185 research outputs found
Volume-Enclosing Surface Extraction
In this paper we present a new method, which allows for the construction of
triangular isosurfaces from three-dimensional data sets, such as 3D image data
and/or numerical simulation data that are based on regularly shaped, cubic
lattices. This novel volume-enclosing surface extraction technique, which has
been named VESTA, can produce up to six different results due to the nature of
the discretized 3D space under consideration. VESTA is neither template-based
nor it is necessarily required to operate on 2x2x2 voxel cell neighborhoods
only. The surface tiles are determined with a very fast and robust construction
technique while potential ambiguities are detected and resolved. Here, we
provide an in-depth comparison between VESTA and various versions of the
well-known and very popular Marching Cubes algorithm for the very first time.
In an application section, we demonstrate the extraction of VESTA isosurfaces
for various data sets ranging from computer tomographic scan data to simulation
data of relativistic hydrodynamic fireball expansions.Comment: 24 pages, 33 figures, 4 tables, final versio
Bose-Einstein Correlations and the Equation of State of Nuclear Matter in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Experimental spectra of the CERN/SPS experiments NA44 and NA49 are fitted
while using four different equations of state of nuclear matter within a
relativistic hydrodynamic framework. For the freeze-out temperatures, MeV and MeV, respectively, the corresponding freeze-out
hypersurfaces and Bose-Einstein correlation functions for identical pion pairs
are discussed. It is concluded, that the Bose-Einstein interferometry measures
the relationship between the temperature and the energy density in the equation
of state of nuclear matter at the late hadronic stage of the fireball
expansion. It is necessary, to use the detailed detector acceptances in the
calculations for the Bose-Einstein correlations.Comment: 8 pages, including 4 figures. You can also download a PostScript file
of the manuscript from http://p2hp2.lanl.gov/people/schlei/eprint.htm
GPU Programming - Speeding Up the 3D Surface Generator VESTA
The novel "Volume-Enclosing Surface exTraction Algorithm" (VESTA) generates
triangular isosurfaces from computed tomography volumetric images and/or
three-dimensional (3D) simulation data. Here, we present various benchmarks for
GPU-based code implementations of both VESTA and the current state-of-the-art
Marching Cubes Algorithm (MCA). One major result of this study is that VESTA
runs significantly faster than the MCA.Comment: 1 page, 1 figure, submitted contribution to the GSI Scientific Report
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The Linear Correlation Coefficient vs. the Cross Term in Bose-Einstein Correlations
We investigate the nature of the new cross term for Gaussian
parameterizations of Bose-Einstein correlations of identical particles emitted
from purely chaotic hadron sources formed by relativistic heavy ion collisions.
We find that this additional parameter in the so-called Bertsch
parameterization can be expressed in terms of a linear ``out-longitudinal''
correlation coefficient for emission of bosons and two already known ``radius''
parameters, and . The linear correlation coefficient is of
kinematical nature and can be used to determine the widths of longitudinal
momentum distributions.Comment: 4 pages, without inclusion of the 3 figures. For PostScript file of
the manuscript including the three figures goto
http://t2.lanl.gov/schlei/eprint.htm
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