Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Proceedings of the International Conference Bologna 2000 Structure of th E Nucleus at the Dawn of the Century, Bologna, Italy 29 May-3 June 2000

by Bonsignori, Giovanni C.; Bruno, Mauro; Ventura, Alberto; Vretenar, Dario; Zichichi, A.

• ISBN13: 9789810247317
• ISBN10: 9810247311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Proceedings of the Conference Bologna 2000, held May 29-June 3, 2000 in Bologna, Italy. Conference devoted to a discipline which has seen a strong revival of research activities in the last decade.

Table of Contents

Foreword The Editors	xv
Welcome Address	xix
F. Roversi-Monaco
Committees and Sponsors	xxi
Photographs	xxiii
Opening Lecture
Antimatter - Past, Present and Future	3	(50)
A. Zichichi
Introductory Talk
What Can Nuclear Collisions Teach Us about the Boiling of Water or the Formation of Multi-Star Systems?	53	(10)
D. H. E. Gross
Section I. Quark and Gluon-Plasma Phase Transition and Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions
Results from Pb-Pb Collisions at CERN SPS	63	(8)
L. Riccati
E. Scomparin
The Search for the QGP: A Critical Appraisal	71	(2)
H. Satz
Strange Baryon Signals of a New State of Matter in Lead-Lead Collisions at the Cern SPS	73	(10)
F. Antinori
Cooper-Mesons in the Color-Flavor-Locked Superconducting Phase of Dense QCD	83	(8)
A. Wirzba
Charmonium Suppression in Pb-Pb Collisions and Quark-Gluon Deconfinement	91	(8)
A. B. Kurepin
Particle Production in Pb+Pb Collisions at 158 GeV/Nucleon in the NA49 Detector	99	(6)
H. Strobele
Exploring the Chiral Phase Transition in High-Energy Collisions	105	(6)
J. Randrup
Nuclear Collective Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions at SIS Energies	111	(4)
N. Bastid
Hadron Observables from Hadronic Transport Model with Jet Production at RHIC	115	(4)
Y. Nara
Simultaneous Heavy Ion Dissociation at Ultrarelativistic Energies	119	(4)
I. A. Pshenichnov
J. P. Bondorf
S. Masetti
I. N. Mishustin
A. Ventura
Direct Photon Production in 158A GeV 208Pb+208Pb Collisions	123	(6)
T. Peitzmann
Deformation and Orientation Effects in Uranium-on-Uranium Collisions at Relativistic Energies	129	(4)
Bao-An Li
Subthreshold Heavy-Meson and Antiproton Production in the Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions	133	(4)
A. T. D'Yachenko
Pion Imaging at the AGS	137	(8)
S. Y. Panitkin
Directed Flow in 4.2A GeV/C C+C and C+Ta Collisions	145	(4)
J. Milosevic
L. J. Simic
Fragmentation of Very High Energy Heavy Ions	149	(6)
M. Giorgini
S. Manzoor
Section II. Liquid-Gas Phase Transitions in Nuclear Matter
Please Transition in Finite Systems	155	(12)
Ph. Chomaz
V. Daflot
F. Gulminelli
Present Status and Future Prospects of Investigations of the Liquid-Gas Phase Transition	167	(12)
C.-K. Gelbke
Critical Phenomena in Finite Systems	179	(8)
A. Bonasera
T. Maruyama
S. Chiba
