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Drag and diffusion coefficients of $B$ mesons in hot hadronic matter

The drag and diffusion coefficients of a hot hadronic medium consisting of pions, kaons and eta using open beauty mesons as a probe have been evaluated. The interaction of the probe with the hadronic matter has been treated in the framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-30 Santosh K Das , Sabyasachi Ghosh , Sourav Sarkar , Jan-e Alam

SMASH: Results from hadronic transport for heavy-ion collisions at high densities

This mini-review summarizes the general setup and some highlight results from the hadronic transport approach SMASH (Simulating Many Accelerated Strongly-interacting Hadrons). We start by laying out the software development structures as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Hannah Elfner , Renan Góes-Hirayama

Collision geometry scaling of Au+Au pseudorapidity density from sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6 to 200 GeV

The centrality dependence of the midrapidity charged particle multiplicity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6 and 200 GeV is presented. Within a simple model, the fraction of hard (scaling with number of binary collisions) to soft…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 B. B. Back

The horn in the kaon to pion ratio

A microscopic approach has been employed to study the kaon productions in heavy ion collisions. The momentum integrated Boltzmann equation has been used to study the evolution of strangeness in the system formed in heavy ion collision at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Jajati K. Nayak , Sarmistha Banik , Jan-e Alam

Inelastic processes in K^(+)- He collisions in energy range 0.7 - 10 keV

Absolute cross sections for charge exchange, ionization, stripping and excitation in K^(+) - He collisions were measured in the ion energy range 0.7 - 10 keV. The experimental data and the schematic correlation diagrams are used to analyze…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 R. A. Lomsadze , M. R. Gochitashvili , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , N. O. Mosulishvili , R. Phaneuf

Probing Late-Stage Hadronic Interactions at High Baryon Density via $K^{*0}$ Production in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Program

A precision measurement of the $K^{*0}$ meson yield is reported in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 7.7,\; 11.5,\; 14.6,\; 19.6,$ and $27~\mathrm{GeV}$ using the high-statistics data sample collected by the STAR experiment during the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-30 STAR Collaboration , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , G. Agakishiev , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , A. Aitbayev , I. Alekseev , E. Alpatov , A. K. Alshammri , A. Aparin , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , X. Bao , P. Barik , K. Barish , S. Behera , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón~de~la~Barca~Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , Y. S. Chang , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. H. Chen , L. Chen , Q. Chen , W. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , W. Christie , X. Chu , S. Corey , H. J. Crawford , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , D. De Souza Lemos , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , A. Deshpande , A. Dhamija , A. Dimri , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , Y. S. El-Feky , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , B. Fan , Y. Fang , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , H. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , B. Fu , C. Fu , T. Fu , T. Gao , Y. Gao , G. Garcia , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , A. Giri , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gu , J. Gu , A. Gupta , A. Hamed , R. J. Hamilton , J. Han , X. Han , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , L. B. Havener , X. H. He , Y. He , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , Y. Ji , J. Jia , X. Jiang , C. Jin , Y. Jin , N. Jindal , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , J. Kang , K. Kang , A. R. Kanuganti , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kesler , A. Khanal , A. Khanal , J. Kim , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , L. Kochenda , Y. Kong , A. A. Korobitsin , B. Korodi , A. Yu. Kraeva , P. Kravtsov , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , C. Larson , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , H. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , T. Lin , Y. Lin , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , L. Liu , Z. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , V. B. Luong , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Manikandhan , O. Matonoha , K. Menduli , K. Mi , N. G. Minaev , B. Mohanty , B. Mondal , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , M. I. Nagy , C. J. Naim , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , H. Nasrulloh , E. Nedorezov , J. M. Nelson , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , M. Pal , S. Pal , A. Pandav , A. Panday , A. K. Pandey , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pani , P. Parfenov , A. Paul , S. Paul , C. Perkins , S. Ping , I. D. Ponce Pinto , M. Posik , E. Pottebaum , A. Povarov , S. Prodhan , T. L. Protzman , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , Y. Qi , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , C. W. Robertson , O. V. Rogachevsky , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. S. Sambyal , E. Samigullin , D. T. Samuel , J. K. Sandhu , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. Shi , Y. Shi , Shilpa , E. Shulga , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Strikhanov , Y. Su , X. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. Timofeev , D. Tlusty , M. V. Tokarev , D. Torres-Valladares , S. Trentalange , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. E. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , C. P. Wong , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , B. Xi , Y. Xiao , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , X. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , Y. Yu , W. Yuan , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , K. Zhang , L. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , C. Zhu , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Towards softer scales in hot QCD

