KFT seminar is scheduled on March 18, 2025 at 10.15 a.m., room 341, during which
Dr. hab. Katarzyna Mazurek (IFJ PAN, Kraków)
will give her talk entitled
The photon-induced nuclear reactions in ultra-peripheral ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions”
You can also participate in the seminar online: Link to Teams
Abstract:
In ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Pb nuclei are excited through interactions induced by strong electromagnetic fields. The expected excitation energy could reach hundreds~MeV, which leads to the subsequent emission of various particles, including neutrons, protons, and alpha particles.
To accurately describe deexcitation of nuclei, we have developed two novel approaches. The first method utilizes the Heavy Ion Phase Space Exploration (HIPSE) model to simulate pre-equilibrium emissions and to estimate the excitation energy of the remaining nucleus. Our second approach introduces a new technique for modeling the excitation energy of the nucleus. This method consists of a two-component function to represent the excitation energy distribution more precisely, accounting for the energy loss due to the interaction between photons and quasi-deuteron. Both of these modeling techniques are integrated with the results produced by the GEMINI++ generator, which implements the Hauser-Feshbach formalism to simulate the statistical decay of excited nuclei. The alternative calculations are done with EMPIRE platform. Using these approaches, we obtained the cross sections for the emission of neutrons, protons, and alpha particles resulting from UPC at the LHC.
The results were compared with the experimental data of the ALICE group on neutron and proton multiplicities.