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Helen Louise Caines (Yale University (US))22/07/2013, 10:00Talk
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Marcus Bleicher (Uni Frankfurt)22/07/2013, 10:20Talk
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Boris Hippolyte (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))22/07/2013, 11:30Talk
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Francesco Becattini (Unversity of Florence)22/07/2013, 12:05Talk
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Mateusz Ploskon (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))22/07/2013, 14:20Talk
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Xianglei Zhu (Tsinghua University)22/07/2013, 14:50TalkStrange hadron productions are sensitive probes to the dynamics of the hot and dense matter created in heavy-ion collisions. In this talk, we will present the recent STAR measurements on the production of various strange hadrons (K0s, phi, Lambda, Xi and Omega) in $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 7.7 - 39 GeV Au+Au collisions in the STAR beam energy scan program. We will investigate the collision...Go to contribution page
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Ron Belmont (University of Michigan, Wayne State University)22/07/2013, 15:20TalkPHENIX has recently reported[arXiv:1304.3410] measurements of identified charged hadron spectra and ratios in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. Identified hadrons are an important probe of both hot and cold nuclear matter. The intermediate $p_T$ region, 2 -5~GeV/c, is of particular interest. In Au+Au collisions, the production of mesons is suppressed in this $p_T$ region...Go to contribution page
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Lee Stuart Barnby (University of Birmingham (GB))22/07/2013, 15:50Talk
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Raphael Granier De Cassagnac (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))22/07/2013, 16:50Talk
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Ramona Vogt (LLNL)22/07/2013, 17:25Talk
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Dr Giuseppe Bruno (Universita e INFN (IT))23/07/2013, 09:00Talk
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Daniel Kikola (Warsaw University of Technology)23/07/2013, 09:30TalkHeavy quarks are produced early in the heavy-ion collisions and they are expected to interact differently from light quarks with the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP); therefore, they are unique probes of the QGP properties. Moreover, their production and elliptic flow are sensitive to the medium dynamics. These measurements for open heavy flavour sector are crucial for understanding the parton...Go to contribution page
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Mr Denis Jouan (IPN CNRS/IN2P3)23/07/2013, 10:00TalkHeavy quarks and quarkonia are mostly produced in the first steps of a collision, and then are sensitive to the whole evolution of the system, and in particular to the initial stage, which makes also of the heavy quarkonia an excellent probe of the quark gluon plasma formation in heavy ion collisions. Other effects also occur, such as partonic distributions modification in cold nuclear...Go to contribution page
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Diego Stocco (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associe)23/07/2013, 11:00Talk
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Mihee Jo (Korea University (KR)), The CMS Collaboration (CMS)23/07/2013, 11:30TalkThe Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is fully equipped to measure quarkonia in the di-muon decay channel in the high multiplicity environment of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Quarkonia are especially relevant for studying the quark-gluon plasma since they are produced at early times and propagate through the medium, mapping its evolution. CMS has measured the nuclear modification factors of...Go to contribution page
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Klaus Werner (SUBATECH)23/07/2013, 12:00Talk
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You Zhou (NIKHEF and Utrecht University (NL))23/07/2013, 14:00TalkAnisotropic flow is an important observable to study the properties and the evolution of the system created in heavy-ion collisions. We present measurements of anisotropic flow of strange and multi-strange particles, including Ks, Λ, Ξ, Ω and φ, in Pb–Pb collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV recorded with the ALICE detector. The results are compared to hydrodynamic model calculations,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Pornrad Srisawad (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, 65000 Phitsanulok Thailand)23/07/2013, 14:00The inclusive cross section, polar angle distribution and the direct transverse momentum of K+ mesons in C + C, Ni + Ni and Au + Au collisions at incident energies from 0.6 to 2.0 A GeV are studied using the Quantum Molecular Dynamics model based on the covariant kaon dynamics, and compared with the KaoS data of GSI. The calculated K+ yields consist with experiment data for a soft and hard...Go to contribution page
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Herbert Stroebele (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))23/07/2013, 14:00TalkThe NA49 collaboration measured the rapidity and transverse mass distributions of kaons and pions in Pb+Pb collisions at different centralities. These data are complemented by results from the small systems C+C and Si+Si. We find that the centrality dependence of kaon and pion production is reproduced by microscopic transport model calculations (HSD and UrQMD2.3) within 20% or better....Go to contribution page
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Giorgio Torrieri (JW Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt)23/07/2013, 14:20I will discuss the phase structure of matter at moderate temperature and chemical potential, relevant for the lower energy runs at RHIC as well as the upcoming experiments of NICA and FAIR. Motivated by large Nc physics, I will argue that the non-perturbative structure of QCD can give rise to hitherto little explored phenomena, such as the coexistence of confinement with perturbative quark...Go to contribution page
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Adam Trzupek (Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Physics, PAN)23/07/2013, 14:20TalkATLAS has performed a detailed measurement of event-by-event flow in lead-lead collisions at the LHC. The Fourier coefficients, v2-v4, of the azimuthal angle distribution of charged particles measured in the ATLAS inner detector (|eta| < 2.5) are extracted in each of 48 million minimum-bias Pb+Pb collisions. The v2-v4 distributions are measured for a variety of centrality intervals over...Go to contribution page
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Dr Zoltan Fodor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))23/07/2013, 14:20TalkPresent status and recent results shall be presented from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS. The physics program is concentrated along heavy-ion physics and the study of hadron production in p+p and h+A collisions. The heavy-ion program mostly address the study of onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of the strongly interacting matter, while the p+p and h+A program...Go to contribution page
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Marek Chojnacki (University of Copenhagen (DK))23/07/2013, 14:40TalkThe ALICE detector features multiple particle identification systems including: the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), the Inner Tracking System (ITS), a time-of-flight system (TOF) and a Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector (HMPID). This combination of detectors along with the excellent tracking capabilities of ALICE provides us with the opportunity to measure the production of pi/K/p over a broad...Go to contribution page
