高能重离子碰撞中末态粒子的极角分布

在反应平面内不同极角方向为z轴的质心坐标系中,分析了末态粒子方向角分布的非对称性,建立了一种确定集合侧向流流角的方法.在以流方向为z轴的质心坐标系中研究了Bevalac流光室1.2AGeV Ar+KCl、1.2AGeV Ne+NaF和2.1AGeV Ne+NaF三种反应中末态粒子的极角分布,对末态粒子非对称发射部分所占的比例及其在流方向的集中程度做出了定量的估计.     

Pion production in mass- symmetric heavy ion collisions at 0.8–1.8 AGeV

Double differential cross sections of positively charged pions and protons have been measured in nuclear collisions of mass-symmetric systems (Ne+NaF, Ni+Ni, Au+Au, Bi+Pb) at incident energies between 0.8 and 1.8 AGeV as a function of the centrality of the reaction. Using a magnetic spectrometer pions and protons were detected with laboratory angles between 40 and 48 degrees, and with momenta up to about 1400 MeV/c. This setting allows for the study of pions and protons emitted close to midrapidity. The center-of-mass pion spectra deviate from a Boltzmann distribution. The inverse slope parameters of the high-energetic pions are smaller than those of the proton spectra and they exhibit a weaker centrality dependence. A scenario is presented where the shape of the pion spectra reflects the decay kinematics of nucleonic resonances embedded in the thermal and the collective motion of the nucleons in the reaction zone. The number of emitted pions per participating nucleon is higher for light than for heavy mass systems. For a given mass system, the total pion multiplicity increases linearly with the number of participating nucleons, whereas the multiplicity of high-energy pions increases more than linearly. This result is consistent with a scenario where the high-energy pions are produced in multiple energetic baryon-baryon collisions occurring in the high-density phase of the collision.     

Comment on “On the Anomalon Interpretation of 40Ar + Cu Collisions at 0.9 and 1.8 AGeV”

A recent article interpreted the experiment by Dersch et al. on the formation of ²⁴Na in ⁴⁰Ar + Cu interactions in a very simple manner. The results from emulsion experiments performed with 3.6 AGeV ²²Ne were adapted for the interpretation of the experiments with 1.8 AGeV ⁴⁰Ar. The model used the same mean value for the energy of minimum ionizing protons and pions at all angles. It is argued that a more complex approach is needed for a satisfactory interpretation.     

In-plane elliptic flow of resonance particles in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

We analyze the second Fourier coefficient v(2) of the pion azimuthal distribution in noncentral heavy-ion collisions in a relativistic hydrodynamic model. The exact treatment of the decay kinematics of resonances leads to almost vanishing azimuthal anisotropy of pions near the midrapidity, while the matter elliptic flow is in plane at freeze-out. In addition, we reproduce the rapidity dependence of v(2) for pions measured in noncentral Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV. This suggests that resonance particles as well as stable particles constitute the in-plane flow and are important ingredients for the understanding of the observed pion flow.     

Space-momentum correlations in 8 AGeV Au+Au collisions

Within the RQMD model, space-momentum correlations, i.e. the correlations between final momentum anisotropy and initial eccentricity, are studied for 8 AGeV Au+Au events classified according to the multi-particle azimuthal correlations. The results show that the final elliptic flow fluctuations depend on the initial collision geometry. There are clear space-momentum correlations for nucleons during the whole dynamical evolution of the collisions.     

Space-momentum correlations in 8 AGeV Au+Au collisions

Within the RQMD model, space-momentum correlations, i.e. the correlations between final momentum anisotropy and initial eccentricity, are studied for 8 AGeV Au＋Au events classified according to the multi-particle azimuthal correlations. The results show that the final elliptic flow fluctuations depend on the initial collision geometry. There are clear space-momentum correlations for nucleons during the whole dynamical evolution of the collisions.     

Dynamics of high energy heavy ion collisions — nuclear matter at high density and temperature

Nuclear collisions at E_LAB > 50 MeV/n are studied using the nuclear fluid dynamical and the cascade model. Evidence for the predicted compression effects has been found in recent experimental data: The preferential sidewards emission of light fragments as well as the azimuthal p-p correlations indicate the presence of collective flow phenomena. The analysis of future 4π exclusive experiments in terms of the kinetic flow tensor can yield information about the equation of state of the compressed nuclear matter. We also discuss the role of pions and strange particles as probes for the properties of nuclear matter at high excitation energy.     

