The relativistic mean-field approach was implemented in the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics transport model(LQMD.RMF). Using the LQMD.RMF, the properties of collective flow and pion production were investigated sys...The relativistic mean-field approach was implemented in the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics transport model(LQMD.RMF). Using the LQMD.RMF, the properties of collective flow and pion production were investigated systematically for nuclear reactions with various isospin asymmetries. The directed and elliptic flows of the LQMD.RMF are able to describe the experimental data of STAR Collaboration. The directed flow difference between free neutrons and protons was associated with the stiffness of the symmetry energy, that is, a softer symmetry energy led to a larger flow difference. For various collision energies, the ratio between the π^(-) and π^(+) yields increased with a decrease in the slope parameter of the symmetry energy. When the collision energy was 270 MeV/nucleon, the single ratio of the pion transverse momentum spectra also increased with decreasing slope parameter of the symmetry energy in both nearly symmetric and neutron-rich systems.However, it is difficult to constrain the stiffness of the symmetry energy with the double ratio because of the lack of threshold energy correction on the pion production.展开更多
Traditional particle identification methods face timeconsuming,experience-dependent,and poor repeatability challenges in heavy-ion collisions at low and intermediate energies.Researchers urgently need solutions to the...Traditional particle identification methods face timeconsuming,experience-dependent,and poor repeatability challenges in heavy-ion collisions at low and intermediate energies.Researchers urgently need solutions to the dilemma of traditional particle identification methods.This study explores the possibility of applying intelligent learning algorithms to the particle identification of heavy-ion collisions at low and intermediate energies.Multiple intelligent algorithms,including XgBoost and TabNet,were selected to test datasets from the neutron ion multi-detector for reaction-oriented dynamics(NIMROD-ISiS)and Geant4 simulation.Tree-based machine learning algorithms and deep learning algorithms e.g.TabNet show excellent performance and generalization ability.Adding additional data features besides energy deposition can improve the algorithm’s performance when the data distribution is nonuniform.Intelligent learning algorithms can be applied to solve the particle identification problem in heavy-ion collisions at low and intermediate energies.展开更多
Ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions(UPCs)offer unique opportunities to study processes under strong electromagnetic fields.In these collisions,highly charged fast-moving ions carry strong electromagnetic fields that...Ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions(UPCs)offer unique opportunities to study processes under strong electromagnetic fields.In these collisions,highly charged fast-moving ions carry strong electromagnetic fields that can be effectively treated as photon fluxes.The exchange of photons can induce photonuclear and two-photon interactions and excite ions.This excitation of the ions results in Coulomb dissociation with the emission of photons,neutrons,and other particles.Additionally,the electromagnetic fields generated by the ions can be sufficiently strong to enforce mutual interactions between the two colliding ions.Consequently,the two colliding ions experience an electromagnetic force that pushes them in opposite directions,causing a back-to-back correlation in the emitted neutrons.Using a Monte Carlo simulation,we qualitatively demonstrate that the above electromagnetic effect is large enough to be observed in UPCs,which would provide a clear means to study strong electromagnetic fields and their effects.展开更多
In this study, the rapidity distribution, collective flows, and nuclear stopping power in ^(197)Au+^(197)Au collisions at intermediate energies were investigated using the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics(...In this study, the rapidity distribution, collective flows, and nuclear stopping power in ^(197)Au+^(197)Au collisions at intermediate energies were investigated using the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics(UrQMD) model with GEMINI++ code. The UrQMD model was adopted to simulate the dynamic evolution of heavy-ion collisions, whereas the GEMINI++ code was used to simulate the decay of primary fragments produced by UrQMD. The calculated results were compared with the INDRA and FOPI experimental data. It was found that the rapidity distribution, collective flows, and nuclear stopping power were affected to a certain extent by the decay of primary fragments, especially at lower beam energies. Furthermore, the experimental data of the collective flows and nuclear stopping power at the investigated beam energies were better reproduced when the sequential decay effect was included.展开更多
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark–gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic(EM)and fluid vortical fields.The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomen...Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark–gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic(EM)and fluid vortical fields.The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as chiral magnetic,chiral separation,chiral electric separation,and chiral vortical effects as well as the spin polarization of hadrons.These phenomena provide us with experimentally feasible means to study the nontrivial topological sector of quantum chromodynamics,the possible parity violation of strong interaction at high temperature,and the subatomic spintronics of quark–gluon plasma.These studies,both in theory and in experiments,are strongly connected with other subfields of physics such as condensed matter physics,astrophysics,and cold atomic physics,and thus form an emerging interdisciplinary research area.We give an introduction to the aforementioned phenomena induced by the EM field and vorticity and an overview of the current status of experimental research in heavy-ion collisions.We also briefly discuss spin hydrodynamics as well as chiral and spin kinetic theories.展开更多