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Elena Bratkovskaya (FIAS)23/07/2013, 14:40We study the equilibrium properties of strongly-interacting infinite parton-hadron matter and the non-equilibrium dynamics of heavy-ion collisions from SIS to LHC energies within the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach, which incorporates explicit partonic degrees of freedom in terms of strongly interacting quasiparticles (quarks and gluons) in line with an equation of...Go to contribution page
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Radoslaw Ryblewski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)23/07/2013, 14:40TalkAt first, we exactly solve the relaxation-time approximation Boltzmann equation for a system which is transversely homogeneous and undergoing boost-invariant longitudinal expansion. We compare the resulting exact numerical solution with approximate solutions available in the anisotropic hydrodynamics and second order viscous hydrodynamics frameworks. In all cases studied, we find that the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jun Takahashi (UNICAMP)23/07/2013, 15:00TalkThe study of the transverse momentum anisotropy of the particles produced in heavy ion collisions is one of the most important experimental observable to investigate the collective behavior of the systems created in such collisions. Recent studies show that the complexity of the nature of the system evolution, such as initial condition fluctuations and jets, may lead to important effects in...Go to contribution page
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Robert Vertesi (Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)23/07/2013, 15:00TalkThree-dimensional source extraction techniques allow us to get an insight to the space-time extent and the freezeout dynamics of the hot and dense medium created in RHIC high energy heavy ion collisions, using Bose-Einstein correlated like-sign hadron pairs. Three-dimensional analyses of the pion source revealed a heavy, non-Gaussian tail in the "out" direction. The interpretation of these...Go to contribution page
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Jia-Chii Berger-Chen (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))23/07/2013, 15:00Since the recent discovery of a massive neutron star of about 1.97 solar masses [1] the discussion about a possible existence of a condensed kaon matter inside the neutron star has been revived [2,3]. Kaons not only influence the nuclear EOS [1,2], but also play an important role for the cooling process of a neutron star [4]. Thus a better understanding of the kaon nucleon/nucleus interaction...Go to contribution page
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Mohammed Younus (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)23/07/2013, 15:20Charm quarks are produced mainly in the pre-equilibrium stage of heavy ion collision and serve as excellent probes entering the thermalized medium medium. They come out with altogether different momentum and energies and fragments into D mesons and later decay into non-photonic electron which are experimentally observed. Here we present effects of Quark Gluon Plasma on charm quark production...Go to contribution page
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Karolis Tamosiunas (Vilnius University (LT))23/07/2013, 15:20TalkLandau solution of hydrodynamics is generalized for the non-central high-energy nuclear collisions. The multiparticle production after hydrodynamic expansion from the transversely asymmetric initial state shows elliptic flow formation. Moreover, obtained solution does reproduce the observed longitudinal scaling of the elliptic flow for the different collision energies at LHC and RHIC. It...Go to contribution page
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Marek Bombara (Pavol Jozef Safarik University (SK))23/07/2013, 15:20TalkTwo-particle angular correlations provide a powerful tool to study jets and their modication in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The study of the particle species dependence of correlation structures as a function of transverse momentum provides additional information on the particle production mechanisms at LHC energies. In this contribution we will present studies of a near-side...Go to contribution page
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Qi-Ye Shou (SINAP, BNL)23/07/2013, 15:40TalkTheoretical study\cite{myref1} indicates that a chiral magnetic wave at finite baryon density could induce an electric quadrupole moment in QGP produced in heavy-ion collisions. The electric quadrupole deformation will lead to a difference in elliptic flow of hadrons, by increasing {$v_{2}$} of negatively charged hadrons and decreasing {$v_{2}$} of positively charged ones. The magnitude of...Go to contribution page
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Thierry Gousset (Subatech)23/07/2013, 15:40It is generally assumed that in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions a plasma of quarks and gluons is produced, and then quickly expands and hadronizes. The main objective of present experiments at ultrarelativistic heavy ion colliders is to study this plasma. The study of the plasma properties is difficult because the initial momentum distribution of the light quarks is not known and that...Go to contribution page
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Andrzej Gabriel Wilczek (University of Silesia (PL))23/07/2013, 15:40TalkThe problem of pinning down the critical point of strongly interacting matter still puzzles the community. One of the answers suspected to emerge in the near future will surely come from NA61/SHINE - a fixed-target experiment aiming to discover the critical point as well as to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. This goal will be reached by obtaining precise data on...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jingyi Chao (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)23/07/2013, 16:20TalkWe find that the barrier between topologically in-equivalent vacua is lowered at the presence of external magnetic field. As a consequence, the imbalanced chiral quark density arises due to the sphaleron transition at finite temperatures. It quantitatively explains and describes the unusual phenomena of the inverse magnetic catalysis, which was numerically found to happen at the transition...Go to contribution page
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Xiaoming Zhang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))23/07/2013, 16:20TalkNuclear Modification Factor and Elliptic Flow of Muons from Heavy-Flavour Hadron Decays in Pb–Pb Collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV with ALICE X. Zhang for the ALICE Collaboration Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, U. S. A. The LHC heavy-ion physics program aims at investigating the properties of strongly-interacting matter in extreme conditions of temperature and energy...Go to contribution page
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Laszlo Pal Csernai23/07/2013, 16:20Due to the low viscosity and strongly interacting QGP at high LHC energies flow fluctuations were observed up to the 8th flow harmonics. Similarly rotation, turbulence and even Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability were predicted and these may be observable by different methods. Apart of the usual flow harmonics analysis, other methods like two particle correlations, or particle polarizations may arise...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marcus Bluhm (SUBATECH Nantes)23/07/2013, 16:40TalkGreat experimental and theoretical effort is being put into the detailed study of the confinement/deconfinement transition in QCD matter. Susceptibilities of conserved quantities, which are related to the statistical moments of particle multiplicity distributions measured in heavy-ion collisions, provide important insight, in particular, into the composition of the produced matter. Based on a...Go to contribution page
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Dr W A Horowitz (University of Cape Town)23/07/2013, 16:40TalkBulk matter phenomena in heavy ion collisions is characterized by an extremely small viscosity to entropy ratio best understood by strong coupling dynamics described by the AdS/CFT correspondence. We test a consistent description of QGP physics by applying this AdS/CFT paradigm to the energy loss of heavy quarks. Previously we found consistency with the non-photonic electron data at RHIC but...Go to contribution page
