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We calculate the thermal photon distribution from the hot QCD matter produced by high energy nuclear collisions based on a hydrodynamical model, and compare it with the recent experimental data obtained by CERN WA80. Through the asymptotic…

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One of the most fascinating aspects of quantum fields in curved spacetime is the Unruh effect. The direct experimental detection of Unruh temperature has remained an elusive challenge up to now. Gradient optical waveguides manipulating the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-01 Hui Ge , Chong Sheng , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu

We show that the transverse-momentum spectra of all hadrons measured at RHIC, including hyperons, are described very well in a thermal model assuming the simultaneous chemical and thermal freeze-outs. The model calculation takes into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Wojciech Florkowski , Wojciech Broniowski

We study the emission characteristics of thermal photons at RHIC and LHC as affected by both the space-time evolution of the bulk medium and the thermal emission rates. For the former we compare the results of two evolution models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 R. Rapp , H. van Hees , M. He

In this work we consider the ontological status of the Unruh effect. Is it just a formal mathematical result? Or the temperature detected by an accelerating observer can lead to real physical effects such as phase transition. In order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-17 Antonio Dobado

We calculate total and differential cross sections for $J/\psi$ photoproduction in ultrarelativistic lead-lead collisions at the LHC energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV. We use a simple model based on vector dominance picture and multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Antoni Szczurek

Charged particles $p_T$ spectra and elliptic flow in 0-60% Au+Au collisions at RHIC are analyzed in a hydrodynamic model with hot, hadronic resonance gas in the initial state. Physically conceivable hadronic resonance gas, thermalized in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Victor Roy , A. K. Chaudhuri

We propose an experiment in which the phonon excitation of ion(s) in a trap, with a trap frequency exponentially modulated at rate $\kappa$, exhibits a thermal spectrum with an "Unruh" temperature given by T=hbar*kappa. We discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Alsing , J. P. Dowling , G. J. Milburn

Due to the coherence of all the protons in a nucleus, there are very strong electromagnetic fields of short duration in relativistic heavy ion collisions. They give rise to quasireal photon-photon and photon-nucleus collisions with a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 K. Hencken , P. Stagnoli , D. Trautmann , G. Baur

The semiclassical general formula for the probability of radiation of twisted photons by ultrarelativistic scalar and Dirac particles moving in the electromagnetic field of a general form is derived. This formula is the analog of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 O. V. Bogdanov , P. O. Kazinski , G. Yu. Lazarenko

The transverse momentum distributions of the identified particles produced in small collision systems at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been analyzed by four models. The first two models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-05 Hai-Ling Lao , Fu-Hu Liu , Bao-Chun Li , Mai-Ying Duan , Roy A. Lacey

Measurements of a variety of hadron species in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV by the STAR experiment are used to investigate properties of such collisions. We present a study of particle yields and transverse momentum spectra within the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Olga Barannikova

General properties of the hot and dense hadron matter (fireball) discovered in AuAu collisions with pSNN = 130 and 200 GeV at RHIC are compared with these for ideal electromagnetic plasma. None of them was found to be in contrary to those…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-06-08 R. Ya. Zulkarneev

Inclusive transverse momentum spectra of photons and neutral pions about mid-rapidity are presented for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN} = 130 GeV. Photon pair conversions have been reconstructed from charged tracks measured with the central…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 I. J. Johnson

The Unruh effect states that a uniformly linearly accelerated observer with proper acceleration $a$ experiences Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state in the temperature $T_{\text{lin}} = a/(2\pi)$, operationally measurable via the detailed…

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The interaction between light and an atom proceeds via three paradigmatic mechanisms: spontaneous emission, stimulated emission, and absorption. All three are resonant processes in the sense that they require that the radiation field be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Barbara Šoda , Vivishek Sudhir , Achim Kempf

The equivalence principle is a perennial subject of controversy, especially in connection with radiation by a uniformly accelerated classical charge, or a freely falling charge observed by a supported detector. Recently, related issues have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 S. A. Fulling , J. H. Wilson

We analyse the effect of velocity and acceleration on the temperature felt by particles and strings in backgrounds relevant in holographic models. First, we compare accelerated strings and strings at finite temperature. We find that for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Angel Paredes , Kasper Peeters , Marija Zamaklar

In this manuscript we examine the high energy channeling radiation data sets from the CERN-NA63 experiment using ultra relativistic synchrotron emission. To incorporate recoil, we examine the standard quasi-classical formalism as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Morgan H. Lynch

We analyze single particle momentum spectra and interferometry radii in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC within a hydro-inspired parametrization accounting for continuous hadron emission through the whole lifetime of hydrodynamically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 M. S. Borysova , Yu. M. Sinyukov , S. V. Akkelin , B. Erazmus , Iu. A. Karpenko