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The polarization of an X-ray beam that produces electrons with velocity components perpendicular to the beam generates an azimuthal distribution of the ejected electrons. We present methods for simulating and for analyzing the angular…

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Parallel slit-slit devices are commonly used to measure the transverse emittance of a particle beam, selecting a portion of the beam with the front slit and measuring the angular distribution with the rear. This paper calculates the effect…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Richard D'Arcy , Alexander Shemyakin

Using test-particle simulations, we investigate the temporal dependence of the two-point velocity correlation function for charged particles scattering in a time-independent spatially fluctuating magnetic field derived from a…

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I discuss two-particle intensity interferometry as a method to extract from measured 1- and 2-particle momentum spectra information on the space-time geometry and dynamics of the particle emitting source. Particular attention is given to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Heinz

The study of environmental problems usually requires the description of variables with different nature and the assessment of relations between them. In this work, an algorithm for flexible estimation of the joint density for a…

The ratio of transverse momentum distribution of thermal photons to dilepton has been evaluated. It is observed that this ratio reaches a plateau beyond a certain value of transverse momentum. We argue that this ratio can be used to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-03 Jajati K. Nayak , Jane Alam , Sourav Sarkar , Bikash Sinha

We present an improved method for calculating the parallel and perpendicular velocity correlation functions directly from peculiar velocity surveys using weighted maximum-likelihood estimators. A central feature of the new method is the use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yuyu Wang , Sarah Peery , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins

Two-particle correlation measurements and analysis are an important component of the relativistic heavy-ion physics program. In particular, particle pair-number correlations on two-dimensional transverse momentum ($p_t$) allow unique access…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-04 Robert L. Ray , Prabhat Bhattarai

We propose a new method to detect the gravitational lenses in the ongoing microlensing experiments using medium and high resolution spectroscopy (resolution > 6000). Since the radial velocity of the lens and lensed source typically differs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mao , J. Reetz , D. L. Lennon

Spontaneous segregation of run-and-tumble particles with different velocities in microchannels is investigated by numerical simulations. Self-propelled particles are known to accumulate in the proximity of walls. Here we show how fast…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-05 Andrea Costanzo , Jens Elgeti , Thorsten Auth , Gerhard Gompper , Marisol Ripoll

A thorough understanding of the energy dissipation in the dynamics of wet granular matter is essential for a continuum description of natural phenomena such as debris flow, and the development of various industrial applications such as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas Mueller , Frank Gollwitzer , Christof Kruelle , Ingo Rehberg , Kai Huang

Radial flow can be directly extracted from the azimuthal distribution of mean transverse rapidity. We apply the event-plane method and the two-particle correlation method to estimate the anisotropic Fourier coefficient of the azimuthal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-13 Peng Yang , Lin Li , Yu Zhou , Zhiming Li , Mingmei Xu , Yeyin Zhao , Yuanfang Wu

This is the second of a series of papers devoted to develop a microscopical approach to the dipole emission process and its relation to coherent transport in random media. In this Letter, we deduce a relation between the transverse decay…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-12 M. Donaire

We investigate the two-dimensional packing of extremely prolate (aspect ratio $\alpha=L/D>10$) granular materials, comparing experiments with Monte-Carlo simulations. The average packing fraction of particles with aspect ratio $\alpha=12$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Kevin Stokely , Ari Diacou , Scott V. Franklin

We perform direct numerical simulations of a bi-disperse suspension of heavy spherical particles in forced, homogeneous, and isotropic three-dimensional turbulence. We compute the joint distribution of relative particle distances and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-21 Akshay Bhatnagar , K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig , Dhrubaditya Mitra

The performance and safe operation of a particle accelerator is closely connected to the transverse emittance of the beams it produces. For this reason many techniques have been developed over the years for monitoring the transverse…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Enrico Bravin

X-ray polarimetric measurements are based on studying the distribution of the directions of scattered photons or photoelectrons and on the search of a sinusoidal modulation with a period of {\pi}. We developed two tools for investigating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Enrico Massaro , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Campana , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta

Two-particle rapidity (or pseudorapidity) correlation function $C(y_1, y_2)$ was used in analysing fluctuation of particle density distribution in rapidity in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In our research, we argue that for a centrality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Ronghua He , Jing Qian , Lei Huo

The transverse velocity of a spiral galaxy can be measured to an accuracy $\sim 60\,\kms$ by making parallax observations of quasars being microlensed by stars in the disk of the galaxy. To make the measurement, a quasar must be located…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Gould

We have developed a systematic approach to calculate the correlation function for spin-1/2 particles, incorporating both central and noncentral components of the interparticle interaction. This is achieved by extending the variable phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Renjie Zou , Sheng Xiao , Zhi Qin , Zhigang Xiao