高能重离子碰撞中的集体流与空间-动量关联

高能重离子碰撞中,末态粒子的侧向流与椭圆流间存在方位角集体关联,该关联对反应中集体流的性质反映敏感.碰撞时,系统在坐标空间的演化与动量空间的演化过程相互影响,表现出明显的空间-动量关联.不同事件中椭圆流形式的差别与此空间-动量关联有关,反映了系统演化过程的涨落.     

Multi-Pion Correlations in Two-Pion Interferometry

The influence of multi-pion correlations on two-pion interferometry analysis in multi-pion events can be expressed as the ratio of a multi pion correlation factor for the sample of like-pion pairs to a residual correlation factor for the reference sample.Although these two correlation factors can be partially cancelled our in data analyses,the difference between these two factors in the low relative momentum region is so large that the distortion on the analysed results of two-pion interferometry from multi-pion interference becomes a serious problem when the pion source has a small radius and the pion multiplicity of event is high.The distributions of multi-pion correlation factor C_n－2(q) can sensitively reflect the multi-pion correlation effects in the events The analyses of multi-pion correlation factor for two Bevalac streamer chamber data samples of 2.1AGeV Ne+Pb and 1.8AGeV Ar+Pb collisions show that the multi-pion correlation effect in the former data sample is greater that in the latter.     

Studies of the out-of-plane emission of pions in symmetric heavy-ion collisions

Triple differential cross-sections of midrapidity pions from ²⁰⁹Bi+²⁰⁹Bi collisions were measured with the Kaon Spectrometer at SIS at incident energies of 400, 700 and 1000 AMeV. The azimuthal emission pattern of the pions has been investigated in dependence of beam energy and impact parameter. An enhanced emission of pions perpendicular to the reaction plane is observed. The strength of the anisotropy increases with beam energy and pion transverse momentum. In contrast to the nucleons the anisotropy varies only little with the impact parameter. No difference in the behaviour of positive and negative pions is observed.     

Azimuthal correlation and fractal study of compound hadrons (pions and protons) at Dubna and SPS energy

This paper presents an investigation of compound hadrons (pions and protons) distribution emitted from ²⁴Mg-AgBr and ¹²C-AgBr interactions both at 4.5 AGeV and ³²S-AgBr interactions at 200 AGeV. The study includes azimuthal correlations (two particle and three particle), azimuthal asymmetry and fractal behaviour. This paper reveals some interesting results.     

Nuclear shadowing effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Two complementary approaches are used in studying the nuclear shadowing effect in heavy-ion collisions at SIS/GSI beam energies within a hadronic transport model. By analysing simultaneously the average transverse momentum of nucleons and pions in the reaction plane as a function of rapidity, the shadowing effect is revealed as an anticorrelation of the average transverse momentum distributions of nucleons and pions in semicentral and peripheral collisions. While by studying the azimuthal angle distribution of pions with respect to the reaction plane, the shadowing effect appears as an azimuthal anisotropy with a preferential emission of pions perpendicular to the reaction plane. The dependence of the nuclear shadowing effect on the impact parameter and the beam energy is also studied.     

Probing nuclear expansion dynamics with π−/π+-spectra

We study the dynamics of charged pions in the nuclear medium via the ratio of differential π^? - and π⁺-spectra in a coupled-channel BUU (CBUU) approach. The relative energy shift of the charged pions is found to correlate with the pion freeze-out time in nucleus-nucleus collisions as well as with the impact parameter of the heavy-ion reaction. Furthermore, the long-range Coulomb force provides valuable information on the expansion dynamics of the hot nuclear system. Detailed comparisons with experimental data for Au + Au at 1 AGeV and Ni + Ni at 2.0 AGeV are presented.     

