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An interesting opportunity to determine thermodynamic and transport properties in more detail is to identify generic statistical properties of initial density perturbations. Here we study event-by-event fluctuations in terms of correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-29 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

The analysis of the statistical and dynamical fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions on an event-by-event basis strongly relies on a comparison with specially constructed artificial events where statistical fluctuations and kinematical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Grazyna Odyniec

Heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies probe matter at extreme conditions of temperatures and energy densities. The study of event-by-event fluctuations of experimental observables is crucial to probe the QCD phase transition, locate…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-12-30 Tapan K. Nayak

Event-by-event fluctuations and correlations between particles produced in relativistic nuclear collisions are studied. The fluctuations in positive, negative, total and net charge are closely related through correlations. In the event of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Heiselberg , A. D. Jackson

In the last ten years, a number of ``Conventional Fluctuation Theorems'' have been derived for systems with deterministic or stochastic dynamics, in a transient or in a non-equilibrium stationary state. These theorems gave explicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

A formula to calculate the quantum fluctuations of energy in small subsystems of a hot and relativistic gas is derived. We find an increase in fluctuations for subsystems of small sizes, but we agrees with the energy fluctuations in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-08 Rajeev Singh

We present results of simulations for a dilute gas of inelastically colliding particles. Collisions are modelled as a stochastic process, which on average decreases the translational energy (cooling), but allows for fluctuations in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Timo Aspelmeier , Götz Giese , Annette Zippelius

The event-by-event analysis of heavy ions collisions is becoming possible with advent of large acceptance detectors: it can provide dynamical information which cannot be obtained from inclusive spectra. We identify some observables which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 E. V. Shuryak

In this review, we systematically examine the principles and the practices of fluctuations such as the momentum and the charge fluctuations as applied to the heavy ion collisions. Main emphases are: (i) Fluctuations as signals of phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sangyong Jeon , Volker Koch

We perform transport model calculations for central collisions of mass 120 on mass 120 at laboratory beam energy in the range 20 MeV/nucleon to 200 MeV/nucleon. A simplified yet accurate method allows calculation of fluctuations in systems…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Mallik , S. Das Gupta , G. Chaudhuri

Fluctuations in the statistical model of heavy ion collisions are studied. The role of statistics, relativity, constraints, decaying resonances and branching processes are investigated using this model. Also studied are thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Aram Z. Mekjian

The fluctuation-dissipation relation tells that dissipation always accompanies with thermal fluctuations. Relativistic fluctuating hydrodynamics is used to study the effects of the thermal fluctuations in the hydrodynamic expansion of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Tetsufumi Hirano , Ryuichi Kurita , Koichi Murase

We derive the two-particle fluctuation correlator in a thermal gas of pi-mesons to the lowest order in an interaction due to a resonance exchange. A diagrammatic technique is used. We discuss how this result can be applied to event-by-event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Stephanov

A new first-principles statistical mechanics formulation is proposed to describe slow and dilated granular fluids, where prolonged intergranular contacts vitiate collision theory. The contacts, where all the important physics takes place,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-08 Raphael Blumenfeld

We discuss an event-by-event fluctuation analysis of particle production in heavy ion collisions. We compare different approaches to the evaluation of the event-by-event dynamical fluctuations in quantities defined on groups of particles,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Voloshin , V. Koch , H. G. Ritter

The Fluctuation Theorem gives an analytical expression for the probability of observing second law violating dynamical fluctuations, in nonequilibrium systems. At equilibrium statistical mechanical fluctuations are known to be ensemble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-30 Debra J. Searles , Denis J. Evans

A key feature of the classical Fluctuation Dissipation theorem is its ability to approximate the average response of a dynamical system to a sufficiently small external perturbation from an appropriate time correlation function of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Rafail V. Abramov

We discuss the information that can be obtained from an analysis of fluctuations in heavy ion collisions within the context of the statistical model of particle production. We then examine the recently published experimental data on ratio…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-22 Giorgio Torrieri , Rene Bellwied , Christina Markert , Gary Westfall

Simulation results for head-on collisions of equal-sized spherical polymer nanodroplets using molecular dynamics are presented. Elastic behavior of an initial compressed phase for the colliding droplets is analyzed. Deformations and contact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sangrak Kim

Fluctuation theorems are a generalization of thermodynamics on small scales and provide the tools to characterize the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities in non-equilibrium nanoscale systems. They are particularly important for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 Jan Gieseler , Romain Quidant , Christoph Dellago , Lukas Novotny