Nuclear interactions in heavy ion transport and event-based risk models

Microscopic Models of Heavy Ion Interactions

An introduction to dynamical microscopic models of hadronic and nuclear interactions is presented. Special emphasis is put in the relation between multiparticle production and total cross-section contributions. In heavy ion collisions, some observables, considered as signals of the production of a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), are studied. It is shown that they can only be described if final state ...

Event-by-event Physics in Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

Motivated by forthcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC, and results from SPS, a review is given of the present state of event-by-event fluctuations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Fluctuations in particle multiplicities, ratios, transverse momenta, rapidity, etc. are calculated in participant nucleon as well as thermal models. The physical observables, including multiplicity, kaon to p...

Study of Event-by-event Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions

We propose Kolmogorov-Smirnov test as a means for recognising event-by-event fluctuations of rapidity distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Such fluctuations may be induced by the spinodal decomposition of the rapidly expanding system during the 1st order quark-hadron phase transition.

Nuclear Fragmentation Reactions and Heavy-Ion Therapy

Heavy ion guide: beam transport and diagnostics

Our present plans for a heavy-ion guide system are based on developments at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) [1]. For the heavy-ion guide, preselection of ions will be done using a superconducting solenoid similar to that being used now in the BigSol spectrometer. Earlier tests with a 1 m long gas cell at low input intensities (below 10 ion/sec) have been carried out at ANL with beams up to 4 ...