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We apply a simple statistical mechanics cluster approximation for studying clustering in the Kern and Frenkel model of Janus fluids. The approach is motivated by recent Monte Carlo simulations work on the same model revealing that the vapor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-14 Riccardo Fantoni , Achille Giacometti , Francesco Sciortino , Giorgio Pastore

The presence of $\alpha$ clustered structures in light nuclei can enhance the initial spatial anisotropies in relativistic nuclear collisions relative to those arising from nuclei with uniform density distributions. Thus, observables that…

Interband cascade lasers (ICLs) stand out due to their low threshold current and minimal power consumption, rendering them viable sources for compact and mobile devices in the mid-infrared. Since their first demonstration, they experienced…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-03 Andreas Windischhofer , Nikola Opačak , Benedikt Schwarz

The new version (INCL4.6) of the Li`ege intranuclear cascade (INC) model for the description of spallation reactions is presented in detail. Compared to the standard version (INCL4.2), it incorporates several new features, the most…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Alain Boudard , Joseph Cugnon , Jean-Christophe David , Sylvie Leray , Davide Mancusi

Ion-ion collisions at relativistic energies have been shown recently to be a promising technique for the production of hypernuclei. In this article, we further investigate the production of light $\Lambda$ hypernuclei by use of a hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Y. L. Sun , A. S. Botvina , A. Obertelli , A. Corsi , M. Bleicher

We estimate the chemical freeze-out of light nuclear clusters for NICA energies of above 2 A GeV. On the one hand we use results from the low energy domain of about 35 A MeV, where medium effects have been shown to be important to explain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-28 G. Roepke , D. Blaschke , Yu. B. Ivanov , Iu. Karpenko , O. V. Rogachevsky , H. H. Wolter

We study the possibility of producing and detecting continuous variable cluster states in an optical set-up in an extremely compact fashion. This method is based on a multi-pixel homodyne detection system recently demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Giulia Ferrini , Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Thomas Coudreau , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps

Reliable predictions of light charged particle production in spallation reactions are important to correctly assess gas production in spallation targets. In particular, the helium production yield is important for assessing damage in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Leray , A. Boudard , J. Cugnon , J. C. David , A. Kelic-Heil , D. Mancusi , M. V. Ricciardi

NaCl crystal nucleation from metastable solutions has long been considered to occur according to a single-step mechanism. Recent experimental observations suggest that NaCl crystals emerge from disordered intermediates which is seemingly at…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-12 Aaron R. Finney , Matteo Salvalaglio

The thermal model properly describes the production yields of light nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions even so the loosely bound sizable nuclei cannot exist in the dense and hot hadron gas at a chemical freeze-out. Within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We present a systematic ab initio study of clustering in hot dilute nuclear matter using nuclear lattice effective field theory with an SU(4)-symmetric interaction. We introduce a method called light-cluster distillation to determine the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-25 Zhengxue Ren , Serdar Elhatisari , Timo A. Lähde , Dean Lee , Ulf-G. Meißner

We explore the appearance of light clusters at high densities of collapsing stellar cores. Special attention is paid to the unstable isotope H4, which was not included in previous studies. The importance of light clusters in the calculation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 Andrey Yudin , Matthias Hempel , Sergei Blinnikov , Dmitriy Nadyozhin , Igor Panov

Non-aligning self-propelled particles with purely repulsive excluded volume interactions undergo athermal motility-induced phase separation into a dilute gas and a dense cluster phase. Here, we use enhanced sampling computational methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-05 Gabriel S. Redner , Caleb G. Wagner , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

Measurement-based quantum computation has revolutionized quantum information processing, and the physical systems with which it can be implemented. One simply needs the ability to prepare a particular state, known as the cluster state, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-15 Dimitris G. Angelakis , Alastair Kay

The dynamics of light hypernuclei and nuclear clusters produced in $^{197}$Au+$^{197}$Au collisions has been investigated thoroughly with a microscopic transport model. All possible channels of hyperon production and transportation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-06 Zhao-Qing Feng

Although light nuclear clusters are known to affect the properties of warm and dilute nuclear matter, their role in warm and dense nuclear matter remains unclear due to the lack of experimental evidence for their modifications by the Mott…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Rui Wang , Zhen Zhang , Yu-Gang Ma , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Kai-Jia Sun

The abundances of light clusters within a formalism that considers in-medium effects are calculated using several relativistic mean-field models, with both density-dependent and density-independent couplings. Clusters are introduced as new…

Knowledge on nuclear cluster physics has increased considerably as nuclear clustering remains one of the most fruitful domains of nuclear physics, facing some of the greatest challenges and opportunities in the years ahead. The occurrence…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-06-28 C. Beck

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

Extending the concepts of light-front field theory to quantum statistics provides a novel approach towards nuclear matter under extreme conditions. Such conditions exist, e.g., in neutron stars or in the early stage of our universe. They…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Beyer