反质子引起的核反应中碎裂机制和粒子产生（英文）

基于兰州量子分子动力学（LQMD） 模型,系统研究了低能反质子引起的核反应中原子核碎裂机制和粒子产生。在LQMD输运模型中,考虑了反重子-重子、重子-重子和介子-重子碰撞可能产生的弹性散射、湮灭反应、电荷交换和非弹性散射。发展了并合模型,用于相空间构造初级碎片产生。处于激发态的碎片退激是基于统计模型描述。研究结果说明超子主要是由于奇异性交换产生;重碎片裂变会导致中等质量区域碎片产额增加;反质子引起的核反应有利于产生s=-2 和s=1 奇特超核,并给出了产生截面。Within the framework of the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics (LQMD) transport model, the nuclear fragmentation and particle production induced by low-energy antiprotons have been investigated thoroughly. Production of strange particles in the antiproton induced nuclear reactions is modeled within the LQMD model, in which all possible reaction channels such as elastic scattering, annihilation, charge exchange and inelastic scattering in antibaryon-baryon, baryon-baryon and mesonbaryon collisions have been included. A coalescence approach is developed for constructing the primary fragments in phase space. The secondary decay process of the fragments is described by the well-known statistical code. It is found that the strangeness exchange reactions dominate the hyperon production. A bump structure in the domain of intermediate mass for heavy targets appears owing to the contribution of fission fragments. It has advantage to produce heavier hyperfragments and hypernuclides with strangeness s = -2 (double-Λ fragments) and s = 1 (Λ-fragments) in antiproton induced reactions. The production cross sections are evaluated.     

On the nuclear matter approach to the heavy-ion optical potential

A simple theory of the heavy-ion optical potential oV, based on the local density approximation, is presented. The colliding ions are described locally as two slabs of nuclear matter. The real part of the energy density of the two slabs is derived from the properties of nuclear matter, and for the imaginary part the “frivolous model” is applied. Results for oV in the case of two slabs are presented and compared with results of other calculations. Arguments are given in favour of using the frivolous model in the optical potential and the VUU calculations for heavy-ion collisions.     

Atomic processes in antiproton-matter interactions

Atomic processes dominate antiproton stopping in matter at nearly all energies of interest. They significantly influence or determine the antiproton annihilation rate at all energies around or below several MeV. This article discusses what is known about the atomic processes which, through their effect on stopping and annihilation, significantly influence the spatial distribution of antiproton annihilations in a material. For stopping above about 10 eV the processes are antiproton-electron collisions, effective at medium keV through high MeV energies, and elastic collisions with atoms and adiabatic ionization of atoms, effective from medium eV through low keV energies. For annihilation above about 10 eV it is the enhancement of the antiproton annihilation rate due to the antiproton-nucleus Coulomb attraction, effective around and below a few tens of MeV. At about 10 eV and below, the atomic rearrangement/annihilation process determines both the stopping and annihilation rates. Although a fair amount of theoretical and some experimental work relevant to these processes exist, there are a number of energy ranges and material types for which experimental data does not exist and for which the theoretical information is not as well grounded or as accurate as desired. Additional experimental and theoretical work is required for accurate prediction of antiproton stopping and annihilation for energies and materials relevant to antiproton experimentation and application.     

Do small systems equilibrate chemically?

Considering particle production in heavy-ion collisions, a particular role has been attributed to strange particles because strangeness was predicted to be a sensitive probe of the properties of QCD matter. The statistical model is very successful in describing the chemical composition of the final state of collisions over a wide range of incident energies. However, without an additional strangeness undersaturation factor, γ_S, hadron gas models hardly reproduce the data from small colliding systems nor from reactions at the smaller collision energies. Here we investigate the influence of an alternative assumption, exact strangeness conservation in small subvolumes of the fireball, on the model predictions. Therefore, we introduce strangeness equilibrated subvolumes. The canonical strangeness suppression in these correlated clusters accounts successfully for the smaller production of strange particles. The system size dependence of the correlation volume and of the thermal parameters are presented.     

