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UrQMD at RHIC energies
(1999)
The two-proton correlation function at midrapidity from Pb+Pb central collisions at 158 AGeV has been measured by the NA49 experiment. The results are compared to model predictions from static thermal Gaussian proton source distributions and transport models RQMD and VENUS. An effective proton source size is determined by minimizing CHI-square/ndf between the correlation functions of the data and those calculated for the Gaussian sources, yielding 3.85 +-0.15(stat.) +0.60-0.25(syst.) fm. Both the RQMD and the VENUS model are consistent with the data within the error in the correlation peak region.
Dilepton spectra are calculated within the microscopic transport model UrQMD and compared to data from the CERES experiment. The invariant mass spectra in the region between 300 MeV and 600 MeV depend strongly on the mass dependence of the rho meson decay width which is not sufficiently determined by the Vector Meson Dominance model. A consistent explanation of both the recent Pb+Au data and the proton induced data can be given without additional medium effects.
A LEBT system consisting of an ion source, two solenoids, and a diagnostic section has been set up to investigate the space charge compensation process due to residual gas ionization [1] and to study experimentally the rise of compensation. To gain the radial beam potential distribution time resolved measurements of the residual gas ion energy distribution were carried out using a Hughes Rojanski analyzer [2,3]. To measure the radial density profile of the ion beam a CCD-camera performed time resolved measurements, which allow an estimation the rise time of compensation. Further the dynamic effect of the space charge compensation on the beam transport was shown. A numerical simulation under assumption of selfconsistent states [4] of the beam plasma has been used to determine plasma parameters such as the radial density profile and the temperature of the electrons. The acquired data show that the theoretical estimated rise time of space charge compensation neglecting electron losses is shorter than the build up time determined experimentally. An interpretation of the achieved results is given.
Time resolved measurements of the biased disk effect at an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source
(1999)
First results are reported from time resolved measurements of ion currents extracted from the Frankfurt 14 GHz Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source with pulsed biased-disk voltage. It was found that the ion currents react promptly to changes of the bias. From the experimental results it is concluded that the biased disk effect is mainly due to improvements of the extraction conditions for the source and/or an enhanced transport of ions into the extraction area. By pulsing the disk voltage, short current pulses of highly charged ions can be generated with amplitudes significantly higher than the currents obtained in continuous mode.
A selection of recent data referring to Pb+Pb collisions at the SPS CERN energy of 158 GeV per nucleon is presented which might describe the state of highly excited strongly interacting matter both above and below the deconfinement to hadronization (phase) transition predicted by lattice QCD. A tentative picture emerges in which a partonic state is indeed formed in central Pb+Pb collisions which hadronizes at about T = 185 MeV, and expands its volume more than tenfold, cooling to about 120 MeV before hadronic collisions cease. We suggest further that all SPS collisions, from central S+S onward, reach that partonic phase, the maximum energy density increasing with more massive collision systems.
Hadronic yields and yield ratios observed in Pb+Pb collisions at the SPS energy of 158 GeV per nucleon are known to resemble a thermal equilibrium population at T=180 +/- 10 MeV, also observed in elementary e+ + e- to hadron data at LEP. We argue that this is the universal consequence of the QCD parton to hadron phase transition populating the maximum entropy state. This state is shown to survive the hadronic rescattering and expansion phase, freezing in right after hadronization due to the very rapid longitudinal and transverse expansion that is inferred from Bose-Einstein pion correlation analysis of central Pb+Pb collisions.
Im NA49-Experiment wird der hadronische Endzustand von Kern und Protonen induzierten Reaktionen gemessen, um die Eigenschaften von Kernmaterie unter extremen Bedingungen zu untersuchen. Dabei stellt die Flugzeitmessung ein wichtiges Instrument zur Teilchenidentifizierung dar. Der von Yu.N. Pestov 1971 erstmal vorgestellte und nach ihm benannte Pestov-Zähler ist ein gasgefüllter Parallelplatten-Zähler, der im Funken/Überschlag-Modus betrieben wird. Die Besonderheit dieses Zählers ist die Lokalisierung der Entladung, die durch eine Anode aus halbleitendem Glas mit einem hohen spezifischen Widerstand und ein Zählgas mit großer Photonen-Absorption erreicht wird. In der Protonenstrahlzeit 1997 wurde der PesTOF-Detektor (Pestov Time Of Flight) bestehend aus zwölf einzelnen Zählern, erstmals im Vertex-1 Magneten des NA49-Experimentes eingesetzt. Neben der guten Zeitauflösung sind die Unempfindlichkeit gegenüber dem magnetischen Feld und die gute Ortsauflösung die auch bei großen Spurdichten ein korrektes Zuordnen der Treffer ermöglicht, die Voraussetzungen für diesen Einsatz. Der kinematische Akzeptanzbereich für die Identifikation von Pionen liegt bei Rapiditäten von y ~ 2-5 - 3 und Tranzversalimpulsen von pt <= 500 MeV/c. Der Akzeptanzbereich der Kaonen liegt bei einer Rapidität von y ~ 2 und Tranzversalimpulsen von pt <= 500 MeV/c. Der Detektor konnte über den gesamten Zeitraum stabil und zuverlässig betrieben werden. Die gemessene gaußförmige Zeitauflösung beträgt 78 ps, wobei die Hochspannung die 1.5fache Schwellenspannung betrug. Neben dem gaußförmigen Anteil der Zeitauflösung zeigt der Detektor jedoch auch einen asymmetrischen nicht gaußförmigen Anteil ("Tail"). Aufgrund einer verzögerten Funkenentwicklung im Zähler liegen etwa 12.6% der Signale außerhalb der gaußförmigen Verteilung bzw. sind etwa 4% der Signale um mehr als 500 ps verspätet. Neuere Untersuchungen mit anderen Zählgasen und Zählergeometrien haben gezeigt, dass der Anteil der verzögerten Signale in Zukunft deutlich reduziert werden kann. Der Verlauf der gemessenen pt und mt-Verteilungen der identifizierten Kaonen und Pionen kann durch Simulationen mit dem VENUS-Modell reproduziert werden. Mit der möglichen Verbesserung der Zeitauflösung und dem geplanten Ausbau des PesTOF-Detektors mit bis zu 80 einzelnen Zählern wird der Impuls- und Akzeptanzbereich, in dem Teilchen identifiziert werden können, deutlich vergrößert werden. Die Messungen dieser Arbeit geben einen Ausblick darauf dass es in Zukunft möglich sein wird, relevante physikalische Größen mit dem PesTOF-Detektor im NA49-Experiment zu messen. Insbesondere in nicht symmetrischen Stoßsystemen ist der Einsatz von Flugzeitdetektoren in dem rückwärtigen kinematischen Bereich der Reaktion interessant. Mit den in dieser Arbeit gefundenen positiven Eigenschaften und den sich abzeichnenden Modifikationen am Zählgas und Zähler ist der Pestov-Zähler ein interessanter Detektor für zukünftige Experimente.
