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Strange mesons in dense nuclear matter
Experimental data on the production of kaons and antikaons in heavy ion
collisions at relativistic energies are reviewed with respect to in-medium
effects. The ratios measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions are 1 - 2
orders of magnitude larger than in proton-proton collisions. The azimuthal
angle distributions of mesons indicate a repulsive kaon-nucleon
potential. Microscopic transport calculations consistently explain both the
yields and the emission patterns of kaons and antikaons when assuming that
their properties are modified in dense nuclear matter. The production
excitation functions measured in light and heavy collision systems provide
evidence for a soft nuclear equation-of-state.Comment: 16 pages, 12 figures, Invited talk at the 7. international Conference
Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Strasbourg, July 3-7, 200
Statistical hadronization of charm: from FAIR to the LHC
We discuss the production of charmonium in nuclear collisions within the
framework of the statistical hadronization model. We demonstrate that the model
reproduces very well the availble data at RHIC. We provide predictions for the
LHC energy where, dependently on the charm production cross section, a
dramatically different behaviour of charmonium production as a function of
centrality might be expected. We extend our predictions for charm production
towards the threshold energies, where charm is expected to be measured at the
future FAIR facility.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; proceedings of QM200
Kaon properties and cross sections in nuclear medium
Results for the reactions in nuclear matter
of Ref. nucl-th/0004011 are presented. To evaluate the in-medium modification
of the reaction amplitude as a function of the baryonic density we introduce
relativistic, mean-field potentials for the initial, final and intermediate
mesonic and baryonic states in the resonance model. These vector and scalar
potentials were calculated using the quark meson coupling model. Contrary to
earlier work which has not allowed for the change of the cross section in
medium, we find that the data for kaon production at SIS energies are
consistent with a repulsive -nucleus potential.Comment: 5 pages, 3 postscript figures included, uses iopart.cls and
iopart10.clo (included), presented by K.T. at the 5th International
Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, July 20 - 25, 2000, Berkeley,
California, to be published in the proceedings, J. Phys. G. An explanation
has been added in Sec. 3 with a new figur
How many phases meet at the chiral critical point?
We explore the phase diagram of NJL-type models near the chiral critical
point allowing for phases with spatially inhomogeneous chiral condensates. In
the chiral limit it turns out that the region in the mean-field phase diagram
where those phases are energetically preferred very generically reaches out to
the chiral critical point. The preferred inhomogeneous ground state in this
vicinity possibly resembles a lattice of domain wall solitons. This raises the
question of their relevance for the phase diagram of QCD.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor corrections, as published in PR
Model of correlated sequential adsorption of colloidal particles
We present results of a new model of sequential adsorption in which the
adsorbing particles are correlated with the particles attached to the
substrate. The strength of the correlations is measured by a tunable parameter
. The model interpolates between free ballistic adsorption in the limit
and a strongly correlated phase, appearing for
and characterized by the emergence of highly ordered structures. The phenomenon
is manifested through the analysis of several magnitudes, as the jamming limit
and the particle-particle correlation function. The effect of correlations in
one dimension manifests in the increased tendency to particle chaining in the
substrate. In two dimensions the correlations induce a percolation transition,
in which a spanning cluster of connected particles appears at a certain
critical value . Our study could be applicable to more general
situations in which the coupling between correlations and disorder is relevant,
as for example, in the presence of strong interparticle interactions.Comment: 6 pages, 8 EPS figures. Phys. Rev. E (in press
Covariant transport approach for strongly interacting partonic systems
The dynamics of partons, hadrons and strings in relativistic nucleus-nucleus
collisions is analyzed within the novel Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD)
transport approach, which is based on a dynamical quasiparticle model for
partons (DQPM) matched to reproduce recent lattice-QCD results - including the
partonic equation of state - in thermodynamic equilibrium. Scalar- and
vector-interaction densities are extracted from the DQPM as well as effective
scalar- and vector-mean fields for the partons. The transition from partonic to
hadronic degrees of freedom is described by covariant transition rates for the
fusion of quark-antiquark pairs or three quarks (antiquarks), respectively,
obeying flavor current-conservation, color neutrality as well as
energy-momentum conservation. Since the dynamical quarks and antiquarks become
very massive close to the phase transition, the formed resonant 'pre-hadronic'
color-dipole states ( or ) are of high invariant mass, too, and
sequentially decay to the groundstate meson and baryon octets increasing the
total entropy. When applying the PHSD approach to Pb+Pb colllisions at 158
AGeV we find a significant effect of the partonic phase on the
production of multi-strange antibaryons due to a slightly enhanced
pair production from massive time-like gluon decay and a larger formation of
antibaryons in the hadronization process.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the 26th
Winter Workshop on `Nuclear Dynamics', Ochto Rios, Jamaica, 2-9 January,
2010
Influence of Hydrodynamic Interactions on the Kinetics of Colloidal Particle's Adsorption
The kinetics of irreversible adsorption of spherical particles onto a flat
surface is theoretically studied. Previous models, in which hydrodynamic
interactions were disregarded, predicted a power-law behavior for
the time dependence of the coverage of the surface near saturation.
Experiments, however, are in agreement with a power-law behavior of the form
. We outline that, when hydrodynamic interactions are considered, the
assymptotic behavior is found to be compatible with the experimental results in
a wide region near saturation.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figures, Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press
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