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A pairwise correlation function in relative momentum space is discussed as a tool to characterize the properties of an incoherent source of non-interacting Abelian anyons. This is analogous to the Hanbury--Brown Twiss effect for particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. D. Gutierrez

In order to trace the initial interaction in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision in all azimuthal directions, two azimuthal multiplicity-correlation patterns -- neighboring and fixed-to-arbitrary angular-bin correlation patterns -- are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Meijuan Wang , Lianshou Liu , Yuanfang Wu

Fifty years ago, Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) discovered photon bunching in light emitted by a chaotic source, highlighting the importance of two-photon correlations and stimulating the development of modern quantum optics . The quantum…

Employing NEXUS, one of the most recent simulation programs for heavy ions collisions, we investigate in detail the Hanbury-Twiss correlation function for charged pions for reactions 158 GeV Pb+Pb. For this study we supplement the standard…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 F. Gastineau , J. Aichelin

In many simulations of high-energy heavy-ion collisions on an event-by-event analysis, it is known that the initial energy density distribution in the transverse plane is highly fluctuating. Subsequent longitudinal expansion will lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei-Ning Zhang , Yan-Yu Ren , Cheuk-Yin Wong

We study the equilibration of isospin degree of freedom in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions using an isospin-dependent BUU model. It is found that there exists a transition from the isospin equilibration at low energies to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Bao-An Li , Sherry J. Yennello

In this work, we explore the effect of deformation of the nuclei on collective flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The parameter associated with the geometrical deformation in the Glauber model is tuned to reproduce the empirical…

We discuss potential attainability by the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry of photons to probe the spacetime geometry of the primordial plasma created by ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. A possible effect to distort the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-15 Kazunori Itakura , Koichi Hattori

Two-particle momentum correlations between pairs of identical particles produced in relativistic heavy-ion reactions can be analyzed to extract the space-time structure of the collision fireball. We review recent progress in the application…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Ulrich Heinz , Barbara V. Jacak

The thermodynamic properties of matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions have been studied in the framework of the non-extensive Tsallis statistics. The transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$)~spectra of identified charged particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-06 Rajendra Nath Patra , Bedangadas Mohanty , Tapan K. Nayak

We show, under general assumptions which are well satisfied in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, that the geometric relation of centrality c to the impact parameter b, namely c ~ pi b^2/sigma_inel, holds to a very high accuracy for all but…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Broniowski , W. Florkowski

In this review paper on heavy ion inertial fusion (HIF), the state-of-the-art scientific results are presented and discussed on the HIF physics, including physics of the heavy ion beam (HIB) transport in a fusion reactor, the HIBs-ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 S. Kawata , T. Karino , A. I. Ogoyski

In recent years it has become conventional practice to include higher-order cylindrical harmonics in the phenomenological description of two-particle angular correlations from ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These model elements,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 R. L. Ray , D. J. Prindle , T. A. Trainor

A theoretical study of the K-shell ionization of hydrogen-like ions, colliding with bare nuclei, is performed within the framework of the time-dependent Dirac equation. Special emphasis is placed on the ionization probability that is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 O. Novak , R. Kholodov , A. Surzhykov , A. N. Artemyev , Th. Stöhlker

We calculate open heavy-flavor (HF) transport in relativistic heavy-ion collisions by applying a strong-coupling treatment in both macro- and microscopic dynamics (hydrodynamics and non-perturbative diffusion interactions). The hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-08-02 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

STAR observes a complex picture of RHIC collisions where correlation effects of different origins -- initial state geometry, semi-hard scattering, hadronization, as well as final state interactions such as quantum intensity interference --…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Mikhail Kopytine

Intensity interferometry originates from the field of radio astronomy on the trace of Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Quincy Twiss. In high energy physics, the phenomena was discovered by Goldhaber, Goldhaber, Lee and Pais. In radio…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-14 Sándor Lökös

In the paper energy dependence of space-time extent of emission region obtained from Bose - Einstein correlations is studied for charged pions in various ion collisions for all experimentally available energies. There is no dramatic change…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 V. A. Okorokov

Two-particle azimuthal correlations of high-pT hadrons can serve as a probe of interactions of partons with the dense medium produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. First NA49 results on such correlations are presented for central and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Marek Szuba

The dependence of the spectra shape of produced charged hadrons on the size of a colliding system is discussed using a two component model. As a result, the hierarchy by the system-size in the spectra shape is observed. Next, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-16 A. A. Bylinkin , N. S. Chernyavskaya , A. A. Rostovtsev