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Fusion reactions of heavy ions are investigated by employing a simple stochastic semi-classical model which includes the coupling between relative motion and low frequency collective surface modes of colliding ions similarly to the quantal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-19 Sakir Ayik , Bulent Yilmaz , Denis Lacroix

A model in which a projectile like fragment can be simply regarded as a remnant after removal of some part of the projectile leads to an excited fragment. This excitation energy can be calculated with a Hamiltonian that gives correct…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Das Gupta , S. Mallik , G. Chaudhuri

We present a study of the kinetic energy dissipation in interstellar cloud collisions. The main aim is to understand the dependence of the elasticity (defined as the ratio of the final to the initial kinetic energy of the clouds) on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-10 Massimo Ricotti , Andrea Ferrara , Francesco Miniati

Fast electrons in partially ionized plasmas lose energy through inelastic collisions with bound electrons. While the mean energy loss is well described by stopping-power theory, fluctuations associated with discrete excitation and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Yeongsun Lee , Pavel Aleynikov , Jong-Kyu Park

Using the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model we study the isospin effects on the disappearance of flow for the reactions of $^{58}Ni$ + $^{58}Ni$ and $^{58}Fe$ +$^{58}Fe$ as a function of impact parameter. We found good…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-06-08 Sakshi Gautam , Rajiv Chugh , Aman D. Sood , Rajeev K. Puri , Ch. Hartnack , J. Aichelin

The dependence of fission barriers on the excitation energy of the compound nucleus impacts the survival probability of superheavy nuclei synthesized in heavy-ion fusion reactions. In this work, we investigate the isentropic fission…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 J. C. Pei , W. Nazarewicz , J. A. Sheikh , A. K. Kerman

In heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies, the incident nuclei travel at nearly the speed of light. These collisions deposit kinetic energy into the overlap region and create a high-temperature environment where hadrons ``melt'' into…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-02 Diyu Shen , Jinhui Chen , Xu-Guang Huang , Yu-Gang Ma , Aihong Tang , Gang Wang

Highly compressed nuclear matter created in relativistic heavy collisions is to large extent governed by local non-equilibrium. As an idealised scenario colliding nuclear matter configurations are studied with an effective in-medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Fuchs , T. Gaitanos

We study the effect of pre-collisional velocity correlations on granular shear flow by molecular dynamics simulations of the inelastic hard sphere system. Comparison of the simulations with the kinetic theory reveals that the theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

We calculate the coefficient of restitution, $\epsilon$, starting from a microscopic model of elastic disks. The theory is shown to agree with the approach of Hertz in the quasistatic limit, but predicts inelastic collisions for finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Franz Gerl , Annette Zippelius

The properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions of high temperature, density and isospin-asymmetry have attracted wide attentions in recent years. At present, heavy ion reactions in combination with corresponding model simulations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Yuliang Sun , Yongjia Wang , Qingfeng Li , Fuqiang Wang

In heavy-ion ({\it A-A}) collisions, the correlations among the particles produced across wide range in rapidity, probe the early stages of the reaction. The analyses of forward-backward multiplicity correlations in these collisions are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-17 Sudipan De , T. Tarnowsky , T. K. Nayak , R. P. Scharenberg , B. K. Srivastava

Granular systems present surprisingly complicated dynamics. In particular, nonlinear interactions and energy dissipation play important roles in these dynamics. Usually, constant coefficients of restitution are introduced phenomenologically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-29 Italo'Ivo Lima Dias Pinto , Alexandre Rosas , Katja Lindenberg

We study nuclear dynamics at the the energy of vanishing flow for neutron-rich systems. In particular, we shall study the collision rate, density and temperature reached in a heavy-ion reaction with neutron-rich systems. We shall also study…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-04 Sakshi Gautam

We investigate a mechanism of the appearance of kinetic friction in granular materials. We consider a small number of intervening inelastic particles between two rough surfaces as one of the simplest dynamical models to study granular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

The impact parameter dependence of \rpi ratio is examined in heavy-ion collisions at 400MeV/nucleon within a transport model. It is shown that the sensitivity of \rpi ratio on symmetry energy shows a transition from central to peripheral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-05 Gao-Feng Wei , Guo-Qiang He , Xin-Wei Cao , Yi-Xin Lu

We consider trasfer-ionization in collisions of fast (3.6 -- 11 MeV/u) protons, alpha-particles and lithium nuclei with helium atoms. There are just a few basic mechanisms contributing to this process which can be grouped into correlated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. B. Voitkiv , X. Ma

By measuring hadronic single-particle spectra and two-particle correlations in heavy-ion collisions, the size and dynamical state of the collision fireball at freeze-out can be reconstructed. I discuss the relevant theoretical methods and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Heinz

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the radial flow of the fireball, usually characterized by transverse momentum spectra of final-state particles, encodes essential information about the hot and dense nuclear matter created in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Jie Zhu , Xiang-Yu Wu , Guang-You Qin

A method to study event--by--event fluctuations of the `chemical' (particle type) composition of the final state of high energy collisions is proposed.}

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Marek Gazdzicki