We present a concise review of the recent development of relativistic hydrodynamics and its applications to heavy-ion collisions.Theoretical progress on the extended formulation of hydrodynamics toward out-ofequilibri...We present a concise review of the recent development of relativistic hydrodynamics and its applications to heavy-ion collisions.Theoretical progress on the extended formulation of hydrodynamics toward out-ofequilibrium systems is addressed,with emphasis on the socalled attractor solution.Moreover,recent phenomenological improvements in the hydrodynamic modeling of heavy-ion collisions with respect to the ongoing beam energy scan program,the quantitative characterization of transport coefficients in three-dimensionally expanding quark–gluon plasma,the fluid description of small colliding systems,and certain other interdisciplinary connections are discussed.展开更多
We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions.We present updated experimental results for the chiral magneti...We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions.We present updated experimental results for the chiral magnetic effect and related phenomena.The time evolution of the magnetic fields in different models is discussed.The newly developed quantum kinetic theory for massive fermions is reviewed.We present theoretical and experimental results for the polarization of K hyperons and the q00 value of vector mesons.展开更多
The squeezed back-to-back correlation(SBBC)of a boson-antiboson pair is sensitive to the time distribution of the particle-emitting source,and the SBBC function for an evolving source is expected to be affected by the...The squeezed back-to-back correlation(SBBC)of a boson-antiboson pair is sensitive to the time distribution of the particle-emitting source,and the SBBC function for an evolving source is expected to be affected by the relaxation time of the system.In this study,we investigated the effect of relaxation time on the SBBC function.We propose a method for calculating the SBBC function with relaxation-time approximation for evolving sources.SBBC functions of D^(0)D^(-0)in relativistic heavy-ion collisions were investigated using a hydrodynamic model.We found that the relaxation time reduces the amplitudes of the SBBC functions.This becomes apparent for long relaxation times and large initial relative deviations of the chaotic and squeezed amplitudes from their equilibrium values in the temporal steps.展开更多
We investigate the squeezed back-to-back correlation(BBC) of D^0~0 in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using the in-medium mass modification calculated with a self-energy in hot pion gas and the source space-time ...We investigate the squeezed back-to-back correlation(BBC) of D^0~0 in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using the in-medium mass modification calculated with a self-energy in hot pion gas and the source space-time distributions provided by the viscous hydrodynamic code VISH2+1. It is found that the squeezed BBC of D^0~0 is significant in peripheral Au+Au collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider energy. A possible way to detect the squeezed BBC in an experiment is presented.展开更多
The relativistic heavy-ion collisions create both hot quark–gluon matter and strong magnetic fields, and provide an arena to study the interplay between quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics. In recent y...The relativistic heavy-ion collisions create both hot quark–gluon matter and strong magnetic fields, and provide an arena to study the interplay between quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics. In recent years, it has been shown that such an interplay can generate a number of interesting quantum phenomena in hadronic and quark–gluon matter. In this short review, we first discuss some properties of the magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions and then give an overview of the magnetic fieldinduced novel quantum effects. In particular, we focus on the magnetic effect on the heavy flavor mesons, the heavyquark transports, and the phenomena closely related to chiral anomaly.展开更多
Recent progress of the quantum molecular dynamics model for describing the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is viewed, in particular the nuclear fragmentation, isospin physics, particle production and in-medium effect...Recent progress of the quantum molecular dynamics model for describing the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is viewed, in particular the nuclear fragmentation, isospin physics, particle production and in-medium effect, hadron-induced nuclear reactions, hypernucleus, etc.The neck fragmentation in Fermi-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated for extracting the symmetry energy at subsaturation densities. The isospin effects, in-medium properties, and the behavior of high-density symmetry energy in medium-and high-energy heavy-ion collisions are thoroughly discussed. The hypernuclide dynamics formed in heavy-ion collisions and in hadron-induced reactions is analyzed and addressed in the future experiments at the high-intensity heavy-ion accelerator facility(HIAF).展开更多
Fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon, electric charge, and strangeness number, are sensitive observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to probe the QCD phase transition and search for the QCD cr...Fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon, electric charge, and strangeness number, are sensitive observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to probe the QCD phase transition and search for the QCD critical point. In this paper, we review the experimental measurements of the cumulants(up to fourth order) of event-byevent net-proton(proxy for net-baryon), net-charge and netkaon(proxy for net-strangeness) multiplicity distributions Au+Au collisions at sNN^(1/2) 7:7; 11:5; 14:5; 19:6; 27;39; 62:4; 200 Ge V from the first phase of beam energy scan program at the relativistic heavy-ion collider(RHIC). We also summarize the data analysis methods of suppressing the volume fluctuations, auto-correlations, and the unified description of efficiency correction and error estimation.Based on theoretical and model calculations, we will discuss the characteristic signatures of critical point as well as backgrounds for the fluctuation observables in heavy-ion collisions. The physics implications and the future secondphase of the beam energy scan(2019–2020) at RHIC will also be discussed.展开更多
The energy density for the central region in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be estimated via the pseudorapidity distribution of transverse energy.The way to estimate the local energy density for the central reg...The energy density for the central region in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be estimated via the pseudorapidity distribution of transverse energy.The way to estimate the local energy density for the central region in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is proposed,in which only final state particles emitted from the same source are included.The energy density arrived in the NA49 experiments is about 0.9 GeV/fm^(3).展开更多
In Eq. (1), A?? and Nln(N/A)+Zln(Z/A) originate from the increases of the entropy and the mixing entropy at the time of the fragment formation, respectively. n (p) is the neutron (proton) chemical potential. is t...In Eq. (1), A?? and Nln(N/A)+Zln(Z/A) originate from the increases of the entropy and the mixing entropy at the time of the fragment formation, respectively. n (p) is the neutron (proton) chemical potential. is the critical exponent. In this work, the value of =2.3 is adopted from the previous studies[1]. In general coefficients, av, as, asym, ac, ap and the chemical potentials are temperature and density dependent.展开更多
The entrance channel dependence of the isospin effects of nuclear stopping in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions has been studied by using an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics with three different kin...The entrance channel dependence of the isospin effects of nuclear stopping in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions has been studied by using an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics with three different kinds of symmetry potentials.It is shown that nuclear stopping is sensitive to the beam energy,the impact parameter and the mass of the colliding system,specially very sensitive to the isospin dependence of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section,but insensitive to symmetry potential and the ratio of neutron to proton of colliding system.From this investigation.It is proposed that nuclear stopping can be used as a new probe to extract the information on the isospin dependence of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions.展开更多
The time evolution of the interaction potential contour plot in intermediate energy heavy ion col-lisions is investigated.The stochastic fluctuation appearing in the peak zone of the interaction potential,which is ind...The time evolution of the interaction potential contour plot in intermediate energy heavy ion col-lisions is investigated.The stochastic fluctuation appearing in the peak zone of the interaction potential,which is indicated by the deformation of equipotential lines,especially by the negative curvature of equipo-tential lines,contributes to initiating the multifragmentation.展开更多
The emission of high-energy particles in 16O + 197Au collisions at energy 20 MeV / nucleon is considered within the framework of the time evolution of a hot spot taking into account the hydrodynamic compression and ex...The emission of high-energy particles in 16O + 197Au collisions at energy 20 MeV / nucleon is considered within the framework of the time evolution of a hot spot taking into account the hydrodynamic compression and expansion stages. In addition, the evaporation of the particles that are formed in the early (hot) stage of the evolution of the hot spot is included in the calculation of the spectrum. This leads to a hardening of the particle spectrum in its high-energy part, which is in agreement with experimental data.展开更多
The Relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck(RVUU)model is used to study the properties of pi-ons and kaons produced in heavy ion collisions.We include the nuclear medium effect on kaon and pionin the model,and simulate ...The Relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck(RVUU)model is used to study the properties of pi-ons and kaons produced in heavy ion collisions.We include the nuclear medium effect on kaon and pionin the model,and simulate pion production and subthreshold kaon production in Kr+Zr reactions at 1GeV/u.The calculated results show that the attractive pion optical potential changes the final-state pionmomentum spectrum,enhancing the yield of pions with low transverse momenta.At the same ti1e it alsoincreases the kaon abundance and modifies the kaon momentum distribution.展开更多
Using an aspect of rapidity bins with finite sizes the short-range and longrange behaviors of two-particle correlation, the connection of two particle correlation function with factorial moment and factorial correlato...Using an aspect of rapidity bins with finite sizes the short-range and longrange behaviors of two-particle correlation, the connection of two particle correlation function with factorial moment and factorial correlator are investigated; and experimental data for 16 O+Em interactions at 14.6, 60 and 200 A GeV and 32 S+197Au interactions at 200A GeV are analyzed. It is shown that the bin-average of two-particle correlation function can naturally give a coordinate description of dynamical fluctuation such as the second order factorial moment <F2> and 1+1 order factorial correlator <F1,1>.展开更多
基金This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina(Nos.12147106,12175072,and 11722546)the Talent Programof South China University of Technology(No.20210115).
