dorsal/arxiv
View SchemaMultifragmentation, Clustering, and Coalescence in Nuclear Collisions
| Authors | Stefan Scherer, Horst Stocker |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0502069 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0502069 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the International Symposium "Atomic Cluster Collisions", St. Petersburg, Russia, July 18-21, 2003; edited by J.-P. Connerade and A.V. Solov'yov; London, 2004; 169-180 |
Abstract
Nuclear collisions at intermediate, relativistic, and ultra-relativistic energies offer unique opportunities to study in detail manifold fragmentation and clustering phenomena in dense nuclear matter. At intermediate energies, the well known processes of nuclear multifragmentation -- the disintegration of bulk nuclear matter in clusters of a wide range of sizes and masses -- allow the study of the critical point of the equation of state of nuclear matter. At very high energies, ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions offer a glimpse at the substructure of hadronic matter by crossing the phase boundary to the quark-gluon plasma. The hadronization of the quark-gluon plasma created in the fireball of a ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision can be considered, again, as a clustering process. We will present two models which allow the simulation of nuclear multifragmentation and the hadronization via the formation of clusters in an interacting gas of quarks, and will discuss the importance of clustering to our understanding of hadronization in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
{
"annotation_id": "13be1619-100a-4dee-95f9-0ad11625af97",
"date_created": "2026-03-02T18:00:04.277000Z",
"date_modified": "2026-03-02T18:00:04.277000Z",
"file_hash": "22543e557aada7409a3d6bb5b2a863e865f24e3eba4e85b883fe0f4f7e4433bb",
"private": false,
"record": {
"abstract": "Nuclear collisions at intermediate, relativistic, and ultra-relativistic\nenergies offer unique opportunities to study in detail manifold fragmentation\nand clustering phenomena in dense nuclear matter. At intermediate energies, the\nwell known processes of nuclear multifragmentation -- the disintegration of\nbulk nuclear matter in clusters of a wide range of sizes and masses -- allow\nthe study of the critical point of the equation of state of nuclear matter. At\nvery high energies, ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions offer a glimpse at\nthe substructure of hadronic matter by crossing the phase boundary to the\nquark-gluon plasma. The hadronization of the quark-gluon plasma created in the\nfireball of a ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision can be considered, again,\nas a clustering process. We will present two models which allow the simulation\nof nuclear multifragmentation and the hadronization via the formation of\nclusters in an interacting gas of quarks, and will discuss the importance of\nclustering to our understanding of hadronization in ultra-relativistic\nheavy-ion collisions.",
"arxiv_id": "nucl-th/0502069",
"authors": [
"Stefan Scherer",
"Horst Stocker"
],
"categories": [
"nucl-th",
"physics.atm-clus"
],
"journal_ref": "Proceedings of the International Symposium \"Atomic Cluster\n Collisions\", St. Petersburg, Russia, July 18-21, 2003; edited by J.-P.\n Connerade and A.V. Solov\u0027yov; London, 2004; 169-180",
"title": "Multifragmentation, Clustering, and Coalescence in Nuclear Collisions",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0502069"
},
"schema_id": "dorsal/arxiv",
"source": {
"execution_id": "b00e818b-554c-4b66-9477-c7178a034ce6",
"id": "arXiv Dataset IDs",
"type": "Model",
"variant": "snapshot-2026-03-01",
"version": "0.1.0"
},
"user_id": 1000002
}