Statistical Fluctuations in Heavy Charged Particle Tracks

A new laser test stand for simulating charged-particle tracks

We report on the construction of a new laser test stand equipped with a 1064nm pulsed infrared YAG laser for simulating the passage of a charged particle in a silicon detector. The standard semiconductor repairing tool, the socalled laser-cutter, has been modified to have a newly developed optics which has the ability to reduce the light by the order of 106~108 and to adjust the spot size to se...

Fluctuations of Particle Yield Ratios in Heavy-Ion Collisions

We study the dynamical fluctuations of various particle yield ratios at different incident energies. Assuming that the particle production yields in the hydronic final state are due to equilibrium chemical processes (γ = 1), the experimental results available so far are compared with the hadron resonance gas model (HRG) taking into account the limited momentum acceptance in heavy-ion collisions...

Particle Tracks in Diverse Media

Simulation of Particle Tracks in Emulsion

Micrographs of energetic particles in nuclear emulsion are simulated by computing the spatial distribution of developed grains with the δ-ray theory of track structure, and representing the developed grains by points of light on an IBM 2250 visual display unit. The simulated tracks display many of the features of actual track structure and serve as a visual comparison between experiment and the...

Fluctuations do matter: large noise-enhanced halos in charged-particle beams.

The formation of beam halos has customarily been described in terms of a particle-core model in which the space-charge field of the oscillating core drives particles to large amplitudes. This model involves parametric resonance and predicts a hard upper bound to the orbital amplitude of the halo particles. We show that the presence of colored noise due to space-charge fluctuations and/or machin...