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A new statistical ensemble is examined using the example of classical one-component simple fluid. It's logical to call it an open ensemble, because its peculiarity is the inclusion in the consideration some surrounding area. Calculations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-15 V. M. Zaskulnikov

We suggest an extension of the standard concept of statistical ensembles. Namely, we introduce a class of ensembles with extensive quantities fluctuating according to an externally given distribution. As an example the influence of energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. I. Gorenstein , M. Hauer

We describe a novel approach for computing wave correlation functions inside finite spatial domains driven by complex and statistical sources. By exploiting semiclassical approximations, we provide explicit algorithms to calculate the local…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-09 Stephen C Creagh , Gabriele Gradoni , Timo Hartmann , Gregor Tanner

Large density fluctuations of conserved charges have been proposed as a promising signature for exploring the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. These fluctuations are expected to exhibit a fractal or scale-invariant behavior,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Rui Wang , Chengrui Qiu , Chuan-Shen Hu , Zhiming Li , Yuanfang Wu

High parton densities in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions suggest a description of these collisions wherein the high energy nuclear wavefunctions and the initial stages of the nuclear collision are dominated by classical fields. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Dusling , Francois Gelis , Raju Venugopalan

We discuss two topics on the experimental measurements of fluctuation observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. First, we discuss the effects of the thermal blurring, i.e. the blurring effect arising from the experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-21 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Masayuki Asakawa

We study the influence of global baryon number conservation on the non-critical baseline of net baryon cumulants in heavy-ion collisions in a given acceptance, accounting for the asymmetry between the mean-numbers of baryons and…

To reconstruct the impact parameter distributions from the selected events sample or centrality, which is defined by two-observables, at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions, we extend the approach proposed by Das \textit{et al.} [Phys.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Xiang Chen , Li Li , Ying Cui , Junping Yang , Zhuxia Li , Yingxun Zhang

A brief overview of the recent developments concerning theoretical description of event-by-event fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions is presented, with an emphasis on the role of exact conservation laws and calculations based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-07 Volodymyr Vovchenko

Many simulations of relativistic heavy ion collisions involve the switching from relativistic hydrodynamics to kinetic particle transport. This switching entails the sampling of particles from the distribution of energy, momentum and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Dmytro Oliinychenko , Shuzhe Shi , Volker Koch

We discuss opportunities that may arise from subjecting high-multiplicity events in relativistic heavy ion collisions to an analysis similar to the one used in cosmology for the study of fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background…

Impact phenomena of small clusters subject to thermal fluctuations are numerically investigated. From the molecular dynamics simulation for colliding two identical clusters, it is found that the restitution coefficient for head-on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroto Kuninaka , Hisao Hayakawa

We discuss various measures of net charge (conserved quantities) fluctuations proposed for the identification of critical phenomena in heavy ion collisions. We show the dynamical component of fluctuations of the net charge can be expressed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Pruneau , S. Gavin , S. Voloshin

We perform quantum calculations of fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields in $AA$ collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. Calculations are performed with the help of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem accounting for the giant dipole and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 B. G. Zakharov

Multiplicity fluctuations are one of the most crucial observables in the Beam Energy Scan program of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. It is understood that they can be utilized to probe the whereabouts of the critical point on the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 Hong-Hao Ma , Dan Wen , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

General formulas are presented for higher order cumulants of the conserved charge statistical fluctuations inside the mixed phase. As a particular example the van der Waals model in the grand canonical ensemble is used. The higher order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Roman V. Poberezhnyuk , Oleh Savchuk , Mark I. Gorenstein , Volodymyr Vovchenko , Horst Stoecker

In energetic heavy ion collisions, if quark-gluon plasma is formed, its hadronization may lead to observable critical fluctuations, i.e., DCC formation. The strength and observability of these fluctuations depend on the initial state. Here…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Denes Molnar , Laszlo Pal Csernai , Zsolt Iosif Lazar

We discuss the information that can be obtained from an analysis of fluctuations in heavy ion collisions within the context of the statistical model of particle production. We then examine the recently published experimental data on ratio…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-22 Giorgio Torrieri , Rene Bellwied , Christina Markert , Gary Westfall

We present a model-independent method to reconstruct the impact parameter distributions of experimental data for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions, adapted from a recently proposed approach for ultra-relativistic heavy ion…

A great many observables seen in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions can be explained on the basis of statistical equilibrium. Calculations based on statistical equilibrium can be implemented in microcanonical ensemble (energy and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. B. Das , S. Das Gupta , W. G. Lynch , A. Z. Mekjian , M. B. Tsang