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Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Monday·May 25, 2015

5 papers—2 primary·3 cross-listed

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  1. 01

    [Submitted on 22 May 2015]

    Effects of hadronic rescattering on multistrange hadrons in high-energy nuclear collisions

    Shiori Takeuchi🇯🇵 · Koichi Murase🇯🇵 · Tetsufumi Hirano🇯🇵 · Pasi Huovinen🇩🇪 · Yasushi Nara🇯🇵

    We study the effects of hadronic rescattering on hadron distributions in high-energy nuclear collisions by using an integrated dynamical approach. This approach is based on a hybrid model combining (3+1)-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics for the quark gluon plasma (QGP), and a transport model for the hadron resonance gas. Since the hadron distributions are the result of the entire expansion history of the system, understanding the QGP properties requires investigating how rescattering during the hadronic stage affects the final distributions of hadrons. We include multistrange hadrons in our study, and quantify the effects of hadronic rescattering on their mean transverse momenta and elliptic flow. We find that multistrange hadrons scatter less during the hadronic stage than nonstrange particles, and thus their distributions reflect the properties of the system in an earlier stage than the distributions of nonstrange particles.

    Comments:
    14 pages, 9 figures, v2: published version, title is changed
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
    arXiv:
    1505.05961 [pdf]
    PRC(2015)·67 citations
  2. 02

    [Submitted on 22 May 2015]

    Dilepton production and reaction dynamics in heavy-ion collisions at SIS energies from coarse-grained transport simulations

    Stephan Endres🇩🇪 · Hendrik van Hees🇩🇪 · Janus Weil🇩🇪 · Marcus Bleicher🇩🇪

    Dilepton invariant-mass spectra for heavy-ion collisions at SIS 18 and BEVALAC energies are calculated using a coarse-grained time evolution from the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model. The coarse-graining of the microscopic simulations enables to calculate thermal dilepton emission rates by application of in-medium spectral functions from equilibrium quantum-field theoretical calculations. The results show that extremely high baryon chemical potentials dominate the evolution of the created hot and dense fireball. Consequently, a significant modification of the spectral shape becomes visible in the dilepton invariant-mass spectrum, resulting in an enhancement in the low-mass region to 600 MeV/. This enhancement, mainly caused by baryonic effects on the spectral shape, can fully describe the experimentally observed excess above the hadronic cocktail contributions in Ar+KCl ( GeV) reactions as measured by the HADES collaboration and also gives a good explanation of the older DLS Ca+Ca ( GeV) data. For the larger Au+Au ( GeV) system, we predict an even stronger excess from our calculations. A systematic comparison of the results for different system sizes from C+C to Au+Au shows that the thermal dilepton yield increases stronger () than the hadronic background contributions, which scale with , due to its sensitivity on the time evolution of the reaction. We stress that the findings of the present work are consistent with our previous coarse-graining results for the NA60 measurements at top SPS energy. We argue that it is possible to describe the dilepton results from SIS 18 up to SPS energies by considering the modifications of the spectral function inside a hot and dense medium within the same model.

    Comments:
    15 pages, 9 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    1505.06131 [pdf]
    PRC(2015)·78 citations

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