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Production of thermal photons in viscous fluid dynamics with temperature-dependent shear viscosity
We compute the spectrum of thermal photons created in Au+Au collisions at
GeV, taking into account dissipative corrections in
production processes corresponding to the quark--gluon plasma and hadronic
phases. To describe the evolution of the fireball we use a viscous fluid
dynamic model with different parametrizations for the temperature--dependence
of . We find that the spectrum significantly depends on the values of
in the QGP phase, and is almost insensitive to the values in the
hadronic phase. We also compare the influence of the temperature--dependence of
on the spectrum of thermal photons to that of using different
equations of state in the fluid dynamic simulations, finding that both effects
are of the same order of magnitude.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett.
Description of the LiLi transfer reaction using structure overlaps from a full three-body model
Recent data on the differential angular distribution for the transfer
reaction Li(p,d)Li at MeV in inverse kinematics are
analysed within the DWBA reaction framework, using the overlap functions
calculated within a three-body model of Li. The weight of the different
Li configurations in the system's ground state is obtained from the
structure calculations unambiguously. The effect of the Li spin in the
calculated observables is also investigated. We find that, although all the
considered models succeed in reproducing the shape of the data, the magnitude
is very sensitive to the content of wave in the Li
ground-state wave function. Among the considered models, the best agreement
with the data is obtained when the Li ground state contains a 31\%
of wave in the -Li subsystem. Although this model takes into
account explicitly the splitting of the and resonances due to the
coupling of the wave to the spin of the core, a similar
degree of agreement can be achieved with a model in which the Li spin is
ignored, provided that it contains a similar p-wave content.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures. Final versio
Linking structure and dynamics in reactions with Borromean nuclei: the LiLi case
One-neutron removal reactions induced by two-neutron Borromean
nuclei are studied within a Transfer-to-the-Continuum (TC) reaction framework,
which incorporates the three-body character of the incident nucleus. The
relative energy distribution of the residual unbound two-body subsystem, which
is assumed to retain information on the structure of the original three-body
projectile, is computed by evaluating the transition amplitude for different
neutron-core final states in the continuum. These transition amplitudes depend
on the overlaps between the original three-body ground-state wave function and
the two-body continuum states populated in the reaction, thus ensuring a
consistent description of the incident and final nuclei. By comparing different
Li three-body models, it is found that the LiLi
relative energy spectrum is very sensitive to the position of the and
states in Li and to the partial wave content of these
configurations within the Li ground-state wave function. The possible
presence of a low-lying resonance is discussed. The coupling of the
single particle configurations with the non-zero spin of the Li core,
which produces a spin-spin splitting of the states, is also studied. Among the
considered models, the best agreement with the available data is obtained with
a Li model that incorporates the actual spin of the core and contains
31\% of -wave content in the -Li subsystem, in accord
with our previous findings for the Li(p,d)Li transfer reaction,
and a near-threshold virtual state.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PL
Disentangling phase transitions and critical points in the proton-neutron interacting boson model by catastrophe theory
We introduce the basic concepts of catastrophe theory needed to derive
analytically the phase diagram of the proton-neutron interacting boson model
(IBM-2). Previous studies [1,2,3] were based on numerical solutions. We here
explain the whole IBM-2 phase diagram including the precise order of the phase
transitions in terms of the cusp catastrophe.Comment: To be published in Physics Letters
Investigating the 10Li continuum through 9Li(d,p)10Li reactions
The continuum structure of the unbound system Li, inferred from the
LiLi transfer reaction, is reexamined. Experimental data for
this reaction, measured at two different energies, are analyzed with the same
reaction framework and structure models. It is shown that the seemingly
different features observed in the measured excitation energy spectra can be
understood as due to the different incident energy and angular range covered by
the two experiments. The present results support the persistence of the
parity inversion beyond the neutron dripline as well as the splitting of the
well-known low-lying -wave resonance. Furthermore, they provide indirect
evidence that most of the single-particle strength, including possible
resonances, lies at relatively high excitations energies.Comment: accepted for publication in Physics Letters
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