Experimental Signals of the First Phase Transition of Nuclear Matter	187	(10)
B. Borderie
Nuclear Fragmentation, Phase Transitions and their Characterization in Finite Systems of Interacting Particles	197	(6)
J. M. Carmona
N. Michel
J. Richert
P. Wagner
Topology and Phase Transitions: Towards a Proper Mathematical Definition of Finite N Transitions	203	(6)
M. Pettini
R. Franzosi
L. Spinelli
Introduction to the Phase Transition Discussion	209	(6)
Ph. Chomaz
Finite Nuclear Fragmenting Systems: An Experimental Evidence of a First Order Liquid-Gas Phase Transition	215	(6)
M. D'Agostino
F. Gulminelli
Ph. Chomaz
M. Bruno
F. Cannata
N. Le Neindre
R. Bougault
M. L. Fiandri
E. Fuschini
F. Gramegna
I. Iori
G. V. Margagliotti
A. Moroni
G. Vannini
E. Verondini
Phase Transition in XE+SN Central Events between 32 and 50A MeV	221	(6)
N. Le Neindre
R. Bougault
Ph. Chomaz
F. Gulminelli
Nuclear Caloric Curve: Influence of the Secondary Decays on the Isotopic Thermometers	227	(4)
A. H. Raduta
A. R. Raduta
Phase Transition Signals in Thermally Excited Nuclei	231	(6)
V. E. Viola
Hydrogen Cluster Multifragmentation and Percolation Models	237	(6)
F. Gobet
B. Farizon
M. Farizon
M. J. Gaillard
J. P. Buchet
M. Carre
P. Scheier
T. D. Mark
Single Quasiparticle Entropy in Excited Nuclei with T < 1 MeV	243	(6)
M. Guttormsen
M. Hjorth-Jensen
E. Melby
J. Rekstad
A. Schiller
S. Siem
Section III. Nuclear Caloric Curve and Thermodynamics of Heavy Ion Collisions
Surveying Temperature and Density Measurements in Nuclear Calorimetry	249	(8)
G. Raciti
Caloric Curve of Fragmenting Systems	257	(6)
C. O. Dorso
A. Chernomoretz
Thermodynamics of Explosions	263	(6)
G. Neergaard
J. P. Bondorf
I. N. Mishustin
Microcanonical Investigation of the Recent Nuclear Caloric Curve Experimental Evaluations	269	(4)
A. H. Raduta
A. R. Raduta
Can We Determine the Nuclear Equation of State from Heavy Ion Collisions?	273	(6)
T. Gaitanos
H. H. Wolter
C. Fuchs
A. Faessler
Thermodynamical Description of Heavy Ion Collisions	279	(6)
T. Gaitanos
H. H. Wolter
C. Fuchs
Section IV. Statistical and Dynamical Aspects of Fragmentation
Exact Solution of the Statistical Multifragmentation Model and the Liquid-Gas Mixed Phase	285	(8)
K. A. Bugaev
M. I. Gorenstein
L N. Mishustin
W. Greiner
What Can We Learn from Nuclear Matter Instabilities?	293	(6)
V. Baran
M. Colonna
M. Di Toro
M. Zielinska-Pfabe
H. H. Wolter
Energetic Proton Emission and Reaction Dynamics in Heavy Ion Reactions Close to the Fermi Energy	299	(6)
R. Coniglione
P. Sapienza
E. Migneco
C. Agodi
R. Alba
G. Bellia
M. Colonna
A. Del Zoppo
P. Finocchiaro
V. Greco
K. Loukachine
C. Maiolino
P. Piattelli
D. Santonocito
P. G. Ventura
N. Colonna
M. Bruno
M. D'Agostino
M. L. Fiandri
G. Vannini
P. F. Mastinu
F. Gramegna
I. Iori
L. Fabbietti
A. Moroni
G. V. Margagliotti
P. M. Milazzo
R. Rui
F. Tonetto
Y. Blumenfeld
J. A. Scarpaci
