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A study of Event by Event analysis of maximum Pseudo-rapidity Gap Fluctuation in heavy-ion collisions in terms of the scaled variance {\omega} has been carried out for relativistic AA collisions with multiplicity cut (N >10) using nuclear…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-07-24 Swarnapratim Bhattacharyya , Maria Haiduc , Alina Tania Neagu , Elena Firu

We review the progress in understanding the strange particle yields in nuclear collisions and their role in signalling quark-gluon plasma formation. We report on new insights into the formation mechanisms of strange particles during…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 Josef Sollfrank , Ulrich Heinz

We discuss the physics underlying event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We will emphasize how the fluctuations of particle ratios can be utilized to explore the properties of the matter created in these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 V. Koch , M. Bleicher , S. Jeon

Traditionally, events collected at relativistic heavy-ion colliders are classified according to some centrality estimator (e.g. the number of produced charged particles) related to the initial energy density and volume of the system. In a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-06-26 A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , M. Monteno , M. Nardi , F. Prino

We review the physics of nuclear matter at high energy density and the experimental search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The data obtained in the first three years of the RHIC physics program…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Jacobs , Xin-Nian Wang

We discuss recent theoretical developments in low-energy heavy-ion reactions. To this end, we put emphasis on a viewpoint of probing nuclear shapes with heavy-ion reactions. We first discuss a single-channel problem with an optical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 K. Hagino

The fluid-dynamical modeling of a nuclear collision at high energy usually starts shortly after the collision. A major source of uncertainty comes from the detailed modeling of the initial state. While the collision itself likely involves…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Andreas Kirchner , Federica Capellino , Eduardo Grossi , Stefan Floerchinger

A variety of phenomena connected with the formation of a dinuclear complex is observed in the heavy ion collisions at low energies. The dinuclear system model allows us to analyze the experimental data and to interpret them by comparison of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 A. K. Nasirov , G. Giardina , G. Mandaglio , M. Manganaro , W. Scheid

The evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is typically understood as a process that transmutes the initial geometry of the system into the final momentum distribution of observed hadrons, which can be described via a cumulant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Jefferson Sousa , Jorge Noronha , Matthew Luzum

A collision between a proton and a heavy nucleus at ultrarelativistic energy creates particles whose rapidity distribution is asymmetric, with more particles emitted in the direction of the nucleus than in the direction of the proton. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

The possible topology of quantum fluctuations which take place at the earliest stage of high-energy processes is studied. A new exact solution of Yang-Mills equations with fractional topological charge and carrying a single color is found.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Makhlin

In this talk we review some of our results for the longitudinal correlations in connection with recent experimental data, in particular for the {\em torque} effect and for the two-particle correlations in pseudorapidity, $C(\eta_1,\eta_2)$.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek

A method based on sliding window scheme is developed to search for patches in the pseudorapidity-azimuth plane, on an event-by-event basis, having unusual fluctuation in the neutral pion fraction which may arise due to the formation of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Aggarwal , G. Sood , Y. P. Viyogi

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

With the aim of understanding the phase structure of nuclear matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions at finite baryon density, a beam energy scan program has been carried out at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In this…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-04-03 Xiaofeng Luo , Shusu Shi , Nu Xu , Yifei Zhang

In this talk we summarize the main results of our recent paper, Phys. Rev. C94, 014902, where we explore predictions of the wounded quark model for particle production and the properties of the initial state formed in ultra-relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski , Maciej Rybczynski

We propose a method to experimentally study the equation of state of strongly interacting matter created at the early stage of nucleus--nucleus collisions. The method exploits the relation between relative entropy and energy fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Gazdzicki , M. I. Gorenstein , St Mrowczynski

Although relativistic heavy-ion collisions have emerged as a powerful probe for studying nuclear structure, the potential influence of nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations (NN-SRCs) on the initial state has remained an open question. By…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Pei Li , Kai-Jia Sun , Bo Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma

The shape and orientation of colliding nuclei play a crucial role in determining the initial conditions of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which influence key observables such as anisotropic and radial flow. In these proceedings, we present…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-06 Chunjian Zhang

Understanding and predicting a material's performance in response to high-energy radiation damage, as well as designing future materials to be used in intense radiation environments, requires the knowledge of the structure, morphology and…