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In the following we stress the advantages of the NICA research programme in the context of studying the spectator-induced electromagnetic phenomena present in heavy-ion collisions. We point at the ...specific interest of using these phenomena as a new, independent source of information on the space-time evolution of the reaction and of the non-perturbative process of particle production. We propose an extended series of measurements of well-defined observables to be performed in different types of nuclear reactions and in the whole range of collision energies available to NICA. We expect these measurements to bring very valuable new insight into the mechanism of non-perturbative strong interactions, complementary to the studies made at the SPS at CERN, RHIC at BNL, and the LHC.
A group of Early-Career Researchers (ECRs) has been given a mandate from the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) to debate the topics of the current European Strategy Update (ESU) for ...Particle Physics and to summarise the outcome in a brief document 1. A full-day debate with 180 delegates was held at CERN, followed by a survey collecting quantitative input. During the debate, the ECRs discussed future colliders in terms of the physics prospects, their implications for accelerator and detector technology as well as computing and software. The discussion was organised into several topic areas. From these areas two common themes were particularly highlighted by the ECRs: sociological and human aspects; and issues of the environmental impact and sustainability of our research.
The strongly intensive quantity Σ is a new observable, introduced recently to the domain of heavy-ion physics. In superposition models which assume independent particle production from statistically ...identical sources, Σ is insensitive to the number of sources and its fluctuations, contrary to the standard forward-backward correlation coefficient (
b
corr
). Therefore it provides direct information on the multiplicity correlations and fluctuations from a single source. This paper presents new results on forward-backward correlations studied with the quantity Σ, measured by ALICE at the LHC in Xe–Xe collisions at √
s
NN
= 5.44 TeV and in Pb–Pb collisions at √
s
NN
= 2.76 and 5.02 TeV. These results are compared with ALICE measurements in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV.
This paper presents a comparative study of forward-backward correlations and multiplicity fluctuations in experimental data and in HIJING Monte Carlo simulations of Pb–Pb collisions at s NN = 2 . 76 ...TeV. The analysis focuses on two observables: the forward-backward correlation coefficient b c o r r n - n and the strongly intensive quantity Σ . Results are discussed in the context of the dependence on centrality estimator and influence of event-by-event fluctuations of the geometry of the Pb–Pb collisions on the measured quantities.
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