Study of hadronic interactions at high energies

• Grant number: 09/50180-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2009
• End date: May 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Yogiro Hama
• Grantee: Yogiro Hama
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Attilio Cucchieri ; Fernando Silveira Navarra ; Gastão Inácio Krein
• Associated research grant(s): 13/10395-2 - Application of Hydro-Kinetic approach to the study of ridge correlation in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions, AV.EXT; 11/51864-0 - Fluctuations and hydrodynamics in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, AP.R
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/27060-3 - High-Energy Elastic Hadron Scattering: Studies on the Direct and Inverse Problems, BP.DR; 14/04197-6 - Introduction to particle physics with emphasis on quantum fluctuations, BP.IC; 12/16766-0 - Spectral and transport properties of charmed mesons in hot and dense hadronic matter, BP.PD; + associated scholarships 12/04811-0 - Introduction to Lattice QCD at Finite Temperature, BP.MS; 11/15016-4 - A Phenomenological Analysis on the Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at the LHC Energy Region, BP.MS; 11/21691-6 - Understanding strongly coupled non-Abelian plasmas using the gauge/gravity duality, BP.DR; 11/50597-8 - Quantum chromodynamics in high energy collisions, BP.PD; 11/00505-0 - Diffractive hadron scattering at high energies: eikonal representation and nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics, BP.DR; 09/16860-3 - Hydrodynamics and quasi-particle model in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, BP.PD; 09/54245-9 - Relativistic dissipatice hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions., BP.PD; 10/01500-9 - Introduction to Heavy-Quark Physics, BP.IC; 05/54595-9 - Hydrodynamic study nucleous-nucleus collisions, BP.PD - associated scholarships

Abstract

The purpose of the project is to study the high-energy (Ge V ~ Te V) hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions, in order to clarify: a) the nature and properties of the nuclear matter, its forms of excitation and its new state under high-density and high-temperature conditions, the quark-gluon plasma; and b) the quark-gluon confinement in hadrons, interactions of the latter and the properties of QCD vacuum. This study faces with the problem of describing strongly-interacting many-body systems controlled by a relativistic dynamics, to which no fundamental and tractable theory is available yet. Within this context, the elaboration of phenomenological models is crucial as an intermediate step toward this direction. Simultaneously, a deeper understanding of certain properties of hadronic matter such as quark confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, from the first principles of QCD, is fundamental. Specifically, problems treated in the project are a) lattice QCD simulations; b) effective field theories; c) models for elastic, inelastic and diffractive collisions of hadrons; d) models of hadrons (Skyrmions and bags); e) production and suppression of strangeness and charm in hadronic matter; f) transport phenomena, relativistic hydrodynamics and phase transitions in QCD. (AU)

Scientific publications

(21)

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GHOSH, SABYASACHI; PEIXOTO, THIAGO C.; ROY, VICTOR; SERNA, FERNANDO E.; KREIN, GASTAO. Shear and bulk viscosities of quark matter from quark-meson fluctuations in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. Physical Review C, v. 93, n. 4, APR 13 2016. (13/01907-0, 12/16766-0, 09/50180-0)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Breaking of factorization of two-particle correlations in hydrodynamics. Physical Review C, v. 87, n. 3, MAR 26 2013. (09/16860-3, 09/50180-0)

EL-BENNICH, BRUNO; KREIN, GASTAO; CHANG, LEI; ROBERTS, CRAIG D.; WILSON, DAVID J.. Flavor SU(4) breaking between effective couplings. Physical Review D, v. 85, n. 3, FEB 7 2012. (09/51296-1, 10/05772-3, 09/50180-0)

MENON, M. J.; SILVA, P. V. R. G.. AN UPDATED ANALYSIS ON THE RISE OF THE HADRONIC TOTAL CROSS-SECTION AT THE LHC ENERGY REGION. International Journal of Modern Physics A, v. 28, n. 20, AUG 10 2013. (11/15016-4, 09/50180-0)

MENON, M. J.; SILVA, P. V. R. G.. A study on analytic parametrizations for proton-proton cross-sections and asymptotia. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS, v. 40, n. 12, DEC 2013. (11/15016-4, 09/50180-0)

