323 research outputs found
Multistrange baryon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Using a multiphase transport model, we study the production of multistrange
baryons from the hadronic matter formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
The mechanism we introduce is the strangeness-exchange reactions between
antikaons and hyperons. We find that these reactions contribute significantly
to the production of multistrange baryons in heavy ion collisions at SPS
energies, which has been found to be appreciably enhanced. We have also made
predictions for multistrange baryon production in heavy ion collisions at RHIC
and found a similar enhancement.Comment: 6 pages, RevTex, 8 figs include
Testing Lorentz invariance of dark matter
We study the possibility to constrain deviations from Lorentz invariance in
dark matter (DM) with cosmological observations. Breaking of Lorentz invariance
generically introduces new light gravitational degrees of freedom, which we
represent through a dynamical timelike vector field. If DM does not obey
Lorentz invariance, it couples to this vector field. We find that this coupling
affects the inertial mass of small DM halos which no longer satisfy the
equivalence principle. For large enough lumps of DM we identify a (chameleon)
mechanism that restores the inertial mass to its standard value. As a
consequence, the dynamics of gravitational clustering are modified. Two
prominent effects are a scale dependent enhancement in the growth of large
scale structure and a scale dependent bias between DM and baryon density
perturbations. The comparison with the measured linear matter power spectrum in
principle allows to bound the departure from Lorentz invariance of DM at the
per cent level.Comment: 42 pages, 9 figure
Quasilinear hyperbolic Fuchsian systems and AVTD behavior in T2-symmetric vacuum spacetimes
We set up the singular initial value problem for quasilinear hyperbolic
Fuchsian systems of first order and establish an existence and uniqueness
theory for this problem with smooth data and smooth coefficients (and with even
lower regularity). We apply this theory in order to show the existence of
smooth (generally not analytic) T2-symmetric solutions to the vacuum Einstein
equations, which exhibit AVTD (asymptotically velocity term dominated) behavior
in the neighborhood of their singularities and are polarized or half-polarized.Comment: 78 page
Baryon Number Fluctuation and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
We show that or , the squared baryon or
antibaryon number fluctuation per baryon or antibaryon, is a possible signature
for the quark-gluon plasma that is expected to be created in relativistic heavy
ion collisions, as it is a factor of three smaller than in an equilibrated
hadronic matter due to the fractional baryon number of quarks. Using kinetic
equations with exact baryon number conservation, we find that their values in
an equilibrated matter are half of those expected from a Poisson distribution.
Effects due to finite acceptance and non-zero net baryon number are also
studied.Comment: discussion and references added, version to appear in PR
Dilepton production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS energies
Dilepton production in proton- and nucleus-induced reactions is studied in
relativistic transport model using initial conditions determined by the string
dynamics from RQMD. It is found that both the CERES and HELIOS-3 data for
dilepton spectra in proton-nucleus reactions can be well described by the
`conventional' mechanism of Dalitz decay and direct vector meson decay.
However, to provide a quantitative explanation of the observed dilepton spectra
in central S+Au and S+W collisions requires contributions other than these
direct decays. Introducing a decrease of vector meson masses in hot and dense
medium, we find that these heavy-ion data can also be satisfactorily explained.
This agrees with our earlier conclusions based on a fire cylinder model. We
also give predictions for Pb+Au collisions at 160 GeV/nucleon using current
CERES mass resolution and acceptance.Comment: RevTeX, 45 pages, including 21 postscript figures, to be published in
Nuclear Physics
Wave Propagation in Gravitational Systems: Late Time Behavior
It is well-known that the dominant late time behavior of waves propagating on
a Schwarzschild spacetime is a power-law tail; tails for other spacetimes have
also been studied. This paper presents a systematic treatment of the tail
phenomenon for a broad class of models via a Green's function formalism and
establishes the following. (i) The tail is governed by a cut of the frequency
Green's function along the ~Im~ axis,
generalizing the Schwarzschild result. (ii) The dependence of the cut
is determined by the asymptotic but not the local structure of space. In
particular it is independent of the presence of a horizon, and has the same
form for the case of a star as well. (iii) Depending on the spatial
asymptotics, the late time decay is not necessarily a power law in time. The
Schwarzschild case with a power-law tail is exceptional among the class of the
potentials having a logarithmic spatial dependence. (iv) Both the amplitude and
the time dependence of the tail for a broad class of models are obtained
analytically. (v) The analytical results are in perfect agreement with
numerical calculations
Entanglement Dynamics in Two-Qubit Open System Interacting with a Squeezed Thermal Bath via Quantum Nondemolition interaction
We analyze the dynamics of entanglement in a two-qubit system interacting
with an initially squeezed thermal environment via a quantum nondemolition
system-reservoir interaction, with the system and reservoir assumed to be
initially separable. We compare and contrast the decoherence of the two-qubit
system in the case where the qubits are mutually close-by (`collective regime')
or distant (`localized regime') with respect to the spatial variation of the
environment. Sudden death of entanglement (as quantified by concurrence) is
shown to occur in the localized case rather than in the collective case, where
entanglement tends to `ring down'. A consequence of the QND character of the
interaction is that the time-evolved fidelity of a Bell state never falls below
, a fact that is useful for quantum communication applications like
a quantum repeater. Using a novel quantification of mixed state entanglement,
we show that there are noise regimes where even though entanglement vanishes,
the state is still available for applications like NMR quantum computation,
because of the presence of a pseudo-pure component.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, REVTeX
A Multi-Phase Transport model for nuclear collisions at RHIC
To study heavy ion collisions at energies available from the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider, we have developed a multi-phase transport model that
includes both initial partonic and final hadronic interactions. Specifically,
the parton cascade model ZPC, which uses as input the parton distribution from
the HIJING model, is extended to include the quark-gluon to hadronic matter
transition and also final-state hadronic interactions based on the ART model.
Predictions of the model for central Au on Au collisions at RHIC are reported.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Dynamics of Brane-World Cosmological Models
We show that generically the initial singularity is isotropic in spatially
homogeneous cosmological models in the brane-world scenario. We then argue that
it is plausible that the initial singularity is isotropic in typical brane
world cosmological models. Therefore, brane cosmology naturally gives rise to a
set of initial data that provide the conditions for inflation to subsequently
take place, thereby solving the initial conditions problem and leading to a
self--consistent and viable cosmology.Comment: Final version. To appear in Physical Revie
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