An effective theory for the soft field modes in hot QCD has been obtained recently by integrating out the field modes of momenta of order T and g T. The mean hard particle distribution obeys a transport equation with a collision term. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Guerin

Pinning down QCD-matter shear viscosity in A+A collisions via EbyE fluctuations using pQCD + saturation + hydrodynamics

We compute the initial energy densities produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions from NLO perturbative QCD using a saturation conjecture to control soft particle production, and describe the subsequent space-time evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 H. Niemi , K. J. Eskola , R. Paatelainen , K. Tuominen

Collision Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Kaon Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and can be used to search for the QCD…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-09-18 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , N. N. Ajitanand , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , R. Aoyama , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , D. Brown , J. Bryslawskyj , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , X. Chen , X. Chen , J. H. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , J. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , P. Federicova , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , J. Fujita , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , A. Harlenderova , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , A. Hirsch , S. Horvat , B. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , H. Z. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jentsch , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. Khan , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , M. Kocmanek , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , L. Krauth , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga , L. Kumar , J. Kvapil , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , W. Li , Y. Li , C. Li , J. Lidrych , T. Lin , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , P. Liu , Y. Liu , H. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , S. Luo , G. L. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , D. Mayes , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , Z. W. Miller , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , S. Mizuno , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , M. J. Rehbein , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , J. D. Roth , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , A. Sarkar , M. Saur , J. Schambach , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Z. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , T. Sugiura , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Y. Sun , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. Thäder , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , Y. F. Xu , J. Xu , Q. H. Xu , N. Xu , Z. Xu , S. Yang , Y. Yang , C. Yang , Q. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. B. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , C. Zhou , X. Zhu , Z. Zhu , M. Zyzak

The impact of energy conservation in transport models on the $\pi^-/\pi^+$ multiplicity ratio in heavy-ion collisions and the symmetry energy

The charged pion multiplicity ratio in intermediate energy central heavy-ion collisions has been proposed as a suitable observable to constrain the high density dependence of the isovector part of the equation of state, with contradicting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 M. D. Cozma

Centrality dependence of high energy jets in p+Pb collisions at the LHC

The recently measured centrality dependence of high energy jets in proton-lead collisions at the LHC is investigated. We hypothesize that events with jets of very high energy (a few hundred GeV) are characterized by a suppressed number of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 Adam Bzdak , Vladimir Skokov , Stefan Bathe

Hadronic observables from SIS to SPS energies - anything strange with strangeness ?

We calculate $p, \pi^\pm, K^\pm$ and $\Lambda$(+$\Sigma^0$) rapidity distributions and compare to experimental data from SIS to SPS energies within the UrQMD and HSD transport approaches that are both based on string, quark, diquark ($q,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Weber , E. L. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing , H. Stoecker

Recent Heavy Ion Results with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

Results are presented from the ATLAS collaboration from the 2010 LHC heavy ion run, during which nearly 10 inverse microbarns of luminosity were delivered. Soft physics results include charged particle multiplicities and collective flow.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Peter Steinberg , ATLAS Collaboration

Kaons in dense matter, kaon production in heavy-ion collisions, and kaon condensation in neutron stars

The recent past witnesses the growing interdependence between the physics of hadrons, the physics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and the physics of compact objects in astrophysics. A notable example is the kaon which plays special…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Q. Li , C. -H. Lee , G. E. Brown

On Chemical Equilibrium in Nuclear Collisions

The data on average hadron multiplicities in central A+A collisions measured at CERN SPS are analysed with the ideal hadron gas model. It is shown that the full chemical equilibrium version of the model fails to describe the experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 F. Becattini , M. Gazdzicki , J. Sollfrank

