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Nucleon correlations in the target and projectile nuclei are shown to reduce significantly the fluctuations in multiple nucleon-nucleon collisions, total multiplicity and transverse energy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in particular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Gordon Baym , B. Blättel , L. L. Frankfurt , H. Heiselberg , M. Strikman

We suggest to perform systematic measurements of the elliptic flow fluctuations which are sensitive to the early stage dynamics of heavy-ion collisions at high-energies. Significant flow fluctuations are shown to be generated due to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislaw Mrowczynski , Edward Shuryak

We explore the relation between proton and nucleon number fluctuations in the final state in relativistic heavy ion collisions. It is shown that the correlations between the isospins of nucleons in the final state are almost negligible over…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Masayuki Asakawa

We update our former analysis of the Nuclear Modification Factors (NMF) for different hadron species at RHIC and LHC. This update is motivated by the new experimental data from STAR which presents differences with the preliminary data used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-08-01 L. Maiani , A. D. Polosa , V. Riquer , C. A. Salgado

The QCD critical point can be found in heavy ion collision experiments via the non-monotonic behavior of many fluctuation observables as a function of the collision energy. The event-by-event fluctuations of various particle multiplicities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Christiana Athanasiou , Krishna Rajagopal , Misha Stephanov

We analyze hypernuclei coming from fragmentation and multifragmentation of spectator residues obtained in relativistic ion collisions. These hypernuclei have a broad distribution in masses and isospin. They reach beyond the neutron and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-20 N. Buyukcizmeci , A. S. Botvina , J. Pochodzalla , M. Bleicher

We discuss how to detect fluctuating spin currents and derive full counting statistics of electron spin transfers. It is interesting to consider several detectors in series that simultaneously monitor different components of the spins…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio Di Lorenzo , Yuli V. Nazarov

The effect of nuclear interactions on measurable net-proton number fluctuations in heavy ion collisions at the SIS18/GSI accelerator is investigated. The state of the art UrQMD model including interaction potentials is employed. It is found…

Dynamical net charge fluctuations have been studied in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions from the beam energy scan at RHIC and LHC energies by carrying out the hadronic model simulation. Monte Carlo model, HIJING is used to generate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-31 Bushra Ali , Shaista Khan , Shakeel Ahmad

We will provide a review of some of the physics which can be addressed by studying fluctuations and correlations in heavy ion collisions. We will discuss Lattice QCD results on fluctuations and correlations and will put them into context…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-10-15 Volker Koch

We review recent results obtained for charge asymmetric systems at Fermi energies. Observables sensitive to the isospin dependent part of nuclear interaction are discussed, providing information on the symmetry energy behavior below normal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-18 M. Colonna , V. Baran , M. Di Toro

Sub-nuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions impact not only transverse long-range correlations of small systems, but also the creation of longitudinal structures, seen in particle detectors as longitudinal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Sören Schlichting , Jie Zhu

With stochastic transport simulations we study in detail central and peripheral collisions at Fermi energies and suggest new observables, sensitive to the symmetry energy below normal density. As such we identify on one hand the isospin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 H. H. Wolter , J. Rizzo , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , V. Greco , V. Baran , M. Zielinska-Pfabe

Enhancement of omega and antiomega baryon production in Pb+Pb collisions at a c.m. energy of 17 A GeV can be explained by the formation of many small disoriented chiral condensate regions. This explanation implies that neutral and charged…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean Gavin , Joseph I. Kapusta

We study the scaled variances of multiplicity fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS and RHIC energies within the HSD transport model. The HSD results are compared with proton-proton data and with predictions of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Konchakovski , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya

We review the close link between intermittent events ('quakes') and extremal noise fluctuations which has been advocated in recent numerical and theoretical work. From the idea that record-breaking noise fluctuations trigger the quakes, an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Sibani

Isoscaling is found to hold for fragment yields in the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) simulations for collisions of calcium isotopes at 35 MeV/nucleon. This suggests the applicability of statistical considerations to the dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Akira Ono , P. Danielewicz , W. A. Friedman , W. G. Lynch , M. B. Tsang

Basic ideas, methods and results related to the NA61/SHINE study of event-by-event fluctuations in high energy nuclear collisions are briefly reviewed.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-03 Marek Gazdzicki

We have recently shown that in non-equilibrium spin systems at criticality the limit $\Xin$ of the fluctuation-dissipation ratio X(t,tw) for t >> tw >> 1 can be measured using observables such as magnetization or energy [Phys. Rev.\ E {\bf…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Mayer , Ludovic Berthier , Juan P. Garrahan , Peter Sollich

In this thesis, we focus on the fluctuations and correlations of the collective observables such as the mean transverse momentum per particle ($[p_T]$) and harmonic flow coefficients ($v_n$) of particles produced in the ultrarelativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-20 Rupam Samanta