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Highly Sensitive Centrality Dependence of Elliptic Flow -- A Novel Signature of the Phase Transition in QCD
Elliptic flow of the hot, dense system which has been created in
nucleus-nucleus collisions develops as a response to the initial azimuthal
asymmetry of the reaction region. Here it is suggested that the magnitude of
this response shows a ``kinky'' dependence on the centrality of collisions for
which the system passes through a first-order or rapid transition between
quark-gluon plasma and hadronic matter. We have studied the system Pb(158AGeV)
on Pb employing a recent version of the transport theoretical approach RQMD and
find the conjecture confirmed. The novel phase transition signature may be
observable in present and forthcoming experiments at CERN-SPS and at RHIC, the
BNL collider.Comment: Version as published in PRL 82 (1999) 2048, title chang
Uranium on uranium collisions at relativistic energies
Deformation and orientation effects on compression, elliptic flow and
particle production in uranium on uranium collisions (UU) at relativistic
energies are studied within the transport model ART. The density compression in
tip-tip UU collisions is found to be about 30% higher and lasts approximately
50% longer than in body-body or spherical UU reactions. The body-body UU
collisions have the unique feature that the nucleon elliptic flow is the
highest in the most central collisions and remain a constant throughout the
reaction. We point out that the tip-tip UU collisions are more probable to
create the QGP at AGS and SPS energies while the body-body UU collisions are
more useful for studying properties of the QGP at higher energies.Comment: 8 pages + 4 figure
Elliptical flow -- a signature for early pressure in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions
Elliptical energy flow patterns in non-central Au(11.7AGeV) on Au reactions
have been studied employing the RQMD model. The strength of these azimuthal
asymmetries is calculated comparing the results in two different modes of RQMD
(mean field and cascade). It is found that the elliptical flow which is readily
observable with current experimental detectors may help to distinguish
different reasonable expansion scenarios for baryon-dense matter. The final
asymmetries are very sensitive to the pressure at maximum compression, because
they involve a partial cancelation between early squeeze-out and subsequent
flow in the reaction plane. This cancelation can be expected to occur in a
broad energy region covered by the current heavy ion fixed-target programs at
BNL and at CERN.Comment: 14 pages LaTeX including 3 postscript figure
A Model of Quark and Lepton Masses I: The Neutrino Sector
If neutrinos have masses, why are they so tiny? Are these masses of the Dirac
type or of the Majorana type? We are already familiar with the mechanism of how
to obtain a tiny Majorana neutrino mass by the famous see-saw mechanism. The
question is: Can one build a model in which a tiny Dirac neutrino mass arises
in a more or less "natural" way? What would be the phenomenological
consequences of such a scenario, other than just merely reproducing the
neutrino mass patterns for the oscillation data? In this article, a systematic
and detailed analysis of a model is presented, with, as key components, the
introduction of a family symmetry as well as a new SU(2) symmetry for the
right-handed neutrinos. In particular, in addition to the calculations of light
neutrino Dirac masses, interesting phenomenological implications of the model
will be presented.Comment: 25 (single-spaced) pages, 11 figures, corrected some typos in Table
I, added acknowledgement
Entanglement Entropy for Singular Surfaces
We study entanglement entropy for regions with a singular boundary in higher
dimensions using the AdS/CFT correspondence and find that various singularities
make new universal contributions. When the boundary CFT has an even spacetime
dimension, we find that the entanglement entropy of a conical surface contains
a term quadratic in the logarithm of the UV cut-off. In four dimensions, the
coefficient of this contribution is proportional to the central charge 'c'. A
conical singularity in an odd number of spacetime dimensions contributes a term
proportional to the logarithm of the UV cut-off. We also study the entanglement
entropy for various boundary surfaces with extended singularities. In these
cases, similar universal terms may appear depending on the dimension and
curvature of the singular locus.Comment: 66 pages,4 figures. Some typos are removed and a reference is adde
Nanomechanical-resonator-assisted induced transparency in a Cooper-pair-box system
We propose a scheme to demonstrate the electromagnetically induced
transparency (EIT) in a system of a superconducting Cooper-pair box coupled to
a nanomechanical resonator. In this scheme, the nanomechanical resonator plays
an important role to contribute additional auxiliary energy levels to the
Cooper-pair box so that the EIT phenomenon could be realized in such a system.
We call it here resonator-assisted induced transparency (RAIT). This RAIT
technique provides a detection scheme in a real experiment to measure physical
properties, such as the vibration frequency and the decay rate, of the coupled
nanomechanical resonator.Comment: To appear in New Journal of Physics: Special Issue "Mechanical
Systems at the Quantum Limit
Elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions near the balance energy
The proton elliptic flow in collisions of Ca on Ca at energies from 30 to 100
MeV/nucleon is studied in an isospin-dependent transport model. With increasing
incident energy, the elliptic flow shows a transition from positive to negative
flow. Its magnitude depends on both the nuclear equation of state (EOS) and the
nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section. Different elliptic flows are obtained
for a stiff EOS with free nucleon-nucleon cross sections and a soft EOS with
reduced nucleon-nucleon cross sections, although both lead to vanishing
in-plane transverse flow at the same balance energy. The study of both in-plane
and elliptic flows at intermediate energies thus provides a means to extract
simultaneously the information on the nuclear equation of state and the
nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section in medium.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Transfer of K-types on local theta lifts of characters and unitary lowest weight modules
In this paper we study representations of the indefinite orthogonal group
O(n,m) which are local theta lifts of one dimensional characters or unitary
lowest weight modules of the double covers of the symplectic groups. We apply
the transfer of K-types on these representations of O(n,m), and we study their
effects on the dual pair correspondences. These results provide examples that
the theta lifting is compatible with the transfer of K-types. Finally we will
use these results to study subquotients of some cohomologically induced
modules
Differential flow in heavy-ion collisions at balance energies
A strong differential transverse collective flow is predicted for the first
time to occur in heavy-ion collisions at balance energies. We also give a novel
explanation for the disappearance of the total transverse collective flow at
the balance energies. It is further shown that the differential flow especially
at high transverse momenta is a useful microscope capable of resolving the
balance energy's dual sensitivity to both the nuclear equation of state and
in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections in the reaction dynamics.Comment: Phys. Rev. Lett. (1999) in pres
Distribution of transmitted charge through a double-barrier junction
The distribution function of transmitted charge through a double-barrier
junction is studied at zero temperature and at small applied voltage. Both a
semiclassical model, in which the transport is described by jump rates, and a
quantum mechanical model, which averages over resonant and non-resonant states,
are used to determine the characteristic function of the transmitted electrons.
It is demonstrated that for large times the logarithm of the characteristic
function is equal within the two approaches. The charge distribution is in
between a Gaussian and a Poissonian distribution if both barriers have equal
height and reduces to a Poissonian if one barrier is much higher than the
other.Comment: 6 pages, revtex, 2 figures include
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