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Eduardo Grossi (University of Florence & INFN Florence)23/07/2013, 16:40We present an extension of relativistic single-particle distribution function for weakly interacting particles at local thermodynamical equilibrium including spin degrees of freedom, for massive spin 1/2 particles. We infer, on the basis of the global equilibrium case, that at local thermodynamical equilibrium particles acquire a net polarization proportional to the vorticity of the inverse...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marlene Nahrgang23/07/2013, 17:00TalkThe observation of strong jet quenching and the suppression of high-$p_t$ hadrons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are striking experimental signatures for the formation of a deconfined QCD plasma in which partons suffer from in-medium energy loss. In particular, heavy quarks are considered as suitable probes for revealing the properties of the produced matter as they are created at very...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Celso Barros (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)23/07/2013, 17:00The STAR collaboration has measured the Λ and anti-Λ polarizations in 200 GeV Au-Au collisions [1]. These results can be understood in terms of a model [2], [3], that we proposed recently, based on the hydrodynamical model, and taking into account the effect of the final-state interactions (that occur in the hadronic phase) between the hyperons and other produced particles. These final...Go to contribution page
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Kanako Yamazaki (University of Tokyo)23/07/2013, 17:00TalkWe extend our previous study of the quark-hadron phase transition at finite temperatures with zero net baryon density by two flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with Polyakov loop [1] to the three flavor case. At low temperatures, only mesonic correlations, mainly due to mesonic collective excitations, dominate the pressure while thermal excitations of quarks are suppressed by the Polyakov...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Burton (BNL)23/07/2013, 17:20eRHIC is envisaged as a next-generation upgrade to the RHIC facility, involving the addition of a high-intensity, high-energy electron beam, to deliver a broad programme of both nuclear and spin physics. e+A collisions at eRHIC will answer open questions about the distribution and interactions of gluons within nuclei, something not possible with any existing machine. They will allow precise...Go to contribution page
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Dr Santosh Kumar Das (Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Catania)23/07/2013, 17:20TalkThe propagation of heavy flavour through the quark gluon plasma has been treated commonly within the framework of Langevin dynamics, i.e. assuming the heavy flavour momentum transfer is much smaller than the light one. On the other hand a similar suppression factor R_AA has been observed experimentally for light and heavy flavor. We present a thorough study of the thermalization dynamics and...Go to contribution page
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Rudy Marty (FIAS (Frankfurt, GERMANY))23/07/2013, 17:20TalkBased on the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model for 3 flavours we study the transport properties of strongly interacting matter in vicinity of the phase transition. We present our results on the temperature dependence of the shear and bulk viscosity (calculated within the relaxation time formalism), as well as of the electric and heat conductivity. We compare these results with recent lattice data...Go to contribution page
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Masakiyo Kitazawa (Osaka University)23/07/2013, 17:40TalkWe investigate time evolution of higher-order cumulants of bulk fluctuations of conserved charges in the hadronic stage in heavy ion collisions. The dynamical evolution of the non-Gaussian fluctuations are modeled by the diffusion master equation. In this model, we show that the fourth-order cumulant is suppressed compared with the recently observed second-order one at...Go to contribution page
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Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))23/07/2013, 17:40
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Anton Wiranata (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)23/07/2013, 17:40TalkShear viscosity $\eta$ and entropy density $s$ of a hadronic resonance gas are calculated consistently within the Chapman-Enskog approximation using the $K$-matrix parameterization of hadronic cross sections which preserves the unitarity of the $T$-matrix. In the $\pi-K-N-\eta$ mixture considered, a total of 82 resonances up to 2 GeV were included. Comparisons are also made to results with...Go to contribution page
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Mark Alford (W)24/07/2013, 09:00Talk
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Johann Rafelski (University of Arizona (US))24/07/2013, 09:30Talk
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Chris Allton (Swansea University)24/07/2013, 10:00TalkThe interquark potential in charmonium states is calculated for the first time in both the zero and non-zero temperature phases from a first-principles lattice QCD calculation. Simulations with two dynamical quark flavours were used with temperatures T in the range 0.4Tc T 1.7Tc, where Tc is the deconfining temperature. The correlators of point-split operators were analysed to gain spatial...Go to contribution page
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Krzysztof Redlich (University of Wroclaw (PL))24/07/2013, 11:00TalkWe will discuss the role of fluctuations of conserved charges and the Polayakov loop, as well as their probability distributions, to detect deconfinement and chiral phase transition or their remnants.Go to contribution page
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Prem Kumar (Swansea University)24/07/2013, 11:30TalkThe properties of quark matter at high density and strong coupling remain largely intractable using conventional tools. We review how the tools of string theory and holography can pave the way towards a better understanding of general properties of such phases of matter using a holographically dual gravitational picture. We will describe some recent results within such a framework that point...Go to contribution page
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Takeshi Kodama (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)24/07/2013, 12:00TalkThe success of hydrodynamic description of the collective flow dynamics in relativistic heavy ion collisions is often understood as the realization of local thermal equilibrium during the phase of QGP. However, the scale of locality is not clear. Some of such basic questions about the hydrodynamic approach to relativistic heavy-ion collisions are discussed aiming to clarify how far we can go...Go to contribution page
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Piotr Bozek25/07/2013, 09:00TalkThe modelling of the collective expansion in A-A and p-A collisions and the role of initial conditions for the fireball are discussed. Predictions for spectra of strange baryons and mesons are presented. Di-hadron correlations between identified particles, resulting from flow and charge correlations are estimated in the model.Go to contribution page
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Michal Petran (Czech Technical University (CZ))25/07/2013, 09:30TalkWe present a highly successful description of all available particle yields in Pb–Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV measured by the ALICE experiment as a function of centrality. We find that our fit of π, K, p, Ξ and Ω within the framework of non–equilibrium statistical hadronization model is consistent with previous fits of Au–Au data at 62.4 and 200 GeV from RHIC. The more precise LHC data strongly...Go to contribution page
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Johanna Stachel (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))25/07/2013, 10:00Talk
