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Photoproduction in ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions displays many unique features, often involving quantum mechanical coherence and two-source interference between photon emission from the two ions. We review the recent…

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The fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter is a key characteristic of the medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We extend the framework of the relativistic hydrodynamic model to incorporate non-thermal momentum distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Akihiko Monnai

We calculate four types of initial vorticities in Au+Au collisions at energies $ \sqrt{S_{NN}} $ = 5--200 GeV using a microscopic transport model PACIAE. Our simulation shows the non-monotonic dependence of the initial vorticities on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 An-Ke Lei , Du-Juan Wang , Dai-Mei Zhou , Ben-Hao Sa , Laszlo Pal Csernai , Larissa V. Bravina

A nontrivial space-time structure of the hot system created at RHIC is the defining aspect of the physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions. Femtoscopy through pion intensity interferometry provides direct access to the dynamic geometric…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Z. Chajecki , T. D. Gutierrez , M. A. Lisa , M. Lopez-Noriega

The quark-gluon plasma produced by collisions between ultra-relativistic heavy nuclei is well described in the language of hydrodynamics. Non-central collisions are characterized by very large angular momentum, which in a fluid system…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-03-10 Francesco Becattini , Michael Lisa

Statistical fluctuations in the transverse distribution of sources in relativistic heavy ion collisions and an asymmetric emission profile associated with the wounded nucleons lead to rapidity dependence of the reaction plane. The size of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-24 Joao Moreira , Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

In the paper energy dependence of femtoscopy characteristics of pion emission region at freeze-out is investigated for collisions of various ions and for all experimentally available energies. For the first time the normalized values of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-05-17 V. A. Okorokov

In these proceedings, we present the measurements of proton, light nuclei, and strange particle with neutral kaons correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at the BES program and top RHIC energy. The experimental results will be compared…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-21 Ke Mi

Incorporating for the first time both the spin and isospin degrees of freedom explicitly in transport model simulations of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions, we observe that a local spin polarization appears during collision process.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Jun Xu , Bao-An Li

Femtoscopy, a technique of measuring the size and the dynamics of the system created in heavy-ion collisions is used extensively in experiments at RHIC, LHC, SPS, and the FAIR/GSI. Analysis for pairs of pions is most common, due to their…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-09 Adam Kisiel

Data from the first physics run at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory from the STAR experiment have been analyzed using three-pion correlations to study whether pions are emitted independently at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 R. Willson

Data from the first physics run at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=130$ GeV, have been analyzed by the STAR Collaboration using three-pion correlations with charged…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR Collaboration

Fluctuations in the initial conditions for relativistic heavy ion collisions are proving to be crucial to understanding final state flow and jet quenching observables. The initial geometry has been parametrized in terms of moments in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-05 James L. Nagle , Michael P. McCumber

We discuss the information that can be deduced from a measurement of particle (hyperon or vector meson) polarization in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. We describe the sensitivity of polarization to initial conditions, hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy , Giorgio Torrieri

We review studies of vortical motion and the resulting global polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in heavy-ion collisions, in particular, within 3FD model. 3FD predictions for the global midrapidity polarization in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Yu. B. Ivanov , V. D. Toneev , A. A. Soldatov

Femtoscopy of two non-identical particles in heavy ion collisions enables one to study the space-time asymmetry in the particle's emission process. Theoretical studies based on EPOS model performed for collision energies from the Beam…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-18 Katarzyna Poniatowska

Two particle correlations are used to extract information about the characteristic size of the system for proton-proton collisions at 900 GeV measured by the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider experiment) detector at CERN. The correlation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-18 Nicolas Bock

Heavy ion collisions generate strong fluid vorticty in the produced hot quark-gluon matter which could in turn induce measurable spin polarization of hadrons. We review recent progress on the vorticity formation and spin polarization in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Xu-Guang Huang , Jinfeng Liao , Qun Wang , Xiao-Liang Xia

In nucleus--nucleus collisions, high-pT partons interact with a dense medium, which possesses strong collective flow components. Here, we demonstrate that the resulting medium-induced gluon radiation does not depend solely on the energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Nestor Armesto , Carlos A. Salgado , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We study the generation and space-time evolution of fluid acceleration in heavy-ion collisions using AMPT and UrQMD transport models combined with a Gaussian smearing method. The peak proper acceleration reaches several hundred MeV, with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Song-Ze Zhong , Xian-Gai Deng , Xu-Guang Huang , Yu-Gang Ma