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We discuss the scaling laws of both the charged fragments multiplicity fluctuations and the charge of the largest fragment fluctuations for Xe+Sn collisions in the range of bombarding energies between 25 MeV/A and 50 MeV/A. We show close to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Botet , M. Ploszajczak , A. Chbihi , B. Borderie , D. Durand , J. Frankland

Multiplicity fluctuations of intermediate-mass fragments are studied with the percolation model. It is shown that super-Poissonian fluctuations occur near the percolation transition and that this behavior is associated with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Tarek Gharib , Wolfgang Bauer , Scott Pratt

A two-dimensional lattice system of non-interacting electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field with half a flux quantum per plaquette and a random potential is considered. For the large scale behavior a supersymmetric theory with collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Ziegler

A simple model accounting for the ejection of heavy particles from the vortical structures of a turbulent flow is introduced. This model involves a space and time discretization of the dynamics and depends on only two parameters: the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremie Bec , Raphael Chetrite

The multiplicity fluctuations are sensitive to QCD phase transition and to the presence of critical point in QCD phase diagram. At critical point a system undergoing phase transition is characterized by large fluctuations in the observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-24 Zarina Banoo , Ramni Gupta

We first show that the pions produced at high $p_T$ in heavy-ion collisions over a wide range of high energies exhibit a scaling behavior when the distributions are plotted in terms of a scaling variable. We then use the recombination model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Rudolph C. Hwa , C. B. Yang

Large assemblies of nonlinear dynamical units driven by a long-wave fluctuating external field are found to generate strong turbulence with scaling properties. This type of turbulence is so robust that it persists over a finite parameter…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiki Kuramoto , Hiroya Nakao

Fluctuation scaling is observed phenomenon from complex networks through finance to ecology. It means that the variance and the mean of a specific quantity are related as $\ev{\sigma^2|n}\propto \ev{n|A}^{2\alpha}$ with $1/2\geq \alpha \geq…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Zoltan Eisler , Janos Kertesz

The event-by-event dynamical fluctuations in kaon-to-proton and proton-to-pion ratios have been studied in dependence on center--of--mass energies of nucleon--nucleon collisions $\sqrt{s}$. Based on changing phase space volume which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-07-28 A. Tawfik

The scaling function $f(\psi')$ for medium and heavy nuclei with $Z\neq N$ for which the proton and neutron densities are not similar is constructed within the coherent density fluctuation model (CDFM) as a sum of the proton and neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. N. Antonov , M. V. Ivanov , M. K. Gaidarov , E. Moya de Guerra , P. Sarriguren , J. M. Udias

We have developed a physical model for the non-perturbative x-shape of parton density functions in the proton, based on Gaussian fluctuations in momenta, and quantum fluctuations of the proton into meson-baryon pairs. The model describes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Johan Alwall

Multiplicity fluctuations of positively, negatively and all charged hadrons in the forward hemisphere were studied in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV. The multiplicity distributions and their scaled variances are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 The NA49 Collaboration , B. Lungwitz

Multiplicity fluctuation of the target evaporated fragments emitted in 290 A MeV 12C-AgBr, 400 A MeV 12C-AgBr, 400 A MeV 20Ne-AgBr and 500 A MeV 56Fe-AgBr interactions is investigated using scaled factorial moment method in two-dimensional…

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The copy number of any protein fluctuates among cells in a population; characterizing and understanding these fluctuations is a fundamental problem in biophysics. We show here that protein distributions measured under a broad range of…

The thermodynamics of excited nuclear systems allows one to explore the second-order phase transition in a two-component quantum mixture. Temperatures and densities are derived from quantum fluctuations of fermions. The pressures are…

Dipole, triangular, and higher harmonic flow that have an origin in the initial density fluctuations has gained a lot of attention as they can provide additional important information about the dynamical properties (e.g. viscosity) of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Sergei A. Voloshin

This article illustrates how very small deviations from the Maxwellian exponential tail, while leaving unchanged bulk quantities, can yield dramatic effects on fusion reaction rates and discuss several mechanisms that can cause such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcello Lissia , Piero Quarati

We determine the uncorrelated modes that characterize the fluctuations in a semi-realistic model for the initial state of high-energy nuclear collisions, consisting of hot spots whose positions are distributed independently. Varying the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Nicolas Borghini , Hendrik Roch , Alicia Schütte

We discuss the possible implication of the recent predictions of two new properties of high momentum distribution of nucleons in asymmetric nuclei for neutron star dynamics. The first property is about the approximate scaling relation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Misak M. Sargsian

High energy proton-proton and antiproton-proton elastic scattering are studied first in a model where the nucleon has an outer cloud and an inner core. Elastic scattering is viewed as due to two processes: a) diffraction scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-27 M. M. Islam , R. J. Luddy , A. V. Prokudin