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Coherent photo-produced J and dielectron yields in isobaric collisions
Recently, significant enhancements of J/ and pair
production at very low transverse momenta were observed by the STAR and ALICE
collaboration in peripheral hadronic A+A collisions. The anomaly excesses point
to evidence of coherent photon-nucleus and photon-photon interactions in
violent hadronic heavy-ion collisions, which were conventionally studied only
in ultra-peripheral collisions. The isobaric collisions performed at RHIC
provides a unique opportunity to test the existence of coherent photon products
in hadronic heavy-ion collisions. The idea is that the possible production of
coherent photon products is significantly different in different collision
systems due to the variations in their charge and nuclear density
distributions. In this letter, we focus on the peripheral collisions and
provide theoretical predictions for coherent production of J/ and
dielectron in isobaric collisions. We show that the expected yields differ
significantly to perform the experimental test
Correlations of Baryon and Charge Stopping in Heavy Ion Collisions
Baryon numbers are carried by valence quarks in the standard QCD picture of
the baryon structure, while some theory proposed an alternative baryon number
carrier, a non-perturbative Y-shaped configuration of the gluon field, called
the baryon junction in the 1970s. However, neither of the theories has been
verified experimentally. It was recently suggested to search for the baryon
junction by investigating the correlation of net-charge and net-baryon yields
at midrapidity in heavy-ion collisions. This paper presents studies of such
correlations in collisions of various heavy ions from Oxygen to Uranium with
the UrQMD Monte Carlo model. The UrQMD model implements valence quark transport
as the primary means of charge and baryon stopping at midrapidity. Detailed
study are also carried out for isobaric +
and +
collisions. We found a universal trend of the charge stopping with respect to
the baryon stopping, and that the charge stopping is always more than the
baryon stopping. This study provides a model baseline in valence quark
transport for what is expected in net-charge and net-baryon yields at
midrapidity of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
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