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The measured elliptic flow (v2) of identified particles as a function of pT and centrality at RHIC suggests the created medium in Au+Au collisions achieves early local thermal equilibrium that is followed by hydrodynamic expansion. It is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Erik Johnson

Despite a wealth of experimental data for high p_T processes in heavy-ion collisions, discriminating between different models of hard parton-medium interactions has been difficult. One important reason is that the pQCD parton spectrum at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Thorsten Renk

We study the production of proton, antiproton and net-proton at \AGS, \SPS and \RHIC within the framework non-uniform flow model(NUFM) in this paper. It is found that the system of RHIC has stronger longitudinally non-uniform feature than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shengqin Feng , Xianbao Yuan , Yafei Shi

We propose that the transverse momentum ($p_T$) differential splitting of directed flow ($\Delta v_1$) between proton and anti-proton can serve as a sensitive observable to extract the baryon diffusion coefficient ($\kappa_B$) of the hot…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-18 Tribhuban Parida , Sandeep Chatterjee

The property of limiting fragmentation of various observables such as rapidity distributions ($dN/dy$), elliptic flow ($v_{2}$), average transverse momentum ($\langle p_{T} \rangle$) etc. of charged particles is observed when they are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Swatantra Kumar Tiwari , Raghunath Sahoo

Multiple parton interactions in relativistic heavy ion reactions result in transverse momentum diffusion and medium induced non-Abelian energy loss of the hard probes traversing cold and hot nuclear matter. A systematic study of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivan Vitev

A correlation has been reported between the arrival directions of high-energy IceCube events and gamma-ray blazars classified as intermediate- and high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacs. Subsequent studies have investigated the optical properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xavier Rodrigues , Martina Karl , Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Maria Petropoulou , Foteini Oikonomou

This study aims at understanding the nature of measured data on the rapidity spectra of some heavy baryons [$\Lambda$, $\Lambda$bar, $\Xi^-$ & $\Xi$bar$^+$] produced in the nuclear collisions at some modestly high energies. Furthermore, our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-16 Goutam Sau , P. Guptaroy , A. C. Das Ghosh , S. Bhattacharyya

Data taken over the last several years have demonstrated that RHIC has created a hot, dense medium with partonic degrees of freedom. Identified particle spectra at high transverse momentum ($p_T$) and heavy flavor are thought to be well…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 Lijuan Ruan

Recent SPS data on the rapidity distribution of protons in p+S, p+Au and S+S collisions at 200 AGeV and preliminary Pb+Pb collisions at 160 AGeV are compared to HIJING and VENUS calculations as well as to predictions based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 M. Gyulassy , V. Topor Pop , S. E. Vance

Transverse momentum spectra of negative and positive pions produced at mid-(pseudo)rapidity in inelastic or non-single-diffractive proton-proton collisions and in central nucleus-nucleus collisions over an energy range from a few GeV to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-28 Li-Li Li , Fu-Hu Liu

The properties of electromagnetic radiation from hot fireballs as created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are reviewed. We first outline how the medium effects in the electromagnetic spectral function, which governs thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-28 R. Rapp

The contribution of Lambda hyperons to neutrino scattering rates is calculated in the random phase approximation in a model where the interaction is described by a Skyrme potential. Finite temperature and neutrino trapping are taken into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Mornas

Observations imply that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a highly relativistic fireball. Photo-meson interactions of protons with gamma-rays within the fireball dissipation region are expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dafne Guetta

Neutrons play an important role in the dynamics of gamma-ray bursts. The presence of neutrons in the baryon-loaded fireball is expected. If the neutrons abundance is comparable to that of protons, important features may be observed such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Nissim Fraija

Statistical fluctuations in the transverse distribution of sources in relativistic heavy ion collisions and an asymmetric emission profile associated with the wounded nucleons lead to rapidity dependence of the reaction plane. The size of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-24 Joao Moreira , Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

We investigate proton rapidity correlations for a fireball that fragments due to non-equilibrium effects at the phase transition from deconfined to hadronic phase. Such effects include spinodal fragmentation in case of first order phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Martin Schulc , Boris Tomasik

The problem of forward production of hadrons in heavy-ion collision at RHIC is revisited with modification of the theoretical treatment on the one hand and with the use of new data on the other. The basic formalism for hadronization remains…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rudolph C. Hwa , Li-Lin Zhu

We construct net baryon number and strangeness susceptibilities as well as correlations between electric charge and strangeness from experimental data of the ALICE Collaboration at the CERN LHC. The data were taken in Pb-Pb collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-02 Peter Braun-Munzinger , Alexander Kalweit , Krzysztof Redlich , Johanna Stachel

A review is presented of the fireball model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and of the production in GRB fireballs of high energy protons and neutrinos. Constraints imposed on the model by recent afterglow observations, which support the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eli Waxman