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In relativistic ion collisions there are excellent opportunities to produce and investigate hyper-nuclei. We have systematically studied the formation of hypernuclear spectator residues in peripheral heavy-ion collisions with the transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 A. S. Botvina , K. K. Gudima , J. Steinheimer , M. Bleicher , J. Pochodzalla

Violent nuclear collisions are open systems which require a non-equilibrium description when the process should be followed from the first instants. The heated system produced in the collision, can no more be treated within an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-24 Paolo Napolitani

The density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy remains one of the key uncertainties in contemporary nuclear physics, with significant implications for the structure of exotic nuclei, the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions, and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 S. Mallik , F. Gulminelli , C. Ciampi , D. Gruyer

High energy Heavy Ion Collisions (HIC) are studied in order to access nuclear matter properties at high density. Particular attention is paid to the selection of observables sensitive to the poorly known symmetry energy at high baryon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 V. Giordano , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , V. Greco , J. Rizzo

Isospin e ffects on multifragmentation properties were studied thanks to nuclear collisions between di fferent isotopes of xenon beams and tin targets. It is shown that, in central collisions leading to multifragmentation, the mean number…

Heavy Ion Collisions (HIC) represent a unique tool to probe the in-medium nuclear interaction in regions away from saturation and at high nucleon momenta. In this report we present a selection of reaction observables particularly sensitive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Di Toro , V. Baran , M. Colonna , G. Ferini , T. Gaitanos , V. Greco , J. Rizzo , H. H. Wolter

We show that the phenomenology of isospin effects on heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies (few AGeV range) is extremely rich and can allow a ``direct'' study of the covariant structure of the isovector interaction in the hadron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Di Toro , M. Colonna , G. Ferini , T. Gaitanos , V. Greco , H. H. Wolter

We investigate properties of the symmetry term in the equation-of-state (EOS) of nuclear matter (NM) from the analysis of simulations of fragmentation events in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. For charge asymmetric systems a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 V. Baran , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , V. Greco , M. Zielinska-Phabe , H. H. Wolter

Collisions of heavy ions (nuclei) at ultra-relativistic energies (sqrt(s_NN) >> 10 GeV per nucleon-nucleon collision in the centre of mass system) are regarded as a unique tool to produce in the laboratory a high energy density and high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-21 A. Dainese

Colliding heavy nuclear systems in the deep-inelastic regime may undergo partitioning into multiple fragments when fusion can not be achieved. While multiple breakups are common at Fermi energy, they are rather exotic in the deep-inelastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 P. Napolitani , A. Sainte-Marie , M. Colonna

Heavy-ion collisions provide a versatile terrestrial probe of the nuclear equation of state through the formation of nuclear matter at a wide variety of temperatures, densities, and pressures. Direct and indirect approaches for constraining…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-18 Z. Kohley , S. J. Yennello

Besides earlier predictions based on both phenomenological models and modern microscopic many-body theories, circumstantial evidence was recently found for a reduced kinetic symmetry energy of isospin-asymmetric nucleonic matter compared to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-14 Bao-An Li , Wen-Jun Guo , Zhaozhong Shi

Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) experiments at the planned Electron-Ion Collider will be affected by details of the hadron formation inside the nuclear volume. Besides semi-inclusive particle production experiments decays of the target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 A. B. Larionov , M. Strikman

We present a review of the recent progress of theoretical models on the description of the formation of superheavy nuclei in collisions of heavy systems. Two sorts of reactions that are the fusion-evaporation mechanism and the massive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-30 Zhao-Qing Feng , Gen-Ming Jin , Jun-Qing Li

We review the present activities related to hypernuclear production in hadronic in-medium reactions at intermediate energies. The status of theoretical predictions and experimental evidences for the in-medium formation of bound superstrange…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-28 T. Gaitanos

Employing a four-body classical model, various mechanisms responsible for the production of fast light particles in heavy ion collisions at low and intermediate energies have been studied. It has been shown that at energies lower than 50 A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Denikin , V. I. Zagrebaev

Dynamics of pseudoscalar mesons ($\pi$, $\eta$, $K$ and $\overline{K}$ ) and hyperons ($\Lambda$ and $\Sigma$) produced in heavy-ion collisions near threshold energies has been investigated within the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-22 Zhao-Qing Feng , Wen-Jie Xie , Peng-Hui Chen , Jie Chen , Gen-Ming Jin

We discuss the production of particles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions through the mechanism of massive bremsstrahlung, in which massive mesons are emitted during rapid nucleon acceleration. This mechanism is described within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian W. Bush , J. Rayford Nix

Semiclassical transport simulation of nucleus-nucleus collisions for the range of incident energy from about the Fermi energy up to a few hundred MeV per nucleon evidences that the maximal excitation energy put into a nuclear system during…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 Z. Basrak , Ph. Eudes , M. Zorić , F. Sébille

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 2025-12-22 Andreas Kirchner , Federica Capellino , Eduardo Grossi , Stefan Floerchinger