120808959
Transverse momentum dependence of charged and strange hadron elliptic flows in Cu?Cu collisions
We investigate the dependence of elliptic flows v2 on transverse momentum PT for charged and strange hadrons produced in Cu?Cu collisions by using a multi-source thermal model, which includes the interaction contribution of the emission sources. The magnitude of the expansion is denoted by a expansion factor k. Our calculated results are approximately in agreement with the experimental data in Cu?Cu collisions at = 62.4 and 200 GeV, measured by the STAR Collaboration. It is found that the expansion factor increases linearly with the impact parameter from the most central (0?10%) to mid-peripheral (40?50%) collisions.
118607664
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.
115903813
Angular Distributions of Target Fragments in Magnesium-Emulsion Collisions at High Energy
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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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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.
120712528
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.
120089995
The large-scale organization of the hadron decay network
The standard model of particle physics predicts a complex structure of decay modes for hadrons, which opens up an avenue for observing the internal forces governing the decay dynamics. In this paper, we present the decay modes of hadrons as a network in which the nodes are particles and directed links are pointing from the mother particles to daughter particles. Using the database of decay modes collected from the Particle Data Group, we try to unveil the topological structure and possible intrinsic nature of hadron decays in the light of recent investigations of complex networks. We study distributions of the numbers of daughter and mother particles, and explore scaling laws that may govern the underlying decay structure of the system. We find that it is a small-world network with symmetrical structure. We also study the influence of constraints arising from conservation laws on the network structure, and our analysis suggests that the constraints of conservations of momentum-energy, charge, lepton number and baryon number play important roles in the topology of the decay network. Finally, we classify the hadrons into communities according to their quark component, and uncover the relationship between the particle roles and connection patterns in the communities.
15711757
Thermal Equilibrium and Non-uniform Longitudinal Flow in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
A model with non-uniform flow in the longitudinal direction is proposed for the relativistic heavy-ion collisions and compared with the 14.6 A GeV/c Si-Al and 10.8 A GeV/c Au-Au collision data. The stronger influence of transparency on the distribution of heavier produced particles and the larger stopping in the heavier collision system are accounted for by using a new geometrical parameterization picture. The central dips in the proton and deuteron rapidity distributions for Si-Al collision are reproduced.
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Chemical Potentials of Quarks Extracted from Particle Transverse Momentum Distributions in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC Energies
In the framework of a multisource thermal model, the transverse momentum distributions of charged particles produced in nucleus-nucleus (A-A) and deuteron-nucleus (d-A) collisions at relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) energies are investigated by a two-component revised Boltzmann distribution. The calculated results are in agreement with the PHENIX experimental data. It is found that the source temperature increases obviously with increase of the particle mass and incident energy, but it does not show an obvious change with the collision centrality. Then, the values of chemical potentials for up, down, and strange quarks can be obtained from the antiparticle to particle yield ratios in a wide transverse momentum range. The relationship between the chemical potentials of quarks and the transverse momentum with different centralities is investigated, too.
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The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance
The all sky surveys done by the Palomar Observatory Schmidt, the European Southern Observatory Schmidt, and 
the United Kingdom Schmidt, the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite, and the Two Micron All Sky Survey have 
proven to be extremely useful tools for astronomy with value that lasts for decades. The Wide-field Infrared 
Survey Explorer (WISE) is mapping the whole sky following its launch on 2009 December 14. WISE began 
surveying the sky on 2010 January 14 and completed its first full coverage of the sky on July 17. The survey 
will continue to cover the sky a second time until the cryogen is exhausted (anticipated in 2010 November). 
WISE is achieving 5σ point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on 
the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22μm. Sensitivity improves toward the ecliptic 
poles due to denser coverage and lower zodiacal background. The angular resolution is 6".1, 6".4, 6".5, and 12".0 at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22μm, and the astrometric precision for high signal-to-noise sources is better than 0".15.
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Study of triangular flow v3 in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions with a multiphase transport model
We studied the relation between the initial geometry anisotropy and the anisotropic flow in a multiphase transport model for both Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at = 200 GeV. It is found that unlike the elliptic flow v2, little centrality dependence of the triangular flow v3 is observed. After removing the initial geometry effect, v3/e3 increases with the transverse particle density, which is similar to v2/e2. The transverse momentum (pT) dependence of v3 from identified particles is qualitatively similar to the pT dependence of v2.