To fulfil the requirements of ESS on beam transmission and emittance growth a detailed knowledge of the physics of beam formation as well as the interaction of the H- with the residual gas is substantial. Space charge compensated beam transport using solenoids for ion optics is in favour for the Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) between ion source and the first RFQ. Space charge compensation reduces the electrical self fields and beam radii and therefore emittance growth due to aberrations and redistribution. Transport of H- near the ion source is negatively influenced by the dipole fields required for beam extraction and e--dumping and the high gas pressure. The destruction of the rotational symmetry together with the space charge forces causes emittance growth and particle losses within the extraction system. High residual gas pressure near the extractor together with the high cross section for stripping will influence the transmission as well as space charge compensation. Therefore a detailed knowledge of the interaction of the residual gas with the beam and the influence of the external fields on the distribution of the compensation particles is necessary to reduce particle losses and emittance growth. Preliminary experiments using positive hydrogen ions for reference already show the influence of dipole fields on beam emittance. First measurements with H- confirm these results. Additional information on the interactions of the residual gas with the beam ions have been gained from the measurements using the momentum and energy analyser.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Stöße zwischen Alpha-Teilchen und Li-ähnlichen Ionen sowie Stöße zwischen vollständig ionisierten Projektilionen und dem Li-ähnlichen Ion N4+ untersucht. Hierzu wird die zeitabhängige Schrödinger-Gleichung unter Verwendung einer effektiven Einteilchenbeschreibung im Rahmen der nichtpertubativen Basis Generator Methode (BGM) gelöst.
The centrality dependence of (multi-)strange hadron abundances is studied for Pb(158 AGeV)Pb reactions and compared to p(158 GeV)Pb collisions. The microscopic transport model UrQMD is used for this analysis. The predicted Lambda/pi-, Xi-/pi- and Omega-/pi- ratios are enhanced due to rescattering in central Pb-Pb collisions as compared to peripheral Pb-Pb or p-Pb collisions. A reduction of the constituent quark masses to the current quark masses m_s \sim 230 MeV, m_q \sim 10 MeV, as motivated by chiral symmetry restoration, enhances the hyperon yields to the experimentally observed high values. Similar results are obtained by an ad hoc overall increase of the color electric field strength (effective string tension of kappa=3 GeV/fm). The enhancement depends strongly on the kinematical cuts. The maximum enhancement is predicted around midrapidity. For Lambda's, strangeness suppression is predicted at projectile/target rapidity. For Omega's, the predicted enhancement can be as large as one order of magnitude. Comparisons of Pb-Pb data to proton induced asymmetric (p-A) collisions are hampered due to the predicted strong asymmetry in the various rapidity distributions of the different (strange) particle species. In p-Pb collisions, strangeness is locally (in rapidity) not conserved. The present comparison to the data of the WA97 and NA49 collaborations clearly supports the suggestion that conventional (free) hadronic scenarios are unable to describe the observed high (anti-)hyperon yields in central collisions. The doubling of the strangeness to nonstrange suppression factor, gamma_s \approx 0.65, might be interpreted as a signal of a phase of nearly massless particles.
A microscopic model of deconfined matter based on color interactions between semi-classical quarks is studied. A hadronization mechanism is imposed to examine the properties and the disassembly of a thermalized quark plasma and to investigate the possible existence of a phase transition from quark matter to hadron matter.
We study the extrapolation of nuclear shell structure to the region of superheavy nuclei in self-consistent mean-field models—the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach and the relativistic mean-field model—using a large number of parametrizations which give similar results for stable nuclei but differ in detail. Results obtained with the folded-Yukawa potential which is widely used in macroscopic-macroscopic models are shown for comparison. We focus on differences in the isospin dependence of the spin-orbit interaction and the effective mass between the models and their influence on single-particle spectra. The predictive power of the mean-field models concerning single-particle spectra is discussed for the examples of 208Pb and the spin-orbit splittings of selected neutron and proton levels in 16O, 132Sn, and 208Pb. While all relativistic models give a reasonable description of spin-orbit splittings, all Skyrme interactions show a wrong trend with mass number. The spin-orbit splitting of heavy nuclei might be overestimated by 40%–80%, which exposes a fundamental deficiency of the current nonrelativistic models. In most cases the occurrence of spherical shell closures is found to be nucleon-number dependent. Spherical doubly magic superheavy nuclei are found at 184298114, 172292120, or 184310126 depending on the parametrization. The Z=114 proton shell closure, which is related to a large spin-orbit splitting of proton 2f states, is predicted only by forces which by far overestimate the proton spin-orbit splitting in 208Pb. The Z=120 and N=172 shell closures predicted by the relativistic models and some Skyrme interactions are found to be related to a central depression of the nuclear density distribution. This effect cannot appear in macroscopic-microscopic models or semiclassical approaches like the extended Thomas-Fermi-Strutinski integral approach which have a limited freedom for the density distribution only. In summary, our findings give a strong argument for 172292120 to be the next spherical doubly magic superheavy nucleus.
The modification of the width of rho mesons due to in-medium decays and collisions is evaluated. The decay width is calculated from the imaginary part of the one-loop selfenergy at finite temperature. The collision width is related to the cross sections of the rho + pion and the rho + nucleon reactions. A calculation based on an e ective Lagrangian shows the importance of including the direct pho pi - > pho pi scattering which is dominated by the a1 exchange. A large broadening of the spectral function is found, accompanied by a strength suppression at the pole. http://www.arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9812059
The modification of the width of the rho meson due to in-medium decays and collisions is evaluated. In high temperature and/or high density hadronic matter, the collision width is much larger than the one-loop decay width. The large width of the meson in matter seems to be consistent with some current interpretations of the e+e mass spectra measured at the CERN/SPS.
We derive the relativistic quantum transport equation for the pion distribution function based on an effective Lagrangian of the QHD-II model. The closed-time-path Green s function technique and the semiclassical, quasiparticle, and Born approximations are employed in the derivation. Both the mean field and collision term are derived from the same Lagrangian and presented analytically. The dynamical equation for the pions is consistent with that for the nucleons and Delta's which we developed before. Thus, we obtain a relativistic transport model which describes the hadronic matter with N,Delta, and pi degrees of freedom simultaneously. Within this approach, we investigate the medium effects on the pion dispersion relation as well as the pion absorption and pion production channels in cold nuclear matter. In contrast to the results of the nonrelativistic model, the pion dispersion relation becomes harder at low momenta and softer at high momenta as compared to the free one, which is mainly caused by the relativistic kinetics. The theoretically predicted free piN->Delta cross section is in agreement with the experimental data. Medium effects on the piN->Delta cross section and momentum-dependent Delta-decay width are shown to be substantial. PACS-numbers: 24.10.Jv, 13.75.Cs, 21.65.1f, 25.75.2q
We develop a relativistic model to describe the bound states of positive energy and negative energy in finite nuclei at the same time. Instead of searching for the negative-energy solution of the nucleon s Dirac equation, we solve the Dirac equations for the nucleon and the anti-nucleon simultaneously. The single-particle energies of negative-energy nucleons are obtained through changing the sign of the single-particle energies of positive-energy anti-nucleons. The contributions of the Dirac sea to the source terms of the meson fields are evaluated by means of the derivative expansion up to the leading derivative order for the one-meson loop and one-nucleon loop. After refitting the parameters of the model to the properties of spherical nuclei, the results of positive-energy sector are similar to that calculated within the commonly used relativistic mean field theory under the no-sea approximation. However, the bound levels of negative-energy nucleons vary drastically when the vacuum contributions are taken into account. It implies that the negative-energy spectra deserve a sensitive probe to the e ective interactions in addition to the positive-energy spectra.
We develop a relativistic model to describe the bound states of positive energy and negative energy in finite nuclei at the same time. Instead of searching for the negative-energy solution of the nucleon's Dirac equation, we solve the Dirac equations for the nucleon and the anti-nucleon simultaneously. The single-particle energies of negative-energy nucleons are obtained through changing the sign of the single-particle energies of positive-energy anti-nucleons. The contributions of the Dirac sea to the source terms of the meson fields are evaluated by means of the derivative expansion up to the leading derivative order for the one-meson loop and one-nucleon loop. After refitting the parameters of the model to the properties of spherical nuclei, the results of positive-energy sector are similar to that calculated within the commonly used relativistic mean field theory under the no-sea approximation. However, the bound levels of negative-energy nucleons vary drastically when the vacuum contributions are taken into account. It implies that the negative-energy spectra deserve a sensitive probe to the effective interactions in addition to the positive-energy spectra.
Relativistic hadron-hadron collisions in the ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics model
(1999)
Hadron-hadron collisions at high energies are investigated in the Ultra- relativistic-Quantum-Molecular-Dynamics approach. This microscopic trans- port model describes the phenomenology of hadronic interactions at low and intermediate energies ( s < 5 GeV) in terms of interactions between known hadrons and their resonances. At higher energies, s > 5 GeV, the excitation of color strings and their subsequent fragmentation into hadrons dominates the multiple production of particles in the UrQMD model. The model shows a fair overall agreement with a large body of experimental h-h data over a wide range of h-h center-of-mass energies. Hadronic reaction data with higher precision would be useful to support the use of the UrQMD model for relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Die vorliegende Arbeit befaßt sich mit der Planung und dem Aufbau der mehrkanaligen Strahlführung im Anschluß an den VE-RFQ Beschleuniger der Frankfurter EZR-VE-RFQ Anlage. Die Umsetzung der mit Hilfe von Simulationen gefundenen Strahlführung war ebenso Gegenstand dieser Arbeit wie erste Tests der neuen Anlagenkomponenten. Mit der Fertigstellung dieses Teilabschnitts steht jetzt der Energiebereich von 100–200 keV/u ergänzt durch den niederenergetischen Bereich von 5–60 kV für Experimente mit mehrfach geladenen Ionen in zwei von drei geplanten Strahlkanälen zur Verfügung. Die Kombination, bestehend aus EZR-Ionenquelle und VE-RFQBeschleuniger, erlaubt einerseits atomphysikalische Experimente mit speziell präparierten Ionenstrahlen und verschiedenen Ionensorten. Andererseits liefert die verwendete Ionenquelle hohe Intensitäten an mehrfach geladenen Ionen, die für spezielle Anwendungen der Materialforschung benötigt werden. Diese Arbeit gliedert sich in drei Abschnitte, im ersten Schritt wurde die HF-Einkopplung des Beschleunigers modifiziert und der Ionenstrahl im transversalen Phasenraum charakterisiert. Dabei hat sich gezeigt, daß die experimentell gefundene Geometrie der Einkoppelschleife im Betrieb nur in einem sehr geringen Bereich verfahren werden muß, um optimale Anpassung über den gesamten Frequenzbereich zu erreichen. Auf Basis der gemessenen Emittanzen erfolgte die Planung der Strahlführung mit Hilfe von Simulationsprogrammen im zweiten Schritt. Das Ziel war der Aufbau von drei Strahlkanälen mit unterschiedlichen Anforderungen an das Profil des Ionenstrahls. Im letzten Schritt stand die Umsetzung der geplanten Strahlführung. Verbunden mit diesem Schritt war die Konstruktion und Vermessung der ionenoptischen Elemente und der Aufbau der Strahlführung unter Verwendung von vorhandenen magnetischen Quadrupolen und Ablenkmagneten. Abschließend wurde die Funktionsfähigkeit des vorgestellten Aufbaus als Bestandteil der kompletten EZR-VE-RFQ-Anlage im Betrieb getestet. Im Rahmen des Aufbaus und der ersten Experimente waren diverse technische Fragestellungen aus dem Bereich der Beschleunigerphysik, über die Ionenoptik bis hin zur Ionenquellenphysik zu bearbeiten und Probleme zu lösen. Die ersten Tests der einzelnen ionenoptischen Elemente und der Betrieb der gesamten Strahlführung haben gezeigt, daß die gestellten Aufgaben erfüllt werden. Nach der Fertigstellung des Grundaufbaus der Strahlführung für die nachbeschleunigten Ionen durch den Aufbau des noch fehlenden 90°-Kanals und den Aufbau einer Strahldiagnose, muß im nächsten Schritt die Optimierung der einzelnen Strahlkanäle erfolgen. Das Ziel liegt dabei in der Verbesserung der Transmission und der Qualität der zur Verfügung gestellten Ionenstrahlen. Damit verbunden ist auch die Charakterisierung der Ionenstrahlen in den verschiedenen Strahlzweigen. Unabhängig davon ist die Untersuchung der Injektion in den RFQ notwendig, zur Verbesserung der Anpassung des Quellenstrahls an die Akzeptanz des Beschleunigers und zur Diagnose der Ursache für die Teilchenverluste in diesem Teilabschnitt des Aufbaus.
