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The two-kaon interferometry at RHIC is studied in a multi-phase transport model. Similar to the pion case, we find strong space-time correlation at freeze-out for the kaon emission source, which results in a large positive $R_{\rm out}-t$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Zi-wei Lin , C. M. Ko

The three-dimensional pion and kaon emission source functions are extracted from the HKM model simulations of the central Au+Au collisions at the top RHIC energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV. The model describes well the experimental data,…

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We consider single-inclusive forward pion production in high-energy proton-proton collisions at RHIC energies. A good baseline description of the transverse momentum distributions at high rapidity is obtained within Mueller's dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 Daniel Boer , Adrian Dumitru , Arata Hayashigaki

The initial collision geometry, including the reaction plane, is crucial for interpreting collective phenomena in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, yet it remains experimentally inaccessible through conventional measurements. Recent…

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Anisotropies in the final state of heavy-ion collisions carry information on the creation, expansion and evolution of the quark-gluon plasma. Currently, there is an abundance of studies on azimuthal anisotropies in comparison to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-23 Meera Machado

Recent data from the NA49 experiment on directed and elliptic flow for Pb+Pb reactions at CERN-SPS are compared to calculations with a hadron-string transport model, the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hannah Petersen , Qingfeng Li , Xianglei Zhu , Marcus Bleicher

Three-dimensional (3D) femtoscopic source parameters of pions provide a sensitive probe of the space-time structure of particle-emitting sources in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Compared to one-dimensional measurements,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Yan Huang , Matyas Molnar , Daniel Kincses , Mate Csanad

Based on the Isospin-dependent transport model Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (IBUU), effects of the difference of the high momentum tails (HMTs) of nucleon momentum distribution in colliding nuclei on some isospin-sensitive observables are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-03 Zu-Xing Yang , Xiao-Hua Fan , Gao-Chan Yong , Wei Zuo

Utilizing the Lorentz invariance of the correlation function we study the effects of anisotropic transverse flow on the HBT correlation function. In particular we show that directed flow would evidence itself by non zero ``side--long'' and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Voloshin , W. E. Cleland

In this work we advocate a set of novel azimuthal-angle-related observables associated with exclusive hadron production from two-photon fusion at $e^+ e^-$ colliders, taking the $\gamma\gamma\to \pi\pi$ as a benchmark process. As a direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Yu Jia , Jian Zhou , Ya-jin Zhou

Transverse momentum spectra of negative and positive pions produced at mid-(pseudo)rapidity in inelastic or non-single-diffractive proton-proton collisions and in central nucleus-nucleus collisions over an energy range from a few GeV to…

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Two-particle correlations of identical charged pion pairs from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV were measured by the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC. Data for the 15% most central events were analyzed with Bertsch-Pratt and…

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We investigate high-order harmonic spectra from aligned diatomic molecules in intense driving fields whose components have orthogonal polarizations. We focus on how the driving-field ellipticity influences structural interference patterns…

A comprehensive viscous hydrodynamic fit of spectra and elliptic flow for charged hadrons and identified pions and protons from Au+Au collisions of all centralities measured at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is performed and used as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-08 Chun Shen , Ulrich W. Heinz , Pasi Huovinen , Huichao Song

The LHC data on azimuthal anisotropy harmonics from PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed and interpreted in the framework of the HYDJET++ model. The cross-talk of elliptic $v_2$ and triangular…

Midrapidity nucleon elliptic flow is studied within the Boltzmann-equation simulations of symmetric heavy-ion collisions. The simulations follow a lattice Hamiltonian extended to relativistic transport. It is demonstrated that in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Danielewicz

Particle azimuth distributions are widely studied in heavy-ion collisions. They are often expanded in Fourier series to extract anisotropic flow harmonics simultaneously. It was recently proposed that the different orders of flows could…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-23 Yicheng Feng

Measurements of femtoscopic correlations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions aim to unravel the space-time structure of the particle-emitting source (the quark-gluon plasma). Recent results indicate that the pion pair source exhibits a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-27 Dániel Kincses

We study the HBT interferometry of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions using a freezeout model in which free pions emerge in the course of the last binary collisions in the hadron gas. We show that the HBT correlators of both identical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Makhlin , E. Surdutovich