Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

About: Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies is a facility organization based out in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Baryon & Quark–gluon plasma. The organization has 798 authors who have published 2733 publications receiving 82799 citations. The organization is also known as: FIAS.

Dilepton production and resonance properties within a new hadronic transport approach in the context of the GSI-HADES experimental data

Abstract: The dilepton emission in heavy-ion reactions at low beam energies is examined within a hadronic transport approach. In this article, the production of electron-positron pairs from a new approach named SMASH (Simulating Many Accelerated Strongly-interacting Hadrons) is introduced. The dilepton emission below the hadronic invariant mass threshold is taken into account for all direct vector meson decays. The calculations are systematically confronted with HADES data in the kinetic-energy range of $1\text{--}3.5\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}A\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{GeV}$ for elementary, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus reactions. The present approach employing a resonance treatment based on vacuum properties is validated by an excellent agreement with experimental data up to system sizes of carbon-carbon collisions. After establishing this well-understood baseline in elementary and small systems, medium effects are investigated with a coarse-graining approach based on the same hadronic evolution. The effect of in-medium modifications to the vector meson spectral functions is important for dilepton invariant mass spectra in ArKCl and larger systems, even though the transport approach with vacuum properties reveals similar features due to the coupling to baryonic resonances and the intrinsically included collisional broadening. This article provides a comprehensive comparison of our calculations with published dielectron results from the HADES collaboration. In addition, the emission of dileptons in gold-gold and pion-beam experiments, for which results are expected, is predicted.

The facility for antiproton and ion research FAIR

Abstract: Adjacent to the existing accelerator complex of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research at Darmstadt/Germany the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR substantially expands research goals and technical possibilities. It will provide worldwide unique accelerator and experimental facilities allowing for a large variety of unprecedented fore-front research in hadron, nuclear and atomic and plasma physics as well as applied sciences which will be described in this article briefly. The civil-construction work will start in 2012 and first beams will be delivered in 2018.

Many-body forces in the equation of state of hyperonic matter

Abstract: In this work we introduce an extended version of the formalism proposed originally by Taurines et al. that considers the effects of many-body forces simulated by non-linear self-couplings and meson-meson interaction contributions. In this extended version of the model, we assume that matter is at zero temperature, charge neutral and in beta-equilibrium, considering that the baryon octet interacts by the exchange of scalar-isoscalar ($\sigma$,$\,\sigma^*$), vector-isoscalar ($\omega$,$\,\phi$), vector-isovector ($\varrho$) and scalar-isovector ($\delta$) meson fields. Using nuclear matter properties, we constrain the parameters of the model that describe the intensity of the indirectly density dependent baryon-meson couplings to a small range of possible values. We then investigate asymmetric hyperonic matter properties. We report that the formalism developed in this work is in agreement with experimental data and also allows for the existence of massive hyperon stars (with more than $2M_{\odot}$) with small radii, compatible with astrophysical observations.

Second order dissipative fluid dynamics from kinetic theory

Abstract: We derive the equations of second order dissipative fluid dynamics from the relativistic Boltzmann equation following the method of W. Israel and J. M. Stewart [1]. We present a frame independent calculation of all first- and second-order terms and their coefficients using a linearised collision integral. Therefore, we restore all terms that were previously neglected in the original papers of W. Israel and J. M. Stewart.