Nonequilibrium models (three-fluid hydrodynamics, UrQMD, and quark molecular dynamics) are used to discuss the uniqueness of often proposed experimental signatures for quark matter formation in relativistic heavy ion collisions from the SPS via RHIC to LHC. It is demonstrated that these models - although they do treat the most interesting early phase of the collisions quite differently (thermalizing QGP vs. coherent color fields with virtual particles) -- all yield a reasonable agreement with a large variety of the available heavy ion data. Hadron/hyperon yields, including J/Psi meson production/suppression, strange matter formation, dileptons, and directed flow (bounce-off and squeeze-out) are investigated. Observations of interesting phenomena in dense matter are reported. However, we emphasize the need for systematic future measurements to search for simultaneous irregularities in the excitation functions of several observables in order to come close to pinning the properties of hot, dense QCD matter from data. The role of future experiments with the STAR and ALICE detectors is pointed out.
Time-resolved Fourier transform infrared difference spectra of the phosphoenzyme conversion and Ca(2+) release reaction (Ca(2)E(1)-P --> E(2)-P) of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase were recorded at pH 7 and 1 degrees C in H(2)O and (2)H(2)O. In the amide I spectral region, the spectra indicate backbone conformational changes preserving conformational changes of the preceding phosphorylation step. beta-sheet or turn structures (band at 1685 cm(-1)) and alpha-helical structures (band at 1653 cm(-1)) seem to be involved. Spectra of the model compound EDTA for Ca(2+) chelation indicate the assignment of bands at 1570, 1554, 1411 and 1399 cm(-1) to Ca(2+) chelating Asp and Glu carboxylate groups partially shielded from the aqueous environment. In addition, an E(2)-P band at 1638 cm(-1) has been tentatively assigned to a carboxylate group in a special environment. A Tyr residue seems to be involved in the reaction (band at 1517 cm(-1) in H(2)O and 1515 cm(-1) in (2)H(2)O). A band at 1192 cm(-1) was shown by isotopic replacement in the gamma-phosphate of ATP to originate from the E(2)-P phosphate group. This is a clear indication that the immediate environment of the phosphoenzyme phosphate group changes in the conversion reaction, altering phosphate geometry and/or electron distribution.
We argue that the measurement of open charm gives a unique opportunity to test the validity of pQCD-based and statistical models of nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies. We show that various approaches used to estimate D-meson multiplicity in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV give predictions which differ by more than a factor of 100. Finally we demonstrate that decisive experimental results concerning the open charm yield in A+A collisions can be obtained using data of the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS.
We investigate the hadronic cooling of a quark droplet within a microscopic model. The color flux tube approach is used to describe the hadronization of the quark phase. The model reproduces experimental particle ratios equally well compared to a static thermal hadronic source. Furthermore, the dynamics of the decomposition of a quark-gluon plasma is investigated and time dependent particle ratios are found.
We calculate the initial non-equilibrium conditions from perturbative QCD (pQCD) within Glauber multiple scattering theory for s = 200 AGeV and s = 5.5 ATeV. At the soon available collider energies one will particularly test the small x region of the parton distributions entering the cross sections. Therefore shadowing effects, previously more or less unimportant, will lead to new e ects on variables such as particle multiplicities dN/dy, transverse energy production d T /dy, and the initial temperature Ti. In this paper we will have a closer look on the effects of shadowing by employing di erent parametrizations for the shadowing effect for valence quarks, sea quarks and gluons. Since the cross sections at midrapidity are dominated by processes involving gluons the amount of their depletion is particularly important. We will therefore have a closer look on the results for dN/dy, d ¯E T /dy, and Ti by using two different gluon shadowing ratios, di ering strongly in size. As a matter of fact, the calculated quantities di er significantly.
The effects of internal quark structure of baryons on the composition and structure of neutron star matter with hyperons are investigated in the quark- meson coupling (QMC) model. The QMC model is based on mean-field description of nonoverlapping spherical bags bound by self-consistent exchange of scalar and vector mesons. The predictions of this model are compared with quantum hadrodynamic (QHD) model calibrated to reproduce identical nuclear matter saturation properties. By employing a density dependent bag constant through direct coupling to the scalar field, the QMC model is found to exhibit identical properties as QHD near saturation density. Furthermore, this modified QMC model provides well-behaved and continuous solutions at high densities relevant to the core of neutron stars. Two additional strange mesons are introduced which couple only to the strange quark in the QMC model and to the hyperons in the QHD model. The constitution and structure of stars with hyperons in the QMC and QHD models reveal interesting di erences. This suggests the importance of quark structure e ects in the baryons at high densities. PACS number(s): 26.60.+c, 21.65.+f, 12.39.Ba, 24.85.+p
We investigate various properties of neutron star matter within an e ective chiral SU(3)L × SU(3)R model. The predictions of this model are compared with a Walecka-type model. It is demonstrated that the importance of hy- peron degrees are strongly depending on the interaction used, even if the equation of state near saturation density is nearly the same in both models. While the Walecka-type model predicts a strange star core with strangeness fraction fS 4/3, the chiral model allows only for fS 1/3 and predicts that 0, + and 0 will not exist in star, in contrast to the Walecka-type model. PACS: 26.60+c, 21.65+f, 24.10Jv
The effect of a single site mutation of Arg-54 to methionine in Paracoccus denitrificans cytochrome c oxidase was studied using a combination of optical spectroscopy, electrochemical and rapid kinetics techniques, and time-resolved measurements of electrical membrane potential. The mutation resulted in a blue-shift of the heme a alpha-band by 15 nm and partial occupation of the low-spin heme site by heme O. Additionally, there was a marked decrease in the midpoint potential of the low-spin heme, resulting in slow reduction of this heme species. A stopped-flow investigation of the reaction with ferrocytochrome c yielded a kinetic difference spectrum resembling that of heme a(3). This observation, and the absence of transient absorbance changes at the corresponding wavelength of the low-spin heme, suggests that, in the mutant enzyme, electron transfer from Cu(A) to the binuclear center may not occur via heme a but that instead direct electron transfer to the high-spin heme is the dominating process. This was supported by charge translocation measurements where Deltapsi generation was completely inhibited in the presence of KCN. Our results thus provide an example for how the interplay between protein and cofactors can modulate the functional properties of the enzyme complex.