文摘The relativistic mean-field approach was implemented in the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics transport model(LQMD.RMF). Using the LQMD.RMF, the properties of collective flow and pion production were investigated systematically for nuclear reactions with various isospin asymmetries. The directed and elliptic flows of the LQMD.RMF are able to describe the experimental data of STAR Collaboration. The directed flow difference between free neutrons and protons was associated with the stiffness of the symmetry energy, that is, a softer symmetry energy led to a larger flow difference. For various collision energies, the ratio between the π^(-) and π^(+) yields increased with a decrease in the slope parameter of the symmetry energy. When the collision energy was 270 MeV/nucleon, the single ratio of the pion transverse momentum spectra also increased with decreasing slope parameter of the symmetry energy in both nearly symmetric and neutron-rich systems.However, it is difficult to constrain the stiffness of the symmetry energy with the double ratio because of the lack of threshold energy correction on the pion production.
基金This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB34030000)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFA1602404)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation(No.U1832129)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(No.2017309).
文摘Traditional particle identification methods face timeconsuming,experience-dependent,and poor repeatability challenges in heavy-ion collisions at low and intermediate energies.Researchers urgently need solutions to the dilemma of traditional particle identification methods.This study explores the possibility of applying intelligent learning algorithms to the particle identification of heavy-ion collisions at low and intermediate energies.Multiple intelligent algorithms,including XgBoost and TabNet,were selected to test datasets from the neutron ion multi-detector for reaction-oriented dynamics(NIMROD-ISiS)and Geant4 simulation.Tree-based machine learning algorithms and deep learning algorithms e.g.TabNet show excellent performance and generalization ability.Adding additional data features besides energy deposition can improve the algorithm’s performance when the data distribution is nonuniform.Intelligent learning algorithms can be applied to solve the particle identification problem in heavy-ion collisions at low and intermediate energies.
基金This work is supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2022YFA1604900)the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(No.2020B0301030008)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12275053,12025501,11890710,11890714,12147101,12075061,and 12225502)the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB34030000)Shanghai National Science Foundation(No.20ZR1404100)STCSM(No.23590780100).
文摘Ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions(UPCs)offer unique opportunities to study processes under strong electromagnetic fields.In these collisions,highly charged fast-moving ions carry strong electromagnetic fields that can be effectively treated as photon fluxes.The exchange of photons can induce photonuclear and two-photon interactions and excite ions.This excitation of the ions results in Coulomb dissociation with the emission of photons,neutrons,and other particles.Additionally,the electromagnetic fields generated by the ions can be sufficiently strong to enforce mutual interactions between the two colliding ions.Consequently,the two colliding ions experience an electromagnetic force that pushes them in opposite directions,causing a back-to-back correlation in the emitted neutrons.Using a Monte Carlo simulation,we qualitatively demonstrate that the above electromagnetic effect is large enough to be observed in UPCs,which would provide a clear means to study strong electromagnetic fields and their effects.
基金partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U2032145 and 11875125)the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2020YFE0202002)。
文摘In this study, the rapidity distribution, collective flows, and nuclear stopping power in ^(197)Au+^(197)Au collisions at intermediate energies were investigated using the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics(UrQMD) model with GEMINI++ code. The UrQMD model was adopted to simulate the dynamic evolution of heavy-ion collisions, whereas the GEMINI++ code was used to simulate the decay of primary fragments produced by UrQMD. The calculated results were compared with the INDRA and FOPI experimental data. It was found that the rapidity distribution, collective flows, and nuclear stopping power were affected to a certain extent by the decay of primary fragments, especially at lower beam energies. Furthermore, the experimental data of the collective flows and nuclear stopping power at the investigated beam energies were better reproduced when the sequential decay effect was included.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11535012 and 11675041)。
文摘Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark–gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic(EM)and fluid vortical fields.The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as chiral magnetic,chiral separation,chiral electric separation,and chiral vortical effects as well as the spin polarization of hadrons.These phenomena provide us with experimentally feasible means to study the nontrivial topological sector of quantum chromodynamics,the possible parity violation of strong interaction at high temperature,and the subatomic spintronics of quark–gluon plasma.These studies,both in theory and in experiments,are strongly connected with other subfields of physics such as condensed matter physics,astrophysics,and cold atomic physics,and thus form an emerging interdisciplinary research area.We give an introduction to the aforementioned phenomena induced by the EM field and vorticity and an overview of the current status of experimental research in heavy-ion collisions.We also briefly discuss spin hydrodynamics as well as chiral and spin kinetic theories.
