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We introduce a global analysis of relativistic heavy ion collisions using Trajectum of a significantly higher precision and including a new option to vary the normalization of the centrality estimator. We use the posterior distribution of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Govert Nijs , Wilke van der Schee

There is event by event geometric as well as quantum fluctuations in the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions. The standard technique of analysing heavy-ion collisions in bins of centrality obtained from final state multiplicity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-25 Vipul Bairathi , Sandeep Chatterjee , Md. Rihan Haque , Bedangadas Mohanty

The theoretical description of the correlations between observables in two separated rapidity intervals for AA-interactions at high energies is presented. In the case with the realistic nucleon distribution density of colliding nuclei the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Kolevatov , V. V. Vechernin

The probability of a projectile nucleon to traverse a target nucleus without interaction is calculated for central Si-Cu and Si-Pb collisions. Special attention is given to the impact parameter range which contributes to events with large…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Ding , J. Huefner

The theoretical nuclear physics predictions and experimental results on antiprotonic atoms lead to different proton and neutron spatial distributions. At CERN SPS energies production of positive and negative pions differs for $pp$, $pn$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Piotr Pawłowski , Antoni Szczurek

This contribution is an attempt to assess what can be learned from the remarkable success of the statistical model in describing ratios of particle abundances in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 V. Koch

The centrality dependence of sqrt(s_NN)= 200 GeV d+Au {J/\psi} data, measured in 12 rapidity bins that span -2.2 < y < 2.4, has been fitted using a model containing an effective absorption cross section combined with EPS09 NLO shadowing.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-05 D. C. McGlinchey , A. D. Frawley , R. Vogt

In this study, we explore the applicability of Transfer Learning techniques for estimating collision centrality in terms of the number of participants ($N_{\rm part}$) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In the present work, we leverage…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-11 Dipankar Basak , Kalyan Dey

We show that the centrality dependence of the multiplicity is identical in Pb+Pb and Xe+Xe collisions at the LHC, up to a constant factor. This geometric scaling is revealed if one defines centrality according to impact parameter, as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Rudolph Rogly , Giuliano Giacalone , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Our ultimate goal is the construction of a model for interactions of two nuclei in the energy range between several tens of GeV up to several TeV per nucleon in the centre-of-mass system. Such nuclear collisions are very complex, being…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Drescher , M. Hladik , S. Ostapchenko , K. Werner

The ALICE Collaboration reports its first LHC Run 3 measurements of charged-particle pseudorapidity density at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV. Particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-04 ALICE Collaboration

The quality of data taken at RHIC and LHC as well as the success and sophistication of computational models for the description of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions have advanced to a level that allows for the quantitative extraction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Steffen A. Bass , Jonah E. Bernhard , J. Scott Moreland

In the context of future electron-ion collision experiments, particularly the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) and the Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), investigating exclusive photoproduction processes is of paramount importance. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Xin Wu , Xinbai Li , Zebo Tang , Kaiyang Wang , Wangmei Zha

We consider a possible mechanism of thermalization of nucleons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Our model belongs, to a certain degree, to the transport ones; we investigate the evolution of the system created in nucleus-nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-20 D. Anchishkin , A. Muskeyev , S. Yezhov

We demonstrate high prediction accuracy of three important properties that determine the initial geometry of the heavy-ion collision (HIC) experiments by using supervised Machine Learning (ML) methods. These properties are the impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Abhisek Saha , Debasis Dan , Soma Sanyal

Statistical fluctuations in the transverse distribution of sources in relativistic heavy ion collisions and an asymmetric emission profile associated with the wounded nucleons lead to rapidity dependence of the reaction plane. The size of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-24 Joao Moreira , Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

We compute the centrality dependence of multiplicities of particles produced in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at various energies and atomic numbers. The computation is carried out in perturbative QCD with saturated densities of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 K. J. Eskola , K. Kajantie , K. Tuominen

The dependencies of charged particle pseudorapidity density and transverse energy pseudorapidity density at midrapidity on the collision energy and on the number of nucleon participants, or centrality, measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions…

Ratios of hadronic abundances are analyzed for pp and nucleus-nucleus collisions at sqrt(s)=20 GeV using the microscopic transport model UrQMD. Secondary interactions significantly change the primordial hadronic cocktail of the system. A…

Non-trivial geometrical effects in relativistic central collisions of deformed nuclei are studied using a simple version of optical Glauber model. For very small impact parameters large centrality and eccentricity fluctuations are observed.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Filip