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D. Strottman

Bio: D. Strottman is an academic researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Relativistic particle & Theory of relativity. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 170 citations.

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TL;DR: The application of hydrodynamics to the study of heavy ion collisions with emphasis on the relativistic regime is presented in this paper, where current theoretical and experimental knowledge of the nuclear equations of state along with the possible roles played by viscosity, single-and double-shock waves and solitons during the collision are examined.

161 citations

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TL;DR: A four-fermion coupling Lagrangian (relativistic Skyrme-type) interaction has been proposed for relativistic nuclear structure calculations in this paper.

10 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, hadron-hadron collisions at high energies are investigated in the ultra-relativistic-quantum-molecular-dynamics approach (UrQMD), designed to study pp, pA and A+A collisions.
Abstract: Hadron-hadron collisions at high energies are investigated in the Ultra-relativistic-Quantum-Molecular-Dynamics approach (UrQMD). This microscopic transport model is designed to study pp, pA and A+A collisions. It describes the phenomenology of hadronic interactions at low and intermediate energies ($\sqrt s 5$ 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.

1,229 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated hadron-hadron (h-h) collisions at high energies in the ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) approach.
Abstract: Hadron-hadron (h-h) collisions at high energies are investigated in the ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) approach. This microscopic transport model describes the phenomenology of hadronic interactions at low and intermediate energies ( 5 GeV, the excitation of colour 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 centre-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.

1,151 citations

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TL;DR: In the last few years heavy ion experiments have addressed key questions regarding the behavior of nuclear matter at high excitation and density as discussed by the authors, which has been achieved by the formulation of calculational tools to apply microscopic models to experimental observables.

905 citations

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Pietro Cortese, G. Dellacasa, Luciano Ramello, M. Sitta  +975 moreInstitutions (78)
TL;DR: The ALICE Collaboration as mentioned in this paper is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC.
Abstract: ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark–gluon plasma in nucleus–nucleus collisions at the LHC. It currently involves more than 900 physicists and senior engineers, from both the nuclear and high-energy physics sectors, from over 90 institutions in about 30 countries.The ALICE detector is designed to cope with the highest particle multiplicities above those anticipated for Pb–Pb collisions (dNch/dy up to 8000) and it will be operational at the start-up of the LHC. In addition to heavy systems, the ALICE Collaboration will study collisions of lower-mass ions, which are a means of varying the energy density, and protons (both pp and pA), which primarily provide reference data for the nucleus–nucleus collisions. In addition, the pp data will allow for a number of genuine pp physics studies.The detailed design of the different detector systems has been laid down in a number of Technical Design Reports issued between mid-1998 and the end of 2004. The experiment is currently under construction and will be ready for data taking with both proton and heavy-ion beams at the start-up of the LHC.Since the comprehensive information on detector and physics performance was last published in the ALICE Technical Proposal in 1996, the detector, as well as simulation, reconstruction and analysis software have undergone significant development. The Physics Performance Report (PPR) provides an updated and comprehensive summary of the performance of the various ALICE subsystems, including updates to the Technical Design Reports, as appropriate.The PPR is divided into two volumes. Volume I, published in 2004 (CERN/LHCC 2003-049, ALICE Collaboration 2004 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 30 1517–1763), contains in four chapters a short theoretical overview and an extensive reference list concerning the physics topics of interest to ALICE, the experimental conditions at the LHC, a short summary and update of the subsystem designs, and a description of the offline framework and Monte Carlo event generators.The present volume, Volume II, contains the majority of the information relevant to the physics performance in proton–proton, proton–nucleus, and nucleus–nucleus collisions. Following an introductory overview, Chapter 5 describes the combined detector performance and the event reconstruction procedures, based on detailed simulations of the individual subsystems. Chapter 6 describes the analysis and physics reach for a representative sample of physics observables, from global event characteristics to hard processes.

587 citations

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TL;DR: This review is concerned with a discussion of numerical methods for the solution of the equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD), and particular emphasis is put on a comprehensive review of the application of high-resolution shock-capturing methods in SRHD.
Abstract: This review is concerned with a discussion of numerical methods for the solution of the equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD). Particular emphasis is put on a comprehensive review of the application of high-resolution shock-capturing methods in SRHD. Results obtained with different numerical SRHD methods are compared, and two astrophysical applications of SRHD flows are discussed. An evaluation of the various numerical methods is given and future developments are analyzed.

376 citations