11 research outputs found
Strangeness abundances in p¯-nucleus annihilations
Strange particle abundances in small volumes of hot hadronic gas are determined in the canonical ensemble with exact strangeness and baryon number conservation. Substantial density and baryon number dependence is found. A p¯d experiment is examined and applications to p¯-nucleus annihilations are considered
Metaphor For a Post-White Horizon
This project is a counternarrative, in the tradition of Richard Delgado’s The Rodrigo Chronicles, using critical race theory’s storytelling methodology. We present a discussion between a Black scholar and white scholar sharing their experiences as they explore the relationship between Blackness/whiteness and anti-Blackness/white supremacy. The crux of this counternarrative lies in the intersection between the hopelessness one Black scholar feels toward racial progress in America and the desperation of a white scholar as they process the possibilities for a post-white ontological future within the Western academy in the wake of the January 6th Insurrection. The counter-story integrates Afropessimistic thought with the creativity of Afrofuturism to comment on the uses and abuses of Black labor under the white gaze. The conclusion of the counter-story argues for the need of a post-white futurism that imagines a possible future without whiteness and a future that is also not subsistent upon the foundational abuse and overuse of Black labor.
Corresponding author information:
Dwayne Kwaysee Wright, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration, The George Washington University, 2136 G Street NW, Room 118, Washington, DC 20052, [email protected], Phone: 347.291.6276
Biographies
Dwayne Kwaysee Wright (he/him/his), J.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development which is part of the George Washington University. His research and social activism seek to advance educational opportunity and equity for all students, particularly those historically oppressed and marginalized in American society.
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Dr. Tyler Derreth (he/him/his) is the associate director of SOURCE and faculty in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at Johns Hopkins University. His research concentrates on urban community–university partnerships, critical pedagogies, and equitable educational practices. He centers his research agenda on issues of social justice, racism, and identity.
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Hadronic Ratios and the Number of Projectile Participants. Thermal hadron production in Si-Au collisions
We investigate the dependence of hadronic ratios on the number of projectile
participants using a thermal model incorporating exact baryon number and
strangeness conservation. A comparison is made with results from
collisions obtained at the BNL-AGS.Comment: 5 pages LaTeX2e, 4 figures in Postscript forma
The order, shape and critical point for the quark-gluon plasma phase transition
The order, shape and critical point for the phase transition between the
hadronic matter and quark-gluon plasma are considered in a thermodynamical
consistent approach. The hadronic phase is taken as Van der Waals gas of all
the known hadronic mass spectrum particles GeV as well as Hagedorn
bubbles which correspond hadronic states with mass spectrum GeV. The
density of states for Hagedorn bubbles is derived by calculating the
microcanonical ensemble for a bag of quarks and gluons with specific internal
color-flavor symmetry. The mixed-grand and microcanonical ensembles are derived
for massless and massive flavors. We find Hagedorn bubbles are strongly
suppressed in the dilute hadronic matter and they appear just below the line of
the phase transition. The order of the phase transition depends on Hagedorn
bubble's internal color-flavor structure and the volume fluctuation as well. On
the other hand, the highly compressed hadronic matter undergoes a smooth phase
transition from the gas of known mass spectrum hadrons to another one dominated
by Hagedorn bubbles with specific internal color-flavor structure before the
phase transition to quark-gluon plasma takes place at last. The phase
transition is found a first order for the intermediate and large chemical
potentials. The existence of the tri-critical point depends on the modification
of the bubble's internal structure specified by a phenomenological parameter
in the medium.Comment: 69 pages, 10 figure
Exact Baryon, Strangeness and Charge Conservation in Hadronic Gas Models
Relativistic heavy ion collisions are studied assuming that particles can be
described by a hadron gas in thermal and chemical equilibrium. The exact
conservation of baryon number, strangeness and charge are explicitly taken into
account. For heavy ions the effect arising from the neutron surplus becomes
important and leads to a substantial increase in e.g. the ratio.
A method is developed which is very well suited for the study of small systems.Comment: 5 pages, 5 Postscript figure
Isospin Fluctuations from a Thermally Equilibrated Hadron Gas
Partition functions, multiplicity distributions, and isospin fluctuations are
calculated for canonical ensembles in which additive quantum numbers as well as
total isospin are strictly conserved. When properly accounting for
Bose-Einstein symmetrization, the multiplicity distributions of neutral pions
in a pion gas are significantly broader as compared to the non-degenerate case.
Inclusion of resonances compensates for this broadening effect. Recursion
relations are derived which allow calculation of exact results with modest
computer time.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
The Legacy of Rolf Hagedorn: Statistical Bootstrap and Ultimate Temperature
In the latter half of the last century, it became evident that there exists
an ever increasing number of different states of the so-called elementary
particles. The usual reductionist approach to this problem was to search for a
simpler infrastructure, culminating in the formulation of the quark model and
quantum chromodynamics. In a complementary, completely novel approach, Hagedorn
suggested that the mass distribution of the produced particles follows a
self-similar composition pattern, predicting an unbounded number of states of
increasing mass. He then concluded that such a growth would lead to a limiting
temperature for strongly interacting matter. We discuss the conceptual basis
for this approach, its relation to critical behavior, and its subsequent
applications in different areas of high energy physics.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figures; to appear in R. Hagedorn and J. Rafelski (Ed.),
"Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks", Springer Verlag 201
Influence of Impact Parameter on Thermal Description of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at GSI/SIS
Attention is drawn to the role played by the size of the system in the
thermodynamic analysis of particle yields in relativistic heavy ion collisions
at SIS energies. This manifests itself in the non-linear dependence of K+ and
K- yields in collisions at 1 -- 2 A.GeV on the number of participants. It
is shown that this dependence can be quantitatively well described in terms of
a thermal model with a canonical strangeness conservation. The measured
particle multiplicity ratios (pi+/p, pi-/pi+, d/p, K+/pi+ and K+/K- but not
eta/pi0) in central Au-Au and Ni-Ni collisions at 0.8 -- 2.0 A.GeV are also
explained in the context of a thermal model with a common freeze-out
temperature and chemical potential. Including the concept of collective flow a
consistent picture of particle energy distributions is derived with the flow
velocity being strongly impact-parameter dependent.Comment: revtex, 20 figure