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Liang Zhong (Tsinghua University (CN))25/07/2013, 11:00TalkWith a unique forward acceptance, and excellent vertexing and particle identification capability, LHCb is well-placed to make important contributions to heavy ion physics through measurements performed using data taken during pA and Ap collisions. The first studies of these data will be presented. These include measurements of particle multiplicity and studies of strange and charmed...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)25/07/2013, 11:30Talk
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Eric Andrew Appelt (Vanderbilt University (US)), The CMS Collaboration (CMS)25/07/2013, 12:00TalkSpectra of identified charged hadrons measured in pPb collisions at the LHC at $sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5 $TeV are presented. Charged pions, kaons, and protons in the transverse-momentum range p_T = 0.1-1.7 GeV/c and for central rapidities are identified via their energy loss in the CMS silicon tracker. The average p_T increases rapidly with the mass of the hadron and the charged-particle multiplicity...Go to contribution page
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Michael Gardner (University of California Davis (US)), The CMS Collaboration (CMS)25/07/2013, 14:00TalkThe Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is fully equipped to measure leptonic decays of electroweak probes in the high multiplicity environment of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Electroweak boson production is an important benchmark process at hadron colliders. Precise measurements of W and Z production in heavy-ion collisions can help to constrain nuclear PDFs as well as serve as a standard candle of...Go to contribution page
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Christoph Herold (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)25/07/2013, 14:00TalkExperimental signals for a possible QCD critial point and first-order phase transition are strongly influenced by the rapid nonequilibrium dynamics during a heavy-ion collision. In order to estimate and understand these effects we study the cooling through the phase transition within a nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics model. The order parameters for the chiral and deconfinement transition...Go to contribution page
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Dr Hamza Berrehrah (FIAS)25/07/2013, 14:00TalkThe aim of this project is to study the properties of the QGP produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions (HIC) using heavy quarks - charm and beauty (c, b) - as penetrating probes. The heavy quarks (and correspondingly charm and beauty mesons) are considered to be one of the best probes for such a study since due to their large mass they are produced dominantly by hard processes during the...Go to contribution page
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Jan Uphoff (Goethe University Frankfurt)25/07/2013, 14:20TalkThe full space-time evolution of gluons, light and heavy quarks in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied within the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach to MultiParton Scatterings (BAMPS). We discuss in detail for all flavors the influence of elastic and radiative energy loss with a running coupling. Radiative processes, in particular, are implemented through an improved...Go to contribution page
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Marta Verweij (Wayne State University (US))25/07/2013, 14:20TalkOne of the major goals of jet and high pT measurements in heavy-ion collisions is the quantification of the medium-modified fragmentation of hard scattered partons. Here, the aim in the reconstruction of jets, as compared to single particle measurements, is to gain a larger sensitivity to the possibly modified structure of the parton shower. It aims at the understanding of the detailed...Go to contribution page
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Ms Sabita Das (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA and Institute of Physics, India)25/07/2013, 14:20TalkThe STAR experiment at RHIC has collected data at various collision energies in its beam energy scan (BES) program to study the QCD phase diagram. The BES program covers a large part of the QCD phase diagram in terms of temperature (T) versus baryon chemical potential ($\mu_B$). The collected data set can be used to study the kinetic and chemical freeze-out dynamics. The kinetic and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Iurii Karpenko (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)25/07/2013, 14:40TalkWe employ the up-to-date version of viscous Hydro-Kinetic Model (vHKM) based on 3+1D viscous hydrodynamic code coupled to UrQMD hadron cascade. Following the experimental program at BNL RHIC, we perform a similar "energy scan" in the model, and study the collision energy dependence of charged and identified hadron spectra, flow coefficients and femtoscopic radii. For this aim the equation of...Go to contribution page
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Ioannis Bouras (University of Frankfurt a.M.)25/07/2013, 14:40TalkUsing a microscopic transport model we investigate the evolution of conical structures originating from the supersonic jet through the hot matter and dense matter of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We found that the Mach cone angle is influenced by the source term properties, energy deposition and viscosity. While in a static medium a possible double-peak structure is overshadowed...Go to contribution page
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David Tlusty (NPI ASCR)25/07/2013, 14:40TalkHeavy quarks are expected to be created from initial hard scatterings. Due to their large masses, their production can be described by perturbative QCD. The charm production cross section measurement in $p+p$ collisions provides an important baseline to further exploring the QCD medium. At STAR, charm quarks are measured through Open Charm Mesons and Non-photonic Electrons (electrons from...Go to contribution page
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Zvi Citron (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))25/07/2013, 15:00TalkMeasurements of high-pT processes in lead-lead collisions can provide insight on the physics responsible for the quenching of jets in the quark gluon plasma. Results will be presented from ATLAS measurements of single jet suppression, both inclusively and as a function of the azimuthal angle of the jets with respect to the elliptic flow plane, single jet fragmentation, and...Go to contribution page
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Deepa Thomas (University of Utrecht (NL))25/07/2013, 15:00TalkMeasurement of electrons from heavy-flavour decays in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with ALICE Deepa Thomas (Utrecht University) for the ALICE Collaboration The measurement of heavy-flavour (charm and beauty) production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is an important probe to study the properties of the high temperature and density medium created in such collisions. ...Go to contribution page
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Dr SALVATORE PLUMARI (UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA, ITALY)25/07/2013, 15:00TalkWe investigate within a parton cascade approach at fixed $\eta/s$ ratio the effect of a temperature dependent $\eta/s(T)$ at three different beam energies from RHIC for Au+Au at $\sqrt(s)=$62.4, 200 GeV to LHC energies for Pb+Pb at $\sqrt(s)=$2.76 TeV. An important result is that for the different beam energies considered the suppression of the elliptic flow due to the viscosity of the...Go to contribution page
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Elena Bruna (Universita e INFN (IT))25/07/2013, 15:20TalkD meson nuclear modification factor and v2 in Pb-Pb collisions Elena Bruna (INFN Torino) for the ALICE Collaboration The remarkable heavy-flavour results from RHIC and LHC show that heavy quarks are affected by the strongly coupled medium created in heavy-ion collisions at high energies. A way to characterize the properties of such a hot and dense medium is to quantify to what extent...Go to contribution page
