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We analyze azimuthal anisotropy in heavy ion collisions related to the reaction plane in terms of standard reggeon approach and find that it is nonzero even when the final state interaction is switched off. This effect can be interpreted in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 K. G. Boreskov , A. B. Kaidalov , O. V. Kancheli

The early stage of a heavy ion collision is governed by local non-equilibrium momentum distributions which have been approximated by colliding nuclear matter configurations, i.e. by two Lorentz elongated Fermi ellipsoids. This approach has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Gaitanos , C. Fuchs , H. H. Wolter

The dynamical description of correlated nuclear motion is based on a set of coupled equations of motion for the one-body density matrix $\rho (11';t)$ and the two-body correlation function $c_2(12,1'2';t)$, which is obtained from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-23 Hong-Gang Luo , W. Cassing , Shun-Jin Wang

The proton elliptic flow in collisions of Ca on Ca at energies from 30 to 100 MeV/nucleon is studied in an isospin-dependent transport model. With increasing incident energy, the elliptic flow shows a transition from positive to negative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu-Ming Zheng , C. M. Ko , Bao-An Li , Bin Zhang

We study the dynamics of an electron weakly coupled to a phonon gas. The initial state of the electron is the superposition of two spatially localized distant bumps moving towards each other, and the phonons are in a thermal state. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Riccardo Adami , Laszlo Erdos

We show that, in ideal-spin hydrodynamics, the components of the spin tensor follow damped wave equations. The damping rate is related to nonlocal collisions of the particles in the fluid, which enter at first order in $\hbar$ in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 David Wagner , Masoud Shokri , Dirk H. Rischke

The centrality dependence of directed and elliptic flow in light and heavy systems of colliding nuclei is studied within two microscopic transport models at energies from 1 AGeV to 160 A GeV. The pion directed flow has negative slope in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 L. V. Bravina , Amand Faessler , C. Fuchs , E. E. Zabrodin

The jamming transition characterizes athermal systems of particles interacting via finite range repulsive potentials, and occurs on increasing the density when particles cannot avoid making contacts with those of their first coordination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-12 M. Pica Ciamarra , P. Sollich

Nuclear stopping in the heavy ion collisions over a beam energy range from SIS, AGS up to SPS is studied in the framework of the modified UrQMD transport model, in which mean field potentials of both formed and "pre-formed" hadrons (from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-14 Ying Yuan , Qingfeng Li , Zhuxia Li , Fu-Hu Liu

The connection between the thermodynamics of charged finite nuclear systems and the asymptotically measured partitions is presented. Some open questions, concerning in particular equilibrium partitions are discussed. We show a detailed…

The resonant dynamics of mediated interactions supports zero-sound in a cold atom degenerate mixture of a single component fermion gas and a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We characterize the onset of instability in the phase separation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. H. Santamore , Sergio Gaudio , Eddy Timmermans

The beam energy dependence of the elliptic flow,$v_2$, is studied in mid-central Au+Au collisions in the energy range of $3\leq \sqrt{s_{NN}} \leq 30$ GeV within the microscopic transport model JAM. The results of three different modes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yasushi Nara , Harri Niemi , Akira Ohnishi , Jan Steinheimer , Xiaofeng Luo , Horst Stoecker

A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model is used to investigate the efficacy of several flow observables to constrain the initial-state deformation of the Uranium nuclei in U$+$U collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 Niseem Magdy

Using quantum molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the formation of fragments in symmetric reactions between beam energies of E=30AMeV and 600AMeV. After a comparison with existing data we investigate some observables relevant to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Joerg Aichelin

The flow harmonics $v_{2,3}$ for charged hadrons, are studied for a broad range of centrality selections and beam collision energies in Au+Au ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 7.7 - 200$ GeV) and Pb+Pb ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 2.76$ TeV) collisions. They validate…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-08-20 Roy A. Lacey , A. Taranenko , J. Jia , D. Reynolds , N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , Yi Gu , A. Mwai

Efimov physics refers to universal phenomena associated with a discrete scaling symmetry in the 3-body problem with a large scattering length. The first experimental evidence for Efimov physics was the recent observation of a resonant peak…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-13 Eric Braaten , H. -W. Hammer

We investigate the effects of nuclear mean-field as well as the formation and decay of nuclear clusters on the directed flow $v_1$ in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$ GeV to 27 GeV incident energies within a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Yasushi Nara , Akira Ohnishi

The collective motion of a finite nuclear system is investigated by numerical simulation and by linear response theory. Using a pseudo-particle simulation technique we analyze the giant resonances with a multipole decomposition scheme. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Morawetz , Uwe Fuhrmann , Rainer Walke

Details of the nuclear structure of $^{\rm 129}$Xe, such as the quadrupole deformation and the nuclear diffuseness, are studied by extensive measurements of anisotropic-flow-related observables in Xe--Xe collisions at a centre-of-mass…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-18 ALICE Collaboration

The kinematical characteristics of fragments and light particles observed in central highly fragmented nuclear collisions at intermediate energies are compared with the results of a model assuming that the initial momentum distribution of…

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