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The dependencies of charged particle pseudorapidity density and transverse energy pseudorapidity density at midrapidity on the collision energy and on the number of nucleon participants, or centrality, measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-01 Aditya Nath Mishra , Raghunath Sahoo , Edward K. G. Sarkisyan , Alexander S. Sakharov

Slow nucleons emitted during a hadron-nucleus interaction can give information on the centrality, impact parameter of the collision. The aim of this note is to provide the reader with the important characteristics of the slow nucleons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ferenc Sikler

The centrality and system size dependence of multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles produced in nuclear collisions at $158 A$ GeV was studied by the NA49 collaboration. Centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions, semi-central C+C and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-03-03 NA49 Collaboration

We demonstrate that the nuclear collision geometry (i.e. impact parameter) can be determined with 1.5 fm accuracy in an event-by-event analysis by measuring the transverse energy flow in the pseudorapidity region $3 \le |\eta| \le 5$ with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Savina , S. Shmatov , P. Zarubin

The impact parameter characterizes the centrality in nucleus-nucleus collision geometry. The determination of impact parameters in real experiments is usually based on the reconstructed particle attributes or the derived event-level…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-28 Botan Wang , Yi Wang , Dong Han , Zhigang Xiao , Yapeng Zhang

We apply the Bayesian model selection method (based on the Bayes factor) to optimize $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$-dependence in the phenomenological parameters of the (3+1)-dimensional hybrid framework for describing relativistic heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Syed Afrid Jahan , Hendrik Roch , Chun Shen

Study of the characteristic properties of charged particle production in hadron-nucleus collisions at high energies, by utilising the approaches from different statistical models is performed.~Predictions from different approaches using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 A. Kaur , M. Kaur , R. Aggarwal

There are a large number of physics programs one can explore in electron-nucleus collisions at a future electron-ion collider. Collision geometry is very important in these studies, while the measurement for an event-by-event geometric…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-30 L. Zheng , E. C. Aschenauer , J. H. Lee

The yields and ratios of light nuclei in heavy-ion collisions offer a method to distinguish between the thermal and coalescence models. Ratios such as $\rm N_t \times N_p/N_d^2$ and $\rm N_{^3He} \times N_p/N_d^2$ are suggested as potential…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-12-03 Yixuan Jin

Using the simulation data coming from the cascade model, we have studied the behavior of event number as a function of impact parameter-b and a number of all charged particles- Nch for light and heavy nuclei at different energies. We have…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-30 Z. Wazir , M. K. Suleymanov , E. U. Khan , Mahnaz Q. Haseeb , M. Ajaz , K. H. Khan

The global observable distributions of nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energy are studied. It is shown that these distributions are sensitive to interaction dynamics and can be used to investigate the evolution of dense nuclear matter.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-15 M. V. Savina , S. V. Shmatov , N. V. Slavin , P. I. Zarubin

Event classification by centrality is one of the key tasks of the MPD (Multi-Purpose Detector) experiment at the NICA collider. Centrality characterizes the initial geometry of heavy-ion collisions through the correlation of measured…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-26 D. Idrisov , F. Guber , N. Karpushkin , P. Parfenov

Recently, Chatterjee et al used a hadronic transport model to estimate the resolution with which various experimental quantities select the impact parameter of relativistic heavy ion collisions at collision energies relevant to the Beam…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-04-21 Skipper Kagamaster , Rosi Reed , Michael Lisa

The bremsstrahlung produced when heavy nuclei collide is estimated for central collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Soft photons can be used to infer the rapidity distribution of the outgoing charge. An experimental design is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sangyong Jeon , Joseph Kapusta , Alexei Chikanian , Jack Sandweiss

We review the status of particle interferometry in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The theoretical focus is on the model-independent space-time interpretation of HBT radius parameters and its extension to the geometrical and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Tomasik , Urs Achim Wiedemann

While current nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) from global fits to experimental data are spatially homogeneous, many experimental observables in nucleus-nucleus collisions are presented in terms of centrality cuts. These cuts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-07-01 Adeola Adeluyi , Trang Nguyen , Bao-An Li

A collision between a proton and a heavy nucleus at ultrarelativistic energy creates particles whose rapidity distribution is asymmetric, with more particles emitted in the direction of the nucleus than in the direction of the proton. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

A process of inelastic nucleon-nucleon collisions with the impact parameter less than a radius of the nucleon quark core is considered. The criteria for selection of such collisions from a full array of the nucleon-nucleon interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-28 Vladimir Komarov , Bota Baimurzinova , Ainur Kunsafina , Dmitry Tsirkov

We improve the centrality definition in impact parameter in PACIAE model responding the fact reported by the ALICE, ATLAS, and CMS collaborations that the maximum impact parameter in heavy ion collisions should be extended to 20 $fm$.…

We present the first results of a comprehensive microscopic approach to describe nucleus-nucleus elastic collisions by means of an optical potential derived at first order in multiple-scattering theory and computed by folding the projectile…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil