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The neutron-neutron ($nn$) correlation function has been measured in 25 MeV/u $^{124}$Sn+$^{124}$Sn reactions. Using the Lednick\'y-Lyuboshitz approach, the $nn$ scattering length and effective range ($f_{0}^{nn}$, $d_{0}^{nn}$), as well as…

By combining femtoscopic interferometry with an optical deblurring algorithm, we present a novel method to image the source in heavy-ion collisions (HICs) while simultaneously determining the interaction strength between particle pairs. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-28 Junhuai Xu , Zhi Qin , Renjie Zou , Dawei Si , Sheng Xiao , Baiting Tian , Yijie Wang , Zhigang Xiao

The production of light hypernuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides a unique opportunity to probe hyperon--nucleon interactions and possible three-body forces, which are central to the resolution of the hyperon puzzle in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Yue Hang Leung , Yingjie Zhou , Norbert Herrmann

We propose a novel statistical approach to the analysis of experimental data obtained in nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies which borrows from methods developed within the context of Random Matrix Theory. It is applied to the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-12-31 R. G. Nazmitdinov , E. I. Shahaliev , M. K. Suleymanov , S. Tomsovic

Dynamical and thermal characterizations of excited nuclear systems produced during the collisions between two heavy ions at intermediate incident energies are presented by means of a review of experimental and theoretical work performed in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Verde , A. Chbihi , R. Ghetti , J. Helgesson

Scattering experiments with three free nucleons in the ingoing channel are extremely challenging in terrestrial laboratories. Recently, the ALICE Collaboration has successfully measured the scattering of three protons indirectly, by using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 A. Kievsky , E. Garrido , M. Viviani , L. E. Marcucci , L. Serksnyte , R. Del Grande

Hadron-hadron interactions, as a non-perturbative effect, play a significant role in understanding phenomenological problems in particle physics. Femtoscopy is a powerful tool in heavy-ion collision experiments, enabling the extraction of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Ao-Sheng Xiong , Qi-Wei Yuan , Ming-Zhu Liu , Fu-Sheng Yu , Zhi-Wei Liu , Li-Sheng Geng

Sophisticated high-energy and large momentum-transfer scattering experiments combined with ab-initio calculations can reveal the short-distance behavior of nucleon pairs in nuclei. On an opposite energy and resolution scale, elastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Ronen Weiss , Axel Schmidt , Gerald A. Miller , Nir Barnea

The forward-backward long-range multiplicity correlations in proton-proton collisions are investigated in the model with two independent sources of particles: one left- and one right-moving wounded nucleon. A good agreement with the UA5…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-03 Adam Bzdak

The formation of hadrons is a fundamental process in nature that can be investigated at particle colliders. As several recent findings demonstrate, with $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ collisions as a "vacuum-like" reference at one extreme, and central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-13 J. Altmann , A. Dubla , V. Greco , A. Rossi , P. Skands

By measuring the momentum correlations of pions created in heavy-ion collisions we can gain information about the space-time geometry of the particle emitting source. Recent experimental results from multiple different collaborations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-30 Maria Stefaniak , Daniel Kincses

The proton-proton momentum correlation function from different rapidity regions are systematically investigated for the Au + Au collisions at different impact parameters and different energies from 400$A$ MeV to 1500$A$ MeV in the framework…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-26 Ting-Ting Wang , Yu-Gang Ma , Chun-Jian Zhang , Zheng-Qiao Zhang

We investigate charmonium production and the charmonium-nucleon correlation function in pp collisions using the EPOS4+CATS framework. For the first time, the emission source of charmonium-proton pairs is dynamically generated and found to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Jiaxing Zhao , Taesoo Song , Joerg Aichelin , Elena Bratkovskaya , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

One of the key challenges for nuclear physics today is to understand from first principles the effective interaction between hadrons with different quark content. First successes have been achieved using techniques that solve the dynamics…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-12-18 ALICE Collaboration

We describe a method to obtain point and dispersion estimates for the energies of jets arising from b quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at an energy of $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. The algorithm is trained on a large…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-09 CMS Collaboration

Hadrons are composite objects made of quarks and gluons, and during a collision one can have several elementary interactions between the constituents. These elementary interactions, using an appropriate theoretical framework, can be related…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Paolo Lipari , Maurizio Lusignoli

We argue that statistical data analysis of two-particle longitudinal correlations in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions may be efficiently carried out with the technique of partial covariance. In this method, the spurious…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-04 Adam Olszewski , Wojciech Broniowski

We present a fast simulation application based on a Deep Neural Network, designed to create large analysis-specific datasets. Taking as an example the generation of W+jet events produced in sqrt(s)= 13 TeV proton-proton collisions, we train…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Cheng Chen , Olmo Cerri , Thong Q. Nguyen , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maurizio Pierini

The space-time evolution of the source of particles formed in the collision of nuclei can be studied through particle correlations. The STAR experiment is dedicated to study ultra-relativistic heavy ions collisions and allows to measure…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Renault , the STAR Collaboration

This study investigates the impact of nucleon-nucleon correlations on heavy-ion collisions using the hadronic transport model SMASH in $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=3$ GeV $^{197}{\rm Au}$+$^{197}{\rm Au}$ collisions. We developed an innovative Monte…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Yu-Jing Huang , Zhu Meng , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang