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Triple nuclear collisions - a new method to explore the matter properties under new extreme conditions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-02-16 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We suggest to explore an entirely new method to experimentally and theoretically study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter based on the triple nuclear collisions (TNC). We simulated the TNC using the UrQMD 3.4 model at the beam center-of-mass collision energies sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV and sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV. It is found that in the most central and simultaneous TNC the initial baryonic charge density is about 3 times higher than the one achieved in the usual binary nuclear collisions at the same energies. As a consequence, the production of protons and Λ\Lambda-hyperons is increased by a factor of 2 and 1.5, respectively. Using the MIT Bag model equation we study the evolution of the central cell in TNC and demonstrate that for the top RHIC energy of collision the baryonic chemical potential is 2-2.5 times larger than the one achieved in the binary nuclear collision at the same type of reaction. Based on these estimates, we show that TNC offers an entirely new possibility to study the QCD phase diagram at very high baryonic charge densities.

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@article{arxiv.2108.02711,
  title  = {Triple nuclear collisions - a new method to explore the matter properties under new extreme conditions},
  author = {O. V. Vitiuk and V. M. Pugatch and K. A. Bugaev and P. P. Panasiuk and N. S. Yakovenko and B. E. Grinyuk and E. S. Zherebtsova and M. Bleicher and L. V. Bravina and A. V. Taranenko and E. E. Zabrodin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.02711},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Summary of the talk given at the Online Conference "Strangeness in Quark Matter 2021"