New Results on Preequilibrium γ-Ray Emission and GDR Saturation on Reactions at 25A MeV	305	(4)
G. Cardella
F. Amorini
A. Di Pietro
P. Figuera
G. Lanzalone
J. Lu
A. Musumarra
M. Papa
G. Pappalardo
S. Pirrone
F. Rizzo
S. Tudisco
The Onset of Mid-Velocity Emissions in Symmetric Heavy Ion Reactions	309	(4)
E. Plagnol
J. Lukasik
Contribution of Prompt Emissions to the Production of Intermediate Velocity Light Particles in the 36Ar+58Ni Reaction at 95 MeV/Nucleon	313	(4)
P. Pawlowski
B. Borderie
Proton Emission Times in Spectator Fragmentation	317	(4)
C. Schwarz
Experimental Evidence for Spinodal Decomposition in Multifragmentation of Heavy Systems	321	(6)
M. F. Rivet
Non-Equilibrium Effects on a Second-Order Phase Transition	327	(4)
V. Latora
A. Rapisarda
Multifragmentation of Expanding Nuclear Matter	331	(4)
S. Chikazumi
T. Maruyama
K. Niita
A. Iwamoto
S. Chiba
Contemporary Presence of Dynamical and Statistical Intermediate Mass Fragment Production Mechanisms in Midperipheral Ni+Ni Collisions at 30 MeV/Nucleon	335	(6)
P. M. Milazzo
M. Sisto
G. V. Margagliotti
R. Rui
G. Vannini
M. Bruno
M. D'Agostino
N. Colonna
C. Agodi
R. Alba
G. Bellia
M. Colonna
R. Coniglione
A. Del Zoppo
P. Finocchiaro
C. Maiolina
E. Migneco
P. Piattelli
D. Santonocito
P. Sapienza
F. Gramegna
P. F. Mastinu
L. Fabbietti
I. Iori
A. Moroni
M. Belkacem
External Coulomb and Angular Momentum Influence on Isotope Composition of Nuclear Fragments	341	(6)
A. S. Botvina
Section V. Intermediate Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions
Isospin Fractionation in Excited Nuclear Systems	347	(6)
S. J. Yennello
M. Veslesky
E. Martin
R. Laforest
D. Rowland
E. Ramakrishnan
A. Ruangma
E. M. Winchester
The Disappearance of Flow and the Nuclear Equation of State	353	(6)
G. D. Westfall
The Backtracing Procedure in Nuclear Physics	359	(4)
P. Desesquelles
Ni+Ni Collisions at 32 MeV/U: Experimental Insight with the INDRA Multidetector	363	(4)
A. M. Maskay
P. Lautesse
P. Desesquelles
E. Gerlic
J. L. Laville
Two-Fragment Correlation Function for Quasi-Projectile and Mid-Rapidity Emission	367	(4)
Z. He
R. Roy
L. Gingras
Y. Larochelle
D. Ouerdane
L. Beaulieu
P. Gagne
X. Qian
C. St-Pierre
G. C. Ball
D. Horn
Fermion Interferometry in Ni-Induced Reactions at E/A=45 MeV	371	(4)
R. Ghetti
Investigation of an Angular Distribution of Protons in Peripheral and Central Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the Momentum of 4.2A GeV/c	375	(4)
M. K. Suleymanov
O. B. Abdinov
Z. Y. Sadigov
N. S. Angelov
A. C. Vodopyanov
A. A. Kuznetsov
Reverse Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Sud	379	(4)
E. Geraci
Reverse: The First Experiment with the Chimera Detector	383	(4)
G. Politi
Non Equilibrated IMF Emission in Heavy Ion Collisions around the Fermi Energy	387	(4)
S. Piantelli
L. Bidini
M. Bini
G. Casini
P. R. Maurenzig
A. Olmi
G. Pasquali
G. Poggi
S. Poggi
A. A. Stefanini