FAGUNDES, D. A.; MENON, M. J.. APPLICABILITY OF A REPRESENTATION FOR THE MARTIN'S REAL-PART FORMULA IN MODEL-INDEPENDENT ANALYSES. International Journal of Modern Physics A, v. 26, n. 19, p. 3219-3247, JUL 30 2011. (07/05953-5, 11/00505-0, 09/50180-0)

FAGUNDES, DANIEL ALMEIDA; MENON, MARCIO JOSE; RECCHIA GOMES SILVA, PAULO VICTOR. Total Hadronic Cross-Section Data and the Froissart-Martin Bound. Brazilian Journal of Physics, v. 42, n. 5-6, p. 452-464, DEC 2012. (11/15016-4, 11/00505-0, 09/50180-0)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; HAMA, YOGIRO; LUZUM, MATTHEW; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Directed flow at midrapidity in event-by-event hydrodynamics. Physical Review C, v. 83, n. 6, p. 064901, 2011. (09/16860-3, 09/50180-0)

GHOSH, SABYASACHI; PEIXOTO, THIAGO C.; ROY, VICTOR; SERNA, FERNANDO E.; KREIN, GASTAO. Shear and bulk viscosities of quark matter from quark-meson fluctuations in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, v. 93, n. 4, p. 9-pg., 2016-04-13. (09/50180-0, 13/01907-0, 12/16766-0)

CUCCHIERI, ATTILIO; DUDAL, DAVID; MENDES, TEREZA; VANDERSICKEL, NELE. BRST-symmetry breaking and Bose-ghost propagator in lattice minimal Landau gauge. Physical Review D, v. 90, n. 5, SEP 3 2014. (09/50180-0)

GHOSH, SABYASACHI; KREIN, GASTAO; SARKAR, SOURAV. Shear viscosity of a pion gas resulting from rho pi pi and sigma pi pi interactions. Physical Review C, v. 89, n. 4, APR 2 2014. (13/01907-0, 12/16766-0, 09/50180-0)

FAGUNDES, D. A.; MENON, M. J.. Total hadronic cross section and the elastic slope: An almost model-independent connection. Nuclear Physics A, v. 880, p. 1-11, APR 15 2012. (11/00505-0, 09/50180-0)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Mapping the hydrodynamic response to the initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C, v. 85, n. 2, p. 024908, 2012. (09/16860-3, 09/50180-0)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Characterizing the hydrodynamic response to the initial conditions. Nuclear Physics A, v. 904, p. 503C-506C, MAY 2 2013. (09/16860-3, 09/50180-0)

FAGUNDES, D. A.; MENON, M. J.; SILVA, P. V. R. G.. On the rise of proton-proton cross-sections at high energies. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS, v. 40, n. 6, JUN 2013. (11/15016-4, 11/00505-0, 09/50180-0)

CUCCHIERI, ATTILIO; MENDES, TEREZA. Ghost sector and geometry in minimal Landau gauge: Further constraining the infinite-volume limit. Physical Review D, v. 88, n. 11, DEC 3 2013. (09/50180-0)

FAGUNDES, D. A.; MENON, M. J.; SILVA, G. L. P.. Model-independent data reductions of elastic proton-proton scattering. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, v. 71, n. 5, MAY 2011. (07/05953-5, 07/01938-1, 09/50180-0)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Anisotropic Flow in Event-by-Event Ideal Hydrodynamic Simulations of root s(NN) 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions. Physical Review Letters, v. 109, n. 20, NOV 14 2012. (09/16860-3, 09/50180-0)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Breaking of factorization of two-particle correlations in hydrodynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, v. 87, n. 3, p. 5-pg., 2013-03-26. (09/16860-3, 09/50180-0)

CUCCHIERI, ATTILIO; DUDAL, DAVID; MENDES, TEREZA; VANDERSICKEL, NELE. BRST-symmetry breaking and Bose-ghost propagator in lattice minimal Landau gauge. Physical Review D, v. 90, n. 5, p. 5-pg., 2014-09-03. (09/50180-0)

EL-BENNICH, BRUNO; KREIN, GASTAO; CHANG, LEI; ROBERTS, CRAIG D.; WILSON, DAVID J.. Flavor SU(4) breaking between effective couplings. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, v. 85, n. 3, p. 6-pg., 2012-02-07. (10/05772-3, 09/50180-0, 09/51296-1)