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Several heavy ion experiments at SPS have measured azimuthal distributions of particles with respect to the reaction plane. These distributions are deduced from two-particle azimuthal correlations under the assumption that they result…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Nicolas Borghini , Mai Dinh , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

The two-proton correlation function at midrapidity from Pb+Pb central collisions at 158 AGeV has been measured by the NA49 experiment. The results are compared to model predictions from static thermal Gaussian proton source distributions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Appelshauser , NA49 Collaboration

NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed-target facility at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The main goals of the NA61/SHINE strong interactions program are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Piotr Podlaski

Recent beam energy scan (BES) experiments at RHIC by the STAR Collaboration (PLB {\bf 827},137003 (2022) and PRL {\bf 128}, 202303 (2022)) found that hadronic interactions dominate the collective flow and the proton cumulant ratios are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Gao-Chan Yong , Bao-An Li , Zhi-Gang Xiao , Zi-Wei Lin

Within the framework of intermittency analysis, a search for critical fluctuations is ongoing to locate the possible critical point in the quantum chromodynamics phase diagram. In this study, self-similar critical fluctuations from a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-09 Jin Wu , Zhiming Li , Xiaofeng Luo , Mingmei Xu , Yuanfang Wu

Hard pQCD processes taking place in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are a well-calibrated probe. It is believed that the interaction with the surrounding medium of outgoing partons from a hard vertex is capable of revealing details…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thorsten Renk

Pion and photon production cross sections are analyzed in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions at energies 20 GeV < s^1/2 < 60 GeV. We separate the proton-proton and nuclear contributions to transverse-momentum broadening and suggest…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Gabor Papp , Peter Levai , George Fai

This comprehensive study delves into the intricate interplay between protons and organic polymers, offering insights into proton therapy in cancer treatment. Focusing on the influence of the spatial electron density distribution on stopping…

A dispersive optical model analysis of p+40Ca and p+48Ca interactions has been carried out. The real and imaginary potentials have been constrained from fits to elastic scattering data, reaction cross sections, and level properties of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Charity , L. G. Sobotka , W. H. Dickhoff

In nuclear collisions induced by stable or radioactive neutron-rich nuclei a transient state of nuclear matter with an appreciable isospin asymmetry as well as thermal and compressional excitation can be created. This offers the possibility…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Bao-An Li , Che Ming Ko , Wolfgang Bauer

The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. It also performs precise hadron production measurements for the neutrino and cosmic rays…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Maja Maćkowiak-Pawłowska

Using the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics ({\tt UrQMD}) model, we investigate the azimuthal correlations in p--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=5.02$ TeV. It is shown that the simulated hadronic p--Pb system can not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 You Zhou , Xiangrong Zhu , Pengfei Li , Huichao Song

The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. It also to performs precise hadron production measurements for the neutrino and cosmic rays…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Antoni Aduszkiewicz

Multiple interactions of quarks and gluons in high-energy heavy-ion collisions may give rise to interesting phemomena of color charges propagating in high-density QCD matter. We study the dynamics of multi-parton systems produced in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Dinesh K. Srivastava , Klaus Geiger

The nuclear symmetry energy, which describes the energy difference of per proton and neutron in nuclear matter, has been extensively studied within the last two decades. Around saturation density, both the value and the slope of the nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-21 Gao-Chan Yong , Ya-Fei Guo

The NA61/SHINE experiment studies hadron production in hadron+hadron, hadron+nucleus and nucleus+nucleus collisions. The strong interactions program has two main purposes: study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and search for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-14 Szymon Puławski

Correlations among hadrons in jets produced in heavy-ion collisions are discussed in the framework of the recombination model. The basic correlation at the parton level is among the shower partons arising from kinematical constraint. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Rudolph C. Hwa

In these proceedings, the measurements of the long-range near-side yields of charged hadrons in low-multiplicity proton--proton collisions at \thirteen are presented. The investigation studies pairs of charged particles within $1.4 <…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-09 J. E. Parkkila

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) covers one of the most interesting regions of the QCD phase diagram $(T - \mu_B)$. On the one hand there are indications that the energy threshold for deconfinement is reached already at low SPS energies.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-05 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

Particle correlation measurements associated with a hard or semi-hard trigger in heavy-ion collisions may reflect Mach cone shockwaves excited in the bulk medium by partonic energy loss. This is of great interest because, when compared with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 R. B. Neufeld , Thorsten Renk