We explore entropy and strangeness as signature of QGP for top AGS energy and the energy scan at SPS. We find that the hadronization dynamics changes between 20 and 30 $A$ GeV projectile energy. The high energy results are consistent with QGP.
Within the framework of the improved isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics (ImIQMD) model, the dynamics of strangeness (K$^{0,+}$, $Λ$ and $Σ^{-,0,+}$) production in heavy-ion collisions near threshold energies is investigated systematically, in which the strange particles are considered to be mainly produced by the inelastic collisions of baryon-baryon and pion-baryon. The collisions in the region of supra-saturation densities of the dense baryonic matter formed in heavy-ion collisions dominate the yields of strangeness production. The total multiplicities as functions of incident ener…
We use the Isospin Quantum Molecular Dynamics approach supplemented with a phase space coalescence to study the properties of the production of hypertritons. We see strong influences of the hyperon rescattering on the yields. The hypertritons show up to be quite aligned to the properties of nuclear matter underlining the necessity of rescattering to transport the hyperons to the spectator matter.
On strangeness production in the reactions pp -> p Lambda^0 K^+ and pn -> n Lambda^0 K^+ near threshold
计算了pp -> p λ ^0 K ^+和pn -> n λ ^0 K ^+反应的截面。截面的理论比值R = sigma(pn -> n Lambda^0K^+)/ sigma(pp ->pΛ^0K^+)= 3表明,在奇异产生N Lambda^0K^+的阈值附近,pn相互作用相对于pp相互作用的增强。这种增强是由在同位旋单重态中的np相互作用的贡献引起的,其强于在同位旋三重态中的$pn$相互作用。为了证实这个结果,我们计算了反应pp -> pp pi ^0,pi ^0 p -> Lambda ^0 K^+和pi^-p -> Lambda ^0 K ^0在末态阈值附近的截面。理论截面与实验数据吻合较好。
We discuss strangeness production close to threshold in p+A and A+A collision. Comparing the body of available K+, K0, K-, and Lambda data with the IQMD transport code and for some key observables as well with the HSD transport code, we find good agreement for the large majority of the observables. The investigation of the reaction with help of these codes reveals the complicated interaction of the strange particles with hadronic matter which makes strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions very different from that in elementary interactions. We show how different strange particle observab…
Strangeness (K$^{0,+}$, $Λ$ and $Σ^{-,0,+}$) production in heavy-ion collisions near threshold energies has been investigated within the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics (LQMD) transport model. The kaon (anti-kaon)-nucleon and hyperon-nucleon potentials in dense nuclear matter are implemented in the model, which are computed from the chiral perturbation approach and the relativistic mean-field model, respectively. It is found that the in-medium potentials change the structure of transverse flow, and also affect the rapidity distributions and the inclusive spectra for strangeness production. …
We present results on deep sub threshold hyperon production in nuclear collisions, with the UrQMD transport model. Introducing anti-kaon+baryon and hyperon+hyperon strangeness exchange reactions we obtain a good description of experimental data on single strange hadron production in Ar+KCl reactions at $E_{lab}=1.76$ A GeV. We find that the hyperon strangeness exchange is the dominant process contributing to the $Ξ^-$ yield, however remains short of explaining the $Ξ^-/Λ$ ratio measured with the HADES experiment. We also discuss possible reasons for the discrepancy with previous studies and th…
I review the foundational motivation which led us to the ultra relativistic heavy ion collision research at SPS, RHIC and now LHC: the quantum vacuum structure; the deconfined nature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase filling the Universe for the first 30$μ$s after the big-bang; the origin of stable matter mass; and of the origin of flavor. The special role of strangeness enhancement and strange antibaryon signature is highlighted. It is shown how hadron production can be used to determine the properties of QGP, and how the threshold energy for QGP formation is determined.
The details of the analysis of the near-threshold bump structure in the forward differential cross section of the ϕ-meson photoproduction to determine whether it is a signature of a resonance are presented. The analysis is carried out in an effective Lagrangian approach which includes Pomeron and (π,η) exchanges in the t channel, and contributions from the s- and u-channel excitations of a postulated nucleon resonance. In addition to the differential cross sections, we use the nine spin-density matrix elements (SDME) as recently measured, instead of the phi-meson decay angular distributions wh…
A novel, unorthodox picture of the dynamics of heavy ion collisions is developed using the concept of Hagedorn states. A prescription of the bootstrap of Hagedorn states respecting the conserved quantum numbers baryon number B, strangeness S, isospin I is implememted into the GiBUU transport model. Using a strangeness saturation suppression factor suitable for nucleon-nucleon-collisions, recent experimental data for the strangeness production by the HADES collaboration in Au+Au and Ar+KCl is reasonable well described. The experimental observed exponential slopes of the energy distributions are…
We study the in-medium effects in strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions at (sub-)\-threshold energies of 1 - 2 A GeV based on the microscopic Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. The in-medium modifications of the antikaon $(\bar K = K^-, \bar K^0)$ properties are described via the self-consistent coupled-channel unitarized scheme based on a SU(3) chiral Lagrangian which incorporates explicitly the $s-$ and $p-$ waves of the kaon-nucleon interaction. This scheme provides the antikaon potential, spectral functions and reaction cross sections as well as their depende…
Spectroscopy of excited baryons with strangeness $S=-2$ is stimulated by recent experimental developments. Here we focus on the $Ξ(1620)$ which locates close to the $\bar{K}Λ$ threshold. To take into account the threshold effects, we construct the coupled-channels meson-baryon scattering amplitude where the $Ξ(1620)$ appears as a resonance. We demonstrate that the $\bar{K}Λ$ threshold effects distort the peak of the $Ξ(1620)$ resonance from the simple Breit-Wigner distribution.
