Search for a viable nucleus–nucleus potential in heavy-ion nuclear reactions

Nuclear Fragmentation Reactions and Heavy-Ion Therapy

Excitation of nuclear anharmonic vibrations in heavy-ion fusion reactions

We discuss the e ects of multi-phonon excitations on heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies near and below the Coulomb barrier, focusing especially on the role of anharmonicities. We carry out a systematic study of those e ects on the excitation function of the fusion cross section and on the fusion barrier distribution, by using the vibrational limit of the interacting boson model. We also ana...

Hadronization in Heavy-ion Reactions

We present a model of fast hadronization of constituent quark matter in relativistic heavy ion collisions based on rate equations and capture cross sections in non-relativistic potential. We utilize a thermodynamically consistent approach with a non-ideal equation of state including correlation terms based on string phenomenology. We investigate strange and non-strange particle ratios observed ...

Nuclear Clusters as a Probe for Expansion Flow in Heavy Ion Reactions at 10-15AGeV

A phase space coalescence description based on the Wigner-function method for cluster formation in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is presented. The momentum distributions of nuclear clusters d,t and He are predicted for central Au(11.6AGeV)Au and Si(14.6AGeV)Si reactions in the framework of the RQMD transport approach. Transverse expansion leads to a strong shoulderarm shape and differ...

The Vector Probe in Heavy-Ion Reactions

We review essential elements in using the J = 1− channel as a probe for hot and dense matter as produced in (ultra-) relativistic collisions of heavy nuclei. The uniqueness of the vector channel resides in the fact that it directly couples to photons, both real and virtual (dileptons), enabling the study of thermal radiation and in-medium effects on both light (ρ, ω, φ) and heavy (Ψ,Υ) vector m...