Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Friday·August 26, 2016

3 papers—1 primary·2 cross-listed

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Stopped nucleons in configuration space
Andrzej Bialas🇵🇱 · Adam Bzdak🇵🇱 · Volker Koch🇺🇸
In this note, using the colour string model, we study the configuration space distribution of stopped nucleons in heavy-ion collisions. We find that the stopped nucleons from the target and the projectile end up separated from each other by the distance increasing with the collision energy. In consequence, for the center of mass energies larger than 6 or 10 GeV (depending on the details of the model) it appears that the system created is not in thermal and chemical equilibrium, and the net baryon density reached is likely not much higher than that already present in the colliding nuclei.
↳ hep-phhep-exnucl-thActa Phys.Polon.B(2018)·26 citations
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Charting the future frontier(s) of particle production
Jan Rafelski🇺🇸
This short note describes the long collaborative effort between Arizona and Kraków, showing some of the key strangeness signatures of quark-gluon plasma. It further presents an annotated catalog of foundational questions defining the research frontiers which I believe can be addressed in the foreseeable future in the context of relativistic heavy ion collision experiments. The list includes topics that are specific to the field, and ventures towards the known-to-be-unknown that may have a better chance with ions as compared to elementary interactions.
↳ hep-phnucl-thphysics.hist-phActa Phys.Polon.B(2016)·0 citations

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