Kinematic approach for nuclei coalescence in transport models

23 Sept 2021, 19:00
1h 10m
Poster report Section 4. Relativistic nuclear physics, elementary particle physics and high-energy physics. Poster session (Relativistic nuclear physics, elementary particle physics and high-energy physics)

Speaker

Vladislav Sandul (St Petersburg State University (RU))

Description

Transport approach [1,2] for nucleus-nucleus collisions description is widely used and underlies many popular Monte Carlo event generators, such as SMASH [3] and UrQMD [4]. Unfortunately, the mechanisms of nucleus fragmentation and coalescence are not taken into account by the transport approach based models. In final states, nucleus fragments (such as spectators or made by coalescence light nuclei) are presented as many individual protons and neutrons. It leads to significant overestimation of particle multiplicity in the regions of large pseudorapidity ($|\eta|>3.5$) (Fig. 1).

Pseudorapidity distribution of charged particles

To solve this problem, the kinematic approach for nuclei coalescence was developed. The main idea of the approach is to interpret a bulk of nearly spaced nucleons with close velocities as a single nucleus. The predictions of the approach within the transport models are compared with non-transport models predictions and experimental data. The obtained results are discussed.

This work is supported by the SPbSU grant ID:75252518.

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Primary author

Vladislav Sandul (St Petersburg State University (RU))

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