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The study of high energy collisions between heavy nuclei is a field unto itself, distinct from nuclear and particle physics. A defining aspect of heavy ion physics is the importance of a bulk, self-interacting system with a rich space-time…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Mike Lisa

In this work, we perform a model-to-data comparison for U+U and Au+Au collisions performed at RHIC at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = $193$ GeV and $200$ GeV, using a multistage framework. Model calculations for various configurations of $^{238}$U…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-17 Nicolas Fortier , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

The grand-canonical version of the thermal model is used to analyze the ratios of particle abundances measured in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Exactly the same model is applied to study the heavy-ion reactions at BNL AGS, CERN…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mariusz Michalec

We study nuclear reactions induced by virtual photons associated with Lorentz-boosted Coulomb fields of ultrarelativistic heavy ions. Evaporation, fission and multifragmentation mechanisms are included in a new RELDIS code, which describes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 I. A. Pshenichnov , I. N. Mishustin , J. P. Bondorf , A. S. Botvina , A. S. Iljinov

Fusion reactions of heavy ions are investigated by employing a simple stochastic semi-classical model which includes the coupling between relative motion and low frequency collective surface modes of colliding ions similarly to the quantal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-19 Sakir Ayik , Bulent Yilmaz , Denis Lacroix

The nuclear symmetry energy, especially at suprasaturation densities, plays crucial roles in many astrophysical studies. However, nowadays the high-density behavior of the symmetry energy is still very controversial in nuclear community. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 Gao-Chan Yong

We present results of simulations of light-nuclei production in Au+Au collisions at collision energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 3 GeV within updated Three-fluid Hydrodynamics-based Event Simulator Extended by UrQMD (Ultra-relativistic Quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-02 M. Kozhevnikova , Yu. B. Ivanov

Atomic nuclei are self-organized, many-body quantum systems bound by strong nuclear forces within femtometer-scale space. These complex systems manifest a variety of shapes, traditionally explored using non-invasive spectroscopic techniques…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-11-19 STAR Collaboration

Two AdS/CFT based energy loss models are used to compute the suppression and azimuthal correlations of heavy quarks in heavy ion collisions. The model with a velocity independent diffusion coefficient is in good agreement with B and D meson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-08 Robert Hambrock , William Alexander Horowitz

The extreme temperatures and energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce a state of matter with surprising fluid properties. Non-central collisions have angular momentum on the order of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-29 STAR Collaboration

Light ion (A<5) breakup cross sections are important for studies of cosmic ray interactions in the inter-stellar medium or radiation protection considerations of energy deposition in tissue. Nucleon abrasion cross sections for heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Congchong Yan , Premkumar B. Saganti , Francis A. Cucinotta

Recent theory progresses in (3+1)D dynamical descriptions of relativistic nuclear collisions at finite baryon density are reviewed. Heavy-ion collisions at different collision energies produce strongly coupled nuclear matter to probe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Chun Shen

Correlation femtoscopy allows one to measure the space-time characteristics of particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions due to the effects of quantum statistics (QS) and final state interactions (FSI). The main features of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 P. Batyuk , Iu. Karpenko , R. Lednicky , L. Malinina , K. Mikhaylov , O. Rogachevsky , D. Wielanek

We present a Monte-Carlo simulation of energy deposition process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions based on a new realization of the Interacting-Gluon-Model (IGM) for high energy $N-N$ collisions. In particular we show results for proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Q. J. Liu , W. Q. Chao , G. Wilk

High energy heavy-ion collisions are proposed as a novel means to constrain stringently the high density (HD) behaviour of nuclear symmetry energy. Within an isospin-dependent hadronic transport model, it is shown for the first time that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Bao-An Li

We present a fully three-dimensional model providing initial conditions for energy and net-baryon density distributions in heavy ion collisions at arbitrary collision energy. The model includes the dynamical deceleration of participating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 Chun Shen , Björn Schenke

This work studies the production of direct photons in relativistic nuclear collisions, along with the production of hadrons. Radiation from the very first instants to the final moments of the evolution is included. The hybrid model used…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 Charles Gale , Jean-François Paquet , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen

In this paper we propose to thoroughly investigate asymmetric nuclear collisions both in the fixed target mode at the laboratory energy below 5 GeV per nucleon and in the collider mode with a center of mass energy below 11 GeV per nucleon.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-21 M. Bleicher , K. A. Bugaev , P. Rau , A. S. Sorin , J. Steinheimer , H. Stoecker

Collisions between heavy nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider liberate from the nuclear wavefunction of order 10,000 gluons, quarks and antiquarks. The system is dominated by gluons and up and down (anti) quarks. Heavy quarks,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Nagle

We study mutual dissociation of heavy nuclei in peripheral collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. Earlier this process was proposed for beam luminosity monitoring via simultaneous registration of forward and backward neutrons in zero…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. A. Pshenichnov , J. P. Bondorf , I. N. Mishustin , A. Ventura , S. Masetti