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Comparing pion production in transport simulations of heavy-ion collisions at MeV under controlled conditions
Jun Xu, Hermann Wolter, Maria Colonna +20
Within the TMEP, we present a detailed study of the performance of different transport models in Sn+Sn collisions at MeV, and put particular emphasis on the production of pi…
Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interact…
Transport Model Comparison Studies of Intermediate-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
Hermann Wolter, Maria Colonna, Dan Cozma +49
Transport models are the main method to obtain physics information from low to relativistic-energy heavy-ion collisions. The Transport Model Evaluation Project (TMEP) has been purs…
Comparison of Heavy-Ion Transport Simulations: Mean-field Dynamics in a Box
Maria Colonna, Ying-Xun Zhang, Yong-Jia Wang +26
Within the transport model evaluation project (TMEP) of simulations for heavy-ion collisions, the mean-field response is examined here. Specifically, zero-sound propagation is cons…
Comparison of heavy-ion transport simulations: Collision integral with pions and resonances in a box
Akira Ono, Jun Xu, Maria Colonna +21
We compare ten transport codes for a system confined in a box, aiming at improved handling of the production of resonances and pions, which is indispensable for constraining hi…
Medium effects on freeze-out of light clusters at NICA energies
G. Roepke, D. Blaschke, Yu. B. Ivanov +3
We estimate the chemical freeze-out of light nuclear clusters for NICA energies of above 2 A GeV. On the one hand we use results from the low energy domain of about 35 A MeV, where…
Light cluster production at NICA
N. -U. Bastian, P. Batyuk, D. Blaschke +6
Light cluster production at the NICA accelerator complex offers unique possibilities to use these states as "rare probes" of in-medium characteristics such as phase space occupatio…
Understanding transport simulations of heavy-ion collisions at 100 and 400 AMeV: Comparison of heavy ion transport codes under controlled conditions
Jun Xu, Lie-Wen Chen, ManYee Betty Tsang +28
Transport simulations are very valuable for extracting physics information from heavy-ion collision experiments. With the emergence of many different transport codes in recent year…
The Nuclear Symmetry Energy in Heavy Ion Collisions
Hermann Wolter
In this contribution I discuss the nuclear symmetry energy in the regime of hadronic degrees of freedom. The density dependence of the symmetry energy is important from very low de…
A way forward in the study of the symmetry energy: experiment, theory, and observation
C. J. Horowitz, E. F. Brown, Y. Kim +6
The symmetry energy describes how the energy of nuclear matter rises as one goes away from equal numbers of neutrons and protons. This is very important to describe neutron rich ma…
Effects of the liquid-gas phase transition and cluster formation on the symmetry energy
S. Typel, H. H. Wolter, G. Röpke +1
Various definitions of the symmetry energy are introduced for nuclei, dilute nuclear matter below saturation density and stellar matter, which is found in compact stars or core-col…
Cluster virial expansion for nuclear matter within a quasiparticle statistical approach
G. Ropke, N. -U. Bastian, D. Blaschke +3
Correlations in interacting many-particle systems can lead to the formation of clusters, in particular bound states and resonances. Systematic quantum statistical approaches allow…
Dirac-Brueckner Hartree-Fock Approach: from Infinite Matter to Effective Lagrangians for Finite Systems
Nguyen Van Giai, Brett V. Carlson, Zhongyu Ma +1
One of the open problems in nuclear structure is how to predict properties of finite nuclei from the knowledge of a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction of the meson-exchange type. We…
Symmetry energy of dilute warm nuclear matter
J. B. Natowitz, G. Ropke, S. Typel +9
The symmetry energy of nuclear matter is a fundamental ingredient in the investigation of exotic nuclei, heavy-ion collisions and astrophysical phenomena. New data from heavy-ion c…
Probing the symmetry energy at high baryon density with heavy ion collisions
V. Greco, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro +1
The nuclear symmetry energy at densities above saturation density () is poorly constrained theoretically and very few relevant experimental data exist. Its st…
Composition and thermodynamics of nuclear matter with light clusters
S. Typel, G. Röpke, T. Klähn +2
We investigate nuclear matter at finite temperature and density, including the formation of light clusters up to the alpha particle The novel feature of this work is to include the…
Isospin Effects on Strangeness in Heavy-Ion Collisions
V. Prassa, T. Gaitanos, G. Ferini +3
Kaon properties are studied within the framework of a fully covariant transport approach. The kaon-nucleon potential is evaluated in two schemes, a chiral perturbative approach and…
The High-Density Symmetry Energy in Heavy Ion Collisions
H. H. Wolter, V. Prassa, G. A. Lalazissis +4
The nuclear symmetry energy as a function of density is rather poorly constrained theoretically and experimentally both below saturation density, but particularly at high density,…
Competition of breakup and dissipative processes in peripheral collisions at Fermi energies
T. I. Mikhailova, A. G. Artyukh, M. Colonna +6
Heavy ion collisions in the Fermi energy regime may simultaneously show features of direct and dissipative processes. To investigate this behavior in detail, we study isotope and v…
Isospin Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions: from Coulomb Barrier to Quark Gluon Plasma
M. Di Toro, V. Baran, M. Colonna +11
Heavy Ion Collisions (HIC) represent a unique tool to probe the in-medium nuclear interaction in regions away from saturation. In this report we present a selection of new reaction…
Asymmetry of velocity distributions in peripheral collisions at Fermi energies
T. I. Mikhailova, B. Erdemchimeg, G. Kaminski +6
Asymmetry of the velocity distributions of projectile like fragments produced in heavy-ion collisions is discussed. The calculations made in transport model approach (the solution…
Investigation of Low-Density Symmetry Energy via Nucleon and Fragment Observables
H. H. Wolter, J. Rizzo, M. Colonna +4
With stochastic transport simulations we study in detail central and peripheral collisions at Fermi energies and suggest new observables, sensitive to the symmetry energy below nor…
Isospin Effects on Meson Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
M. Di Toro, M. Colonna, G. Ferini +8
We show that the phenomenology of isospin effects on heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies (few AGeV range) is extremely rich and can allow a ``direct'' study of the covaria…
Isospin Dynamics in Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions at Fermi Energies
J. Rizzo, M. Colonna, V. Baran +3
We present a detailed study of isospin dynamics in peripheral collisions at Fermi energies. We consider symmetric and mixed collisions of (124,112)Sn isotopes at 35 and 50 AMeV to…