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This document aims to provide an assessment of the potential of future colliding beam facilities to perform Higgs boson studies. The analysis builds on the submissions made by the proponents of future colliders to the European Strategy…
A quantum model of a free-electron laser is considered for the many electron system. An exact expression for the evolution of the laser amplitude is obtained in the framework of the coherent state consideration. Reliable conditions for the…
The current status of photon and dilepton emission in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed, and recent developments are highlighted. The importance of emissions at early, intermediate and late times is emphasized.
In a previous work, two of the authors proposed a new proof of a well known convergence result for the scaled elementary connected vacant component in the high intensity Boolean model towards the Crofton cell of the Poisson hyperplane…
A unitary model describing the electronic transitions in an atom subject to a strong high frequency laser pulse is proposed. The model fully accounts for the initial state coupling with the continuum spectrum. Continuum-continuum as well as…
The goal of heavy ion reactions at low beam energies is to explore the QCD phase diagram at high net baryon chemical potential. To relate experimental observations with a first order phase transition or a critical endpoint, dynamical…
The cross section for exclusive $\pi^+\pi^-$ and $\pi^0\pi^0$ meson pairs production in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is calculated at the energy available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, i.e., $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=3.5$…
Numerous models have been proposed to describe the Bose-Einstein correlations in multiple particle production processes. In the present paper we describe a generalization, which includes many previous models as special cases and, therefore,…
The freeze out of the expanding systems, created in relativistic heavy ion collisions, is discussed. We combine kinetic freeze out equations with Bjorken type system expansion into a unified model. The important feature of the proposed…
The GGLP approach to Bose-Einstein correlations, a hydrodynamic model and a string model are briefly reviewed. The implications of the two models for the Bose-Einstein correlations among the decay products of a pair of W bosons are…
We review the theoretical aspects relevant in the description of high energy heavy ion collisions, with an emphasis on the learnings about the underlying QCD phenomena that have emerged from these collisions.
We report on a systematic treatment of Coulomb corrections for 3- and n-particle (Bose-Einstein) correlations, leading to a removal of a 100 % systematic error from earlier Coulomb corrections of 5-particle Bose-Einstein correlations in…
Measurement of Bose-Einstein or HBT correlations of identified charged particles provide insight into the space-time structure of particle emitting sources in heavy-ion collisions. In this paper we present the latest results from the RHIC…
Femtoscopic measurements of two-pion Bose--Einstein correlations have established that particle-emitting sources in heavy-ion collisions are well described by L\'evy $\alpha$-stable distributions, motivating systematic studies across a wide…
We report on the commissioning of a fast electron-energy scan system for measurements of electron-impact ionization cross sections. The Giessen crossed-beams experiment employs a high-power electron gun which has been developed over recent…
Bose-Einstein correlations are being exploited to obtain information about the structure of the sources of hadrons in multiple particle production processes. In this paper the principles of this approach are described and some of the…
We review the current status of recombination and coalescence models that have been successfully applied to describe hadronization in heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies. Basic concepts as well as actual implementations of the idea are…
Bose-Einstein correlations of pairs of identical charged pions produced in hadronic Z decays are analyzed in terms of various parametrizations. A good description is achieved using a L\'evy stable distribution in conjunction with a model…
The indications of a possible pion condensation at the LHC are summarized. The condensation is predicted by the non-equilibrium hadronization model for 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC. The model solves the proton/pion puzzle and…
Model independent constraints on the mass of an extra neutral gauge boson and its couplings to charged leptons are given for the $e^-e^-$ option of a future linear collider. Analytic exclusion limits are derived in the Born approximation.…