We investigate event-by-event fluctuations for ensembles with non-fixed multiplicity. Moments of event observable distributions, like total energy distribution, total transverse momentum distribution, etc, are shown to be related to the multi-body correlations present in the system. For classical systems, these moments reduce in the absence of any correlations to the mo- ments of particle inclusive momentum distribution. As a consequence, a zero value for the recently introduced Phi-variable is shown to indicate the van- ishing of two-body correlations from one part, and of correlations between multiplicity and momentum distributions from the other part. It is often misunderstood as a measure of the degree of equilibration in the system.
Charmonium production and absorption in heavy ion collisions is studied with the Ultrarelativisitic Quantum Molecular Dynamics model. We compare the scenario of universal and time independent color-octet dissociation cross sections with one of distinct color-singlet J/psi, psi 2 and CHIc states, evolving from small, color transparent configurations to their asymptotic sizes. The measured J/psi production cross sections in pA and AB collisions at SPS energies are consistent with both purely hadronic scenarios. The predicted rapidity dependence of J/psi suppression can be used to discriminate between the two experimentally. The importance of interactions with secondary hadrons and the applicability of thermal reaction kinetics to J/psi absorption are in- vestigated. We discuss the e ect of nuclear stopping and the role of leading hadrons. The dependence of the 2/J/psi ratio on the model assumptions and the possible influence of refeeding processes is also studied.
We investigate in stable strange hadronic matter (SHM) the modifica- tion of the masses of the scalar (sigma,sigma') and the vector (omega,phi) mesons. The baryon ground state is treated in the relativistic Hartree approximation in the nonlinear sigma-omega and linear sigma'- phi model. In stable SHM, the masses of all the mesons reveal considerable reduction due to large vacuum polarization contribution from the hyperons and small density dependent effects caused by larger binding. PACS: 21.65+f, 24.10Jv
Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschreibt den Aufbau und erste Anwendungen einer neuartigen Technik zur Manipulation von Fallenpotentialen für Bose-Einstein-Kondensate. Das Dipolpotential, das ein gegen die atomare Resonanz verstimmter Laserstrahl auf die Atome ausübt, wird hierzu genutzt. Es wurde eine Apparatur aufgebaut, mit der sehr schnelle räumliche Bewegung und gleichzeitige Intensitätsänderung von Laserstrahlen erzielt wird. Durch schnelles Scannen des Laserstrahls in x- und y-Richtung und gleichzeitige Modulation seiner Intensität werden beliebige zeitgemittelte Potentiale erzeugt. Diese Potentiale wurden sowohl als räumliche und/oder zeitliche Modifikation herkömmlicher Magnetfallenpotentiale als auch als eigenständige Fallen mit neuartiger Geometrie verwendet. Mit diesem Aufbau wurden Experimente an Bose-Einstein-Kondensaten durchgeführt, bei denen die große räumliche und zeitliche Auflösung genutzt wurden. Die Speicherung von Atomen in zeitgemittelten, rotverstimmten optischen Fallen verschiedener Geometrie wurde demonstriert und eine durch das Scannen hervorgerufene Aufheizung der Probe wurde gefunden und untersucht. Dies ist die erstmalige Speicherung von Bose- Einstein-Kondensaten in zeitgemittelten Dipolfallen, deren Gestalt im Prinzip frei wählbar ist. Außerdem wurden kollektive Anregungen eines Bose-Einstein-Kondensats in einer Magnetfalle untersucht, die durch zeitgemittelte optische Potentiale induziert wurden. Der Schwerpunkt dieser Untersuchung waren insbesondere Moden mit hohem Drehimpuls, die in rein magnetischen Fallenpotentialen zuvor nicht angeregt worden waren. Bisherige Limitation von Gleichstrommagnetfallen, in denen nur zylindersymmetrische Moden angeregt werden konnten, wurden durch die Verwendung zeitgemittelten optischen Potentialen zusätzlich zum Magnetfallenpotential umgangen. In einem dritten Experiment konnte der suprafluide Charakter eines Bose-Einstein-Kondensats studiert werden. Die kritische Geschwindigkeit für die Bewegung eines Fremdobjektes duch das Kondensat wurde erstmals gemessen. Als Fremdobjekt diente ein gegen die atomare Resonanz blauverstimmter Laserstrahl, der auf die Atome ein repulsives Potential ausübt.
Local equilibrium in heavy ion collisions. Microscopic model versus statistical model analysis
(1999)
The assumption of local equilibrium in relativistic heavy ion collisions at energies from 10.7 AGeV (AGS) up to 160 AGeV (SPS) is checked in the microscopic transport model. Dynamical calculations performed for a central cell in the reaction are compared to the predictions of the thermal statistical model. We find that kinetic, thermal and chemical equilibration of the expanding hadronic matter are nearly approached late in central collisions at AGS energy for t >= 10 fm/c in a central cell. At these times the equation of state may be approximated by a simple dependence P ~= (0.12-0.15) epsilon. Increasing deviations of the yields and the energy spectra of hadrons from statistical model values are observed for increasing energy, 40 AGeV and 160 AGeV. These violations of local equilibrium indicate that a fully equilibrated state is not reached, not even in the central cell of heavy ion collisions at energies above 10 AGeV. The origin of these findings is traced to the multiparticle decays of strings and many-body decays of resonances.
Freeze out of particles across three dimensional space-time hypersurface is discussed in a simple kinetic model. The final momentum distribution of emitted particles, for freeze out surfaces with space-like normal, shows a non-exponential transverse momentum spectrum. The slope parameter of the pt distribution increases with increasing pt, in agreement with recently measured SPS pion and h spectra.