Pion and Strangeness Production as Signals of QCD Phase Transition
结果表明,在15 A GeV/c(BNL AGS)和160 A GeV/c(CERN SPS)碰撞能量范围内,中心核-核碰撞中π介子和奇异态的产生与形成夸克-胶子等离子体的假设是一致的.在统计方法的框架下解释的实验结果表明,在相变过程中,有效自由度增加了约3倍,并且在CERN SPS能量下产生的等离子体可能具有约280 MeV的温度(能量密度$\approx$ 10 GeV/fm^3)。为了局域化阈能和研究QCD相变的性质,迫切需要在20-160 A GeV/c能量范围内对中心Pb+Pb碰撞进行实验研究。
We study the strangeness $S=-2$ baryon-baryon interactions in relativistic chiral effective field theory at leading order. Among the 15 relevant low energy constants, eight of them are determined by fitting to the state of the art lattice QCD data of the HAL QCD Collaboration (with $m_π=146$ MeV), and the rest are either taken from the study of the $S=-1$ hyperon-nucleon systems, assuming strict SU(3) flavor symmetry, or temporarily set equal to zero. Using the so-obtained low energy constants, we extrapolate the results to the physical point, and show that they are consistent with the availab…
Strange particles and hyperfragments in collisions of antiprotons and protons on nuclei have been investigated systematically within a microscopic transport model. The hyperons are produced from the annihilation in antibaryon-baryon collisions and strangeness exchange process in antiproton induced reactions. A coalescence approach is used for constructing the primary hyperfragments in phase space and the statistical model is modified for describing the decay of hyperfragments via evaporating hyperon, neutron, charged particles etc, in which the shell effect, binding energy and root-mean-square…
We consider a physical scenario for ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions where, at the early stage, only transverse degrees of freedom of partons are thermalized, while the longitudinal motion is described by free streaming. When the energy density of the partonic system drops to a certain critical value, the partons hadronize and the newly formed hadronic system freezes out. This sudden change is described with the help of the Landau matching conditions followed by the simulations done with THERMINATOR. The proposed scenario reproduces well the transverse-momentum spectra, the elliptic flo…
The role of anti-kaons in the symmetry energy to be determined in heavy-ion collisions as for instance in such observables as the $π^-/π^+$ ratio is discussed using a simple chiral Lagrangian. It is shown, with some mild assumptions, that kaons, when present in the system, can affect the EoS appreciably for both symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter. For nuclear matter with small asymmetry with which heavy-ion collisions are studied, it may be difficult to distinguish a stiff symmetry energy and the supersoft symmetry energy, even with kaons present. However the effect of kaon is found to be…
A combined study of the reactions $K^-p\rightarrow Σ^0π^0$, $Λπ^0$ and $\bar{K}^0n$ at low energies is carried out with a chiral quark-model approach. Good descriptions of the experimental observations are obtained. The roles of the low-lying strangeness $S=-1$ hyperon resonances in these processes are carefully analyzed. We find that: (i) In the $K^-p\rightarrow Σ^0π^0$ process, both $Λ(1405)S_{01}$ and $Λ(1520)D_{03}$ play dominant roles. Significant contributions of $Λ(1670)S_{01}$ and $Λ(1690)D_{03}$ could be seen around their threshold; (ii) In the $K^-p\rightarrow Λπ^0$ process, some obv…
Within the framework of quantum molecular dynamics transport model, the isospin and in-medium effects on the hyperon production in the reaction of $^{197}$Au + $^{197}$Au are investigated thoroughly. A repulsive hyperon-nucleon potential from the chiral effective field theory is implemented into the model, which is related to the hyperon momentum and baryon density. The correction on threshold energy of the elementary hyperon cross section is taken into account. It is found that the $Σ$ yields are suppressed in the domain of midrapidity and kinetic energy spectra with the potential. The hypero…
How strange: Phase diagrams with 3 critical points
The Grainger College of Engineering, Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Department of Physics, MRPD Government College , Talwara, 144216, Punjab, India(印度旁遮普邦塔瓦拉MRPD政府学院);Center for Nuclear Research, Department of Physics, Kent State University(肯特州立大学)