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Charged Particle (Pseudo)Rapidity Distributions and an Expansive Three-Fireball Model in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at High Energies
An expansive three-fireball model is introduced in this paper to describe the rapidity (or pseudorapidity) distributions of charged particles produced in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. A relatively strong transverse expansion is observed at lower energy (1 A GeV) and a relatively strong longitudinal expansion is observed at higher energy (above 14.6 A GeV). The calculated results of the expansive three-fireball model are in agreement with the experimental data over an energy range from 1 A GeV to 100 A TeV.
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Singly and Doubly Charged Projectile Fragments in Nucleus-Emulsion Collisions at Dubna Energy in the Framework of the Multi-Source Model *
The multiplicity distributions of projectile fragments emitted in interactions of different nuclei with emulsion are studied by using a multi-source model. Our calculated results show that the projectile fragments can be described by the model and each source contributes an exponential distribution. As the weighted sum of the folding result of many exponential distributions, a multi-component Erlang distribution is used to describe the experimental data. The relationship between the height (or width) of the distribution and the mass of the incident projectile, as well as the dependence of projectile fragments on target groups, are investigated too.
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Angular Distributions of Target Fragments in Magnesium-Emulsion Collisions at High Energy
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ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS OF TARGET BLACK FRAGMENTS IN NUCLEUS NUCLEUS COLLISIONS AT HIGH ENERGY
The experimental results of space, azimuthal, and projected angular distributions of target black fragments produced in silicon-emulsion collisions at 4.5A GeV/c (the Dubna energy) are reported. A multi-source ideal gas model is suggested to describe the experimental angular distributions. The Monte Carlo calculated results are in agreement with the experimental data.
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Particle production in Au–Au collisions at RHIC energies
Abstract An overlapping cylinder model (OCM) is introduced in this Letter which considers three components: the longitudinal flow, transverse flow and the temperature. A comparison of our model calculations in terms of pseudorapidity distributions with the most recent experiments is presented. To describe the experimental data at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) energies ( s NN =130 and 200 GeV), a relative strong longitudinal flow and two partly overlapping cylinders are needed in the model. The difference between the different centrality events is described by the contribution of leading protons. The other parameter values do not depend on the centrality. The calculated results of the overlapping cylinder model are in agreement with the experimental data at the RHIC energies.
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Alpha emission in krypton–emulsion collisions at 1.7A GeV
Abstract The multiplicity and transverse momentum distributions of alpha projectile fragments emitted in nucleus–nucleus collisions at high energies are investigated. The results calculated by the two-source model are in agreement with the experimental data of krypton–emulsion collisions at 1.7 A  GeV.
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Dependences of charged particle pseudorapidity distributions on impact parameter and center-of-mass energy in nucleus–nucleus collisions at relativistic energies
The centrality and rapidity dependence of charged particles over a wide range of center-of-mass energy are analyzed. In this framework of participant-spectator model, the interacting system of nucleus–nucleus collisions at relativistic energies is divided into four parts (sources): target spectator, target participant, projectile participant and projectile spectator. Each source is treated by using a revised Landau model. The pseudorapidity distributions calculated by four-component Landau model are found to be in agreement with experimental data of the PHOBOS and ALICE collaborations. The distribution height is mainly determined by effective nucleon number and center-of-mass energy; and the distribution width being measured by the revised width in the Landau model and the sources rapidity shifts. Furthermore, we have found two empirical relations for projectile-participant and projectile-spectator (pseudo)rapidity as functions of the center-of-mass energy.
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Preliminary design of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA MIDEX mission, will survey the entire sky in four bands from 3.3 to 23 microns with a sensitivity 1000 times greater than the IRAS survey. The WISE survey will extend the Two Micron All Sky Survey into the thermal infrared and will provide an important catalog for the James Webb Space Telescope. Using 10242 HgCdTe and Si:As arrays at 3.3, 4.7, 12 and 23 microns, WISE will find the most luminous galaxies in the universe, the closest stars to the Sun, and it will detect most of the main belt asteroids larger than 3 km. The single WISE instrument consists of a 40 cm diamond-turned aluminum afocal telescope, a two-stage solid hydrogen cryostat, a scan mirror mechanism, and reimaging optics giving 5" resolution (full-width-half-maximum). The use of dichroics and beamsplitters allows four color images of a 47'x47' field of view to be taken every 8.8 seconds, synchronized with the orbital motion to provide total sky coverage with overlap between revolutions. WISE will be placed into a Sun-synchronous polar orbit on a Delta 7320-10 launch vehicle. The WISE survey approach is simple and efficient. The three-axis-stabilized spacecraft rotates at a constant rate while the scan mirror freezes the telescope line of sight during each exposure. WISE is currently in its Preliminary Design Phase, with the mission Preliminary Design Review scheduled for July, 2005. WISE is scheduled to launch in mid 2009; the project web site can be found at www.wise.ssl.berkeley.edu.
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Transverse Momentum Distributions of Final-State Particles Produced in Soft Excitation Process in High Energy Collisions
Transverse momentum distributions of final-state particles produced in soft process in proton-proton (pp) and nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies are studied by using a multisource thermal model. Each source in the model is treated as a relativistic and quantum ideal gas. Because the quantum effect can be neglected in investigation on the transverse momentum distribution in high energy collisions, we consider only the relativistic effect. The concerned distribution is finally described by the Boltzmann or two-component Boltzmann distribution. Our modeling results are in agreement with available experimental data.
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The equation of state study in UU collisions at CSR, Lanzhou
The cooling storage ring, to be built at Lanzhou, will be able to deliver heavy ion beams up to uranium up to 0.52 GeV/u. It is expected to make considerable contribution to nuclear EOS study in the high net baryon-density region. With a relativistic transport model, we performed simulations for U+U collisions with different orientations. It is shown that by combining the forward neutron multiplicity and an event-wise elliptic flow selection, it is possible to identify the tip-tip and body-body head-on collisions. The effective identification of these two extreme configurations will allow us to study the EOS at the highest baryon density in the U+U collisions.
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Energy dependence of the v2-scaling and the QCD phase boundary
In high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC ( = 60–200 GeV), quark coalescence has been suggested as one of the processes for hadronization. As a result, one observes a scaling in the elliptic flow parameter v2 and hadron-type dependence (within the 2 < pT < 5 GeV/c region) in the nuclear modification parameter RAA. On the other hand, in a given collision when the center of mass energy is not sufficiently high to create partonic matter, one would not expect the scaling in the final observed v2. Hence, the scaling provides us a sensitive tool for the search for the possible phase boundary in the hot/dense matter dominated by either partonic or hadronic degrees of freedom. In this paper, we will report the results from analyzing the energy dependence of v2 for identified hadrons from Au+Au collisions. Data from transport models are used in our analysis. In this model calculation, without the partonic coalescence the scaling in v2 is absent.