Es wurde eine Apparatur zur Messung der Ladungszustandsverteilung von langsamen, hochgeladenen Ionen nach der Wechselwirkung in dünnen Foilen aufgebaut und angewendet. Die Ladungszustandsverteilung von Ionen mit Ladungszuständen von 1+ (H) bis 75+(Th) wurden im Geschwindigkeitsbereich von 0.2 bis 0.75 vBohr nach einer 5 nm und 10 nm dicken amorphen Kohlenstoff-Folie bestimmt. Ionen, die die (10 nm)-Folie passierten, befanden sich im wesentlichen in einem Gleichgewichtsladungszustand (1-2+), der sich grob durch das Bohr-Kriterium beschreiben läßt. Die mittleren Endladungszustände von Ionen mit Anfangsladungen >= 33+ zeigten nach der 5 nm dicken Folie eine deutliche Abweichung von diesem Gleichgewicht. Mittlere Ladungszustände bis zu 8.2+ (Th) wurden beobachtet. Es handelt sich dabei um die erste Beobachtung von Nicht-Gleichgewichtsladungszuständen langsamer Ionen nach der Transmission durch einen Festkörper. Dieses Ergebnis wird dahingehend gedeutet, daß die Zeitspanne, die zur Neutralisation und Relaxation der Ionen in der 5 nm Folie zur Verfügung steht, nicht ausreichend ist. Aus den Ergebnissen der Sekundärelektronen Ausbeute wird geschlossen, daß ein Teil der Innerschalen-Plätze bis zum Austritt aus der Folie nicht gefüllt werden konnte. Desweiteren könnte eine Verarmung des Festkörpers an Elektronen im Einschlagsbereich des hochgeladenen Ions vorliegen. Anhand der gesammelten Daten wurde ein semi-empirisches Modell zur Beschreibung des Ladungszustandes eines hochgeladenen Ions in einem Festkörper aufgestellt. Es zeigt sich, daß die Daten gut durch einen zweistufugen Füllprozess beschrieben werden können, der aus einem Aufbau einer Abschirmwolke um das Projektil, sowie der weiteren Abregung besteht. Die charakteristischen Zeiten für Aufbau und Abregung bewegen sich im Bereich von 2 fs. Nach etwa 7 fs kann von einer vollständigen Relaxation des Projektils ausgegangen werden. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit zum Ladungsausgleich der hochgeladenen Ionen wurden in [37] veröffentlicht.
Kinetic freeze out models
(1999)
Freeze out of particles across a space-time hypersurface is discussed in kinetic models. The calculation of final momentum distribution of emitted particles is described for freeze out surfaces, with spacelike normals. The resulting non-equilibrium distribution does not resemble, the previously proposed, cut Jüttner distribution, and shows non-exponential pt-spectra similar to the ones observed in experiments. PACS: 24.10.Nz, 25.75.-q
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde ein chirales SU(3)-Modell auf verschiedene Erscheinungsformen endlicher Kernmaterie angewendet. Das Modell basiert auf chiraler Symmetrie in nichtlinearer Realisierung. Die Symmetrie muss spontan gebrochen werden um die beobachtete Massendifferenz zwischen skalaren und pseudoskalaren Mesonen reproduzieren zu können. Um den pseudoskalaren Mesonen eine endliche Masse zu geben ist eine explizite Brechung der chiralen Symmetrie nötig.
A new chiral SU(3) Lagrangian is proposed to describe the properties of kaons and antikaons in the nuclear medium, the ground state of dense matter and the kaon-nuclear interactions consistently. The saturation properties of nuclear matter are reproduced as well as the results of the Dirac-Brückner theory. After taking into account the coupling between the omega meson and the kaon, we obtain similar results for the e ective kaon and antikaon energies as calculated in the one-boson-exchange model while in our model the parameters of the kaon-nuclear interactions are constrained by the SU(3) chiral symmetry. PACS number(s): 14.40.Aq, 12.39.Fe, 21.30.Fe
Irreversibility, steady state, and nonequilibrium physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions
(1999)
Heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies offer the opportunity to study the irreversibility of multiparticle processes. Together with the many-body decays of resonances, the multiparticle processes cause the system to evolve according to Prigogine s steady states rather than towards statistical equilibrium. These results are general and can be easily checked by any microscopic string-, transport-, or cascade model for heavy ion collisions. The absence of pure equilibrium states sheds light on the di culties of thermal models in describing the yields and spectra of hadrons, especially mesons, in heavy ion collisions at bombarding energies above 10 GeV/nucleon. PACS numbers: 25.75.-q, 05.70.Ln, 24.10.Lx
A strong interest is currently going on in the physics of high intensity and high energy beams: intense proton or deuteron beams are required in various fields of science and industry, including sources of neutrons for research experiments and material processing, nuclear physics experiments, tritium production and nuclear waste transmutation. High current heavy ion beams are envisaged for power production facilities (inertial fusion). Several projects presently under study are based on rf linacs as driver, sometimes followed by accumulation and/or compressor rings [Acc98]. The critical issue for all of them is to be operated in a low loss regime, because of activation problems in the structure. For this reason careful investigations have to be performed in order to understand and control the beam behaviour, aiming at conserving the beam quality, reducing the emittance growth and filamentation and avoiding the formation of halo. The beam current to be accelerated is actually limited by the amount of beam losses, which depends upon the beam halo: in order to reduce induced radioactivity and to allow for hands-on maintenance, normally losses <1 W/m are considered as acceptable [Sto96]. One of the major facilities under study is the European Spallation Source (ESS), a project based on a H- linac accelerating a 107 mA peak current beam (360 ns pulse in the DTL) and on two compressor rings, producing 5 MW average beam power [ESS]. Also the USA are developing a proposal for a Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), providing a short pulse H- beam with average power of 1÷2 MW; a 30 mA linac is required [SNS]. The Accelerator for Production of Tritium (APT), studied at Los Alamos, requires a 100 mA proton beam current (cw) to produce a power of 130÷170 MW [APT]. A similar but smaller accelerator (40 mA, 40 MW beam power) would serve as driver for the Accelerator Driven Transmutation of Waste (ADTW) system [ATW]. The accelerator system for the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) will test the behaviour of materials to be used for magnetic fusion (e.g. ITER); it consists of two 125 mA deuteron beams in parallel, to generate a fusion-like neutron spectrum with 10 MW cw [IFM]. In the field of heavy ions, for about 20 years scientists have been working on inertial confinement fusion, as an alternative to magnetic confinement one, to find a practical and cleaner method for producing energy. Nuclear fusion occurs when the nuclei of lighter elements (in a state of matter called "plasma") merge to form heavier elements; the extremely high temperatures and densities needed to get the nuclei to collide in the