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Formation mechanisms of single, twin, and double hypernuclei from Xi^- absorption at rest on 12C are investigated with an refined microscopic transport model, that incorporates the recently developed Quantal Langevin treatment into Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics. The quantum fluctuations suppress the formation probability of double hyperfragments to around 10%, which is comparable to the experimental data, and the dynamical formation of twin hyperfragment can be described qualitatively.
We investigate double $Lambda$ hyperfragment formation from the statistical decay of double $Lambda$ compound nuclei produced in the $Xi^-$ absorption at rest in light nuclei, $^{12}mathrm{C}$, $^{14}mathrm{N}$ and $^{16}mathrm{O}$. We examine the target and the $LambdaLambda$ bond energy dependence of the double $Lambda$ hyperfragment formation probabilities, especially of those double hypernuclei observed in experiments. For the $^{12}mathrm{C}$ ($^{14}mathrm{N}$) target, the formation probabilities of $^{6}_{LambdaLambda}mathrm{He}$ and $^{10}_{LambdaLambda}mathrm{Be}$ ($^{13}_{LambdaLambda}mathrm{B}$) are found to be reasonably large as they are observed in the KEK-E373 (KEK-E176) experiment. By comparison, for $^{16}mathrm{O}$ target, the formation probability of $^{11}_{LambdaLambda}mathrm{Be}$ is calculated to be small with $Delta B_{LambdaLambda}$ consistent with the Nagara event. We also evaluate the formation probability of ${}^{5}_{LambdaLambda}mathrm{H}$ from a $Xi^-$-${}^{6}mathrm{He}$ bound state, ${}^{7}_{Xi}mathrm{H}$.
Dissipative 12C+12C reactions at 95 MeV are fully detected in charge with the GARFIELD and RCo apparatuses at LNL. A comparison to a dedicated Hauser-Feshbach calculation allows to select events which correspond, to a large extent, to the statistical evaporation of highly excited 24Mg, as well as to extract information on the isotopic distribution of the evaporation residues in coincidence with their complete evaporation chain. Residual deviations from a statistical behaviour are observed in alpha yields and attributed to the persistence of cluster correlations well above the 24Mg threshold for 6 alphas decay.
We study effects of eccentricity fluctuations on the elliptic flow coefficient v_2 at mid-rapidity in both Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV by using a hybrid model that combines ideal hydrodynamics for space-time evolution of the quark gluon plasma phase and a hadronic transport model for the hadronic matter. For initial conditions in hydrodynamic simulations, both the Glauber model and the color glass condensate model are employed to demonstrate the effect of initial eccentricity fluctuations originating from the nucleon position inside a colliding nucleus. The effect of eccentricity fluctuations is modest in semicentral Au+Au collisions, but significantly enhances v_2 in Cu+Cu collisions.
$p,Lambda$ emission in coincidence following $K^-$ absorption at rest in nuclei is studied using quantum mechanical scattering theory and nuclear wave functions. $K^-$ absorption is assumed to occur on two protons in the nucleus. In the formalism, emphasis is put on the study of the final state interaction (FSI) effects of $p$ and $Lambda$ with the recoiling nucleus. We include elastic scattering and single nucleon knock-out (KO) channels in the FSI. Calculations are presented for the $^{12}$C nucleus, using shell model wave functions, and without any extra mass modification of the $K^-,pp$ system in the nucleus. Calculated results are presented for the angular correlation distribution between $p$ and $Lambda$, their invariant mass distribution and the momentum spectra of $p$ and $Lambda$. These results are compared with the corresponding experimental measurements cite{agnello}. With only elastic scattering FSI included, the angular correlation distribution and the momentum spectra are found to be in good accord with the corresponding measurements. With full FSI the calculated $p,Lambda$ invariant mass distribution is found to have two peaks, one corresponding to the elastic scattering FSI and another to single nucleon KO FSI. The KO peak agrees fully, in position and shape, with the peak observed in Ref. cite{agnello}. The peak corresponding to elastic scattering FSI does not seem to exist in the measured distribution. Considering that such a two peak structure is always seen in the inclusive ($p$, $p^prime $) and ($e$, $e^prime $) reactions in nuclei at intermediate energies, absence of the elastic scattering peak in the $p,Lambda$ reaction is intriguing.
We studied the effects of centrality fluctuation and deuteron formation on the cumulants ($C_n$) and correlation functions ($kappa_n$) of protons up to sixth order in most central ($b<3$ fm) Au+Au collisions at $sqrt{s_mathrm{NN}}$ = 3 GeV from a microscopic transport model (JAM). The results are presented as a function of rapidity acceptance within transverse momentum $0.4<p_{T}<2 $ GeV/$c$. We compared the results obtained by centrality bin width correction (CBWC) using charged reference particle multiplicity with CBWC done using impact parameter bins. It was found that at low energies the centrality resolution for determining the collision centrality using charged particle multiplicities is not good enough to reduce the initial volume fluctuations effect for higher-order cumulant analysis. New methods need to be developed to classify events with high centrality resolution for heavy-ion collisions at low energies. Finally, we observed that the formation of deuteron will suppress the higher-order cumulants and correlation functions of protons and is found to be similar to the efficiency effect. This work can serve as a noncritical baseline for the QCD critical point search at the high baryon density region.