基金the US Department of Energy(DOE)(No.DE-SC0013460)the National Science Foundation(NSF)(No.PHY-2012922)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11975079)the US Department of Energy,Office of Science,Office of Nuclear Physics,within the framework of the Beam Energy Scan Theory(BEST)Topical Collaboration.
文摘We present a concise review of the recent development of relativistic hydrodynamics and its applications to heavy-ion collisions.Theoretical progress on the extended formulation of hydrodynamics toward out-ofequilibrium systems is addressed,with emphasis on the socalled attractor solution.Moreover,recent phenomenological improvements in the hydrodynamic modeling of heavy-ion collisions with respect to the ongoing beam energy scan program,the quantitative characterization of transport coefficients in three-dimensionally expanding quark–gluon plasma,the fluid description of small colliding systems,and certain other interdisciplinary connections are discussed.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11890713,11890714,11835002,11961131011,11421505,11535012 and 11890713)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.XDB34030202 and XDB34030102)。
文摘We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions.We present updated experimental results for the chiral magnetic effect and related phenomena.The time evolution of the magnetic fields in different models is discussed.The newly developed quantum kinetic theory for massive fermions is reviewed.We present theoretical and experimental results for the polarization of K hyperons and the q00 value of vector mesons.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12175031 and 11675034)
文摘The squeezed back-to-back correlation(SBBC)of a boson-antiboson pair is sensitive to the time distribution of the particle-emitting source,and the SBBC function for an evolving source is expected to be affected by the relaxation time of the system.In this study,we investigated the effect of relaxation time on the SBBC function.We propose a method for calculating the SBBC function with relaxation-time approximation for evolving sources.SBBC functions of D^(0)D^(-0)in relativistic heavy-ion collisions were investigated using a hydrodynamic model.We found that the relaxation time reduces the amplitudes of the SBBC functions.This becomes apparent for long relaxation times and large initial relative deviations of the chaotic and squeezed amplitudes from their equilibrium values in the temporal steps.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11675034,11647166 and 11675033
文摘We investigate the squeezed back-to-back correlation(BBC) of D^0~0 in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using the in-medium mass modification calculated with a self-energy in hot pion gas and the source space-time distributions provided by the viscous hydrodynamic code VISH2+1. It is found that the squeezed BBC of D^0~0 is significant in peripheral Au+Au collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider energy. A possible way to detect the squeezed BBC in an experiment is presented.
基金supported by Shanghai Natural Science Foundation(No.14ZR1403000)1000 Young Talents Program of China+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11535012)supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No.2016M590312support from RIKEN-BNL Research Center
文摘The relativistic heavy-ion collisions create both hot quark–gluon matter and strong magnetic fields, and provide an arena to study the interplay between quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics. In recent years, it has been shown that such an interplay can generate a number of interesting quantum phenomena in hadronic and quark–gluon matter. In this short review, we first discuss some properties of the magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions and then give an overview of the magnetic fieldinduced novel quantum effects. In particular, we focus on the magnetic effect on the heavy flavor mesons, the heavyquark transports, and the phenomena closely related to chiral anomaly.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11675226 and 11722546)the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(Nos.2014CB845405 and 2015CB856903)
文摘Recent progress of the quantum molecular dynamics model for describing the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is viewed, in particular the nuclear fragmentation, isospin physics, particle production and in-medium effect, hadron-induced nuclear reactions, hypernucleus, etc.The neck fragmentation in Fermi-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated for extracting the symmetry energy at subsaturation densities. The isospin effects, in-medium properties, and the behavior of high-density symmetry energy in medium-and high-energy heavy-ion collisions are thoroughly discussed. The hypernuclide dynamics formed in heavy-ion collisions and in hadron-induced reactions is analyzed and addressed in the future experiments at the high-intensity heavy-ion accelerator facility(HIAF).