proper way and release big amounts of energy are obtained in a small "pellet" of fusion fuel, which receives energy from laser or ion beams, implodes and its inertia compresses it hard enough to hold together the plasma until it reaches ignition. Both laser and accelerator facilities have been investigated as drivers, since a demonstration of ignition at low gains is more easily accessible by lasers, whereas the intrinsic properties of accelerators -efficiency and repetition rate- will be essential for a medium-gain power plant. One study for a fusion power system driven by heavy ion beams (HIBALL) was completed in Europe already in 1982 [Bad81]. When the USA declassified essential information on pellet design, "indirect drive" targets have been considered openly, where the pellet is hit by X-rays generated from laser or ion beams rather than directly from the beams. Main progress has been achieved during the latest years in the understanding of pellet dynamics after ignition, i.e. in plasma physics [Sym1][Sym2][Sym3][Bas97][Lut97], imposing also new requirements on the layout of the driver accelerator facilities. In 1994-95 Frankfurt University and several other European laboratories (leaded by GSI) started a new collaboration called HIDIF (Heavy Ion Driven Ignition Facility) in order to simplify the accelerator plant design owing to the new technique of indirectly driven targets and to some technological improvements. First studies were oriented towards the conceptual goal of a facility providing just enough beam energy for the ignition of fusion reactions at very low gain (a "proof of principle") [Hof98]. In a recent phase of the study, it was realized that the proposed concept would make this scheme a more appropriate choice for energy production rather than for ignition; the acronym HIDIF was therefore intended as Heavy Ion Driven Inertial Fusion, and the parameters are going to be modified accordingly [Hof96][Hof97][Hof98]. The scenario presently discussed by this group proposes the formation and acceleration of an intense beam (400 mA) of singly charged heavy ions of three different atomic species, with mass differences of about 10% (the reference one is 209Bi+) in a main rf linac; they are then injected into some storage rings at an energy of 50 MeV/u, bunched in induction linacs and finally transported to a target with different velocities in such a way that the three species merge on the pellet ("telescoping") at 500 TW peak power. In this thesis the main linac of the HIDIF proposal is extensively investigated as an example of a high intensity heavy ion linac. Results are presented from numerical simulations of multi-particle beam dynamics carried out for the first time in this context. After a short presentation of the HIDIF reference scenario (Ignition Facility), including a discussion of the motivations for a high current heavy ion linac, some elements of the theory of beam transport and acceleration are recalled [Con91][Hof82][Kap85] [Lap87][Law88][Mit78][Rei94][Str83]. Then the used simulation programs are described, and a particle dynamics layout of a conventional 200 MHz Alvarez DTL is discussed with respect to low emittance growth at high transmission, including large space-charge effects, taking into account the influence of different kinds of statistical errors and of input mismatch on the beam dynamics. The modifications needed for "telescoping" are investigated with simulations for the nominal mass difference (10%) and for a smaller one (5%); finally the transfer line between DTL and rings is discussed and studied both analytically and by numerical calculations. The large mass number (A= 209) helps to reduce the space-charge effects with respect to protons, therefore the behaviour of the beam is not space-charge dominated. Nevertheless the tune depression values (similar to those of the ESS linac e.g.) indicate that these effects cannot be neglected. For a linac with low duty cycle, as in the case of an ignition facility, the results from particle dynamics calculations can be considered as a reliable guideline for the DTL layout, since they indicate that such a high intensity linac can fulfill the requirements on smooth beam behaviour and low losses.
Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit beruht größtenteils auf der Diplomarbeit von Thorsten Weber (siehe [TWE98]), die unter dem gleichen Titel bereits in einer geringen Auflage veröffentlicht wurde. Die im Rahmen dieser Untersuchungen durchgeführten Experimente liefern Ergebnisse für das Stoßsystem Protonen auf atomares Helium, bzw. Ergebnisse für das Stoßsystem Deuteronen of Helium bei verschiedenen Projektileinschußenergien (1.3 MeV bis 200 keV). Diese, mittels der Technik der Rückstoßionenimpulsspektroskopie gefundenen, Daten waren bis dato nicht zugänglich, und es standen nur sehr wenige theoretische Vergleichsdaten zur Verfügung. Die Ergebnisse dieser Messungen und die oben erwähnte Diplomarbeit von Th. Weber erfreuten sich daher einem regen Interesse in der Fachwelt für atomare Streuphysik. Die dort gefundene Daten wurden in diversen Vorträgen vorgestellt und diskutiert und wurden einer kritischen Betrachtung unterzogen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk lag hierbei auf dem besonders geringen Beitrag der Elektron-Rückstoßionenkorrelation, die bei den untersuchten Streuprozessen gefunden wurden. Die aufgrund dieser Ergebnisse erlangten Einschätzungen mußten zu dem Schluß gelangen, daß sich der Hauptbeitrag bei einer Einfachionisation von Helium mittels Protonen vornehmlich durch Projektil-Elektronwechselwirkungen, den sogenannten binary-encounter - Prozessen, ergibt. Dem widersprachen jedoch die klassischen CTMC-Rechnungen von Prof. Dr. D. Madison von der Universität in Missouri-Rolla und das physikalische Sachverständnis von Prof. Dr. L. Cocke von der Kansas State University. Sie erwarteten einen Beitrag, der mit der schlechten experimentellen Impulsauflösung von 0.5 a.u. nicht zu vereinbaren war. Aufgrund diesem fruchtbarem wissenschaftlichen Gedankenaustausch wurden die Daten erneut ausgewertet und dabei ein Vorzeichenfehler im Analysefile der experimentellen Daten als Wurzel der Diskrepanzen erkannt. Die in der oben erwähnten Diplomarbeit von Th. Weber vorgestellten Ergebnisse unterdrücken/ verschleiern damit den tatsächlichen Beitrag der Elektronen-Rückstoßionenwechselwirkung, so daß es nötig wurde diesen Irrtum zu berichtigen, was nun mit Hilfe dieser zweiten Auflage geschehen soll. Die vorgenommen Verbesserungen betreffen vorwiegend den Paragraphen 5.2.2 und das Kapitel 6 (Ergebnisse/ Dreidimensionale Impulse und die Zusammenfassung).
Impact parameter dependencies in Pb(160 AGeV)+Pb reactions : hydrodynamical vs. cascade calculations
(1999)
We investigate the impact parameter dependence of the specific entropy S/A in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Especially the anti-Lambda/anti-proton ratio is found to be a useful tool to distinguish between chemical equilibrium assumptions assumed in hydrodynamics (here: the 3-fluid model) and the chemical non-equilibrium scenario like in microscopic models as the UrQMD model.
