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Spectral lines emitted by plasmas provide information about the thermodynamic conditions, the degree of randomness or the interactions prevailing in the medium. Collisions by plasma electrons penetrating the extent of bound-electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jean-Christophe Pain , Franck Gilleron

This paper extends the semianalytical treatment of fast ion current density to take into account time dependence and velocity diffusion using solutions of Boltzmann equation with a complete Coulomb collision term (Goncharov et al. 2010…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-26 P. R. Goncharov , B. V. Kuteev , V. Yu. Sergeev , T. Ozaki , S. Sudo

In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the initial condition of the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its evolution are sensitive to collective nuclear structure parameters describing the shape and radial profiles of the nuclei. We find a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Jiangyong Jia , Chun-Jian Zhang

The optical theorem is a fundamental aspect of quantum scattering theory. Here, we generalize this theorem to the case where the incident scattering state is a superposition of internal states of the collision partners, introducing…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Devolder Adrien , Tscherbul Timur V. , Brumer Paul

The initial conditions in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions are determined by the small momentum fraction part of the nuclear wavefunction. This is the regime of gluon saturation and the most direct way to experimentally study it would…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 T. Lappi

Upon application of a sufficiently strong electric field, electrons break away from thermal equilibrium and approach relativistic speeds. These highly energetic runaway electrons (MeV) play a significant role in tokamak disruption physics,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Don Daniel , William T. Taitano , Luis Chacón

The results of this paper demonstrate how the effect of collisions on the group refraction index is small, when the ordinary ray is considered. If, however, in order to improve the performance of a system for automatic interpretation of…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Carlo Scotto , Alessandro Settimi

Plasmas with varying collisionalities occur in many applications, such as tokamak edge regions, where the flows are characterized by significant variations in density and temperature. While a kinetic model is necessary for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Debojyoti Ghosh , Mikhail A. Dorf , Milo R. Dorr , Jeffrey A. F. Hittinger

A model of scalar gluons and scalar quarks that successfully gives a ln s behavior in high energy qq scattering and which contains a three gluon vertex is used to derive transport equations for the quarks and gluons. Quasiparticle and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Isert , S. P. Klevansky

We expose the role of collisional energy loss on high $p_T$ photon data measured by PHENIX collaboration by calculating photon yield in jet plasma interaction. The phase space distribution of the participating jet is dynamically evolved by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Pradip Roy

We develop an Effective Field Theory approach for jet observables in heavy-ion collisions, where the jet is treated as an open quantum system interacting with a hot and dense QCD medium. Within this framework, we derive a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Felix Ringer , Balbeer Singh , Varun Vaidya

Fokker-Planck equations are extensively employed in various scientific fields as they characterise the behaviour of stochastic systems at the level of probability density functions. Although broadly used, they allow for analytical treatment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Dimitra Maoutsa , Sebastian Reich , Manfred Opper

Heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies can be studied in the context of the Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (VUU) model. One of the main features in this model is the nucleon-nucleon (NN) cross section in the collisional term. Quark…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 D. T. da Silva , D. Hadjimichef

The early stage of a heavy ion collision is governed by local non-equilibrium momentum distributions which have been approximated by colliding nuclear matter configurations, i.e. by two Lorentz elongated Fermi ellipsoids. This approach has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Gaitanos , C. Fuchs , H. H. Wolter

We obtain possibly valuable information about the phase diagram of rather dense composite particles at high fermion as well as boson number density but low temperature, which is not accessible to relativistic heavy ion collision…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kwang-Hua W. Chu

The jet quenching phenomenon in heavy ion collisions provides a strong evidence of the modification of parton shower in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Jet substructure observables can probe various aspects of the jet formation mechanism.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Yang-Ting Chien

This paper studies the convergence rate of the Euler-Maruyama scheme for systems of interacting particles used to approximate solutions of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with singular interaction kernels, such as the Keller-Segel model.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Nicoleta Cazacu

We consider the mean field Fokker-Planck equation subject to nonlinear no-flux boundary conditions, which necessarily arise when subjecting a system of Brownian particles interacting via a pair potential in a bounded domain. With the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. D. Mills-Williams , B. D. Goddard , G. A. Pavliotis

The interaction of lasers with plasmas very often leads to nonlocal transport conditions, where the classical hydrodynamic model fails to describe important microscopic physics related to highly mobile particles. In this study we analyze…

The linearized model collision operator for multiple species plasmas given by H. Sugama, T.-H. Watanabe, and M. Nunami [Phys.\ Plasmas {\bf 16}, 112503 (2009)] is improved to be properly applicable up to the highly collisional regime. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hideo Sugama , Seikichi Matsuoka , Shinsuke Satake , Masanori Nunami , Tomohiko Watanabe