基金supported in part by the Mo ST of China 973-Project(No.2015CB856901)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11575069)
文摘Fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon, electric charge, and strangeness number, are sensitive observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to probe the QCD phase transition and search for the QCD critical point. In this paper, we review the experimental measurements of the cumulants(up to fourth order) of event-byevent net-proton(proxy for net-baryon), net-charge and netkaon(proxy for net-strangeness) multiplicity distributions Au+Au collisions at sNN^(1/2) 7:7; 11:5; 14:5; 19:6; 27;39; 62:4; 200 Ge V from the first phase of beam energy scan program at the relativistic heavy-ion collider(RHIC). We also summarize the data analysis methods of suppressing the volume fluctuations, auto-correlations, and the unified description of efficiency correction and error estimation.Based on theoretical and model calculations, we will discuss the characteristic signatures of critical point as well as backgrounds for the fluctuation observables in heavy-ion collisions. The physics implications and the future secondphase of the beam energy scan(2019–2020) at RHIC will also be discussed.
基金Supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.19947001the Doctoral Programme Foundation of Institution of Higher Education,the State Education Commission of China.
文摘The energy density for the central region in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be estimated via the pseudorapidity distribution of transverse energy.The way to estimate the local energy density for the central region in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is proposed,in which only final state particles emitted from the same source are included.The energy density arrived in the NA49 experiments is about 0.9 GeV/fm^(3).
文摘In Eq. (1), A?? and Nln(N/A)+Zln(Z/A) originate from the increases of the entropy and the mixing entropy at the time of the fragment formation, respectively. n (p) is the neutron (proton) chemical potential. is the critical exponent. In this work, the value of =2.3 is adopted from the previous studies[1]. In general coefficients, av, as, asym, ac, ap and the chemical potentials are temperature and density dependent.
基金Supported in part by the Major State Basic Research Development Program under Contract No.G2000077400100 Person Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.10004012 and 19775020the Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.KJ951-A1-410).
文摘The entrance channel dependence of the isospin effects of nuclear stopping in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions has been studied by using an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics with three different kinds of symmetry potentials.It is shown that nuclear stopping is sensitive to the beam energy,the impact parameter and the mass of the colliding system,specially very sensitive to the isospin dependence of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section,but insensitive to symmetry potential and the ratio of neutron to proton of colliding system.From this investigation.It is proposed that nuclear stopping can be used as a new probe to extract the information on the isospin dependence of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions.
基金①The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chinathe grant LWTZ-1298 of Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘The time evolution of the interaction potential contour plot in intermediate energy heavy ion col-lisions is investigated.The stochastic fluctuation appearing in the peak zone of the interaction potential,which is indicated by the deformation of equipotential lines,especially by the negative curvature of equipo-tential lines,contributes to initiating the multifragmentation.
文摘The emission of high-energy particles in 16O + 197Au collisions at energy 20 MeV / nucleon is considered within the framework of the time evolution of a hot spot taking into account the hydrodynamic compression and expansion stages. In addition, the evaporation of the particles that are formed in the early (hot) stage of the evolution of the hot spot is included in the calculation of the spectrum. This leads to a hardening of the particle spectrum in its high-energy part, which is in agreement with experimental data.
基金The project supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Science Foundation of Nuclear Industry of China
文摘The Relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck(RVUU)model is used to study the properties of pi-ons and kaons produced in heavy ion collisions.We include the nuclear medium effect on kaon and pionin the model,and simulate pion production and subthreshold kaon production in Kr+Zr reactions at 1GeV/u.The calculated results show that the attractive pion optical potential changes the final-state pionmomentum spectrum,enhancing the yield of pions with low transverse momenta.At the same ti1e it alsoincreases the kaon abundance and modifies the kaon momentum distribution.
文摘Using an aspect of rapidity bins with finite sizes the short-range and longrange behaviors of two-particle correlation, the connection of two particle correlation function with factorial moment and factorial correlator are investigated; and experimental data for 16 O+Em interactions at 14.6, 60 and 200 A GeV and 32 S+197Au interactions at 200A GeV are analyzed. It is shown that the bin-average of two-particle correlation function can naturally give a coordinate description of dynamical fluctuation such as the second order factorial moment <F2> and 1+1 order factorial correlator <F1,1>.