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Nuclear multifragmentation is an important phenomenon, the study of which can throw light on reaction mechanism in heavy ion collisions at intermediate and high energies. Based on statistical and dynamical model studies, this thesis is…

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We investigate laser induced nonsequential multiple ionization using a simple statistical model in which an electron recollides inelastically with its parent ion. In this collision, it thermalizes with the remaining $N-1$ bound electrons…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , X. Liu

We develop a systematic framework for the study of the initial collision geometry fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and investigate how they evolve through different stages of the fireball history and translate into final…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-28 Guang-You Qin , Hannah Petersen , Steffen A. Bass , Berndt Müller

Electron and ion energization (i.e., heating and nonthermal acceleration) is a fundamental, but poorly understood, outcome of plasma turbulence. In this work, we present new results on this topic from particle-in-cell simulations of driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

Nuclear burning plays a key role in a wide range of astrophysical stellar transients, including thermonuclear, pair instability, and core collapse supernovae, as well as kilonovae and collapsars. Turbulence is now understood to also play a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-07 Yossef Zenati , Robert T. Fisher

Equilibration of highly excited baryon-rich matter is studied within the microscopic model calculations in A+A collisions at energies of BES, FAIR and NICA. It is shown that the system evolution from the very beginning of the collision can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 E. Zabrodin , L. Bravina , M. Teslyk , O. Vitiuk

We discuss the role of elastic and inelastic collisions and their interplay in the thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma. We consider a simplified situation of a static plasma, spatially uniform and isotropic in momentum space. We focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Jinfeng Liao , Yacine Mehtar-Tani

We study the nucleation and growth of flame fronts in slow combustion. This is modeled by a set of reaction-diffusion equations for the temperature field, coupled to a background of reactants and augmented by a term describing random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Mikko Karttunen , Nikolas Provatas , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Martin Grant

We show that the fluctuations in the wounded-nucleon model of the initial stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, together with the natural assumption that the forward (backward) moving wounded nucleons emit particles preferably in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski , Joao Moreira

One explanation of the thermalization of an isolated quantum system is the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, which posits that all energy eigenstates are thermal. Based on this idea, we use dynamical typicality to predict the thermal…

Considering applications to relativistic heavy-ion collisions, we develop a rapidity-dependent thermal model that includes thermal smearing effect and longitudinal boost. We calibrate the model with thermal yields obtained from a multistage…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 Han Gao , Lipei Du , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

The dynamics and thermodynamics of phase transition in hot nuclei are studied through experimental results on multifragmentation of heavy systems (A>200) formed in central heavy ion collisions. Different signals indicative of a phase…

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions suggest that low momentum regions of the observed particle spectra are thermal and hydrodynamic, while medium-high momentum regions are non-thermal and perturbative. In this study, I construct a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Akihiko Monnai

We suggest a duality between the statistical and standard (dynamical) distributions of partons in the nucleons. The temperature parameter entering into the statistical form for the quark distributions is estimated. It is found that this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-19 J. Cleymans , G. I. Lykasov , A. N. Sissakian , A. S. Sorin , O. V. Teryaev

A systematic study of the effect of fragment$-$fragment interaction, quantum statistics, $\gamma$-feeding and collective flow is made in the extraction of the nuclear temperature from the double ratio of the isotopic yields in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. K. Agrawal , S. K. Samaddar , Tapas Sil , J. N. De

We address the role of fluctuations in strongly interacting matter during the dense stages of a heavy-ion collision through its electromagnetic emission. Fluctuations of isospin charge are considered in a thermal system at rest as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Prakash , R. Rapp , J. Wambach , I. Zahed

Two-body dissipation due to chemical reactions occurs in both ultracold fermionic and bosonic molecular gases. Despite recent advances in achieving quantum degeneracy, the loss dynamics are typically described phenomenologically using rate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-10 Xin-Yuan Gao , Yangqian Yan

We have attempted to describe the rapidity and transverse momentum spectra, simultaneously, of the hadrons produced in the Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Collisions. This we have tried to achieve in a single statistical thermal freeze-out model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Saeed Uddin , Jan Shabir Ahmad , Waseem Bashir , Riyaz Ahmad Bhat

Perturbing fluids of neutrons and protons (nuclear matter) may lead, as the most catastrophic effect, to the rearrangement of the fluid into clusters of nucleons. A similar process may occur in a single atomic nucleus undergoing a violent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 P. Napolitani , M. Colonna , C. Mancini-Terracciano

Thermalization is the dynamical process by which a many-body system evolves toward a thermal equilibrium state that maximizes its entropy. In certain cases, however, the establishment of thermal equilibrium is significantly slowed down and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-07 Murad Abuzarli , Nicolas Cherroret , Tom Bienaimé , Quentin Glorieux