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Mr Amal( for the STAR collaboration) Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai)25/07/2013, 15:20TalkThe Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC), at BNL, has started its beam energy scan(BES) program by colliding heavy-ions covering a wide range in baryonic chemical po- tential. One of the main goals of this beam energy scan program is to locate the critical point which is postulated to lie at the end of the phase transition boundary between partonic and hadronic matter. Finite temperature...Go to contribution page
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Guo-Liang Ma (Shanghai INstitute of Applied Physics (SINAP), CAS)25/07/2013, 15:20TalkWithin a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model, the transverse momentum asymmetries for $\gamma$-jet and di-jet are studied in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV. A large asymmetry is produced by strong interactions between jets and partonic matter rather than by hadronic interactions only. It is demonstrated that final hadronic processes such as hadronization and hadronic...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Tomoki Endo (Kagawa National College of Technology)25/07/2013, 15:40TalkAppearance of a quark matter in the core region of hybrid stars is the main issue in such compact stars because the central density of the star is sufficiently high for the nuclear matter to undergo a further change into other exotic phase which consist of hyperons and quarks. Therefore a quark matter is expected in the core region but many theoretical calculation suggest that the inner...Go to contribution page
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Dr Renu Bala (University of Jammu (IN))25/07/2013, 15:40TalkOpen-charm production as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with ALICE Renu Bala, for the ALICE Collaboration University of Jammu, Jammu Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are an effective tool to investigate the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma in heavy ion collisions as they are produced in initial hard scattering processes and as they...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nasim Md (NISER)25/07/2013, 15:40TalkThe main goal of the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is to study the QCD phase diagram by varying the colliding beam energy. Due to the small hadronic interaction cross-section, the yield and elliptic flow of the $\phi$ meson are primarily controlled by the partonic interaction in the relativistic heavy-ion collisions[1,2]. Therefore, the $\phi$ meson...Go to contribution page
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Feng Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles)25/07/2013, 16:30TalkStrange hadron production is believed to be sensitive to parton dynamics in nucleus-nucleus collisions, in particular, the strange quark production rate and its subsequent evolution in the dense partonic medium depend on the beam energy and the net baryon density. We will present STAR measurements of $K_{s}$, $\Lambda$, $\Xi$, $\Omega$ at mid-rapidity from Au+Au collisions at the beam energies...Go to contribution page
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Huichao Song (Peking U)25/07/2013, 16:30TalkThe elliptic flow of common hadrons (pions, kaons, and protons) are developed in both the QGP and the hadronic phase and are sensitive to the viscosity of the evolving fireball. For a precise extraction of the QGP viscosity from these flow data, Hybrid model calculations that combine hydrodynamic simulations of the expending QGP fluid with microscopic descriptions of the re-scattering hadronic...Go to contribution page
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Cristina Terrevoli (Universita e INFN (IT))25/07/2013, 16:30TalkProspects for heavy flavour measurements with the ALICE inner tracker upgrade C.Terrevoli, University and INFN of Cagliari, on behalf of the ALICE Collaboration The ALICE detector is designed to investigate the properties of the hot and dense plasma of quarks and gluons, formed at the extreme energy densities reached in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC. Among the probes useful to investigate...Go to contribution page
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Domenico Colella (Universita e INFN (IT))25/07/2013, 16:50TalkMeasurement of the production of strange and multi-strange particles is a fundamental tool in the investigation of the hot and dense QCD matter created in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, as there is no net strangeness content in the initial colliding system. Multi-strange baryons are measured in the ALICE apparatus through the reconstruction of the cascade topology of their...Go to contribution page
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Mr Yasir Ali (Jagiellonian University)25/07/2013, 16:50TalkA feasibility study for D0 meson (Open charm) measurements via its decay into two daughter particles, D0 → K+ π−, in a central Pb-Pb collisions at SPS energies will be presented. To generate the physical input we use AMPT (A MultiPhase Transport model) event generator. We employed the GEANT4 application to describe particle ...Go to contribution page
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Mr Graham Richard Lee (University of Birmingham (GB))25/07/2013, 16:50TalkThe study of pp collisions at LHC energies is important not only as a baseline for future analysis in heavy-ion events at ALICE but also aiding in the calibration of QCD inspired models for LHC energies. ALICE has measured the rho0, Sigma* and Csi* resonances in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. This presentation will give an overview of the obtained results including transverse momentum...Go to contribution page
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Anders Garritt Knospe (University of Texas (US))25/07/2013, 17:10TalkProperties of the hadronic phase of high-energy heavy-ion collisions can be studied by measuring the ratios of hadronic resonance yields to the yields of longer-lived particles such as charged pions and kaons. These ratios can be used to study the strength of re-scattering effects, the chemical freeze-out temperature, and the lifetime between chemical and kinetic freeze-out. The restoration...Go to contribution page
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Luke David Hanratty (University of Birmingham (GB))25/07/2013, 17:10TalkThe production of the Λ and 𝐾0s hadrons at the LHC can be measured through the reconstruction of their weak decay topologies with only charged particles in the final state. The tracking and particle identification capabilities of the ALICE detector allow us to measure the spectra of these particles over a wide transverse momentum range (0.4 < pT < 12 GeV/c), and to precisely determine the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Alexander Sorin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), Prof. Vladimir Kekelidze (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)25/07/2013, 17:10TalkThe NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) project is now under the realization stage at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna). The main goal of the project is an experimental study of hot and dense strongly interacting matter in heavy ion collisions at centre-of-mass energies √s_NN = 4 - 11 GeV (NN-equivalent) and the average luminosity of 10E27 cm-2 s-1 for Au(79+) in...Go to contribution page
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Alessandro De Falco (Universita e INFN (IT))25/07/2013, 17:30TalkLow mass vector meson (ρ, ω, ϕ) production provides key information on the hot and dense state of strongly interacting matter produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Among them, strangeness production can be accessed through the measurement of ϕ meson production. The detection of vector mesons through their decay in dileptons has the advantage, with respect to hadronic decays, that the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Hans Rudolf Schmidt (University of Tuebingen)25/07/2013, 17:30TalkThe CBM experiment is one of the four scientific pillars of the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. Its discovery potential – complementary to heavy-ion experiments at colliders – is based on high-luminosity ion beams. This enables access to extremely rare probes such as charmed particles, vector mesons, multi-strange hyperons or even double hypernuclei with...Go to contribution page
