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Isovector channel of quarkmeson-coupling model and its effect on symmetry energy
Abstract The non-relativistic approximation of the quark–meson-coupling model has been discussed and compared with the Skyrme–Hartree–Fock model which includes spin exchanges. Calculations show that the spin-exchange interaction has important effect on the descriptions of finite nuclei and nuclear matter through the Fock exchange. Also in the quark–meson-coupling model, it is the Fock exchange that leads to a nonlinear density-dependent isovector channel and changes the density-dependent behavior of the symmetry energy.
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Alternate proof of the Rowe-Rosensteel proposition and seniority conservation
In this thesis the properties of unbound nuclei like 12,13Li are studiedby extending the multistep shell model to the complex energy plane. Thenuclei 12Li and 13Li are described starting from the one-particle states in 10Liand two-particle states in 11Li. The ground state of 12Li is found to be anantibound state. No bound or antibound state is found in 13Li. It is alsoshown that the odd proton plays a minor role in these nuclei.This framework is also applied to study the recently proposed spin-alignedproton-neutron pair coupling scheme. For this the MSM is extended to theproton-neutron space as well as the isospin space. In the model, a nonorthogonalbasis is introduced, which allows us to identify simultaneously theroles played by all configurations. The four-particle, six-particle and eightparticlenuclei in the heaviest N = Z region are evaluated using the MSMbasis within the space spanned by the single 0g9/2 hole shell.A novel Monte Carlo representation in the complex energy plane is alsodeveloped for studying nuclear excitations in the continuum. The calculationson realistic potentials show a stable performance and high accuracy in the oneparticleand two-particle cases. This will provide a convenient tool to studyopen systems with many nucleons in the continuum.
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Why the observed jet quenching at RHIC is due to parton energy loss
Abstract Significant jet quenching in central Au+Au collisions has been discovered at RHIC. This Letter provides theoretical arguments and lists experimental evidence that the observed jet quenching at RHIC is due to parton energy loss instead of hadron rescattering or absorption in a hadronic medium. These include: (1) hadron formation time based on the uncertainty principle, (2) p T dependence and (3) centrality dependence of the observed jet quenching, (4) jet-like leading hadron correlations (5) high- p T azimuthal anisotropy and (6) experimental data from Pb+Pb collisions at SPS and e + A collisions. Direct measurements of the parton energy loss in the direction of a triggered high- p T hadron and the medium modified fragmentation function on the back-side are proposed to further verify the partonic nature of the observed jet quenching. The importance of jet quenching studies at lower energies at RHIC is also discussed.
119078628
Where is the jet quenching in Pb + Pb collisions at 158-A-GeV?
Because of the rapidly falling particle spectrum at large $p_T$ from jet fragmentation at the CERN SPS energy, the high-$p_T$ hadron distribution should be highly sensitive to parton energy loss inside a dense medium as predicted by recent perturbative QCD (pQCD) studies. A careful analysis of recent data from CERN SPS experiments via pQCD calculation shows little evidence of energy loss. This implies that either the life-time of the dense partonic matter is very short or one has to re-think about the problem of parton energy loss in dense matter. The hadronic matter does not seem to cause jet quenching in $Pb+Pb$ collisions at the CERN SPS. High-$p_T$ two particle correlation in the azimuthal angle is proposed to further clarify this issue.
119529153
Hard Probes in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
Hard QCD processes in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions become increasingly relevant and they can be used as probes of the dense matter formed during the violent scatterings. We will discuss how one can use these hard probes to study the properties of the dense matter and the associated phenomenologies. In particular, we study the effect of jet quenching due to medium-induced energy loss on inclusive particle pT distributions and investigate how one can improve the measurement of parton energy loss in direct photon events.
119510990
High pT hadron spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Abstract We calculate the hadron spectra in high-energy pp , pA and AA collisions within a pQCD parton model. Analyses of experimental data show that the modification of the spectra in pA and AA as compared to that in pp collisions is consistent with multiple parton scattering scenario and is dictated by the transition from absorptive soft interaction at low p T to incoherent hard parton scattering at high p T . This analysis not only sheds new light on the limits to the physics analysis based on thermal fire-ball models but also provides a more quantitative baseline results on which one can study the effects of parton energy loss in the hadron spectra at high p T .
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Hadron production in p+p, p+Pb, and Pb+Pb collisions with the HIJING 2.0 model at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
The Heavy-Ion Jet Interaction Generator (hijing) Monte Carlo model is updated with the latest parton distributions functions and a new set of the parameters in the two-component minijet model that controls the total p+p cross section and the central pseudorapity density. We study hadron spectra and multiplicity distributions using the hijing2.0 model and compare to recent experimental data from p+p collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies. We also give predictions of hadron production in p+p, p+Pb, and Pb+Pb collisions at the full LHC energy.