N. Taccetti
The Complete Fusion and the Competitive Processes in the 32S+12C Reaction at E(32S)=20 MeV/A	391	(4)
S. Pirrone
G. Politi
G. Lanzalone
S. Aiello
N. Arena
Seb. Cavallaro
E. Geraci
F. Porto
S. Sambataro
A Simple Pulse Shape Discrimination Method Applied to Silicon Strip Detector	395	(6)
J. Ln
F. Amorini
G. Cardella
A. Di Pietro
P. Figuera
A. Musumarra
M. Papa
G. Pappalardo
F. Rizzo
S. Tudisco
Section VI. Reaction Mechanisms around the Barrier. Fusion and Fission in Heavy-Ion Reactions
Cross-Sections for Coulomb and Nuclear Breakup of Three-Body Halo Nuclei	401	(4)
E. Garrido
D. V. Fedorov
A. S. Jensen
Multinucleon Transfer Reactions Studied with the PISOLO Spectrometer	405	(4)
L. Corradi
A. M. Stefanini
A. M. Vinodkumar
S. Beghini
G. Montagnoli
F. Scarlassara
G. Pollarodo
Study of the Cluster Emission Barrier in 12C+208 Pb Elastic Scattering and Possible Observation of Quasimolecular Configuration	409	(4)
A. A. Ogloblin
K. P. Artemov
Yu. A. Glukhov
A. S. Dem'yanova
V. V. Paramonov
M. V.Rozhkov
V. P. Rudakov
S. A. Goncharov
Very Strong Reaction Channels at Barrier Energies in the System 9Be+209Bi	413	(6)
C. Signorini
A. Andrighetto
J. Y. Guo
L. Stroe
A. Vitturi
M. Ruan
M. Trotta
F. Soramel
K. E. G. Lobner
K. Rudolph
I. Thompson
D. Pierroutsakou
M. Romoli
Nuclear Rainbows, Nuclear Matter and the 16O+16O System	419	(8)
W. von Oertzen
A. Blazevic
H. G. Bohlen
D. T. Khoa
F. Nouffer
P. Roussel-Chomaz
W. Mittig
J. M. Cassandjian
Bremsstrahlung by Nonrelativistic Particles in Matter	427	(4)
A. V. Koshelkin
Pronounced Airy Structure in Elastic 16O+12C Scattering at Elab=200 MeV	431	(4)
Y. A. Gloukhov
A. S. Dem'yanova
A. A. Ogloblin
M. V. Rozhkov
S. A. Goncharov
R. Julin
W. Trzaska
Fusion Energy Thresholds Predicted with an Adiabatic Nucleus-Nucleus Potential	435	(6)
J. Wilczynski
K. Siwek-Wilczynska
Near-Barrier Fusion of 36S+90,96 Zr: What is the Effect of the Strong Octupole Vibration of 96Zr?	441	(4)
L. Corradi
A. M. Stefanini
A. M. Vinodkumar
S. Beghini
G. Montagnoli
F. Scarlassara
M. Bisogno
Dynamical Model of Fission Fragment Angular Distribution	445	(4)
V. A. Drozdov
D. O. Eremenko
O. V. Fotina
S. Yu. Platonov
O. A. Yuminov
Fusion-Fission Reaction 12C, 16O+208Pb at Subbarrier Energies	449	(4)
S. P. Tretyakova
M. G. Itkis
E. M. Kozulin
N. A. Kondratiev
I. V. Pokrovskii
E. V. Prokhorova
L. Calabretta
C. Maiolini
A. Ya. Rusanov
T. Yu. Tretyahova
Sub-Barrier Fusion with a Halo Nucleus: The 6He Case	453	(6)
M. Trotta
J. l. Sida
N. Alamanos
F. Auger
A. Drouart
D. J. C. Durand
A. Gillibert
C. Jouanne
V. Lapoux
A. Lumbroso
F. Marie
S. Ottini
C. Volant
A. Andreyev
D. L. Balabanski
N. Coulier
G. Georgiev
M. Huyse
G. Neyens
R. Raabe
S. Ternier
P. van Duppen
K. Vivey
C. Borcea
J. D. Hinnefeld
A. Musumarra
A. Lepine
R. Wolski
Concluding Remarks
Impact of Nuclear Science on Modern Society	459	(6)
R. A. Ricci
Author Index	465