion Collider at BNL: the future QCD frontier and path to a new energy frontier of muon+muon- colliders”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 1027 (2022) 166334.
CMS Collaboration, “Probing charm quark dynamics via multiparticle correlations in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129 (2022) 022001.

CMS Collaboration, “Constraints on the initial state of PbPb collisions via measurements of Z boson yields and azimuthal anisotropy at 5.02 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 (2021) 102002.
CMS Collaboration, “Observation of forward neutron multiplicity dependence of dimuon acoplanarity in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 (2021) 122001.
CMS Collaboration, “Measurement of prompt D0 and D0bar meson azimuthal asymmetry and search for strong electric fields in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 816 (2021) 136253.
CMS Collaboration, “Studies of charm and beauty hadron long-range correlations in pp and pPb collisions at LHC energies”, Phys. Lett. B 813 (2021) 136036.
CMS Collaboration, “Correlations of azimuthal anisotropy Fourier harmonics in pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”, Phys. Rev. C 103 (2021) 014902.

Wei Li, Gang Wang, “Chiral Magnetic E ects in Nuclear Collisions”, Ann. Rev. of Nucl. and Part. Sci. 70 (2020) 293.
CMS Collaboration, “Observation of nuclear modifications in W± boson production in pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 800 (2020) 135048.
CMS Collaboration, “Multiparticle correlation studies in pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”, Phys. Rev. C 101 (2020) 014912.

CMS Collaboration, “Observation of prompt J/Psi meson elliptic ow in high-multiplicity pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 791 (2019) 172.
CMS Collaboration, “Challenges to the chiral magnetic wave using charge-dependent azimuthal anisotropies in pPb and PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV”, Phys. Rev. C 100 (2019) 064908.
CMS Collaboration, “A MIP Timing Detector for the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade”, CERN-LHCC-2019-003.

CMS Collaboration, “Elliptic ow of charm and strange hadrons in high-multiplicity pPb collisions at 8.16 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 082301.
CMS Collaboration, “Observation of correlated azimuthal anisotropy Fourier harmonics in pp and pPb collisions at the LHC”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 092301.
CMS Collaboration, “Constraints on the chiral magnetic effect using charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in pPb and PbPb collisions at the LHC”, Phys. Rev. C 97 (2018) 044912.

Wei Li, “Collective ow from AA, pA to pp collisions – Toward a unified paradigm”, Nucl. Phys. A 967 (2017) 59.
P. Francesco, M. Guilbaud, M. Luzum, JY Ollitrault, “Easy all-order cumulants”, Phys. Rev. C 95, 044911 (2017).
CMS Collaboration, “Observation of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in pPb collisions and its implication for the search for the chiral magnetic effect”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 122301.
CMS Collaboration, “Evidence for collectivity in pp collisions at the LHC”, Phys. Lett. B 765 (2017) 193.
CMS Collaboration, “Multiplicity and rapidity dependence of strange hadron production in pp, pPb, and PbPb collisions at the LHC”, Phys. Lett. B 768 (2017) 103.
CMS Collaboration, “Azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles with transverse momentum up to 100 GeV/c in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV”, Phys. Lett. B 776 (2017) 195.

Kevin Dusling, Wei Li, Bjoern Schenke, “Novel Collective Phenomena in High-Energy Proton-Proton and Proton-Nucleus Collisions”, IJMP E25 (2016), 1630002E.
B. Kreis et al., “Run 2 Upgrades to the CMS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger”, JINST 11 (2016) C01051.
CMS Collaboration, “Measurement of long-range near-side two-particle angular correlations in pp collisions at13 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016) 172302.

CMS Collaboration, “Evidence for transverse momentum and pseudorapidity dependent event plane fluctuations in PbPb and pPb collisions”, Phys. Rev. C 92 (2015) 034911.
CMS Collaboration, “Evidence for collective multi-particle correlations in pPb collisions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (2015) 012301.
CMS Collaboration, “Long-range two-particle correlations of strange hadrons with charged particles in pPb and PbPb collisions at LHC energies”, Phys. Lett. B 742 (2015) 200
Y. Akiba et al., “The Hot QCD White Paper: Exploring the Phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC”, Prepared as part of the U.S. Long-Range Plan for Nuclear Physics arXiv:1502.02730.

CMS Collaboration, “Studies of azimuthal dihadron correlations in ultra-central PbPb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, JHEP 02 (2014) 088.

CMS Collaboration, “Multiplicity and transverse momentum dependence of two- and four-particle correlations in pPb and PbPb collisions”, Phys. Lett. B 724 (2013) 213.
CMS Collaboration, “Observation of long-range near-side angular correlations in proton-lead collisions at the LHC”, Phys. Lett. B 718 (2013) 795.

Wei Li, “Observation of a ridge correlation structure in high multiplicity proton–proton collisions: a brief review”, MPLA 27 (2012) 1230018.
CMS Collaboration, “Azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles at high transverse momenta in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 022301.
CMS Collaboration, “Centrality dependence of dihadron correlations and azimuthal anisotropy harmonics in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV”, EPJC 72 (2012) 2012.