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    Enhanced Dilepton production near the color superconducting phase and the QCD critical point

    The dilepton production yields in relativistic heavy ion collisions are investigated along isentropic trajectories in the quark (Wigner) phase within the two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. An enhancement of ...

    Toru Nishimura, Yasushi Nara, Jan Steinheimer in The European Physical Journal A (2024)

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    Model dependence of the number of participant nucleons and observable consequences in heavy-ion collisions

    The centrality determination and the estimated fluctuations of number of participant nucleons \(N_{part}\)

    Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Jan Steinheimer, Kai Zhou in The European Physical Journal C (2023)

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    Effects of a phase transition on two-pion interferometry in heavy ion collisions at \(\sqrt {{s_{{\rm{NN}}}}} = 2.4 - 7.7\,\,{\rm{GeV}}\)

    Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for charged pions in central Au+Au collisions at \(\sqrt {{s_{{\rm{NN}}}}} = 2.4 - 7.7\) ...

    Pengcheng Li, Jan Steinheimer, Tom Reichert in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astrono… (2022)

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    The high-density equation of state in heavy-ion collisions: constraints from proton flow

    A set of different equations of state is implemented in the molecular dynamics part of a non-equilibrium transport simulation (UrQMD) of heavy-ion collisions. It is shown how different flow observables are aff...

    Jan Steinheimer, Anton Motornenko, Agnieszka Sorensen in The European Physical Journal C (2022)

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    Harmonic flow correlations in Au+Au reactions at 1.23 AGeV: a new testing ground for the equation-of-state and expansion geometry

    Correlations between the harmonic flow coefficients \(v_1\) v 1 ...

    Tom Reichert, Jan Steinheimer, Christoph Herold in The European Physical Journal C (2022)

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    A chiral mean-field equation-of-state in UrQMD: effects on the heavy ion compression stage

    It is shown that the initial compression in central heavy ion collisions at beam energies of \(E_{\mathrm {lab}}=1-10A\) ...

    Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Anton Motornenko in The European Physical Journal C (2022)

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    Shared Data and Algorithms for Deep Learning in Fundamental Physics

    We introduce a Python package that provides simple and unified access to a collection of datasets from fundamental physics research—including particle physics, astroparticle physics, and hadron- and nuclear physi...

    Lisa Benato, Erik Buhmann, Martin Erdmann in Computing and Software for Big Science (2022)

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    An equation-of-state-meter for CBM using PointNet

    A novel method for identifying the nature of QCD transitions in heavy-ion collision experiments is introduced. PointNet based Deep Learning (DL) models are developed to classify the equation of state (EoS) tha...

    Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Kai Zhou, Jan Steinheimer in Journal of High Energy Physics (2021)

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    Identifying the nature of the QCD transition in relativistic collision of heavy nuclei with deep learning

    Using deep convolutional neural network (CNN), the nature of the QCD transition can be identified from the final-state pion spectra from hybrid model simulations of heavy-ion collisions that combines a viscous...

    Yi-Lun Du, Kai Zhou, Jan Steinheimer, Long-Gang Pang in The European Physical Journal C (2020)

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    Influence of Centrality Definition and Detector Efficiency on the Net-Proton Kurtosis

    We study the influence of the centrality  and detector efficiency on the net-proton kurtosis for minimum bias Au \(+\) Au collisions at a beam energy of \(\sqrt{s_{\mathrm {NN}}}= 7.7\)  GeV by using the UrQMD ...

    Sukanya Sombun, Jan Steinheimer in The XVIII International Conference on Stra… (2020)

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    A machine learning study to identify spinodal clum** in high energy nuclear collisions

    The coordinate and momentum space configurations of the net baryon number in heavy ion collisions that undergo spinodal decomposition, due to a first-order phase transition, are investigated using state-of-the...

    Jan Steinheimer, Long-Gang Pang, Kai Zhou, Volker Koch in Journal of High Energy Physics (2019)

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    The enhancement of v4 in nuclear collisions at the highest densities signals a first-order phase transition

    The beam energy dependence of \(v_{4}\)v4 (the quadrupole moment of the transverse radial flow) is sensitive to the nuclear equation of state (EoS) in mid-central Au + Au collisions at the energy range of $ 3 < \sq...

    Yasushi Nara, Jan Steinheimer, Horst Stoecker in The European Physical Journal A (2018)

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    Broadening of the chiral critical region in a hydrodynamically expanding medium

    We investigate higher cumulants of the sigma field as the chiral order parameter at the QCD phase transition. We derive a thermodynamic expression for the skewness and kurtosis from susceptibilities and use th...

    Christoph Herold, Marcus Bleicher, Marlene Nahrgang in The European Physical Journal A (2018)

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    Enhancement of elliptic flow can signal a first-order phase transition in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

    The beam energy dependence of the elliptic flow, \(v_{2}\) ...

    Yasushi Nara, Harri Niemi, Akira Ohnishi in The European Physical Journal A (2018)

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    The QCD Phase Diagram and Hadron Formation in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

    We analyze hadrochemical freeze-out in central collisions of heavy nuclei at AGS, SPS and LHC energies. Employing the UrQMD hybrid transport model we study the effects of the final hadron/resonance expansion p...

    Francesco Becattini, Marcus Bleicher in New Horizons in Fundamental Physics (2017)

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    Spinodal amplification and baryon number fluctuations in nuclear collisions at NICA

    We discuss the effect of spinodal instabilities on the fluctuations of conserved flavors in nuclear collisions at NICA. We find that, when the system undergoes a phase transformation, baryon number clum** du...

    Jan Steinheimer, Jørgen Randrup in The European Physical Journal A (2016)

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    Resonance states in an effective chiral hadronic model

    With an effective chiral flavour SU(3) model we show the effect of hadronic resonances on the QCD phase diagram. We state that varying the resonance couplings to the scalar and vector fields affects the order ...

    Philip Rau, Jan Steinheimer, Stefan Schramm in Central European Journal of Physics (2012)