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Event-by-event fluctuations of the baryon number, which is mostly carried by protons and neutrons, in relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a sensitive probe for locating the conjectured critical point in the quantum chromodynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Yi-Heng Feng , Che Ming Ko , Xiaofeng Luo , Yu-Gang Ma , Kai-Jia Sun , Song Zhang

This article proposes a new method to measure the proton detector efficiency for use in "beam" determinations of the free neutron lifetime. There is currently a 4{\sigma} disagreement between the "beam" and "storage" methods of measuring…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-07 Grant V. Riley , Nadia Fomin , Jaideep Taggart Singh , William Greene , Rebecca Godri , Evan Adamek , Eli Carter

Several theoretical results concerning event-by-event fluctuations are discussed: (1) a role of the global conservation laws and concept of statistical ensembles; (2) strongly intensive measures are introduced; they give a possibility to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Mark I. Gorenstein

Identifying thermodynamic signatures of electronic phases, such as superconductivity, is challenging in low-dimensional materials due to strong fluctuations and low probing volume. Spectroscopic methods are often used to identify new bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-15 Xu Chen , Yuanjie Sun , Eugen Hruska , Vivek Dixit , Jinming Yang , Yu He , Yao Wang , Fang Liu

The control of quantum phenomena is a topic that has carried out many challenging problems. Among others, the Hamiltonian identification, i.e, the inverse problem associated with the unknown features of a quantum system is still an open…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-11 Yvon Maday , Julien Salomon

At energies of a few GeV per nucleon, nuclear collisions exhibit phenomena more complex than the individualistic nucleon interactions observed at much higher energies. From recent results on proton number fluctuations in Au + Au collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Ali Bazgir , Maciej Rybczynski , Uzair A. Shah , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

Close to one half of the LHC events are expected to be due to elastic or inelastic diffractive scattering. Still, predictions based on extrapolations of experimental data at lower energies differ by large factors in estimating the relative…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 Mikael Kuusela , Jerry W. Lamsa , Eric Malmi , Petteri Mehtala , Risto Orava

Perturbing a system far away from equilibrium via a time dependent protocol can formally be described by a nonlinear Volterra series expansion. Here we derive identities for the nonlinear memory kernels arising in such nonlinear expansion,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-17 Juliana Caspers , Matthias Krüger

Electron-positron momentum distributions measured by the coincidence Doppler broadening method can be used in the chemical analysis of the annihilation environment, typically a vacancy-impurity complex in a solid. In the present work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Folegati , I. Makkonen , R. Ferragut , M. J. Puska

A sufficient condition for entanglement in two-mode continuous systems is constructed based on interference visibility and the uncertainty of the total particle number. The observables to be measured (particle numbers and particle number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geza Toth , Christoph Simon , Juan Ignacio Cirac

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful imaging technique for reconstructing three-dimensional molecular structures from noisy tomographic projection images of randomly oriented particles. We introduce a new data fusion framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Joe Kileel , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer , Sheng Xu

Ambipolar diffusion is a process occurring in partially ionised astrophysical systems that imparts a complicated mathematical and physical nature to Ohm's law. The numerical codes that solve the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations have to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 F. Moreno-Insertis , D. Nóbrega-Siverio , E. R. Priest , A. W. Hood

This note proves an upper bound for the fluctuations of a second-class particle in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process. The proof needs a lower tail estimate for the last-passage growth model associated with the exclusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Timo Seppalainen

Recent data of the HADES Collaboration in Au+Au central collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.4$ GeV indicate large proton number fluctuations inside one unit of rapidity around midrapidity. This can be a signature of critical phenomena due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 O. Savchuk , R. V. Poberezhnyuk , M. I. Gorenstein

We present a complete set of multiparticle correlation observables for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. These include moments of the distribution of the anisotropic flow in a single harmonic, and also mixed moments, which contain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Subrata Pal

In particle physics experiments, identifying the types of particles registered in a detector is essential for the accurate reconstruction of particle collisions. At Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), the GlueX…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-18 Eric Habjan , Richard Dube , James McIntyre , Mezmur Edo , Richard Jones

Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the HSD and UrQMD transport models. The scaled variances of negative, positive, and all charged hadrons in Pb+Pb at 158 AGeV are analyzed in…

A QCD-based treatment of projectile size fluctuations is used to compute inelastic diffractive cross sections $\sigma_{diff}$ for coherent hadron-nuclear processes. We find that fluctuations near the average size give the major contribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Frankfurt , l , G. A. Miller , M. Strikman

Two-particle pseudorapidity correlations are analyzed in a simple model, where in the initial stage of the reaction multiple sources, extended in rapidity, are created. We show how the fluctuations of the length of the sources in rapidity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-06 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek

It is demonstrated that in low multiplicity sample, the increase of the fluctuation of event-factorial-moments with the diminishing of phase space scale, called ``erraticity'', are dominated by the statistical fluctuations. The erraticity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fu Jinghua , Wu Yuanfang , Liu Lianshou
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