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Eleazar Cuautle Flores (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))25/07/2013, 17:30TalkWe present a model to compute baryon and meson transverse momentum distributions, and their ratios, in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Our model allow to compute the probability to form colorless bound states of either two or three quarks as functions of the evolving density during the collision. The qualitative differences of the baryon to meson ratio for ...Go to contribution page
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Thorsten Renk (University of Jyväskylä)26/07/2013, 09:00TalkJet quenching is a cornerstone of the heavy-ion physics program at the LHC. I review the current understanding of jet quenching in terms of a QCD shower evolution being modified by the surrounding medium, leading to copious medium induced radiation, and I outline the evidence for this picture from the light parton sector. Conceptually, the QCD shower description should also be relevant for...Go to contribution page
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George Stephans (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), The CMS Collaboration (CMS)26/07/2013, 09:30TalkWe present a review of recent experimental results on jet production and properties in heavy-ioncollisions by the CMS Collaboration, with emphasis on jet-quenching and heavy quark jet production. These studies include various parton energy loss phenomena (dijet and photon-jet energy imbalance, jet shapes and fragmentation functions), a study of heavy quark jet production using b quark tagging...Go to contribution page
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Dr Panos Christakoglou (NIKHEF (NL))26/07/2013, 10:00TalkAngular correlations are a sensitive probe of the transport properties of the system produced in heavy-ion collisions. Angular correlations measured in p--Pb have recently revealed intriguing features as well. In this talk, we will review the latest results on charged and identified particle correlations obtained with the ALICE detector at the LHC in both Pb--Pb and p--Pb events.Go to contribution page
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Yoshimasa Ikeda (for the PHENIX collaboration, Riken)26/07/2013, 11:00TalkLarge azimuthal anisotropy of particle emission in non-central heavy ion collisions has been has been clearly observed in heavy ion collision at RHIC since 2001. The elliptic flow as given by the second term of the Fourier series for the azimuthal distribution of particles with respect to the event plane is believed to carry information on the initial geometrical anisotropy. One of the early...Go to contribution page
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Dr Hao Qiu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)26/07/2013, 11:30TalkThe STAR Collaboration will complete the Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) and the Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) upgrades by 2014. HFT utilizes the state-of-art active thin pixel detector technology, which will greatly enhance STAR physics capability by measuring heavy quark collectivity and correlations via the topological reconstruction of charmed hadrons over a wide momentum range. MTD is based on...Go to contribution page
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Evgeni Kolomeitsev (Matej Bel University)26/07/2013, 12:00TalkWe discuss the strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions at SIS-FAIR-NICA energies and the role of doubly and triply strange baryons for testing the strangeness balance in a collision event. The minimal statistical model is applied, in which the total strangeness yield is fixed by the observed K+ multiplicity. Exact strangeness conservation in each collision event is explicitly...Go to contribution page
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Grazia Luparello (NIKHEF (NL))26/07/2013, 14:00TalkMeasurement of D meson production in p-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector Grazia Luparello (NIKHEF and Utrecht University) for the ALICE Collaboration The ALICE Collaboration has measured the production of prompt $\rm{D^0}$, $\rm{D^{+}}$ and $\rm{D^{*+}}$ mesons in Pb-Pb and pp collisions by fully reconstructing their hadronic decays. A large suppression of D meson yield in the most...Go to contribution page
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Swatantra Kumar Tiwari (Banaras Hindu University)26/07/2013, 14:00TalkRecently, we proposed a thermodynamically consistent excluded-volume model for a hot, dense hadron gas (HG). We confront our model calculations on various properties of HG, multiplicity and ratios of various strange and non-strange particles in the entire range of temperature and baryon densities with the other models and experimental data and we find that our model describes the experimental...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Kikola (Warsaw University of Technology)26/07/2013, 14:00Suppression of quarkonia production in high energy nuclear collisions relative to proton-proton collisions, due to the Debye screening of the quark-antiquark potential, was proposed as a signature of the formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Measurement of production of various quarkonia states can provide insight into thermodynamic properties of the QGP since different states have...Go to contribution page
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Denes Molnar26/07/2013, 14:20TalkIt is well-known that a nonzero initial spatial eccentricity in a heavy-ion collision is reflected in the final anisotropic flow of the bulk medium. Jets traversing a spatially anisotropic medium also develop momentum anisotropy (at fixed pT) through path length dependence of energy loss. For smooth initial conditions, bulk and jet flow anisotropy coefficients are naturally related. However,...Go to contribution page
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Su Houng Lee (Yonsei University)26/07/2013, 14:20Using the QCD sum rule with its operator product expansion reliably estimated from lattice calculations for the pressure and energy density of hot QCD matter, we calculate the strength of the $J/\psi$ wave function at origin and find that it decreases with temperature when the temperature is above the transition temperature. This result is shown to follow exactly that obtained from the...Go to contribution page
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Markus Ansgar Heide (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE))26/07/2013, 14:20TalkMeasurement of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp and p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC Markus Heide for the ALICE Collaboration, WWU Münster Charm and beauty quark production in hadronic collisions occurs mostly in initial parton scattering processes with high virtuality. The measurement of heavy-flavour decay electrons in pp collisions with the ALICE detector...Go to contribution page
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Fabio Filippo Colamaria (Universita e INFN (IT))26/07/2013, 14:40TalkFabio Filippo Colamaria, for the ALICE Collaboration ALICE measured a significant suppression of D-meson production in a wide momentum range in central Pb-Pb collisions with respect to the expectation based on the cross section measured in pp collisions, scaled by the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions. This effect can be, at least partially, attributed to the energy loss by charm quarks...Go to contribution page
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Pol Gossiaux (Subatech)26/07/2013, 14:40Recently, we have proposed a microscopic approach for the quenching and thermalisation of heavy quarks (HQ) in URHIC [1-4], assuming that they interact with light partons through both elastic and radiative processes evaluated by resorting to some parameterization of the running coupling constant, while those partons are spatially distributed along hydrodynamical evolution of the hot medium....Go to contribution page
