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Isospin emission and flows at high baryon density: a test of the symmetry potential
High energy Heavy Ion Collisions (HIC) are studied in order to access nuclear
matter properties at high density. Particular attention is paid to the
selection of observables sensitive to the poorly known symmetry energy at high
baryon density, of large fundamental interest, even for the astrophysics
implications. Using fully consistent transport simulations built on effective
theories we test isospin observables ranging from nucleon/cluster emissions to
collective flows (in particular the elliptic, squeeze out, part). The effects
of the competition between stiffness and momentum dependence of the Symmetry
Potential on the reaction dynamics are thoroughly analyzed. In this way we try
to shed light on the controversial neutron/proton effective mass splitting at
high baryon and isospin densities. New, more exclusive, experiments are
suggested.Comment: 10 pages, 16 figures, new figure added, accepted for publication in
Phys.Rev.
Isospin emission and flows at high baryon density: a test of the symmetry potential
High energy Heavy Ion Collisions (HIC) are studied in order to access nuclear
matter properties at high density. Particular attention is paid to the
selection of observables sensitive to the poorly known symmetry energy at high
baryon density, of large fundamental interest, even for the astrophysics
implications. Using fully consistent transport simulations built on effective
theories we test isospin observables ranging from nucleon/cluster emissions to
collective flows (in particular the elliptic, squeeze out, part). The effects
of the competition between stiffness and momentum dependence of the Symmetry
Potential on the reaction dynamics are thoroughly analyzed. In this way we try
to shed light on the controversial neutron/proton effective mass splitting at
high baryon and isospin densities. New, more exclusive, experiments are
suggested.Comment: 10 pages, 16 figures, new figure added, accepted for publication in
Phys.Rev.
A Geometric Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Antiferromagnetic Ising model with "Topological" Term at
In this work we study the two and three-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising
model with an imaginary magnetic field at . In order to
perform numerical simulations of the system we introduce a new geometric
algorithm not affected by the sign problem. Our results for the model are
in agreement with the analytical solutions. We also present new results for the
model which are qualitatively in agreement with mean-field predictions
Statistical methods for point-like neutrino searches
The search of high energy neutrinos (> 100GeV) from point-like sources is one of the main goals of under-water or under-ice neutrino telescopes. In this report the sensitivity and discovery potential estimated with two different statistical methods for a multi kilometer under-water telescope are compared
Phase structure of a generalized Nambu Jona-Lasinio model with Wilson fermions in the mean field or large -expansion
We analyze the vacuum structure of a generalized lattice Nambu--Jona-Lasinio
model with two flavors of Wilson fermions, such that its continuum action is
the most general four-fermion action with 'trivial' color interactions, and
having a symmetry in the chiral limit. The phase structure
of this model in the space of the two four-fermion couplings shows, in addition
to the standard Aoki phases, new phases with , in
close analogy to similar results recently suggested by some of us for lattice
QCD with two degenerate Wilson fermions. This result shows how the phase
structure of an effective model for low energy QCD cannot be entirely
understood from Wilson Chiral Perturbation Theory, based on the standard QCD
chiral effective Lagrangian approach.Comment: 24 pages, 3 figures, sent to Nuclear Physics
Thermodynamics of the classical spin-ice model with nearest neighbour interactions using the Wang-Landau algorithm
In this article we study the classical nearest-neighbour spin-ice model
(nnSI) by means of Monte Carlo simulations, using the Wang-Landau algorithm.
The nnSI describes several of the salient features of the spin-ice materials.
Despite its simplicity it exhibits a remarkably rich behaviour. The model has
been studied using a variety of techniques, thus it serves as an ideal
benchmark to test the capabilities of the Wang Landau algorithm in magnetically
frustrated systems. We study in detail the residual entropy of the nnSI and, by
introducing an applied magnetic field in two different crystallographic
directions ([111] and [100],) we explore the physics of the kagome-ice phase,
the transition to full polarisation, and the three dimensional Kasteleyn
transition. In the latter case, we discuss how additional constraints can be
added to the Hamiltonian, by taking into account a selective choice of states
in the partition function and, then, show how this choice leads to the
realization of the ideal Kasteleyn transition in the system.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
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