55 research outputs found
Hydrodynamical modeling of the deconfinement phase transition and explosive hadronization
Dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is investigated on the basis of a simple (1+1)-dimensional hydrodynamical model in light-cone coordinates. The main emphasis is put on studying sensitivity of the dynamics and observables to the equation of state and initial conditions. Low sensitivity of pion rapidity spectra to the presence of the phase transition is demonstrated, and some inconsistencies of the equilibrium scenario are pointed out. Possible non-equilibrium effects are discussed, in particular, a possibility of an explosive disintegration of the deconfined phase into quark-gluon droplets. Simple estimates show that the characteristic droplet size should decrease with increasing the collective expansion rate. These droplets will hadronize individually by emitting hadrons from the surface. This scenario should reveal itself by strong non-statistical fluctuations of observables. Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement 4th International Workshop July 9-13 2007 GSI Darmstadt,German
Radial oscillations of neutral and charged hybrid stars
We construct stellar models of hadron stars and hybrid stars and calculate
the frequencies of their lowest radial mode of vibration. Chandrasekhar's
equation for radial oscillations is generalized for stars with internal
electric fields and earlier versions of that generalization are simplified. For
the hybrid stars a Gibbs construction is employed. It is found that the
softening of the equation of state associated with the presence of deconfined
quarks reduces the oscillation frequency. We show that a slight charge
inbalance should lead to increased maximum mass, decreased central density and
lower oscillation frequencies
Clustering in heavy ion collisions : why it could happen and how to observe it?
We argue that Clustering in heavy ion collisions could be the missing element in resolving the socalled HBT puzzle, and briefly discuss the different physical situations where clustering could be present. We then propose a method by which clustering in heavy ion collisions could be detectedin a model-independent way
Thermodynamics of explosions
We present our first attempts to formulate a thermodynamics-like description
of explosions. The motivation is partly a fundamental interest in
non-equilibrium statistical physics, partly the resemblance of an explosion to
the late stages of a heavy-ion collision. We perform numerical simulations on a
microscopic model of interacting billiard-ball like particles, and we analyse
the results of such simulations trying to identify collective variables
describing the degree of equilibrium during the explosion.Comment: 6 pages. Talk presented at "Bologna 2000 - Structure of the nucleus"
international conference, May 29 - June 3, Bologna, Italy. Shortened version,
to appear in the Proceeding
Hydrodynamics of a quark droplet II: Implications of a non-zero baryon chemical potential
We present an extended version of the dynamical model for a multi-quark
droplet evolution described in our proceeding paper. The model includes
collective expansion of the droplet, effects of the vacuum pressure and surface
tension, and now a non-zero baryon number. The hadron emission from the droplet
is described following Weisskopf's statistical model. We consider evolutions of
droplets with different initial temperatures and net baryon number. It is found
that the introduction of a non-zero net baryon number does not change the
lifetime of the droplets significantly. Only when we consider an initially very
baryon-rich, low-temperature droplets is the lifetime is decreased
significantly. We have, furthermore, found a convergence of both baryon
chemical potential and temperature toward the values 450
MeV and MeV. This convergence is linked to the competing
emission of baryons versus mesons.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Strange quark matter within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
Equation of state of baryon rich quark matter is studied within the SU(3) Nambu Jona-Lasinio model with flavour mixing interaction. Possible bound states (strangelets) and chiral phase transitions in this matter are investigated at various values of strangeness fraction rs. The model predictions are very sensitive to the ratio of vector and scalar coupling constants, ¾ = GV /GS. At ¾ = 0.5 and zero temperature the maximum binding energy (about 15 MeV per baryon) takes place at rs C 0.4. Such strangelets are negatively charged and have typical life times < 10 7 s. The calculations are carried out also at finite temperatures. They show that bound states exist up to temperatures of about 15 MeV. The model predicts a first order chiral phase transition at finite baryon densities. The parameters of this phase transition are calculated as a function of rs
Particle production by time-dependent meson fields in relativistic heavy ion-collisions
According to the Walecka mean field theory of nuclear interaction the collective mutual deceleration of the colliding nuclei gives rise to the bremsstrahlung of real and virtual ! mesons. It is shown that decays of these mesons may give a noticeable contribution to the observed yields of the baryon antibaryon pairs, dileptons and pions. Excitation functions and rapidity distributions of particles produced by this mechanism are calculated under some simplifying assumptions about the space time variation of meson fields in nuclear collisions. The calculated multiplicities of coherently produced particles grow fast with the bombarding energy, reaching a saturation above the RHIC bombarding energy. In the case of central Au+Au collisions the bremsstrahlung mechanism becomes comparable with particle production in incoherent hadron hadron collisions above the AGS energies. The rapidity spectra of antibaryons and pions exhibit a characteristic two hump structure which is a consequence of incomplete projectile target stopping at the initial stage of the reaction. The predicted distribution of e+e pairs has a strong peak at invariant masses Me+e < 0.5 GeV
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