Hot hypernuclear matter is investigated in an explicit SU(3) quark model based on a mean field description of nonoverlapping baryon bags bound by the self-consistent exchange of scalar sigma, zeta and vector omega,phi mesons. The sigma, omega mean fields are assumed to couple to the u, d-quarks while the zeta ,phi mean fields are coupled to the s-quark. The coupling constants of the mean fields with the quarks are assumed to satisfy SU(6) symmetry. The calculations take into account the medium dependence of the bag parameter on the scalar fields sigma, zeta. We consider only the octet baryons N,Lambda,Sigma, Xi in hypernuclear matter. An ideal gas of the strange mesons K and K is introduced to keep zero net strangeness density. Our results for symmetric hypernuclear matter show that a phase transition takes place at a critical temperature around 180 MeV in which the scalar mean fields sigma, zeta take nonzero values at zero baryon density. Furthermore, the bag contants of the baryons decrease significantly at and above this critical temperature indicating the onset of quark deconfinement. The present results imply that the onset of quark deconfinement in SU(3) hypernuclear matter is much stronger than in SU(2) nuclear matter. PACS:21.65.+f, 24.85.+p, 12.39Ba
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde erstmals die Realisierung eines (e,3e)- Experimentes an Helium mittels der Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy (COLTRIMS) behandelt. Dabei ging es hauptsächlich um den Aufbau, die Entwicklung, Test und die Durchführung des Experiments. Dazu wurde ein neues Kammersystem am Atomphysikkanal der Frankfurter EZR mit zweistufigem Ultraschallgasjet aufgebaut, an dem in Zukunft noch weitere COLTRIMS- Experimente stattfinden werden. In dieser Arbeit wurde eine Dreifach-Koinzidenz zwischen dem gestreuten Projektilelektron, dem einfach- oder zweifach geladenem Rückstoßion und dem langsamen Elektron verwirklicht. Sie stellt das wesentliche Ergebnis der vorliegenden Arbeit dar. Koinzident zum Streuwinkel und Energieverlust des Projektilelektrons wurden hierbei Flugzeiten und Auftrefforte rte von He1 - bzw. He2 - Ionen und von einem der ionisierten Elektronen gemessen. Anhand der durchgeführten umfangreichen Eichmessungen unter Hinzuziehung von Impuls- und Energieerhaltungssätzen lassen sich somit sämtliche Impulse der Teilchen errechnen. Somit gewinnt man Informationen über den Ionisationsprozeß. Desweiteren lassen sich multidifferentielle Wirkungsquerschnitte bestimmen, die sich mit theoretischen Modellen vergleichen lassen. Die Rückstoßionenimpulsverteilungen und die Flugzeitspektren für das He2 -Ion demonstrieren die Signifikaz der erreichten Statistik, trotz der geringen Koinzidenzrate von 17 h-1. Die Meßdaten wurden einer groben Auswertung unterzogen. Die entgültige Analyse, Ergebnisdeutung, Interpretation und Vergleich mit der Theorie fand in dieser Arbeit nicht statt. Die Projektilenergie lag bei allen Messungen bei 550 eV. Der Elektronenstrahl wurde, entgegen der vorherrschenden Meinung, mit einem Blendensystem auskollimiert. Im nächsten Schritt sollen statt mit nur einem mit zwei oder mehreren Schlitzblenden nacheinander der Elektronenstrahl auskollimiert werden, so daß die am vorderen Schlitz gestreuten Elektronen in den nachfolgenden ausgeblendet werden können. Somit verringert man die problematische Untergrundrate auf dem Elektronendetektor. Für weitere Untersuchungen werden momentan neue Spektrometerkonzepte entwickelt. Bei der Konzeption des neuen Spektrometers wird der Abstand zwischen Targetzone und Elektronendetektor größer gewählt. Dies verringert zwar den Nachweisraumwinkel für die Elektronen, aber man erreicht dadurch eine Verringerung der Untergrundselektronen. Der Verringerung des Nachweisraumwinkels kann man entgegenwirken, indem man einen großen MCP- Detektor mit 80 mm Durchmesser einsetzt. Der Eintrittsbereich des Projektilstrahls in das Rückstoßionenimpulsspektrometer sollte großzügig gewählt werden, da auf diese Art und Weise verhindert werden kann, daß der Elektronenstrahl die Potentialringe in Eintrittsbereich streift und wohlmöglich unerwünschte Sekundärelektronen erzeugt, die im Extraktionsfeld des Spektrometers auf den Elektronendetektor hin beschleunigt werden und ebenfalls für Untergrund sorgen. Eine Pulsung der Elektronenkanone über die Wehneltspannung vorzunehmen und den Puls als Start oder Trigger für die Datenaufnahme einzusetzen ist nur dann sinnvoll, wenn die Flugzeit der Elektronen um mindestens eine Größenordnung größer ist als die erreichbare Pulslänge. Nach Auskunft unserer Elektronik liegen die erreichbaren Pulslängen bei etwa 5 ns. Aufgrund der notwendigen Stabilität sowohl in der Elektronik als auch in der Kühlung des Kaltkopfes ist eine insgesamt kürzere Meßzeit erstrebenswert.
We analyze the hadronic freeze-out in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC in a transport approach which combines hydrodynamics for the early, dense, deconfined stage of the reaction with a microscopic non-equilibrium model for the later hadronic stage at which the hydrodynamic equilibrium assumptions are not valid. With this ansatz we are able to self-consistently calculate the freeze-out of the system and determine space-time hypersurfaces for individual hadron species. The space-time domains of the freeze-out for several hadron species are found to be actually four-dimensional, and di er drastically for the individual hadrons species. Freeze-out radii distributions are similar in width for most hadron species, even though the is found to be emitted rather close to the phase boundary and shows the smallest freeze- out radii and times among all baryon species. The total lifetime of the system does not change by more than 10% when going from SPS to RHIC energies.
We calculate the yields of a variety of hadrons for RHIC and LHC energies assuming thermodynamical equilibration of the produced minijets, and using as input results from pQCD for the energy densities at midrapidity. In the calculation of the production of partons and of transverse energy one has to account for nuclear shadowing. By using two parametrizations for the gluon shadowing one derives energy densities di ering strongly in magnitude. In this publication we link those perturbatively calculated energy densities of partons via entropy conservation in an ideal fluid to the hadron multiplicities at chemical freeze-out.
We calculate the yields of pions, kaons, and Æ-mesons for RHIC and LHC energies assuming thermodynamical equilibration of the produced minijets, and using as input results from pQCD for the energy densities at midrapidity. In the calculation of the production of partons and of transverse energy one has to account for nuclear shadowing. By using two parametrizations for the gluon shadowing one derives energy densities differing strongly in magnitude. In this publication we link those perturbatively calculated energy densities of partons via entropy conservation in an ideal fluid to the hadron multiplicities at chemical freeze-out.
We calculate the shadowing of sea quarks and gluons and show that the shadowing of gluons is not simply given by the sea quark shadowing, especially at small x. The calculations are done in the lab frame approach by using the generalized vector meson dominance model. Here the virtual photon turns into a hadronic fluctuation long before the nucleus. The subsequent coherent interaction with more than one nucleon in the nucleus leads to the depletion sigma(gamma*A )< A*sigma(gamma * N) known as shadowing. A comparison of the shadowing of quarks to E665 data for 40Ca and 207Pb shows good agreement.