Spectra,elliptic flow and azimuthally sensitive HBT radii from the Buda-Lund model for $ \sqrt{{s_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions

We present calculations of elliptic flow and azimuthal dependence of correlation radii in the ellipsoidally symmetric generalization of the Buda-Lund hydrodynamic model of hadron production in high-energy nuclear collisions. We compare them to data from RHIC by simultaneous fits to azimuthally integrated invariant spectra of pions, kaons and protons-antiprotons measured by PHENIX in Au + Au reactions at center-of-mass energy of 200 AGeV. STAR data were used for azimuthally sensitive two-particle correlation function radii and for the transverse momentum dependence of the elliptic flow parameter v ₂. We have found that the transverse flow is faster in the reaction plane than out of plane, which results in a reaction zone that gets slightly more elongated in-plane than out of plane. The model parameters extracted from the fits are shown and discussed.     

The study of neutral pion azimuthal distribution in 58Ni+58Ni reaction at 2 GeV/nucleon

In order to study the anisotropic azimuthal emission of mesons in heavy ion collisions we measured the neutral pions emitted in the Ni+Ni collisions at 2 GeV/u with respect to the reaction plane. We studied the strength of the azimuthal anisotropy for neutral pions in dependence of the transverse momentum and impact parameter. The preliminary results and their comparison with previous experimental data are reported.     

Production of charged pions, kaons and antikaons in relativistic C + C and C + Au collisions

Production cross-sections of charged pions, kaons and antikaons have been measured in C+C and C+Au collisions at beam energies of 1.0 and 1.8 AGeV for different polar emission angles. The kaon and antikaon energy spectra can be described by Boltzmann distributions whereas the pion spectra exhibit an additional enhancement at low energies. The pion multiplicity per participating nucleon M(π⁺)/<A _part> is a factor of about 3 smaller in C+Au than in C+C collisions at 1.0 AGeV whereas it differs only little for the C and the Au target at a beam energy of 1.8 AGeV. The K⁺ multiplicities per participating nucleon M(K⁺)/ <A _part> are independent of the target size at 1 AGeV and at 1.8 AGeV. The K^- multiplicity per participating nucleon M(K^-)/ <A _part> is reduced by a factor of about 2 in C+Au as compared to C+C collisions at 1.8 AGeV. This effect might be caused by the absorption of antikaons in the heavy target nucleus. Transport model calculations underestimate the K^-/K⁺ ratio for C+C collisions at 1.8 AGeV by a factor of about 4 if in-medium modifications of K-mesons are neglected. Received: 10 December 1999 / Accepted: 14 November 2000     

Azimuthal dependence of collective expansion for symmetric heavy-ion collisions

Detailed studies of the azimuthal dependence of the mean fragment and flow energies in the Au+Au and Xe+CsI systems are reported as a function of incident energy and centrality. Comparisons between data and model calculations show that the flow energy values along different azimuthal directions could be viewed as snapshots of the fireball expansion with different exposure times. For the same number of participating nucleons more transversally elongated participant shapes from the heavier system produce less collective transverse energy. Good agreement with Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck calculations is obtained for a soft nuclear equation of state.     

Freeze-out conditions in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

We present recent results on single particle transverse momentum distributions of pions, kaons and protons, measured in CERN Experiment NA44, of 200 AGeV/c S+S and 158 AGeV/c Pb+Pb central collisions. By comparing these data with thermal and transport models, freeze-out parameters like the temperatureT _fo and the chemical potentials (μ _q ,μ _s ) are extracted and discussed.     

25MeV/u 40Ar+115In反应碎片和轻带电粒子的方位角关联

在２５ＭｅＶ／ｕ４０Ａｒ＋１１５Ｉｎ反应的在平面和出平面大角度关联测量中,提取了碎片和α粒子之间的方位角关联函数和方位角非对称性因子．φ＝９０时,方位角关联函数呈现为最小值,表明在集体类转动效应影响下,反应产生的轻带电粒子和碎片优先在反应平面内发射．随着关联对质量的增加,在平面关联粒子的发射相对于束流轴不对称性逐渐增大．随着关联对质量的增加,相继衰变和粒子末态相互作用对φ＝０的关联粒子对方位角关联函数值的影响逐渐降低并直至消失,同时集体转动效应增强,方位角非对称性增加．