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Christian Schmidt (University of Bielefeld)26/07/2013, 14:40TalkAppropriate combinations of up to fourth order cumulants of net strangeness fluctuations and their correlations with net baryon number and electric charge fluctuations, obtained from ab-initio Lattice QCD calculations, have been used to probe the strangeness carrying degrees of freedom at high temperatures. For temperatures up to the chiral crossover separate contributions of strange mesons...Go to contribution page
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Igor Lakomov (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))26/07/2013, 15:00TalkProduction of charmonia, bound state of c and cbar quarks, is an intense research activity, both experimentally and theoretically. In addition, the peculiar properties of some of the charmonium states, like their small size (< 1 fm) and strong binding energy (several hundred MeV), make them ideal probes of the strongly interacting matter, the so-called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), formed in...Go to contribution page
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Dr Magdalena Djordjevic (Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Serbia)26/07/2013, 15:00Suppression of light and heavy flavor observables is one of the most important probes in studying the properties of QCD matter created at RHIC and LHC experiments. We will here provide the most up-to-date light and heavy flavor suppression predictions for the available (2.76TeV) and the upcoming (~5TeV) Pb+Pb collisions at LHC. The predictions are based on our recent improvements in the energy...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)26/07/2013, 15:00TalkChanges in the transverse momentum distributions with beam energy are studied using the Tsallis distribution as a parameterization. The dependence of the Tsallis parameters q, T and the volume are determined as a function of beam energy. The Tsallis parameter q shows a weak but clear increase with beam energy with the highest value being approximately 1.15. The Tsallis temperature...Go to contribution page
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Dr francesco scardina (INFN Catania)26/07/2013, 15:20TalkA current goal of relativistic heavy ion collisions experiments is the search for a Color Glass Condensate as the limiting state of QCD matter at very high density. In viscous hydrodynamics simulations, a standard Glauber initial condition leads to estimate $4\pi \eta/s \sim 1$, while a Color Glass Condensate modeling leads to at least a factor of 2 larger $\eta/s$. Within a kinetic theory...Go to contribution page
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Mr Roland Katz (SUBATECH)26/07/2013, 15:20Quarkonia suppression in heavy ion collisions has been investigated as a probe to Quark-Gluon Plasma properties and was indeed observed at SPS. However, the saturation of the suppression observed at RHIC and then is decrease at LHC has triggered the interest of our community and leads to consider alternate schemes as those based on sequential suppression in a stationary medium. In our...Go to contribution page
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Leonardo Milano (CERN)26/07/2013, 15:20TalkThe double ridge structure previously observed in Pb-Pb collisions has also been recently observed in high-multiplicity p-Pb collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV. These systems show a long-range structure (large separation in ∆η) at the near- (∆ϕ = 0) and away-side (∆ϕ = π) of the trigger particle. In order to understand the nature of this effect the two-particle correlation analysis has...Go to contribution page
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Nicholas Brook (University of Bristol (GB))26/07/2013, 15:40Studies of strangeness and quarkonia production in the forward region provide important input to the understanding of QCD models in a kinematical range where they have large uncertainties. The LHCb experiment has collected a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 3 fb-1 in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)= 7 and 8 TeV, as well as smaller samples recorded with other LHC...Go to contribution page
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Jonas Anielski (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE))26/07/2013, 15:40TalkRecent measurements of di-hadron correlations in p–Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV revealed a double-ridge pattern, reminiscent of the one observed in Pb–Pb collisions. This raises the question of the possible existence of collective effects in high multiplicity p–Pb collisions. Further insight into the observed phenomena can be gained by studying the evolution of spectral shapes with...Go to contribution page
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Fiorella Fionda (Universita e INFN (IT))26/07/2013, 16:30The ALICE detector provides excellent capabilities to study quarkonium production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Quarkonia, bound states of heavy (charm or bottom) quark anti-quark pairs such as the J/psi, are expected to be produced by initial hard processes. Thus they will provide insight into the earliest and hottest stages of A-A collisions where the formation of a...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Tapia Takaki (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))26/07/2013, 16:30TalkThe electromagnetic fields surrounding the protons and nuclei, accelerated by the LHC, lead to very large cross sections for photon-induced processes. This makes the LHC the world's most powerful collider not only for protons and lead ions but also for photon-photon and photon-hadron collisions. These interactions can be studied in ultra-peripheral collisions, where the impact parameters are...Go to contribution page
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Mr Maxim Beitel (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universität)26/07/2013, 16:30TalkWe examine the evolution of a heavy ion collision starting from non-equilibrium to an equilibrium state by looking at the corresponding thermalization times. Therefore we use the hadronic transport model "UrQMD" as microscopic model for high-energetic heavy ion collisions. Unfortunately these times are too long at present because detailed balance is not realized for all collisions which may...Go to contribution page
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Lizardo Valencia Palomo (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))26/07/2013, 16:50ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was designed and built to perform dedicated research on heavy-ion collisions to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a deconfined state of strongly interacting QCD matter. As heavy flavours are produced on a very short time-scale in the initial hard scattering processes, they can be...Go to contribution page
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Dr Pasi Huovinen (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)26/07/2013, 16:50TalkIn hydrodynamical modeling of the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions the freeze-out is typically performed at a constant temperature. In this work we introduce a dynamical freeze-out criterion, which compares the hydrodynamical expansion rate with the pion scattering rate [1]. Previous studies [2] have shown that differences between constant temperature and dynamical...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Subrata Pal (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)26/07/2013, 16:50TalkThe production of light nuclei, hypernuclei and their antiparticles in relativistic energy heavy ion collisions are explored within a relativistic Hagedorn Resonance Gas (HRG) model. In the HRG model the unknown heavy-mass resonance spectra is characterized by an exponentially growing Hagedorn states that undergo sequential binary emission of lighter resonances and stable hadrons till all the...Go to contribution page
