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Color path-integral Monte Carlo simulations of quark–gluon plasma
Abstract Thermodynamic properties of a strongly coupled quark–gluon plasma (QGP) of constituent quasiparticles are studied by a color path-integral Monte Carlo simulations (CPIMC). For our simulations we have presented QGP partition function in the form of color path integral with new relativistic measure instead of Gaussian one used in Feynman and Wiener path integrals. For integration over color variable we have also developed procedure of sampling color variables according to the group SU(3) Haar measure. It is shown that this method is able to reproduce the available quantum lattice chromodynamics (QCD) data.
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On the relationship between Boltzmann-Langevin and Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck models
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Quantum simulations of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma
A strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) of heavy constituent quasi-particles is studied by a path-integral Monte-Carlo method. This approach is a quantum generalization of the classical molecular dynamics by Gelman, Shuryak, and Zahed. It is shown that this method is able to reproduce the QCD lattice equation of state. The results indicate that the QGP reveals liquid-like rather than gaslike properties. Quantum effects turned out to be of prime importance in these simulations.
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Partial-transparency effects in high-energy collisions of heavy ions
A model is proposed for heavy-ion collisions at E/sub lab/approx.1 GeV/nucleon for the case of an incomplete statistical equilibrium in the highly excited nuclear matter. This approach can reproduce the characteristic double-humped structure of the experimental rapidity distributions of secondary particles.
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Lattice QCD constraints on hybrid and quark stars
A QCD-motivated dynamical-quasiparticle model with parameters adjusted to reproduce the lattice-QCD equation of state is extrapolated from the region of high temperatures and moderate baryonic densities to the domain of high baryonic densities and zero temperature. The resulting equation of state matched with realistic hadronic equations of state predicts a phase transition into the quark phase at higher densities than those reachable in neutron star interiors. This excludes the possibility of the existence of hybrid (hadron-quark) stars. Pure quark stars are possible and have low masses, small radii, and very high central densities. Similar results are obtained for a simple bag model with massive quarks, fitted to reproduce the same lattice results. Self-bound quark matter is also excluded within these models. Uncertainties in the present extrapolation are discussed. Comparison with standard bag models is made.
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Equation of State of Strongly Coupled Quark–Gluon Plasma – Path Integral Monte Carlo Results
A strongly coupled plasma of quark and gluon quasiparticles at temperatures from 1.1Tc to 3Tc is studied by path integral Monte Carlo simulations. This method extends previous classical nonrelativistic simulations based on a color Coulomb interaction to the quantum regime. We present the equation of state and find good agreement with lattice results. Further, pair distribution functions and color correlation functions are computed indicating strong correlations and liquid-like behavior (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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Prompt contributions to the dilepton yield in heavy ion collisions

Abstract: The mass spectrum is calculated for those dileptons which are produced in the early phase of a heavy ion collisions via the direct production NN → l+l−X and via the Compton process GN → l+l−X with prompt gluons radiated in preceding NN interactions. Both mechanisms produce a mass spectrum which decreases steeply with invariant mass of the l+l− pair and which is below the CERES data for Pb-Au collisions by about one order of magnitude.
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QCD NUCLEON MODEL WITH RELATIVISTIC OSCILLATOR INTERACTION BETWEEN CONSTITUENT QUARK
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Transverse QCD dynamics near the light cone
Starting from the QCD Hamiltonian in near-light cone coordinates, we study the dynamics of the gluonic zero modes. Euclidean 2+1 dimensional lattice simulations show that the gap at strong coupling vanishes at intermediate coupling. This result opens the possibility to synchronize the continuum limit with the approach to the light cone.
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Photoproduction of charmonia and total charmonium proton cross-sections
Elastic virtual photoproduction cross sections ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{*}\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{p}J/\ensuremath{\psi}({\ensuremath{\psi}}^{\ensuremath{'}})p$ and total charmonium-nucleon cross sections for $J/\ensuremath{\psi}, {\ensuremath{\psi}}^{\ensuremath{'}},$ and $\ensuremath{\chi}$ states are calculated in a parameter-free way with the light-cone dipole formalism and the same input: factorization in impact parameters, light-cone wave functions for the ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{*}$ and the charmonia, and the universal phenomenological dipole cross section which is fitted to other data. The charmonium wave functions are calculated with four known realistic potentials, and two models for the dipole cross section are tested. Very good agreement with data for the cross section of charmonium photoproduction is found in a wide range of s and ${Q}^{2}.$ The inclusion of the Melosh spin rotation increases the ${\ensuremath{\psi}}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ photoproduction rate by a factor of 2\char21{}3 and removes previously observed discrepancies in the ${\ensuremath{\psi}}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ to $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ ratio in photoproduction. We also calculate the charmonium-proton cross sections whose absolute values and energy dependences are found to correlate strongly with the sizes of the states.
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Electroproduction of charmonia off nuclei
In a recent publication we have calculated elastic charmonium production in ep collisions employing realistic charmonia wave functions and dipole cross sections and have found good agreement with the data in a wide range of s and Q^2. Using the ingredients from those calculations we calculate exclusive electroproduction of charmonia off nuclei. Here new effects become important, (i) color filtering of the c-cbar pair on its trajectory through nuclear matter, (ii) dependence on the finite lifetime of the c-cbar fluctuation (coherence length) and (iii) gluon shadowing in a nucleus compared to the one in a nucleon. Total coherent and incoherent cross sections for C, Cu and Pb as functions of s and Q^2 are presented together with some differential cross sections. The results can be tested with future electron-nucleus colliders or in peripheral collisions of ultrarelativistic heavy ions.