Double strangeness production in antiproton annihilation on nuclei

The recent data on double strangeness production after antiproton annihilation on nuclei are analyzed within the conventional picture of the reaction, namely annihilation on a single nucleon, followed by rescattering of the products in the nucleus, assumed to proceed in a hadronic phase. General expressions for single and double strangeness are derived within this picture. The relevant parameters are determined, as far as possible, from the single strangeness production yields and are used to predict double strangeness production yields. The later are compared with experiment and found consistent with the conventional picture. However, the data seem to indicate that the strangeness production in the primordial annihilation is different from what it is in nucleon-antinucleon reactions. An estimate of theΞ production rate is also performed. It is shown that the latter is much less sensitive to the rescattering process than in theΛ production case.     

Comparison of residual nuclei from relativistic ion and antiproton reactions with nuclei

The distribution of residual nuclei after stopped antiproton annihilation in several targets from Cu to Ho has been compared with a recent empirical parametrization of mass and charge yields which is supposed to be valid for relativistic light and heavy ion induced reactions. The basic structure of the proposed formula is also applicable for antiproton induced fragmentation or spallation, but some specific modifications are suggested.     

Multi-Boson correlations and classical transport models

We add the multi-particle Bose-Einstein correlations to classical simulations of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and calculate their influence on various observables such as multiplicity distributions, single-particle spectra and two-particle correlation functions. We demonstrate the method using simulations of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions within a parton-string model for different systems of colliding nuclei at initial energy 200 AGeV.     

Resolving the antibaryon-production puzzle in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

We argue that the observed antiproton production in heavy-ion collisions at CERN-SPS energies can be understood if (contrary to most sequential scattering approaches) the backward direction in the process pP<-->n(pi) (with n = 5-6) is consistently accounted for within a thermal framework. Employing the standard picture of subsequent chemical and thermal freezeout, which induces an oversaturation of pion number with associated chemical potentials of mu(pi) approximately 60-80 MeV, enhances the backward reaction substantially. The resulting rates turn out to be large enough to maintain an antiproton abundance at thermal freezeout in accordance with the measured p/p ratio in Pb(158A GeV)+Pb collisions.     

中能重离子碰撞中K介子产生动力学研究(英文)

基于兰州量子分子动力学(LQMD)模型研究了阈能附近K介子(K0和K+)产生动力学机制。LQMD模型能够较好地描述中能重离子碰撞中K介子产额分布。通过拟合K介子动能谱分布,计算中采用了排斥的K-核子相互作用势。该光学势增强了高动量K介子产生,而降低了K介子总产额。结合实验数据比较,在高密区域给出了较软的对称核物质状态方程。对称能的软硬对K0/K+比值起着重要作用,特别是在阈下区域。而K介子光学势对K0/K+比值激发函数影响不明显。     

Self-consist ent Semiclassical Appoach to Fusion Barrier in Frozen-Density Appoximation

Fusion barriers of heavy-ion collisions are analysed in frozen-density approximation, with ground state density of each colliding nucleus determined by a self-consistent semiclassical (SCSC) calculation. Spin-orbit contribution to the nucleus-nucleus optical potential is included, while exchange effects on kinetic energy density and spinorbit density are neglected. The calculated barriers are in agreement with experiments.     

Charmonium and bottomonium in heavy-ion collisions

We review the present status in the theoretical and phenomenological understanding of charmonium and bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions. We start by recapitulating the basic notion of “anomalous quarkonium suppression” in heavy-ion collisions and its recent amendments involving regeneration reactions. We then survey in some detail concepts and ingredients needed for a comprehensive approach to utilize heavy quarkonia as a probe of hot and dense matter. The theoretical discussion encompasses recent lattice QCD computations of quarkonium properties in the Quark-Gluon Plasma, their interpretations using effective potential models, inelastic rate calculations and insights from analyses of electromagnetic plasmas. We illustrate the powerful techniques of thermodynamic Green functions (T-matrices) to provide a general framework for implementing microscopic properties of heavy quarkonia into a kinetic theory of suppression and regeneration reactions. The theoretical concepts are tested in applications to heavy-ion reactions at SPS, RHIC and LHC. We outline perspectives for future experiments on charmonium and bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions over a large range of energies (FAIR, RHIC-II and LHC). These are expected to provide key insights into hadronic matter under extreme conditions using quarkonium observables.     

A new representation of the heavy ion Coulomb potential

The Coulomb potential between two heavy ions at their interpretation condition has been represented in terms of two point charges with reduced effective charge, dependent on overlap volume. This representation enables visualization of the dynamic development of the deformations of the colliding nuclei as a function of the degree of overlap. The potential has been compared with well known potentials for heavy-ion collisions. This Coulomb potential gave good agreement in reproducing excitation functions for fusion for a large number of heavy-ion systems.     

