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Comments on "Observation of Long-Range, Near-Side Angular Correlations in proton-proton Collisions at the LHC" by CMS Collaboration. arXiv:1009.4122[hep-ex]
We present comments on the paper "Observation of Long-Range, Near-Side
Angular Correlations in proton-proton Collisions at the LHC"
Deconfinement and degrees of freedom in and collisions at LHC energies
We present the extraction of the temperature by analyzing the charged
particle transverse momentum spectra in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) and proton-proton
() collisions at LHC energies from the ALICE Collaboration using the
Color String Percolation Model (CSPM). From the measured energy density and the temperature T the dimensionless quantity is obtained to get the degrees of freedom (DOF), = DOF /30.
We observe for the first time a two-step behavior in the increase of DOF,
characteristic of deconfinement, above the hadronization temperature at
temperature 210 MeV for both Pb-Pb and collisions and a
sudden increase to the ideal gas value of 47 corresponding to three
quark flavors in the case of Pb-Pb collisions.Comment: 7 pages and 4 figure
Tracking the phase-transition energy in disassembly of hot nuclei
In efforts to determine phase transitions in the disintegration of highly
excited heavy nuclei, a popular practice is to parametrise the yields of
isotopes as a function of temperature in the form
, where 's are the measured yields
and and are fitted to the yields. Here would be
interpreted as the phase transition temperature. For finite systems such as
those obtained in nuclear collisions, this parametrisation is only approximate
and hence allows for extraction of in more than one way. In this work we
look in detail at how values of differ, depending on methods of
extraction. It should be mentioned that for finite systems, this approximate
parametrisation works not only at the critical point, but also for first order
phase transitions (at least in some models). Thus the approximate fit is no
guarantee that one is seeing a critical phenomenon. A different but more
conventional search for the nuclear phase transition would look for a maximum
in the specific heat as a function of temperature . In this case is
interpreted as the phase transition temperature. Ideally and would
coincide. We invesigate this possibility, both in theory and from the ISiS
data, performing both canonical () and microcanonical ()
calculations. Although more than one value of can be extracted from the
approximate parmetrisation, the work here points to the best value from among
the choices. Several interesting results, seen in theoretical calculations, are
borne out in experiment.Comment: Revtex, 10 pages including 8 figures and 2 table
Excitation and decay of projectile-like fragments formed in dissipative peripheral collisions at intermediate energies
Projectile-like fragments (PLF:15<=Z<=46) formed in peripheral and
mid-peripheral collisions of 114Cd projectiles with 92Mo nuclei at E/A=50 MeV
have been detected at very forward angles, 2.1 deg.<=theta_lab<=4.2 deg.
Calorimetric analysis of the charged particles observed in coincidence with the
PLF reveals that the excitation of the primary PLF is strongly related to its
velocity damping. Furthermore, for a given V_PLF*, its excitation is not
related to its size, Z_PLF*. For the largest velocity damping, the excitation
energy attained is large, approximately commensurate with a system at the
limiting temperatureComment: 5 pages, 6 figure
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