Nuclear Theory Group, University of Minnesota

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Nuclear Theory Seminars
Seminars at the School of Physics and Astronomy
Niels Bohr Archive: New documents released (February 6, 2002)

Downloadable Data

Vector meson scattering amplitudes:
[frhoN.dat,
frhopi.dat,
fomegaN.dat,
fomegaN2.dat,
fomegapi.dat]

First column is vector meson energy in MeV, second column is real part of scattering amplitude in fm, third column is imaginary part in fm. The file fomegaN2.dat uses only two resonances, the file fomegaN.dat uses a full set of resonances. For details see V. Eletsky et al., Phys. Rev. C 64, 035202 (2001) [nucl-th/0104029].

People

Professors:

Postdocs:

Pasi Huovinen
(10/01/01--09/30/03)
Andrew Steiner
(08/26/02-08/26/04)

Visitors:

Graduate
Students:

Ramin Daghigh
(works with J.Kapusta)
Huaiyu Duan
(works with Y.Z. Qian)
Azwinndini Muronga
(works with J.Kapusta)

Former
Graduate
Students:

Kenichi Torikoshi
(now in private sector)
Agnes Mocsy
(now at NBI, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sidi C. Benzahra
(now at Wittenberg University, OH)
Jefferson Bjoraker
(now in private sector)
Kevin L. Haglin
(now at St. Cloud State U.)
Gregory W. Carter
(now at University of Washington, Seattle)

Former
Postdocs:

Igor A. Shovkovy
(now at J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
Stephen M.H. Wong
(now at Ohio State)
M. Belkacem
(now at Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
Yuri Kovchegov
(now at University of Washington)
Sangyong Jeon
(now at McGill)
H.B. Tang
(now at Caspian Networks)

Research

The major thrust of nuclear physics at Minnesota is ultra-relativistic, heavy-ion collisions. A considerable theoretical effort is directed at understanding the nature of these interactions and their implications for the understanding of quantum chromodynamics. Particular emphasis is directed at the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, if collisions are able to achieve a critically high energy and matter density.

Recent
Papers:

[List from SLAC]

[Topcite 50+]

[NASA ADS]

Joseph Kapusta, Igor Shovkovy, Thermal rates for baryon and anti-baryon production, nucl-th/0209075
K.A. Olive, M. Pospelov, Y.-Z. Qian, A. Coc, M. Casse, E. Vangioni-Flam, Constraints on the Variations of the Fundamental Couplings, hep-ph/0205269
Dirk H. Rischke and Igor A. Shovkovy, Longitudinal gluons and Nambu-Goldstone bosons in a two-flavor color superconductor, nucl-th/0205080, Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 054019
V. A. Miransky and I. A. Shovkovy, Magnetic catalysis and anisotropic confinement in QCD, hep-ph/0205348, Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 045006
Igor A. Shovkovy and Paul J. Ellis, Thermal conductivity of dense quark matter and cooling of stars, hep-ph/0204132, Phys. Rev. C 66 (2002) 015802
Y.-Z. Qian, Neutrino-Induced Fission and r-Process Nucleosynthesis, astro-ph/0203194, Astrophys. J. 569 (2002) L103
P. Huovinen, M. Belkacem, P. J. Ellis, J. I. Kapusta, Dileptons and Photons from Coarse-Grained Microscopic Dynamics and Hydrodynamics Compared to Experimental Data, nucl-th/0203023, Phys. Rev. C 66 (2002) 014903
E.V. Gorbar, V.P. Gusynin, V.A. Miransky, I.A. Shovkovy, Magnetic field driven metal-insulator phase transition in planar systems, cond-mat/0202422, Phys. Rev. B 66 (2002) 045108
J.I. Kapusta, S.M.H. Wong, Possible Evidence of Disoriented Chiral Condensates from the Anomaly in Omega and AntiOmega Abundances at the SPS, hep-ph/0201166
L. P. Csernai, J. I. Kapusta and E. Osnes, Domain Wall Dynamics of Phase Interfaces, hep-th/0201024
S. Gavin and J. I. Kapusta, Kaon and Pion Fluctuations from Small Disoriented Chiral Condensates, nucl-th/0112083, Phys. Rev. C 65 (2002) 054910
Y. Hosotani, T. Nakajima, R. G. Daghigh, J. I. Kapusta, Cosmic Shells, gr-qc/0112079
Igor A. Shovkovy, Collective modes in color superconducting matter, hep-ph/0110352
I. N. Mishustin and J. I. Kapusta, Collective Deceleration of Ultrarelativistic Nuclei and Creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma, hep-ph/0110321, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 112501
Y.-Z. Qian, G. J. Wasserburg, Determination of Nucleosynthetic Yields of Supernovae and Very Massive Stars from Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars, astro-ph/0110532
R.G. Daghigh and J.I. Kapusta, High Temperature Matter and Gamma Ray Spectra from Microscopic Black Holes, gr-qc/0109090, Phys. Rev. D65 (2002) 064028
V.A. Miransky and I.A. Shovkovy, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Abnormal Number of Nambu-Goldstone Bosons and Kaon Condensate, hep-ph/0108178, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 111601
V.P. Gusynin and I.A. Shovkovy, Collective modes of color-flavor locked phase of dense QCD at finite temperature, hep-ph/0108175, Nucl. Phys. A700 (2002) 577