Microscopic theory of photon production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions

The production of energetic photons in medium-energy proton and heavy-ion induced reactions is studied on the basis of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. For this purpose we first evaluate covariantly the photon production from proton-neutron collisions in a vector (ω) and scalar meson (σ) exchange model with coupling constants given by the M2Y G-matrix in the nonrelativistic limit. We furthermore follow the proton-neutron collisional history by means of a phase-space simulation based on the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck approach for proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions adding up incoherently the yields from each individual collision. The satisfactory agreement we obtain in comparison with experimental data allows to conclude that energetic photons predominantly arise from proton-neutron bremsstrahlung during the early stage of the collision.     

How to study a gluon jet produced by antiproton—proton colliding beams

We show that at the energies and luminosities soon to be attained with antiproton—proton colliding beams, the cross section for antiquark—quark annihilation, leading to production of a gluon jet in association with a Z⁰ at large angles, is measurable and has a magnitude, energy dependence, and angular dependence which can serve to establish the existence of the gluon and to fix its spin.     

Antiproton production in nucleon-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN-SPS

A model for antiproton production in nucleon-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon, based on the Wounded Nucleon Model is developed. The predictions are compared to published nucleon-nucleus and sulphur-nucleus data. The results suggest the presence of similar antiproton production processes in nucleon-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions near midrapidity.     

Antiproton production in nucleon-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN-SPS

A model for antiproton production in nucleon-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon, based on the Wounded Nucleon Model is developed. The predictions are compared to published nucleon-nucleus and sulphur-nucleus data. The results suggest the presence of similar antiproton production processes in nucleon-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions near midrapidity.     

Antiproton-catalyzed fusion

Because of the potential application to power production, it is important to investigate a wide range of possible means to achieve nuclear fusion, even those initially appearing infeasible. In antiproton-catalyzed fusion, the negative antiproton shields the repulsion between the positively charged nuclei of hydrogen isotopes, allowing a much higher level of penetration through the repulsive Coulomb barrier and greatly enhancing the fusion cross section. With their more compact wave function, the more massive antiprotons offer much more shielding than negative muons. If the antiproton could exist in the ground state with a nucleus for a sufficient time without annihilating, the fusion cross sections are so enhanced at low energies that at room temperature, values up to about 1000 barns (d + t) would be possible. Unfortunately, the cross section for antiproton annihilation with the incoming nucleus is even higher. A model giving an upper bound for the fusion to annihilation cross section ratio for all relevant energies indicates that each antiproton will catalyze no more than about one fusion. Since the energy to make one antiproton greatly exceeds the fusion energy released, this level of catalysis is far from adequate for power production.     

Modified Glauber model for the total reaction cross-section of 12C + 12C collisions

Glauber's theory has been adopted to calculate the total heavy-ion reaction cross-sections at high energies. At relatively low energies, Glauber's total reaction cross-section has been modified in order to take into account the Coulomb field effect and is called modified Glauber model I. In addition to the Coulomb field effect, the nuclear effect has also been taken into account in the Glauber model and is called modified Glauber model II. An analytical expression for the transparency function for heavy-ion reactions, involving the nuclear densities of the colliding ions and the nucleon-nucleon cross- section, has been obtained within the framework of the modified Glauber models I and II. The transparency and the total reaction cross-sections of the ¹²C + ¹²C collisions are calculated at different bombarding energies. The obtained results are in good agreement with the experimental data and with previous theoretical calculations. Received: 26 January 2001 / Accepted: 15 October 2001     

Bulk matter physics and its future at the Large Hadron Collider

Measurements at low transverse momentum will be performed at the LHC for studying particle production mechanisms in pp and heavy-ion collisions. Some of the experimental capabilities for bulk matter physics are presented, focusing on tracking elements and particle identification. In order to anticipate the study of baryon production for both colliding systems at multi-TeV energies, measurements for identified species and recent model extrapolations are discussed. Several mechanisms are expected to compete for hadro-production in the low momentum region. For this reason, experimental observables that could be used for investigating multi-parton interactions and help understanding the “underlying event” content in the first pp collisions at the LHC are also mentioned.