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Sungtae Cho26/07/2013, 17:10TalkWe present results from our recent investigation on the evolution of hadron abundances in heavy ion collisions. We study the production yields of hadrons with strangeness or charm quarks at the chemical freeze-out and their evolutions in the hadronic matter. The scattering cross sections with pions and rho mesons are studied in an effective Lagrangians to describe the dominant hadronic...Go to contribution page
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Ramona Lea (Universita e INFN (IT))26/07/2013, 17:10TalkIn high-energy heavy-ion collisions hyperon-baryon bound systems, called hypernuclei, can emerge from the hot and dense fireball region of the reaction. Their production yield can be estimated employing two distinct models: they can be formed via the coalescence of nucleons and hyperons produced in the collision or they can be produced directly in the hadronisation process. The study of the...Go to contribution page
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Palash Khan (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))26/07/2013, 17:10The ALICE apparatus at the LHC was designed and built to perform dedicated studies of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a strongly interacting QCD matter deconfined state, expected to be created in high energy heavy-ion collisions. In such collisions heavy flavours are produced at the very early stage of the interaction in the initial hard scattering processes and hence can be used to...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Yifei Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)26/07/2013, 17:30(for the STAR Collaboration) Recent RHIC measurements support that a strongly coupled nuclear matter with parton degree of freedom has been created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. However, the thermalization of such a hot and dense medium is still unclear. Heavy quarks are expected to be created from initial hard scatterings. Their large masses are not easily affected by the...Go to contribution page
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Benjamin Doenigus (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))26/07/2013, 17:30TalkThe high collision energies reached at the LHC lead to significant production yields of light anti-nuclei and hyper-matter in proton-proton and, in particular, Pb-Pb collisions. The excellent particle identification capabilities of the ALICE apparatus, based on the specific energy loss in the Time Projection Chamber and time-of-flight measurement, allow for the detection of these rarely...Go to contribution page
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Javier Lopez Albacete (IPhT-CEA)27/07/2013, 09:00Talk
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Tamas Biro (KFKI RMKI)27/07/2013, 09:30Talk
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Andrea Dainese (Universita e INFN (IT))27/07/2013, 10:40Talk
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Orlando Villalobos Baillie (University of Birmingham (GB))27/07/2013, 11:40Talk
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Mohammed Younus (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)PosterIt is known that heavy quarks are produced in pairs. There always exists a correlation in azimuthal angle in transverse momentum plane between such both the members in such pairs. The two quarks in a pair may lose different amount of energy while traveling through QGP and it is expected that the correlation of Q\bar{Q} will be altered considerably. Also in a completely different picture...Go to contribution page
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Michal Petran (Czech Technical University (CZ))PosterIn Pb–Pb collisions at sN N = 2.76 TeV at LHC, a rather large number of charm–anti-charm quark pairs, Ncc ≡ dNcc /dy, is produced in initial hard parton collisions before the QGP phase emerges. Given Ncc , we predict yields of all charmed hadrons using statistical hadronization method. We use the experimental D0 meson pT -spectrum to estimate the range of charm abundance present at...Go to contribution page
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Ivonne Alicia Maldonado Cervantes (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))PosterRecent data collected at the LHC are confronted with the possible existence of flow in proton-proton collisions. Different Monte Carlo models are used to explain the multiplicity, transverse momenta distributions and other variables that allow characterize proton-proton events. In this work we present a work on the frame of PYTHIA 8 Monte Carlo model, showing that this event generator...Go to contribution page
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Andrea Dubla (University of Utrecht (NL))PosterElliptic flow of heavy-flavour decay electrons at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector Andrea Dubla (Utrecht University) for the ALICE Collaboration Heavy-quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are mainly produced in hard scattering processes in the early stages of high energy nucleus- nucleus collisions, carrying informations on the full evolution of the medium. Therefore, they are suited to...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Cabrera (Frankfurt University and FIAS)PosterCharm and bottom transport coefficients in a light meson gas, such as is formed in the hadronic phase of Heavy Ion Collisions, are obtained within chiral perturbation theory and implementing constraints from heavy quark symmetry. By means of unitarization of the lowest order heavy-light meson scattering amplitudes, the D/B_0 and D/B_1 resonant states are dynamically generated in the isospin...Go to contribution page
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Elienos Pereira De Oliveira Filho (Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))PosterMeasurements of the correlation between electrons from heavy-avour hadron decays and light hadrons with ALICE at the LHC Elienos Pereira de Oliveira Filho, for the ALICE Collaboration Relativistic heavy-ion collisions are a unique tool to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in the laboratory. For this purpose, several observables have been measured with ALICE at the LHC,...Go to contribution page
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Jan Piotr Sikorski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))PosterHydrodynamics calculations have been successfully used in studies of the bulk properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, particularly of elliptic flow and shear viscosity. However, there are areas (for instance event-by-event simulations for flow fluctuations and higher-order flow harmonics studies) where further advancement is hampered by lack of efficient and precise 3D+1 program. This problem...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Cabrera (Frankfurt University and FIAS)TalkWe discuss updated results on the properties of strange mesons in nuclear matter at finite temperature from a chiral unitary approach in coupled channels, which incorporates the s- and p-waves of the kaon nuceon interaction. As a novelty, the in-medium scattering amplitudes and cross sections in several channels (such as Kbar N -> pi Sigma) are obtained in addition to the (off-shell) K and...Go to contribution page
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Linus Feldkamp (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE))PosterStudy of b-jet tagging performance in ALICE Linus Feldkamp, for the ALICE Collaboration Heavy quarks, produced in the early stage of heavy-ion collisions, are ideal probes to study the characteristics of the hot and dense deconfined medium (Quark-Gluon Plasma) formed in these collisions. The energy loss of high energy partons interacting with the medium is expected to be larger for...Go to contribution page
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Rudy Marty (FIAS (Frankfurt, GERMANY))PosterEvery dynamical description of heavy-ion collisions --whether based on hydrodynamics or on a parton cascade-- starts out with the modeling of the 'initial condition', i.e. the state of the system after the first initial energetic collisions between target and projectile nucleons. Usually it is assumed that the whole system or at least the quark-gluon plasma comes to a thermal equilibrium...Go to contribution page
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