Dragging $D$ mesons by hot hadrons

We evaluate the drag and diffusion coefficients of a hot hadronic medium consisting of pions, nucleons, kaons and eta using open charm mesons as a probe. The interaction of the probe with the hadronic matter has been treated in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Sabyasachi Ghosh , Santosh K Das , Sourav Sarkar , Jan-e Alam

Eikonal model analysis of elastic proton-proton collisions at 52.8 GeV and 8 TeV

Under the influence of standardly used description of Coulomb-hadronic interference proposed by West and Yennie the protons have been interpreted as transparent objects; elastic events have been interpreted as more central than inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-31 Jiri Prochazka , Vojtech Kundrat , Milos V. Lokajicek

Examination of directed flow as a signature of the softest point of the equation of state in QCD matter

We analyze the directed flow of protons and pions in high-energy heavy-ion collisions in the incident energy range from $\sqrt{s_{{\scriptscriptstyle NN}}}=7.7$ to 27 GeV within a microscopic transport model. Standard hadronic transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-28 Yasushi Nara , Harri Niemi , Akira Ohnishi , Horst Stoecker

Systematic Extraction of QGP Properties

We investigate the collision energy dependence of shear viscosity over the entropy density ratio $\eta/s$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=19.6, 39$, and $62.4$ GeV, using Bayesian statistical analysis and Gaussian process emulators to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-04 Jussi Auvinen , Jonah E. Bernhard , Steffen A. Bass

Deep sub-threshold {\phi} production and implications for the K+/K- freeze-out in Au+Au collisions

We present data on charged kaons (K+-) and {\phi} mesons in Au(1.23A GeV)+Au collisions. It is the first simultaneous measurement of K and {\phi} mesons in central heavy-ion collisions below a kinetic beam energy of 10A GeV. The {\phi}/K-…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-28 J. Adamczewski-Musch , O. Arnold , C. Behnke , A. Belounnas , A. Belyaev , J. C. Berger-Chen , J. Biernat , A. Blanco , C. Blume , M. Böhmer , P. Bordalo , S. Chernenko , L. Chlad , C. Deveaux , J. Dreyer , A. Dybczak , E. Epple , L. Fabbietti , O. Fateev , P. Filip , P. Fonte , C. Franco , J. Friese , I. Fröhlich , T. Galatyuk , J. A. Garzon , R. Gernhäuser , M. Golubeva , F. Guber , M. Gumberidze , S. Harabasz , T. Heinz , T. Hennino , S. Hlavac , C. Höhne , R. Holzmann , A. Ierusalimov , A. Ivashkin , B. Kämpfer , T. Karavicheva , B. Kardan , I. Koenig , W. Koenig , B. W. Kolb , G. Korcy , G. Kornakov , R. Kotte , W. Kühn , A. Kugler , T. Kunz , A. Kurepin , A. Kurilkin , P. Kurilkin , V. Ladygin , R. Lalik , K. Lapidus , A. Lebedev , L. Lopes , M. Lorenz , T. Mahmoud , L. Maier , A. Mangiarotti , J. Markert , S. Maurus , V. Metag , J. Michel , D. M. Mihaylov , S. Morozov , C. Müntz , R. Münzer , L. Naumann , K. N. Nowakowski , M. Palka , Y. Parpottas , V. Pechenov , O. Pechenova , O. Petukhov , J. Pietraszko , W. Przygoda , S. Ramos , B. Ramstein , A. Reshetin , P. Rodriguez-Ramos , P. Rosier , A. Rost , A. Sadovsky , P. Salabura , T. Scheib , H. Schuldes , E. Schwab , F. Scozzi , F. Seck , P. Sellheim , J. Siebenson , L. Silva , Yu. G. Sobolev , S. Spataro , H. Ströbele , J. Stroth , P. Strzempek , C. Sturm , O. Svoboda , M. Szala , P. Tlusty , M. Traxler , H. Tsertos , E. Usenko , V. Wagner , C. Wendisch , M. G. Wiebusch , J. Wirth , Y. Zanevsky , P. Zumbruch