121860723
Possibility of structure in projectile fragmentation in high energy heavy ion reactions
Abstract We show that a quantum mechanical analogue of the Goldhaber model predicts a structure in the momentum distribution of α's fragmenting from the projectile 6 Li. This structure should be measurable.
2820708
Transverse momenta, nuclear equation of state, and momentum-dependent interactions in heavy-ion collisions.
We investigate the generation of transverse momentum in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and its relation to the nuclear equation of state. We find that streamer chamber data can be fitted by Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck calculations with a momentum-dependent potential that closely models realistic nuclear matter interactions and yields an equation of state with {ital K}=215 MeV.
121836312
Excluded volume in nuclear fragmentation
119186084
Bimodality and Coulomb effects with a canonical thermodynamic model
Abstract The effect of the Coulomb interaction on the phase diagram of finite nuclei is studied within the Canonical Thermodynamic Model. If Coulomb effects are artificially switched off, this model shows a phenomenology consistent with the liquid–gas phase transition. The inclusion of Coulomb does not significantly affect the phase diagram but it drastically modifies the nature and order parameter of the transition. A clear understanding of the phenomenon can be achieved looking at the distribution of the largest fragment produced in each fragmentation event. Possible connections with experimental observations are outlined.
16308546
First Order Phase Transition in Intermediate-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
We model the disassembly of an excited nuclear system formed as a result of a heavy ion collision. We find that, as the beam energy in central collisions in varied, the dissociating system crosses a liquid-gas coexistence curve, resulting in a first-order phase transition. Accessible experimental signatures are identified: a peak in specific heat, a power-law yield for composites, and a maximum in the second moment of the yield distribution.
14530230
Temperature determination from the lattice gas model.
Determination of temperature from experimental data has become important in searches for critical phenomena in heavy-ion collisions. Widely used methods are ratios of isotopes (which rely on chemical and thermal equilibrium), population ratios of excited states, etc. Using the lattice gas model we propose a new observable: {ital n}{sub ch}/{ital Z} where {ital n}{sub ch} is the charge multiplicity and {ital Z} is the charge of the fragmenting system. We show that the reduced multiplicity is a good measure of the average temperature of the fragmenting system. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
118779045
Constraining the flavor changing Higgs couplings to the top-quark at the LHC
A bstractWe study the flavor-changing couplings of the Higgs-boson with the top-quark using the processes: (a) pp → tt, (b) pp→t¯j$$ pp\to \overline{t}j $$, and, (c) pp→t¯jh$$ pp\to \overline{t}jh $$ at the LHC in light of current discovery of a 126 GeV Higgs-Boson. Sensitivities for the flavor-changing couplings are estimated using the LHC data that was collected until spring 2013. It is found that the process (c) is the most capable of yielding the best upper bound on the flavor-changing couplings with 2σ level sensitivities of |ξtc2 + ξtu2|1/2 ≲ 7.3 × 10− 3 and ≲2 .9 ×10−3 resulting from t → blνl, h → jj with the 7 TeV and 8 TeV centre-of-mass energies respectively using existing data from the LHC. The corresponding bounds from h→bb¯$$ h\to b\overline{b} $$ are worse by a factor of about 1.8.
117512035
A glimpse of the gluon EMC-effect from J/psi production in pion-nucleus collisions
120893061
Models of the proton spin structure
A phenomenological model of spin sharing by the constituents of a proton is constructed, based on the recent EMC measurement of the spin dependent structure function and knowledge of the unpolarized parton densities.
123580970
Implication of the EMC-effect on high transverse momentum jets
We show that the extension of nuclear structure functions to the regionx>1 can give rise to an enhancement of high-pT jet cross sections in hadron nucleus collisions. Such extensions are expected in a class of models proposed to explain the EMC-effect. Since these models are completely parametrized by the deep inelastic scattering data, the jet cross section emerge as parameter free predictions.
117340040
Dimuon backgrounds to thermal signatures in heavy ion collisions