Event-by-event Fluctuations in Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions and Their Consequences for Azimuthally Sensitive Hanbury Brown-Twiss Interferometry

Event-by-event Fluctuations in Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions and Their Consequences for Azimuthally Sensitive Hanbury Brown-Twiss Interferometry
Author: Christopher J. Plumberg
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Total Pages: 170
Release: 2016
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The relativistic heavy-ion program is dedicated to systematically probing the properties of the atomic nucleus and the theory of quantum chromodynamics at extremely high temperatures and energy densities. Numerous observables have been developed and studied over the past several decades, allowing one to extract valuable information about heavy-ion collisions and their evolution, including total multiplicity, anisotropic flows, mean transverse momentum, interferometric radii, and so on. Many of these observables have been studied on an event-by-event basis, allowing them, along with their event-by-event probability distributions, to be used for constraining the role of event-by-event fluctuations in the evolution of heavy-ion collisions. In this thesis, I discuss the possibility of treating the Hanbury Brown-Twiss radii as event-by-event observables, and consider the ways in which their event-by-event probability distributions might be related to interesting theoretical quantities, such as transport coefficients in the quark-gluon plasma, or used to constrain viable models of the initial state in heavy-ion collisions.

The Beginning and End of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: Using Uranium Beams and Bose-Einstein Correlations as Probes of the Collision Fireball

The Beginning and End of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: Using Uranium Beams and Bose-Einstein Correlations as Probes of the Collision Fireball
Author: Anthony Joseph Kuhlman (Jr)
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Total Pages: 226
Release: 2007
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ISBN: 9780549076629
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The final chapter focuses on the development of a non-relativistic formalism to describe the effects of final state interactions on the measured radii. We present this formula and examine its behavior in various limits. We then pursue approximations to this expression to produce a more practical result. In the limit of a weak interaction with the medium, we produce a surprisingly straightforward result.

Phenomenology Of Ultra-relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

Phenomenology Of Ultra-relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions
Author: Wojciech Florkowski
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2010-03-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9813107596
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This book gives an introduction to main ideas used in the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The links between basic theoretical concepts (discussed gradually from the elementary to more advanced level) and the results of experiments are outlined, so that experimentalists may learn more about the foundations of the models used by them to fit and interpret the data, while theoreticians may learn more about how different theoretical ideas are used in practical applications. The main task of the book is to collect the available information and establish a uniform picture of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The properties of hot and dense matter implied by this picture are discussed comprehensively. In particular, the issues concerning the formation of the quark-gluon plasma in present and future heavy-ion experiments are addressed.

Introduction to High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions

Introduction to High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions
Author: Cheuk-Yin Wong
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1994
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789810202644
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13. High-energy heavy-ion collisions and quark-gluon plasma. 13.1. Nuclear stopping power and the baryon content. 13.2. Bjorken's estimate of the initial energy density in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. 13.3. Hydrodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma -- 14. Signatures for the quark-gluon plasma (I). 14.1. Dilepton production in the quark-gluon plasma. 14.2. Dilepton production from other processes. 14.3. Spectrum of dileptons -- 15. Signatures for the quark-gluon plasma (II). 15.1. Debye screening in the quark-gluon plasma. 15.2. J/[symbol] suppression in the quark-gluon plasma. 15.3. Experimental information on J/[symbol] production and J/[symbol] suppression. 15.4. J/[symbol] suppression in hadron environment. 15.5. Transverse momentum distribution of J/[symbol] particles -- 16. Signatures for the quark-gluon plasma (III). 16.1. Photon production in the quark-gluon plasma. 16.2. Photon production by quark-antiquark annihilation. 16.3. Photon production by q[symbol] annihilation in the plasma. 16.4. Photon production by the Compton process. 16.5. Photon production in the plasma due to the Compton process. 16.6. Photon production by hadrons. 16.7. Photon production by parton collisions. 16.8. Experimental information on photon production -- 17. Signatures for the quark-gluon plasma (IV). 17.1. The Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect of intensity interferometry. 17.2. Pion momentum correlations from chaotic sources. 17.3. Coherent and partially coherent sources. 17.4. Experimental information on pion interferometry -- 18. Signatures for the quark-gluon plasma (V). 18.1. Strangeness content in matter at thermal and chemical equilibrium. 18.2. Rate of approach to chemical equilibrium in a quark-gluon plasma. 18.3. Experimental information on strangeness production -- 19. Summary

Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions
Author: Rudolph C. Hwa
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1990
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9782881247347
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Papers of the June 1989 meeting in Beijing by the China Center of Advanced Science and Technology. This small book covers nucleus- nucleus collisions, states of the vacuum, and highly relativistic heavy ions in the experimental realm. Theoretical papers deal with quark-gluon plasma, and relativistic heavy ion collisions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR