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1. Towards the understanding of heavy quarks hadronization: from leptonic to heavy-ion collisions

Author: Altmann, J., Dubla, A., Greco, V., Rossi, A., and Skands, P.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The formation of hadrons is a fundamental process in nature that can be investigated at particle colliders. As several recent findings demonstrate, with $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ collisions as a "vacuum-like" reference at one extreme, and central nucleus--nucleus as a dense, extended-size system characterized by flow and local equilibrium at the opposite extreme, different collision systems offer a lever arm that can be exploited to probe with a range of heavy-flavour hadron species the onset of various hadronization processes. In this review, we present an overview of the theoretical and experimental developments. The focus is on open-heavy-flavour measurements. The comparison with model predictions and connections among the results in electron-positron, proton--proton, proton--nucleus, nucleus--nucleus collisions are discussed. After reviewing the current state, we suggest some prospects and future developments., Comment: 119 pages, 30 figures
Published: 2024

2. Letter of Intent: the NA60+ experiment

Author: Ahdida, C., Alocco, G., Antinori, F., Arba, M., Aresti, M., Arnaldi, R., Roldan, A. Baratto, Beole, S., Beraudo, A., Bernhard, J., Bianchi, L., Borysova, M., Bressler, S., Bufalino, S., Casula, E., Cicalo, C., Coli, S., Cortese, P., Dainese, A., Danielsson, H., De Falco, A., Dehmelt, K., Drees, A., Ferretti, A., Fionda, F., Gagliardi, M., Gerbershagen, A., Geurts, F., Greco, V., Li, W., Lombardo, M. P., Marras, D., Masera, M., Masoni, A., Mazzaschi, F., Micheletti, L., Mirasola, L., Mentink, M., Mereu, P., Milov, A., Mulliri, A., Musa, L., Oppedisano, C., Paul, B., Pennisi, M., Plumari, S., Prino, F., Puccio, M., Puggioni, C., Rapp, R., Ravinovich, I., Rossi, A., Sarritzu, V., Schmidt, B., Scomparin, E., Siddhanta, S., Shahoyan, R., Tuveri, M., Uras, A., Usai, G., Vincke, H., and Vorobyev, I.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We propose a new fixed-target experiment for the study of electromagnetic and hard probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS. The experiment aims at performing measurements of the dimuon spectrum from threshold up to the charmonium region, and of hadronic decays of charm and strange hadrons. It is based on a muon spectrometer, which includes a toroidal magnet and six planes of tracking detectors, coupled to a vertex spectrometer, equipped with Si MAPS immersed in a dipole field. High luminosity is an essential requirement for the experiment, with the goal of taking data with 10$^6$ incident ions/s, at collision energies ranging from $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 6.3$ GeV ($E_{\rm lab}= 20$ A GeV) to top SPS energy ($\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 17.3$ GeV, $E_{\rm lab}= 158$ A GeV). This document presents the physics motivation, the foreseen experimental set-up including integration and radioprotection studies, the current detector choices together with the status of the corresponding R&D, and the outcome of physics performance studies. A preliminary cost evaluation is also carried out., Comment: Letter of Intent submitted to the CERN SPSC
Published: 2022

3. A prototype of a large tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer for solar spectroscopy

Author: Greco, V., Sordini, A., Cauzzi, G., Cavallini, F., Del Vecchio, C., Giovannelli, L., Berrilli, F., Del Moro, D., Reardon, K., and Pietraszewski, K.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: Large Fabry-Perot Interferometers are used in a variety of astronomical instrumentation, including spectro-polarimeters for 4-meter class solar telescopes. In this work we comprehensively characterize the cavity of a prototype 150 mm Fabry-Perot interferometer, sporting a novel, fully symmetric design. Of note, we define a new method to properly assess the gravity effects on the interferometer's cavity when the system is used in either the vertical or horizontal configuration, both typical of solar observations. We show that the symmetric design very effectively limits the combined effects of pre-load and gravity forces to only a few nm over a 120 mm diameter illuminated surface, with gravity contributing about 2 nm peak-to-valley (0.3 nm rms) in either configuration. We confirm a variation of the tilt between the plates of the interferometer during the spectral scan, which can be mitigated with appropriate corrections to the spacing commands. Finally, we show that the dynamical response of the new system fully satisfies typical operational scenarios. We conclude that large, fully symmetric Fabry-Perot interferometers can be safely used within solar instrumentation in both, horizontal and vertical position, with the latter better suited to limiting the overall volume occupied by such an instrument., Comment: 18 pages; accepted for publication in PASP. The animation for Fig. 9 can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jgr8ntRINv-VFXwQ5vzC4DPkU6DXjYmv/view?usp=sharing
Published: 2021
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4. Measuring nuclear reaction cross sections to extract information on neutrinoless double beta decay

Author: Cavallaro, M., Cappuzzello, F., Agodi, C., Acosta, L., Auerbach, N., Bellone, J., Bijker, R., Bonanno, D., Bongiovanni, D., Borello-Lewin, T., Boztosun, I., Branchina, V., Bussa, M. P., Calabrese, S., Calabretta, L., Calanna, A., Calvo, D., Carbone, D., Lomelí, E. R. Chávez, Coban, A., Colonna, M., D'Agostino, G., De Geronimo, G., Delaunay, F., Deshmukh, N., de Faria, P. N., Ferraresi, C., Ferreira, J. L., Finocchiaro, P., Fisichella, M., Foti, A., Gallo, G., Garcia, U., Giraudo, G., Greco, V., Hacisalihoglu, A., Kotila, J., Iazzi, F., Introzzi, R., Lanzalone, G., Lavagno, A., La Via, F., Lay, J. A., Lenske, H., Linares, R., Litrico, G., Longhitano, F., Presti, D. Lo, Lubian, J., Medina, N., Mendes, D. R., Muoio, A., Oliveira, J. R. B., Pakou, A., Pandola, L., Petrascu, H., Pinna, F., Reito, S., Rifuggiato, D., Rodrigues, M. R. D., Russo, A. D., Russo, G., Santagati, G., Santopinto, E., Sgouros, O., Solakci, S. O., Souliotis, G., Soukeras, V., Spatafora, A., Torresi, D., Tudisco, S., Vsevolodovna, R. I. M., Wheadon, R. J., Yildirin, A., and Zagatto, V. A. B.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Neutrinoless double beta decay (0v\b{eta}\b{eta}) is considered the best potential resource to access the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal that neutrinos are their own anti-particles (Majorana particles). Presently, this physics case is one of the most important research "beyond Standard Model" and might guide the way towards a Grand Unified Theory of fundamental interactions. Since the 0v\b{eta}\b{eta} decay process involves nuclei, its analysis necessarily implies nuclear structure issues. In the NURE project, supported by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), nuclear reactions of double charge-exchange (DCE) are used as a tool to extract information on the 0v\b{eta}\b{eta} Nuclear Matrix Elements. In DCE reactions and \b{eta}\b{eta} decay indeed the initial and final nuclear states are the same and the transition operators have similar structure. Thus the measurement of the DCE absolute cross-sections can give crucial information on \b{eta}\b{eta} matrix elements. In a wider view, the NUMEN international collaboration plans a major upgrade of the INFN-LNS facilities in the next years in order to increase the experimental production of nuclei of at least two orders of magnitude, thus making feasible a systematic study of all the cases of interest as candidates for 0v\b{eta}\b{eta}.
Published: 2020
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5. NURE: An ERC project to study nuclear reactions for neutrinoless double beta decay

Author: Cavallaro, M., Aciksoz, E., Acosta, L., Agodi, C., Auerbach, N., Bellone, J., Bijker, R., Bianco, S., Bonanno, D., Bongiovanni, D., Borello, T., Boztosun, I., Branchina, V., Bussa, M. P., Busso, L., Calabrese, S., Calabretta, L., Calanna, A., Calvo, D., Cappuzzello, F., Carbone, D., Lomeli, E. R. Chavez, Colonna, M., Agostino, G. D, Deshmuk, N., de Faria, P. N., Ferraresi, C., Ferreira, J. L., Finocchiaro, P., Fisichella, M., Foti, A., Gallo, G., Garcia, U., Giraudo, G., Greco, V., Hacisalihoglu, A., Kotila, J., Iazzi, F., Introzzi, R., Lanzalone, G., Lavagno, A., La Via, F., Lay, J. A., Lenske, H., Linares, R., Litrico, G., Longhitano, F., Presti, D. Lo, Lubian, J., Medina, N., Mendes, D. R., Muoio, A., Oliveira, J. R. B., Pakou, A., Pandola, L., Petrascu, H., Pinna, F., Pirri, F., Reito, S., Rifuggiato, D., Rodrigues, M. R. D., Russo, A. D., Russo, G., Santagati, G., Santopinto, E., Sgouros, O., Solakci, S. O., Souliotis, G., Soukeras, V., Torresi, D., Tudisco, S., Vsevolodovna, R. I. M., Wheadon, R., and Zagatto, V. A. B.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Neutrinoless double beta decay (0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta}) is considered the best potential resource to determine the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal that the total lepton number is not conserved and neutrinos are their own anti-particles. Presently, this physics case is one of the most important research beyond Standard Model and might guide the way towards a Grand Unified Theory of fundamental interactions. Since the \b{eta}\b{eta} decay process involves nuclei, its analysis necessarily implies nuclear structure issues. The 0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta} decay rate can be expressed as a product of independent factors: the phase-space factors, the nuclear matrix elements (NME) and a function of the masses of the neutrino species. Thus the knowledge of the NME can give information on the neutrino mass scale, if the 0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta} decay rate is measured. In the NURE project, supported by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council, nuclear reactions of double charge-exchange (DCE) will be used as a tool to extract information on the \b{eta}\b{eta} NME. In DCE reactions and \b{eta}\b{eta} decay, the initial and final nuclear states are the same and the transition operators have similar structure. Thus the measurement of the DCE absolute crosssections can give crucial information on \b{eta}\b{eta} matrix elements., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2001.09657; text overlap with arXiv:2001.09648
Published: 2020

6. Dissipative hydrodynamics of relativistic shock waves in a Quark Gluon Plasma: comparing and benchmarking alternate numerical methods

Author: Gabbana, A., Plumari, S., Galesi, G., Greco, V., Simeoni, D., Succi, S., and Tripiccione, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: This paper presents numerical cross-comparisons and benchmark results for two different kinetic numerical methods, capable of describing relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics in a wide range of kinematic regimes, typical of relevant physics applications, such as transport phenomena in quark-gluon plasmas. We refer to relativistic lattice Boltzmann versus Montecarlo Test-Particle methods. Lacking any realistic option for accurate validation vis-a-vis experimental data, we check the consistency of our results against established simulation packages available in the literature. We successfully cross-compare the results of the two aforementioned numerical approaches for momentum integrated quantities like the hydrostatic and dynamical pressure profiles, the collective flow and the heat flux. These results corroborate the confidence on the robustness and correctness of these computational methods and on the accurate calibration of their numerical parameters with respect to the physical transport coefficients. Our numerical results are made available as supplemental material, with the aim of establishing a reference benchmark for other numerical approaches.
Published: 2019
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7. Diffusion of heavy quarks in the early stage of high-energy nuclear collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Author: Liu, J. H., Plumari, S., Das, S. K., Greco, V., and Ruggieri, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We study the diffusion of charm and beauty in the early stage of high energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC energies, considering the interaction of these heavy quarks with the evolving Glasma by means of the Wong equations. In comparison with previous works, we add the longitudinal expansion as well as we estimate the effect of energy loss due to gluon radiation. We find that heavy quarks diffuse in the strong transverse color fields in the very early stage (0.2-0.3 fm/c) and this leads to a suppression at low $p_T$ and enhancement at intermediate low $p_T$. The shape of the observed nuclear suppression factor obtained within our calculations is in qualitative agreement with the experimental results of the same quantity for $D-$mesons in proton-nucleus collisions. We compute the nuclear suppression factor in nucleus-nucleus collisions as well, for both charm and beauty, finding a substantial impact of the evolving Glasma phase on these, suggesting that initialization of heavy quarks spectra in the quark-gluon plasma phase should not neglect the early evolution in the strong gluon fields., Comment: 12 pages, 8+1 figures. Discussion on the scaling of parameters from three to two colors added in Appendix. Matches published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.09617
Published: 2019
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8. New technique to measure the cavity defects of Fabry-Perot interferometers

Author: Greco, V., Sordini, A., Cauzzi, G., Reardon, K., and Cavallini, F.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: (Abridged): We define and test a new technique to accurately measure the cavity defects of air-spaced FPIs, including distortions due to the spectral tuning process typical of astronomical observations. We further develop a correction technique to maintain the shape of the cavity as constant as possible during the spectral scan. These are necessary steps to optimize the spectral transmission profile of a two-dimensional spectrograph using one or more FPIs. We devise a generalization of the techniques developed for the so-called phase-shifting interferometry to the case of FPIs. The technique is applicable to any FPI that can be tuned via changing the cavity spacing ($z$-axis), and can be used for any etalon regardless of the coating' reflectivity. The major strength of our method is the ability to fully characterize the cavity during a spectral scan, allowing for the determination of scan-dependent modifications of the plates. As a test, we have applied this technique to three 50 mm diameter interferometers, with cavity gaps ranging between 600 micron and 3 mm, coated for use in the visible range. We obtain accurate and reliable measures of the cavity defects of air-spaced FPIs, and of their evolution during the entire spectral scan. Our main, and unexpected, result is that the relative tilt between the two FPI plates varies significantly during the spectral scan, and can dominate the cavity defects; in particular, we observe that the tilt component at the extremes of the scan is sensibly larger than at the center of the scan. Exploiting the capability of the electronic controllers to set the reference plane at any given spectral step, we develop a correction technique that allows the minimization of the tilt during a complete spectral scan. The correction remains highly stable over long periods, well beyond the typical duration of astronomical observations., Comment: 15 pages, 20+ figures, accepted for publication in A&A. Two additional movies are available in the online version of the paper
Published: 2019
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9. Transport properties from Charm to Bottom: $p_T$ suppression, anisotropic flow $v_n$ and their correlations to the bulk dynamics

Author: Plumari, S., Coci, G., Das, S. K., Minissale, V., and Greco, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We study the propagation of heavy quarks (HQs) in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of a relativistic Boltzmann transport (RBT) approach. The non-perturbative interaction between heavy quarks and light quarks is described by means of a quasi-particle approach able to describe simultaneously the experimental data for the nuclear suppression factor $R_{\rm AA}$ and the elliptic flow $v_2(p_T)$ of D mesons from RHIC to LHC energies. In the same framework we predict the B meson nuclear modification factor at LHC. Finally, we discuss the relevance of initial state fluctuations that allows to extend the analysis to high order anisotropic flows $v_n(p_T)$ as well as to investigate the role of QCD interaction in developing correlations between the light and the heavy flavour anisotropic flows., Comment: 27th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2018)
Published: 2019
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10. Study of hard and electromagnetic processes at CERN-SPS energies: an investigation of the high-$\mu_{\mathbf{B}}$ region of the QCD phase diagram with NA60+

Author: Agnello, M., Antinori, F., Appelshäuser, H., Arnaldi, R., Bailhache, R., Barioglio, L., Beole, S., Beraudo, A., Bianchi, A., Bianchi, L., Bruna, E., Bufalino, S., Casula, E., Catalano, F., Chattopadhyay, S., Chauvin, A., Cicalo, C., Concas, M., Cortese, P., Dahms, T., Dainese, A., Das, A., Das, D., Das, I., Bose, L. Das, De Falco, A., De Marco, N., Delsanto, S., Drees, A., Fabbietti, L., Fecchio, P., Ferretti, A., Feliciello, A., Gagliardi, M., Gasik, P., Geurts, F., Giubilato, P., Greco, V., Grosa, F., Hansen, H., Klein, J., Li, W., Lombardo, M. P., Masera, M., Masoni, A., Micheletti, L., Musa, L., Nardi, M., Onishi, H., Oppedisano, C., Paul, B., Plumari, S., Prino, F., Puccio, M., Ramello, L., Rapp, R., Ravasenga, I., Rossi, A., Roy, P., Scomparin, E., Siddhanta, S., Shahoyan, R., Sinha, T., Sitta, M., Specht, H., Trogolo, S., Turrisi, R., Uras, A., Usai, G., Vercellin, E., and Wiechula, J.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The exploration of the phase diagram of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) is carried out by studying ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The energy range covered by the CERN SPS ($\sqrt{s_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle{NN}}} \sim$ 6-17 GeV) is ideal for the investigation of the region of the phase diagram corresponding to finite baryochemical potential ($\mu_{\rm B}$), and has been little explored up to now. We propose in this document a new experiment, NA60+, that would address several observables which are fundamental for the understanding of the phase transition from hadronic matter towards a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) at SPS energies. In particular, we propose to study, as a function of the collision energy, the production of thermal dimuons from the created system, from which one would obtain a caloric curve of the QCD phase diagram that is sensitive to the order of the phase transition. In addition, the measurement of a $\rho$-a$_1$ mixing contribution would provide conclusive insights into the restoration of the chiral symmetry of QCD. In parallel, studies of heavy quark and quarkonium production would also be carried out, addressing the measurement of transport properties of the QGP and the investigation of the onset of the deconfinement transition. The document also defines an experimental set-up which couples a vertex telescope based on monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) to a muon spectrometer with tracking (GEM) and triggering (RPC) detectors within a large acceptance toroidal magnet. Results of physics performance studies for most observables accessible to NA60+ are discussed, showing that the results of the experiment would lead to a significant advance of our understanding of strong interaction physics. The document has been submitted as an input to the European Particle Physics Strategy Update 2018-2020 (http://europeanstrategyupdate.web.cern.ch/)., Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted as an input to the European Particle Physics Strategy Update 2018-2020
Published: 2018

11. Future physics opportunities for high-density QCD at the LHC with heavy-ion and proton beams

Author: Citron, Z., Dainese, A., Grosse-Oetringhaus, J. F., Jowett, J. M., Lee, Y. -J., Wiedemann, U. A., Winn, M., Andronic, A., Bellini, F., Bruna, E., Chapon, E., Dembinski, H., d'Enterria, D., Grabowska-Bold, I., Innocenti, G. M., Loizides, C., Mohapatra, S., Salgado, C. A., Verweij, M., Weber, M., Aichelin, J., Angerami, A., Apolinario, L., Arleo, F., Armesto, N., Arnaldi, R., Arslandok, M., Azzi, P., Bailhache, R., Bass, S. A., Bedda, C., Behera, N. K., Bellwied, R., Beraudo, A., Bi, R., Bierlich, C., Blum, K., Borissov, A., Braun-Munzinger, P., Bruce, R., Bruno, G. E., Bufalino, S., Castellanos, J. Castillo, Chatterjee, R., Chen, Y., Chen, Z., Cheshkov, C., Chujo, T., del Valle, Z. Conesa, Nuno, J. G. Contreras, Mendez, L. Cunqueiro, Dahms, T., Dang, N. P., De la Torre, H., Dobrin, A. F., Doenigus, B., Van Doremalen, L., Du, X., Dubla, A., Dumancic, M., Dyndal, M., Fabbietti, L., Ferreiro, E. G., Fionda, F., Fleuret, F., Floerchinger, S., Giacalone, G., Giammanco, A., Gossiaux, P. B., Graziani, G., Greco, V., Grelli, A., Grosa, F., Guilbaud, M., Gunji, T., Guzey, V., Hadjidakis, C., Hassani, S., He, M., Helenius, I., Huo, P., Jacobs, P. M., Janus, P., Jebramcik, M. A., Jia, J., Kalweit, A. P., Kim, H., Klasen, M., Klein, S. R., Klusek-Gawenda, M., Konyushikhin, M., Kremer, J., Krintiras, G. K., Krizek, F., Kryshen, E., Kurkela, A., Kusina, A., Lansberg, J. -P., Lea, R., van Leeuwen, M., Li, W., Margutti, J., Marin, A., Marquet, C., Blanco, J. Martin, Massacrier, L., Mastroserio, A., Maurice, E., Mayer, C., Mcginn, C., Milhano, G., Milov, A., Minissale, V., Mironov, C., Mischke, A., Mohammadi, N., Mulders, M., Murray, M., Narain, M., Di Nezza, P., Nisati, A., Noronha-Hostler, J., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Olness, F., Paakkinen, P., Pappalardo, L., Park, J., Paukkunen, H., Peng, C. C., Da Costa, H. Pereira, Perepelitsa, D. V., Peresunko, D., Peters, M., Pettersson, N. E., Piano, S., Pierog, T., Pires, J., Plumari, M. PS., Prino, F., Puccio, M., Rapp, R., Redlich, K., Reygers, K., Ristea, C. L., Robbe, P., Rossi, A., Rustamov, A., Rybar, M., Schaumann, M., Schenke, B., Schienbein, I., Schoeffel, L., Selyuzhenkov, I., Sickles, A. M., Sievert, M., Silva, P., Song, T., Spousta, M., Stachel, J., Steinberg, P., Stocco, D., Strickland, M., Strikman, M., Sun, J., Takaki, D. Tapia, Tatar, K., Terrevoli, C., Timmins, A., Trogolo, S., Trzeciak, B., Trzupek, A., Ulrich, R., Uras, A., Venugopalan, R., Vitev, I., Vujanovic, G., Wang, J., Wang, T. W., Xiao, R., Xu, Y., Zampolli, C., Zanoli, H., Zhou, M., and Zhou, Y.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The future opportunities for high-density QCD studies with ion and proton beams at the LHC are presented. Four major scientific goals are identified: the characterisation of the macroscopic long wavelength Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) properties with unprecedented precision, the investigation of the microscopic parton dynamics underlying QGP properties, the development of a unified picture of particle production and QCD dynamics from small (pp) to large (nucleus--nucleus) systems, the exploration of parton densities in nuclei in a broad ($x$, $Q^2$) kinematic range and the search for the possible onset of parton saturation. In order to address these scientific goals, high-luminosity Pb-Pb and p-Pb programmes are considered as priorities for Runs 3 and 4, complemented by high-multiplicity studies in pp collisions and a short run with oxygen ions. High-luminosity runs with intermediate-mass nuclei, for example Ar or Kr, are considered as an appealing case for extending the heavy-ion programme at the LHC beyond Run 4. The potential of the High-Energy LHC to probe QCD matter with newly-available observables, at twice larger center-of-mass energies than the LHC, is investigated., Comment: 209 pages; Report from Working Group 5 of the Workshop on the Physics of the CERN HL-LHC, and Perspectives at the HE-LHC (v2: Minor updates to text and figures. Added one author.)
Published: 2018

12. Abdominal drainage after elective colorectal surgery: propensity score-matched retrospective analysis of an Italian cohort

Author: Guadagni, S, Catarci, M, Masedu, F, Karim, M, Clementi, M, Ruffo, G, Viola, M, Borghi, F, Baldazzi, G, Scatizzi, M, Pirozzi, F, Delrio, P, Garulli, G, Marini, P, Campagnacci, R, De Luca, R, Ficari, F, Sica, G, Scabini, S, Liverani, A, Caricato, M, Patriti, A, Mancini, S, Baiocchi, G, Santoro, R, Siquini, W, Guercioni, G, Basti, M, Pedrazzani, C, Totis, M, Carrara, A, Lucchi, A, Pavanello, M, Muratore, A, D'Ugo, S, Di Leo, A, Pignata, G, Elmore, U, Anania, G, Carlini, M, Corcione, F, Vettoretto, N, Longo, G, Sorrentino, M, Giuliani, A, Ferrari, G, Taglietti, L, Verzelli, A, Di Cosmo, M, Cavaliere, D, Milone, M, Rausei, S, Ciaccio, G, Tebala, G, Brisinda, G, Berti, S, Millo, P, Boni, L, Guerrieri, M, Persiani, R, Parini, D, Spinelli, A, Genna, M, Bottino, V, Coratti, A, Scala, D, Rivolta, U, Piccoli, M, Talarico, C, Roviello, F, Anastasi, A, Ettorre, G, Montuori, M, Mariani, P, de Manzini, N, Donini, A, Armellino, M, Feo, C, Guerriero, S, Costanzi, A, Marchesi, F, Cicetti, M, Ciano, P, Benedetti, M, Montemurro, L, Mattei, M, Belloni, E, Apa, D, Di Carlo, M, Bertocchi, E, Masini, G, Altamura, A, Rubichi, F, Cianflocca, D, Migliore, M, Cassini, D, Pandolfini, L, Falsetto, A, Sciuto, A, Pace, U, Bucci, A, Monari, F, Attina, G, Maurizi, A, Simone, M, Giudici, F, Cianchi, F, Sensi, B, Aprile, A, Soriero, D, Scarinci, A, Capolupo, G, Sisti, V, Ricci, M, Sagnotta, A, Molfino, S, Amodio, P, Cardinali, A, Cicconi, S, Marziali, I, Frazzini, D, Conti, C, Tamini, N, Braga, M, Motter, M, Tirone, G, Martorelli, G, Cacurri, A, Di Marco, C, Marsanic, P, Federico, N, Spampinato, M, Crepaz, L, Andreuccetti, J, Canfora, I, Maggi, G, Chiozza, M, Spoletini, D, Marcellinaro, R, Bracale, U, Peltrini, R, Di Nuzzo, M, Botteri, E, Santoni, S, Stefanoni, M, Del Vecchio, G, Magistro, C, Ruggiero, S, Birindelli, A, Budassi, A, Zigiotto, D, Solaini, L, Ercolani, G, De Palma, G, Tenconi, S, Locurto, P, Di Cintio, A, Chiarello, M, Cariati, M, Gennai, A, Grivon, M, Cassinotti, E, Ortenzi, M, Biondi, A, De Luca, M, Carrano, F, Fior, F, Ferronetti, A, Giuliani, G, Marino, G, Bertoglio, C, Pecchini, F, Greco, V, Piagnerelli, R, Canonico, G, Colasanti, M, Pinotti, E, Carminati, R, Osenda, E, Graziosi, L, De Martino, C, Ioia, G, Pindozzi, F, Organetti, L, Monteleone, M, Dalmonte, G, La Gioia, G, Guadagni S., Catarci M., Masedu F., Karim M. E., Clementi M., Ruffo G., Viola M. G., Borghi F., Baldazzi G., Scatizzi M., Pirozzi F., Delrio P., Garulli G., Marini P., Campagnacci R., De Luca R., Ficari F., Sica G., Scabini S., Liverani A., Caricato M., Patriti A., Mancini S., Baiocchi G. L., Santoro R., Siquini W., Guercioni G., Basti M., Pedrazzani C., Totis M., Carrara A., Lucchi A., Pavanello M., Muratore A., D'Ugo S., Di Leo A., Pignata G., Elmore U., Anania G., Carlini M., Corcione F., Vettoretto N., Longo G., Sorrentino M., Giuliani A., Ferrari G., Taglietti L., Verzelli A., Di Cosmo M., Cavaliere D., Milone M., Rausei S., Ciaccio G., Tebala G., Brisinda G., Berti S., Millo P., Boni L., Guerrieri M., Persiani R., Parini D., Spinelli A., Genna M., Bottino V., Coratti A., Scala D., Rivolta U., Piccoli M., Talarico C., Roviello F., Anastasi A., Ettorre G. M., Montuori M., Mariani P., de Manzini N., Donini A., Armellino M. F., Feo C., Guerriero S., Costanzi A., Marchesi F., Cicetti M., Ciano P., Benedetti M., Montemurro L. A., Mattei M. S., Belloni E., Apa D., Di Carlo M., Bertocchi E., Masini G., Altamura A., Rubichi F., Cianflocca D., Migliore M., Cassini D., Pandolfini L., Falsetto A., Sciuto A., Pace U., Bucci A. F., Monari F., Attina G. M., Maurizi A., Simone M., Giudici F., Cianchi F., Sensi B., Aprile A., Soriero D., Scarinci A., Capolupo G. T., Sisti V., Ricci M. L., Sagnotta A., Molfino S., Amodio P., Cardinali A., Cicconi S., Marziali I., Frazzini D., Conti C., Tamini N., Braga M., Motter M., Tirone G., Martorelli G., Cacurri A., Di Marco C., Marsanic P., Federico N. S. P., Spampinato M., Crepaz L., Andreuccetti J., Canfora I., Maggi G., Chiozza M., Spoletini D., Marcellinaro R., Bracale U., Peltrini R., Di Nuzzo M. M., Botteri E., Santoni S., Stefanoni M., Del Vecchio G., Magistro C., Ruggiero S., Birindelli A., Budassi A., Zigiotto D., Solaini L., Ercolani G., De Palma G. D., Tenconi S., Locurto P., Di Cintio A., Chiarello M. M., Cariati M., Gennai A., Grivon M., Cassinotti E., Ortenzi M., Biondi A., De Luca M., Carrano F., Fior F., Ferronetti A., Giuliani G., Marino G., Bertoglio C. L., Pecchini F., Greco V., Piagnerelli R., Canonico G., Colasanti M., Pinotti E., Carminati R., Osenda E., Graziosi L., De Martino C., Ioia G., Pindozzi F., Organetti L., Monteleone M., Dalmonte G., La Gioia G., Guadagni, S, Catarci, M, Masedu, F, Karim, M, Clementi, M, Ruffo, G, Viola, M, Borghi, F, Baldazzi, G, Scatizzi, M, Pirozzi, F, Delrio, P, Garulli, G, Marini, P, Campagnacci, R, De Luca, R, Ficari, F, Sica, G, Scabini, S, Liverani, A, Caricato, M, Patriti, A, Mancini, S, Baiocchi, G, Santoro, R, Siquini, W, Guercioni, G, Basti, M, Pedrazzani, C, Totis, M, Carrara, A, Lucchi, A, Pavanello, M, Muratore, A, D'Ugo, S, Di Leo, A, Pignata, G, Elmore, U, Anania, G, Carlini, M, Corcione, F, Vettoretto, N, Longo, G, Sorrentino, M, Giuliani, A, Ferrari, G, Taglietti, L, Verzelli, A, Di Cosmo, M, Cavaliere, D, Milone, M, Rausei, S, Ciaccio, G, Tebala, G, Brisinda, G, Berti, S, Millo, P, Boni, L, Guerrieri, M, Persiani, R, Parini, D, Spinelli, A, Genna, M, Bottino, V, Coratti, A, Scala, D, Rivolta, U, Piccoli, M, Talarico, C, Roviello, F, Anastasi, A, Ettorre, G, Montuori, M, Mariani, P, de Manzini, N, Donini, A, Armellino, M, Feo, C, Guerriero, S, Costanzi, A, Marchesi, F, Cicetti, M, Ciano, P, Benedetti, M, Montemurro, L, Mattei, M, Belloni, E, Apa, D, Di Carlo, M, Bertocchi, E, Masini, G, Altamura, A, Rubichi, F, Cianflocca, D, Migliore, M, Cassini, D, Pandolfini, L, Falsetto, A, Sciuto, A, Pace, U, Bucci, A, Monari, F, Attina, G, Maurizi, A, Simone, M, Giudici, F, Cianchi, F, Sensi, B, Aprile, A, Soriero, D, Scarinci, A, Capolupo, G, Sisti, V, Ricci, M, Sagnotta, A, Molfino, S, Amodio, P, Cardinali, A, Cicconi, S, Marziali, I, Frazzini, D, Conti, C, Tamini, N, Braga, M, Motter, M, Tirone, G, Martorelli, G, Cacurri, A, Di Marco, C, Marsanic, P, Federico, N, Spampinato, M, Crepaz, L, Andreuccetti, J, Canfora, I, Maggi, G, Chiozza, M, Spoletini, D, Marcellinaro, R, Bracale, U, Peltrini, R, Di Nuzzo, M, Botteri, E, Santoni, S, Stefanoni, M, Del Vecchio, G, Magistro, C, Ruggiero, S, Birindelli, A, Budassi, A, Zigiotto, D, Solaini, L, Ercolani, G, De Palma, G, Tenconi, S, Locurto, P, Di Cintio, A, Chiarello, M, Cariati, M, Gennai, A, Grivon, M, Cassinotti, E, Ortenzi, M, Biondi, A, De Luca, M, Carrano, F, Fior, F, Ferronetti, A, Giuliani, G, Marino, G, Bertoglio, C, Pecchini, F, Greco, V, Piagnerelli, R, Canonico, G, Colasanti, M, Pinotti, E, Carminati, R, Osenda, E, Graziosi, L, De Martino, C, Ioia, G, Pindozzi, F, Organetti, L, Monteleone, M, Dalmonte, G, La Gioia, G, Guadagni S., Catarci M., Masedu F., Karim M. E., Clementi M., Ruffo G., Viola M. G., Borghi F., Baldazzi G., Scatizzi M., Pirozzi F., Delrio P., Garulli G., Marini P., Campagnacci R., De Luca R., Ficari F., Sica G., Scabini S., Liverani A., Caricato M., Patriti A., Mancini S., Baiocchi G. L., Santoro R., Siquini W., Guercioni G., Basti M., Pedrazzani C., Totis M., Carrara A., Lucchi A., Pavanello M., Muratore A., D'Ugo S., Di Leo A., Pignata G., Elmore U., Anania G., Carlini M., Corcione F., Vettoretto N., Longo G., Sorrentino M., Giuliani A., Ferrari G., Taglietti L., Verzelli A., Di Cosmo M., Cavaliere D., Milone M., Rausei S., Ciaccio G., Tebala G., Brisinda G., Berti S., Millo P., Boni L., Guerrieri M., Persiani R., Parini D., Spinelli A., Genna M., Bottino V., Coratti A., Scala D., Rivolta U., Piccoli M., Talarico C., Roviello F., Anastasi A., Ettorre G. M., Montuori M., Mariani P., de Manzini N., Donini A., Armellino M. F., Feo C., Guerriero S., Costanzi A., Marchesi F., Cicetti M., Ciano P., Benedetti M., Montemurro L. A., Mattei M. S., Belloni E., Apa D., Di Carlo M., Bertocchi E., Masini G., Altamura A., Rubichi F., Cianflocca D., Migliore M., Cassini D., Pandolfini L., Falsetto A., Sciuto A., Pace U., Bucci A. F., Monari F., Attina G. M., Maurizi A., Simone M., Giudici F., Cianchi F., Sensi B., Aprile A., Soriero D., Scarinci A., Capolupo G. T., Sisti V., Ricci M. L., Sagnotta A., Molfino S., Amodio P., Cardinali A., Cicconi S., Marziali I., Frazzini D., Conti C., Tamini N., Braga M., Motter M., Tirone G., Martorelli G., Cacurri A., Di Marco C., Marsanic P., Federico N. S. P., Spampinato M., Crepaz L., Andreuccetti J., Canfora I., Maggi G., Chiozza M., Spoletini D., Marcellinaro R., Bracale U., Peltrini R., Di Nuzzo M. M., Botteri E., Santoni S., Stefanoni M., Del Vecchio G., Magistro C., Ruggiero S., Birindelli A., Budassi A., Zigiotto D., Solaini L., Ercolani G., De Palma G. D., Tenconi S., Locurto P., Di Cintio A., Chiarello M. M., Cariati M., Gennai A., Grivon M., Cassinotti E., Ortenzi M., Biondi A., De Luca M., Carrano F., Fior F., Ferronetti A., Giuliani G., Marino G., Bertoglio C. L., Pecchini F., Greco V., Piagnerelli R., Canonico G., Colasanti M., Pinotti E., Carminati R., Osenda E., Graziosi L., De Martino C., Ioia G., Pindozzi F., Organetti L., Monteleone M., Dalmonte G., and La Gioia G.
Abstract: Background: In Italy, surgeons continue to drain the abdominal cavity in more than 50 per cent of patients after colorectal resection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of abdominal drain placement on early adverse events in patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery. Methods: A database was retrospectively analysed through a 1:1 propensity score-matching model including 21 covariates. The primary endpoint was the postoperative duration of stay, and the secondary endpoints were surgical site infections, infectious morbidity rate defined as surgical site infections plus pulmonary infections plus urinary infections, anastomotic leakage, overall morbidity rate, major morbidity rate, reoperation and mortality rates. The results of multiple logistic regression analyses were presented as odds ratios (OR) and 95 per cent c.i. Results: A total of 6157 patients were analysed to produce two well-balanced groups of 1802 patients: group (A), no abdominal drain(s) and group (B), abdominal drain(s). Group A versus group B showed a significantly lower risk of postoperative duration of stay >6 days (OR 0.60; 95 per cent c.i. 0.51–0.70; P < 0.001). A mean postoperative duration of stay difference of 0.86 days was detected between groups. No difference was recorded between the two groups for all the other endpoints. Conclusion: This study confirms that placement of abdominal drain(s) after elective colorectal surgery is associated with a non-clinically significant longer (0.86 days) postoperative duration of stay but has no impact on any other secondary outcomes, confirming that abdominal drains should not be used routinely in colorectal surgery.
Published: 2024

13. Mechanical bowel preparation in elective colorectal surgery: a propensity score-matched analysis of the Italian colorectal anastomotic leakage (iCral) study group prospective cohorts

Author: Catarci, M, Guadagni, S, Masedu, F, Ruffo, G, Viola, M, Borghi, F, Baldazzi, G, Pirozzi, F, Delrio, P, Garulli, G, Marini, P, Patriti, A, Campagnacci, R, Sica, G, Caricato, M, Montemurro, L, Ciano, P, Benedetti, M, Guercioni, G, Scatizzi, M, De Luca, R, Ficari, F, Scabini, S, Liverani, A, Mancini, S, Baiocchi, G, Santoro, R, Siquini, W, Basti, M, Pedrazzani, C, Totis, M, Carrara, A, Lucchi, A, Pavanello, M, Muratore, A, D'Ugo, S, Di Leo, A, Pignata, G, Elmore, U, Anania, G, Carlini, M, Corcione, F, Vettoretto, N, Longo, G, Sorrentino, M, Giuliani, A, Ferrari, G, Taglietti, L, Verzelli, A, Di Cosmo, M, Cavaliere, D, Milone, M, Rausei, S, Ciaccio, G, Tebala, G, Brisinda, G, Berti, S, Millo, P, Boni, L, Guerrieri, M, Persiani, R, Parini, D, Spinelli, A, Genna, M, Bottino, V, Coratti, A, Scala, D, Rivolta, U, Piccoli, M, Talarico, C, Roviello, F, Anastasi, A, Ettorre, G, Montuori, M, Mariani, P, de Manzini, N, Donini, A, Armellino, M, Feo, C, Guerriero, S, Costanzi, A, Marchesi, F, Cicetti, M, Mattei, M, Belloni, E, Apa, D, Di Carlo, M, Cicconi, S, Marziali, I, Clementi, M, Bertocchi, E, Masini, G, Altamura, A, Rubichi, F, Cianflocca, D, Migliore, M, Cassini, D, Sciuto, A, Pace, U, Bucci, A, Monari, F, Attina, G, Sisti, V, Ricci, M, Maurizi, A, Sensi, B, Capolupo, G, Pandolfini, L, Falsetto, A, Simone, M, Giudici, F, Cianchi, F, Baldini, G, Aprile, A, Soriero, D, Scarinci, A, Sagnotta, A, Molfino, S, Amodio, P, Cardinali, A, Frazzini, D, Conti, C, Tamini, N, Braga, M, Motter, M, Tirone, G, Martorelli, G, Cacurri, A, Di Marco, C, Marsanic, P, Federico, N, Spampinato, M, Crepaz, L, Andreuccetti, J, Canfora, I, Maggi, G, Chiozza, M, Spoletini, D, Marcellinaro, R, Lisi, G, Bracale, U, Peltrini, R, Di Nuzzo, M, Botteri, E, Santoni, S, Stefanoni, M, Del Vecchio, G, Magistro, C, Ruggiero, S, Birindelli, A, Budassi, A, Zigiotto, D, Solaini, L, Ercolani, G, De Palma, G, Tenconi, S, Locurto, P, Di Cintio, A, Chiarello, M, Cariati, M, Gennai, A, Grivon, M, Cassinotti, E, Ortenzi, M, Biondi, A, De Luca, M, Carrano, F, Fior, F, Ferronetti, A, Giuliani, G, Marino, G, Bertoglio, C, Pecchini, F, Greco, V, Piagnerelli, R, Canonico, G, Colasanti, M, Pinotti, E, Carminati, R, Osenda, E, Graziosi, L, De Martino, C, Ioia, G, Pindozzi, F, Organetti, L, Monteleone, M, Dalmonte, G, La Gioia, G, Catarci M., Guadagni S., Masedu F., Ruffo G., Viola M. G., Borghi F., Baldazzi G., Pirozzi F., Delrio P., Garulli G., Marini P., Patriti A., Campagnacci R., Sica G., Caricato M., Montemurro L. A., Ciano P., Benedetti M., Guercioni G., Scatizzi M., De Luca R., Ficari F., Scabini S., Liverani A., Mancini S., Baiocchi G. L., Santoro R., Siquini W., Basti M., Pedrazzani C., Totis M., Carrara A., Lucchi A., Pavanello M., Muratore A., D'Ugo S., Di Leo A., Pignata G., Elmore U., Anania G., Carlini M., Corcione F., Vettoretto N., Longo G., Sorrentino M., Giuliani A., Ferrari G., Taglietti L., Verzelli A., Di Cosmo M., Cavaliere D., Milone M., Rausei S., Ciaccio G., Tebala G., Brisinda G., Berti S., Millo P., Boni L., Guerrieri M., Persiani R., Parini D., Spinelli A., Genna M., Bottino V., Coratti A., Scala D., Rivolta U., Piccoli M., Talarico C., Roviello F., Anastasi A., Ettorre G. M., Montuori M., Mariani P., de Manzini N., Donini A., Armellino M. F., Feo C., Guerriero S., Costanzi A., Marchesi F., Cicetti M., Mattei M. S., Belloni E., Apa D., Di Carlo M., Cicconi S., Marziali I., Clementi M., Bertocchi E., Masini G., Altamura A., Rubichi F., Cianflocca D., Migliore M., Cassini D., Sciuto A., Pace U., Bucci A. F., Monari F., Attina G. M., Sisti V., Ricci M. L., Maurizi A., Sensi B., Capolupo G. T., Pandolfini L., Falsetto A., Simone M., Giudici F., Cianchi F., Baldini G., Aprile A., Soriero D., Scarinci A., Sagnotta A., Molfino S., Amodio P., Cardinali A., Frazzini D., Conti C., Tamini N., Braga M., Motter M., Tirone G., Martorelli G., Cacurri A., Di Marco C., Marsanic P., Federico N. S. P., Spampinato M., Crepaz L., Andreuccetti J., Canfora I., Maggi G., Chiozza M., Spoletini D., Marcellinaro R., Lisi G., Bracale U., Peltrini R., Di Nuzzo M. M., Botteri E., Santoni S., Stefanoni M., Del Vecchio G., Magistro C., Ruggiero S., Birindelli A., Budassi A., Zigiotto D., Solaini L., Ercolani G., De Palma G. D., Tenconi S., Locurto P., Di Cintio A., Chiarello M. M., Cariati M., Gennai A., Grivon M., Cassinotti E., Ortenzi M., Biondi A., De Luca M., Carrano F., Fior F., Ferronetti A., Giuliani G., Marino G., Bertoglio C. L., Pecchini F., Greco V., Piagnerelli R., Canonico G., Colasanti M., Pinotti E., Carminati R., Osenda E., Graziosi L., De Martino C., Ioia G., Pindozzi F., Organetti L., Monteleone M., Dalmonte G., La Gioia G., Catarci, M, Guadagni, S, Masedu, F, Ruffo, G, Viola, M, Borghi, F, Baldazzi, G, Pirozzi, F, Delrio, P, Garulli, G, Marini, P, Patriti, A, Campagnacci, R, Sica, G, Caricato, M, Montemurro, L, Ciano, P, Benedetti, M, Guercioni, G, Scatizzi, M, De Luca, R, Ficari, F, Scabini, S, Liverani, A, Mancini, S, Baiocchi, G, Santoro, R, Siquini, W, Basti, M, Pedrazzani, C, Totis, M, Carrara, A, Lucchi, A, Pavanello, M, Muratore, A, D'Ugo, S, Di Leo, A, Pignata, G, Elmore, U, Anania, G, Carlini, M, Corcione, F, Vettoretto, N, Longo, G, Sorrentino, M, Giuliani, A, Ferrari, G, Taglietti, L, Verzelli, A, Di Cosmo, M, Cavaliere, D, Milone, M, Rausei, S, Ciaccio, G, Tebala, G, Brisinda, G, Berti, S, Millo, P, Boni, L, Guerrieri, M, Persiani, R, Parini, D, Spinelli, A, Genna, M, Bottino, V, Coratti, A, Scala, D, Rivolta, U, Piccoli, M, Talarico, C, Roviello, F, Anastasi, A, Ettorre, G, Montuori, M, Mariani, P, de Manzini, N, Donini, A, Armellino, M, Feo, C, Guerriero, S, Costanzi, A, Marchesi, F, Cicetti, M, Mattei, M, Belloni, E, Apa, D, Di Carlo, M, Cicconi, S, Marziali, I, Clementi, M, Bertocchi, E, Masini, G, Altamura, A, Rubichi, F, Cianflocca, D, Migliore, M, Cassini, D, Sciuto, A, Pace, U, Bucci, A, Monari, F, Attina, G, Sisti, V, Ricci, M, Maurizi, A, Sensi, B, Capolupo, G, Pandolfini, L, Falsetto, A, Simone, M, Giudici, F, Cianchi, F, Baldini, G, Aprile, A, Soriero, D, Scarinci, A, Sagnotta, A, Molfino, S, Amodio, P, Cardinali, A, Frazzini, D, Conti, C, Tamini, N, Braga, M, Motter, M, Tirone, G, Martorelli, G, Cacurri, A, Di Marco, C, Marsanic, P, Federico, N, Spampinato, M, Crepaz, L, Andreuccetti, J, Canfora, I, Maggi, G, Chiozza, M, Spoletini, D, Marcellinaro, R, Lisi, G, Bracale, U, Peltrini, R, Di Nuzzo, M, Botteri, E, Santoni, S, Stefanoni, M, Del Vecchio, G, Magistro, C, Ruggiero, S, Birindelli, A, Budassi, A, Zigiotto, D, Solaini, L, Ercolani, G, De Palma, G, Tenconi, S, Locurto, P, Di Cintio, A, Chiarello, M, Cariati, M, Gennai, A, Grivon, M, Cassinotti, E, Ortenzi, M, Biondi, A, De Luca, M, Carrano, F, Fior, F, Ferronetti, A, Giuliani, G, Marino, G, Bertoglio, C, Pecchini, F, Greco, V, Piagnerelli, R, Canonico, G, Colasanti, M, Pinotti, E, Carminati, R, Osenda, E, Graziosi, L, De Martino, C, Ioia, G, Pindozzi, F, Organetti, L, Monteleone, M, Dalmonte, G, La Gioia, G, Catarci M., Guadagni S., Masedu F., Ruffo G., Viola M. G., Borghi F., Baldazzi G., Pirozzi F., Delrio P., Garulli G., Marini P., Patriti A., Campagnacci R., Sica G., Caricato M., Montemurro L. A., Ciano P., Benedetti M., Guercioni G., Scatizzi M., De Luca R., Ficari F., Scabini S., Liverani A., Mancini S., Baiocchi G. L., Santoro R., Siquini W., Basti M., Pedrazzani C., Totis M., Carrara A., Lucchi A., Pavanello M., Muratore A., D'Ugo S., Di Leo A., Pignata G., Elmore U., Anania G., Carlini M., Corcione F., Vettoretto N., Longo G., Sorrentino M., Giuliani A., Ferrari G., Taglietti L., Verzelli A., Di Cosmo M., Cavaliere D., Milone M., Rausei S., Ciaccio G., Tebala G., Brisinda G., Berti S., Millo P., Boni L., Guerrieri M., Persiani R., Parini D., Spinelli A., Genna M., Bottino V., Coratti A., Scala D., Rivolta U., Piccoli M., Talarico C., Roviello F., Anastasi A., Ettorre G. M., Montuori M., Mariani P., de Manzini N., Donini A., Armellino M. F., Feo C., Guerriero S., Costanzi A., Marchesi F., Cicetti M., Mattei M. 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M., Cariati M., Gennai A., Grivon M., Cassinotti E., Ortenzi M., Biondi A., De Luca M., Carrano F., Fior F., Ferronetti A., Giuliani G., Marino G., Bertoglio C. L., Pecchini F., Greco V., Piagnerelli R., Canonico G., Colasanti M., Pinotti E., Carminati R., Osenda E., Graziosi L., De Martino C., Ioia G., Pindozzi F., Organetti L., Monteleone M., Dalmonte G., and La Gioia G.
Abstract: Retrospective evaluation of the effects of mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) on data derived from two prospective open-label observational multicenter studies in Italy regarding elective colorectal surgery. MBP for elective colorectal surgery remains a controversial issue with contrasting recommendations in current guidelines. The Italian ColoRectal Anastomotic Leakage (iCral) study group, therefore, decided to estimate the effects of no MBP (treatment variable) versus MBP for elective colorectal surgery. A total of 8359 patients who underwent colorectal resection with anastomosis were enrolled in two consecutive prospective studies in 78 surgical centers in Italy from January 2019 to September 2021. A retrospective PSMA was performed on 5455 (65.3%) cases after the application of explicit exclusion criteria to eliminate confounders. The primary endpoints were anastomotic leakage (AL) and surgical site infections (SSI) rates; the secondary endpoints included SSI subgroups, overall and major morbidity, reoperation, and mortality rates. Overall length of postoperative hospital stay (LOS) was also considered. Two well-balanced groups of 1125 patients each were generated: group A (No MBP, true population of interest), and group B (MBP, control population), performing a PSMA considering 21 covariates. Group A vs. group B resulted significantly associated with a lower risk of AL [42 (3.5%) vs. 73 (6.0%) events; OR 0.57; 95% CI 0.38–0.84; p = 0.005]. No difference was recorded between the two groups for SSI [73 (6.0%) vs. 85 (7.0%) events; OR 0.88; 95% CI 0.63–1.22; p = 0.441]. Regarding the secondary endpoints, no MBP resulted significantly associated with a lower risk of reoperation and LOS > 6 days. This study confirms that no MBP before elective colorectal surgery is significantly associated with a lower risk of AL, reoperation rate, and LOS < 6 days when compared with MBP.
Published: 2024

14. The NUMEN project: NUclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless double beta decay

Author: Cappuzzello, F., Agodi, C., Cavallaro, M., Carbone, D., Tudisco, S., Presti, D. Lo, Oliveira, J. R. B., Finocchiaro, P., Colonna, M., Rifuggiato, D., Calabretta, L., Calvo, D., Pandola, L., Acosta, L., Auerbach, N., Bellone, J., Bijker, R., Bonanno, D., Bongiovanni, D., Borello-Lewin, T., Boztosun, I., Brunasso, O., Burrello, S., Calabrese, S., Calanna, A., Lomelí, E. R. Chávez, D'Agostino, G., De Faria, P. N., De Geronimo, G., Delaunay, F., Deshmukh, N., Ferreira, J. L., Fisichella, M., Foti, A., Gallo, G., Garcia, H., Greco, V., Hacisalihoglu, A., Iazzi, F., Introzzi, R., Lanzalone, G., Lay, J. A., La Via, F., Lenske, H., Linares, R., Litrico, G., Longhitano, F., Lubian, J., Medina, N. H., Mendes, D. R., Moralles, M., Muoio, A., Pakou, A., Petrascu, H., Pinna, F., Reito, S., Russo, A. D., Russo, G., Santagati, G., Santopinto, E., Santos, R. B. B., Sgouros, O., da Silveira, M. A. G., Solakci, S. O., Souliotis, G., Soukeras, V., Spatafora, A., Torresi, D., Vsevolodovna, R. Magana, Zagatto, V. A. B., and Yildirin, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The article describes the main achievements of the NUMEN project together with an updated and detailed overview of the related R&D activities and theoretical developments. NUMEN proposes an innovative technique to access the nuclear matrix elements entering the expression of the lifetime of the double beta decay by cross section measurements of heavy-ion induced Double Charge Exchange (DCE) reactions. Despite the two processes, namely neutrinoless double beta decay and DCE reactions, are triggered by the weak and strong interaction respectively, important analogies are suggested. The basic point is the coincidence of the initial and final state many-body wave-functions in the two types of processes and the formal similarity of the transition operators. First experimental results obtained at the INFN-LNS laboratory for the 40Ca(18O,18Ne)40Ar reaction at 270 MeV, give encouraging indication on the capability of the proposed technique to access relevant quantitative information. The two major aspects for this project are the K800 Superconducting Cyclotron and MAGNEX spectrometer. The former is used for the acceleration of the required high resolution and low emittance heavy ion beams and the latter is the large acceptance magnetic spectrometer for the detection of the ejectiles. The use of the high-order trajectory reconstruction technique, implemented in MAGNEX, allows to reach the experimental resolution and sensitivity required for the accurate measurement of the DCE cross sections at forward angles. However, the tiny values of such cross sections and the resolution requirements demand beam intensities much larger than manageable with the present facility. The on-going upgrade of the INFN-LNS facilities in this perspective is part of the NUMEN project and will be discussed in the article.
Published: 2018
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15. The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 3: Dual-Phase Module

Author: DUNE Collaboration, Abi, B., Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adamowski, M., Adams, C., Adams, D., Adamson, P., Adinolfi, M., Ahmad, Z., Albright, C. H., Soplin, L. Aliaga, Alion, T., Monsalve, S. Alonso, Alrashed, M., Alt, C., Anderson, J., Anderson, K., Andreopoulos, C., Andrews, M. P., Andrews, R. A., Ankowski, A., Anthony, J., Antonello, M., Antonova, M., Antusch, S., Fernandez, A. Aranda, Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Sierra, D. Aristizabal, Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Ascencio, M., Asner, D., Athar, M. S., Auger, M., Aurisano, A., Aushev, V., Autiero, D., Azfar, F., Back, A., Back, H., Back, J., Backhouse, C., Baesso, P., Bagby, L., Bai, X., Baird, M., Balantekin, B., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Ballett, P., Balleyguier, L., Bambah, B., Band, H., Bansal, M., Bansal, S., Barenboim, G., Barker, G. J., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Monarca, J. Barranco, Barros, N., Barrow, J., Bashyal, A., Basque, V., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bays, K., Bazo, J. L., Beacom, J. F., Bechetoille, E., Behera, B. 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P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., Zhao, M., Zhou, Y. -L., Zhu, G., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zucchelli, S., Zuklin, J., Zutshi, V., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended as an intermediate milestone on the path to a full TDR, justifying the technical choices that flow down from the high-level physics goals through requirements at all levels of the Project. These design choices will enable the DUNE experiment to make the ground-breaking discoveries that will help to answer fundamental physics questions. Volume 3 describes the dual-phase module's subsystems, the technical coordination required for its design, construction, installation, and integration, and its organizational structure., Comment: 280 pages, 109 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.10327
Published: 2018

16. The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report Volume 1: Physics, Technology and Strategies

Author: DUNE Collaboration, Abi, B., Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adamowski, M., Adams, C., Adams, D., Adamson, P., Adinolfi, M., Ahmad, Z., Albright, C. H., Soplin, L. Aliaga, Alion, T., Monsalve, S. Alonso, Alrashed, M., Alt, C., Anderson, J., Anderson, K., Andreopoulos, C., Andrews, M. P., Andrews, R. A., Ankowski, A., Anthony, J., Antonello, M., Antonova, M., Antusch, S., Fernandez, A. Aranda, Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Sierra, D. Aristizabal, Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Ascencio, M., Asner, D., Athar, M. S., Auger, M., Aurisano, A., Aushev, V., Autiero, D., Azfar, F., Back, A., Back, H., Back, J., Backhouse, C., Baesso, P., Bagby, L., Bai, X., Baird, M., Balantekin, B., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Ballett, P., Balleyguier, L., Bambah, B., Band, H., Bansal, M., Bansal, S., Barenboim, G., Barker, G. J., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Monarca, J. Barranco, Barros, N., Barrow, J., Bashyal, A., Basque, V., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bays, K., Bazo, J. L., Beacom, J. F., Bechetoille, E., Behera, B. 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P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., Zhao, M., Zhou, Y. -L., Zhu, G., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zucchelli, S., Zuklin, J., Zutshi, V., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE Far Detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended as an intermediate milestone on the path to a full TDR, justifying the technical choices that flow down from the high-level physics goals through requirements at all levels of the Project. These design choices will enable the DUNE experiment to make the ground-breaking discoveries that will help to answer fundamental physics questions. Volume 1 contains an executive summary that describes the general aims of this document. The remainder of this first volume provides a more detailed description of the DUNE physics program that drives the choice of detector technologies. It also includes concise outlines of two overarching systems that have not yet evolved to consortium structures: computing and calibration. Volumes 2 and 3 of this IDR describe, for the single-phase and dual-phase technologies, respectively, each detector module's subsystems, the technical coordination required for its design, construction, installation, and integration, and its organizational structure., Comment: 83 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2018

17. The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 2: Single-Phase Module

Author: DUNE Collaboration, Abi, B., Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adamowski, M., Adams, C., Adams, D., Adamson, P., Adinolfi, M., Ahmad, Z., Albright, C. H., Soplin, L. Aliaga, Alion, T., Monsalve, S. Alonso, Alrashed, M., Alt, C., Anderson, J., Anderson, K., Andreopoulos, C., Andrews, M. P., Andrews, R. A., Ankowski, A., Anthony, J., Antonello, M., Antonova, M., Antusch, S., Fernandez, A. Aranda, Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Sierra, D. Aristizabal, Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Ascencio, M., Asner, D., Athar, M. S., Auger, M., Aurisano, A., Aushev, V., Autiero, D., Azfar, F., Back, A., Back, H., Back, J., Backhouse, C., Baesso, P., Bagby, L., Bai, X., Baird, M., Balantekin, B., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Ballett, P., Balleyguier, L., Bambah, B., Band, H., Bansal, M., Bansal, S., Barenboim, G., Barker, G. J., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Monarca, J. Barranco, Barros, N., Barrow, J., Bashyal, A., Basque, V., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bays, K., Bazo, J. L., Beacom, J. F., Bechetoille, E., Behera, B. 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W., Schneps, J., Scholberg, K., Schukraft, A., Segreto, E., Sehrawat, S., Sensenig, J., Seong, I., Sepulveda-Quiroz, J. A., Sergi, A., Sergiampietri, F., Sessumes, D., Sexton, K., Sexton-Kennedy, L., Sgalaberna, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shafaq, S., Shahi, J. S., Shahsavarani, S., Shanahan, P., Sharma, H. R., Sharma, R., Sharma, R. K., Shaw, T., Shin, S., Shoemaker, I., Shooltz, D., Shrock, R., Simos, N., Sinclair, J., Sinev, G., Singh, V., Singh, J., Singh, I., Sipos, R., Sippach, F. W., Sirri, G., Siyeon, K., Smargianaki, D., Smith, A., Smith, E., Smith, P., Smolik, J., Smy, M., Snider, E. L., Snopok, P., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Salinas, C. J. Solano, Söldner-Rembold, S., Solomey, N., Sondheim, W., Sorel, M., Soto-Oton, J. A., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Spagliardi, F., Spanu, M., Spitz, J., Spooner, N. J. C., Staley, R., Stancari, M., Stanco, L., Stefanik, A., Steiner, H. M., Stewart, J., Stock, J., Stocker, F., Stoica, S., Stone, J., Strait, J., Strait, M., Strauss, T., Striganov, S., Stuart, A., Sullivan, G., Sultana, M., Sun, Y., Surdo, A., Susic, V., Suter, L., Sutera, C. M., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Talaga, R., Tanaka, H., Oregui, B. Tapia, Tariq, S., Tatar, E., Tayloe, R., Tenti, M., Terao, K., Ternes, C. A., Terranova, F., Testera, G., Thea, A., Thompson, L. F., Thompson, J., Thorn, C., Timilsina, A., Timm, S. C., Todd, J., Tonazzo, A., Tope, T., Torbunov, D., Torti, M., Tórtola, M., Tortorici, F., Toups, M., Touramanis, C., Trevor, J., Tripathi, M., Tromeur, W., Tropin, I., Trzaska, W. H., Tsai, Y. -T., Tsang, K. V., Tsaris, A., Tufanli, S., Tull, C., Turner, J., Tzanov, M., Tziaferi, E., Uchida, Y., Urheim, J., Usher, T., Valdiviesso, G. A., Valencia, E., Valerio, L., Vallari, Z., Valle, J. W. F., Van Berg, R., Van de Water, R., Varanini, F., Varner, G., Vasel, J., Vasseur, G., Vaziri, K., Velev, G., Ventura, S., Verdugo, A., Vermeulen, M., Vernon, E., Verzocchi, M., Viant, T., Vignoli, C., Vihonen, S., Vilela, C., Viren, B., Vokac, P., Vrba, T., Wachala, T., Wahl, D., Wallbank, M., Wang, H., Wang, J., Wang, T. -C., Wang, B., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Warburton, K., Warner, D., Wascko, M. O., Waters, D., Watson, A., Weber, A., Weber, M., Wei, H., Wei, W., Weinstein, A., Wenman, D., Wetstein, M., While, M., White, A., Whitehead, L. H., Whittington, D., Wierman, K., Wilking, M., Wilkinson, C., Willhite, J., Williams, Z., Wilson, R. J., Wilson, P., Wittich, P., Wolcott, J., Wongjirad, T., Wood, K., Wood, L., Worcester, E., Worcester, M., Wu, S., Wu, W., Xu, W., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, S., Yang, T., Yang, G., Ye, J., Yeh, M., Yershov, N., Yonehara, K., Yoshimura, L., Yu, B., Yu, J., Zalesak, J., Zambelli, L., Zamorano, B., Zani, A., Zaremba, K., Zazueta, L., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., Zhao, M., Zhou, Y. -L., Zhu, G., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zucchelli, S., Zuklin, J., Zutshi, V., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended as an intermediate milestone on the path to a full TDR, justifying the technical choices that flow down from the high-level physics goals through requirements at all levels of the Project. These design choices will enable the DUNE experiment to make the ground-breaking discoveries that will help to answer fundamental physics questions. Volume 2 describes the single-phase module's subsystems, the technical coordination required for its design, construction, installation, and integration, and its organizational structure., Comment: 324 pages, 130 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.10340
Published: 2018

18. On the spin-isospin decomposition of nuclear symmetry energy

Author: Guo, Wenmei, Colonna, M., Greco, V., Lombardo, U., and Schulze, H. J.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The decomposition of nuclear symmetry energy into spin and isospin components is discussed to elucidate the underlying properties of the NN bare interaction. This investigation was carried out in the framework of the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory of asymmetric nuclear matter with consistent two and three body forces. It is shown the interplay among the various two body channels in terms of isospin singlet and triplet components as well as spin singlet and triplet ones. The broad range of baryon densities enables to study the effects of three body force moving from low to high densities., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2018
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19. Extraction of Heavy-Flavor Transport Coefficients in QCD Matter

Author: Rapp, R., Gossiaux, P. B., Andronic, A., Averbeck, R., Masciocchi, S., Beraudo, A., Bratkovskaya, E., Braun-Munzinger, P., Cao, S., Dainese, A., Das, S. K., Djordjevic, M., Greco, V., He, M., van Hees, H., Inghirami, G., Kaczmarek, O., Lee, Y. -J., Liao, J., Liu, S. Y. F., Moore, G., Nahrgang, M., Pawlowski, J., Petreczky, P., Plumari, S., Prino, F., Shi, S., Song, T., Stachel, J., Vitev, I., and Wang, X. -N.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on broadly based systematic investigations of the modeling components for open heavy-flavor diffusion and energy loss in strongly interacting matter in their application to heavy-flavor observables in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, conducted within an EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force framework. Initial spectra including cold-nuclear-matter effects, a wide variety of space-time evolution models, heavy-flavor transport coefficients, and hadronization mechanisms are scrutinized in an effort to quantify pertinent uncertainties in the calculations of nuclear modification factors and elliptic flow of open heavy-flavor particles in nuclear collisions. We develop procedures for error assessments and criteria for common model components to improve quantitative estimates for the (low-momentum) heavy-flavor diffusion coefficient as a long-wavelength characteristic of QCD matter as a function of temperature, and for energy loss coefficients of high-momentum heavy-flavor particles., Comment: 78 pages, 29 figures, report on an EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force; v2: small revision, accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. A
Published: 2018
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20. Evolution of pressures and correlations in the Glasma produced in high energy nuclear collisions

Author: Ruggieri, M., Liu, J. H., Peng, L. Oliva. G. X., and Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract: We consider the SU(2) Glasma with gaussian fluctuations and study its evolution by means of classical Yang-Mills equations solved numerically on a lattice. Neglecting in this first study the longitudinal expansion we follow the evolution of the pressures of the system and compute the effect of the fluctuations in the early stage up to $t\approx 2$ fm/c, that is the time range in which the Glasma is relevant for high energy collisions. We measure the ratio of the longitudinal over the transverse pressure, $P_L/P_T$, and we find that unless the fluctuations carry a substantial amount of the energy density at the initial time, they do not change significantly the evolution of $P_L/P_T$ in the early stage, and that the system remains quite anisotropic. We also measure the longitudinal fields correlators both in the transverse plane and along the longitudinal direction: while at initial time fields appear to be anticorrelated in the transverse plane, this anticorrelation disappears in the very early stage and the correlation length in the transverse plane increases; on the other hand, we find that the longitudinal correlator decreases for a small longitudinal separation while being approximately constant for larger separation, which we interpret as a partial loss of longitudinal correlation induced by the dynamics., Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures. To appear on Phys. Rev. D. In V2 the discussion about isotropization has been resized, while a broad discussion about the gauge invariant correlators along the longitudinal direction and the breaking of the Glasma color strings has been added. In V3 a mistake about the definition of the parallel transporter has been corrected
Published: 2017
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21. The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report

Author: Abi, B., Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adamowski, M., Adams, C., Adams, D. L., Adamson, P., Adinolfi, M., Ahmad, Z., Albright, C. H., Alion, T., Anderson, J., Anderson, K., Andreopoulos, C., Andrews, M. P., Andrews, R. A., Anjos, J. dos, Ankowski, A., Anthony, J., Antonello, M., Fernandez, A. Aranda, Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Ascencio, M., Asner, D. M., Athar, M. S., Auger, M., Aurisano, A., Aushev, V., Autiero, D., Azfar, F., Back, J. J., Back, H. O., Backhouse, C., Bai, X., Baird, M., Balantekin, A. B., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Ballett, P., Bambah, B., Band, H., Bansal, M., Bansal, S., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Monarca, J. Barranco, Barros, N., Bashyal, A., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bazo, J. L., Beacom, J. F., Behera, B. R., Bellettini, G., Bellini, V., Beltramello, O., Benekos, N., Benetti, P. A., Bercellie, A., Berman, E., Berns, H., Bernstein, R., Bertolucci, S., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Biery, K., Bishai, M., Bitadze, A., Blackburn, T., Blake, A., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blaufuss, E., Blazey, G. C., Blennow, M., Blucher, E., Bocean, V., Boffelli, F., Boissevain, J., Bolognesi, S., Bolton, T., Bonesini, M., Boone, T., Booth, C., Bordoni, S., Bour, P., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Boyden, D., Brailsford, D., Brandt, A., Bremer, J., Brice, S. J., Bromberg, C., Brooijmans, G., Brown, G., Brunetti, G., Buchanan, N., Budd, H., Calafiura, P., Calatayud, A., Calligarich, E., Calvo, E., Camilleri, L., Campanelli, M., Cantini, C., Carls, B., Cascella, M., Catano-Mur, E., Cavaili-Sforza, M., Cavanna, F., Centro, S., Villanueva, A. Cervera, Cervi, T., Chalifour, M., Chappuis, A., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chaussard, L., Chembra, S., Chen, H., Chen, M., Cherdack, D., Chi, C., Childress, S., Choubey, S., Choudhary, B. C., Christodoulou, G., Christofferson, C., Church, E., Coan, T. E., Cocco, A., Cole, P., Collin, G., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Corey, R., Corwin, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Prats, J. Creus, Crivelli, P., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Crowley, C., Curioni, A., Cussans, D., da Motta, H., Dale, D., Davenne, T., Davies, G. S., Davies, J., Dawson, J., De, K., De Bonis, I., De Gouvea, A., de Holanda, P. C., De Jong, P., De Lurgio, P., de Vries, J. J., Decowski, M. P., Dedin-Neto, P., Delbart, A., Delepine, D., Delgado, M., Demuth, D., Dennis, S., Densham, C., Dharmapalan, R., Dhingra, N., Diamantopoulou, M., Diaz, J. S., Bautista, G. Diaz, Ding, P., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dolinski, M. J., Drake, G., Duchesneau, D., Dutta, D., Duvernois, M., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Dye, S., Dyshkant, A. S., Dytman, S., Eads, M., Eberly, B., Edmunds, D., Elliott, S., Ellsworth, W. M., Elnimr, M., Emery, S., Eno, S., Ereditato, A., Escobar, C. O., Sanchez, L. Escudero, Evans, J. J., Fahey, K., Falcone, A., Falk, L., Farbin, A., Farnese, C., Farzan, Y., Fasoli, M., Fava, A., Felix, J., Menendez, P. Fernandez, Fernandez-Martinez, E., Fields, L., Filthaut, F., Finch, A., Fitton, M., Fleming, B. T., Forest, T., Fowler, J., Fox, W., Freeman, J., Freestone, J., Friant, D., Fried, J., Friedland, A., Fuess, S., Fujikawa, B., Gago, A., Gallagher, H., Galvin, S., Galymov, S., Gamble, T., Gandhi, R., Gao, S., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Gastler, D., Gendotti, A., Gibin, D., Gil-Botella, I., Gill, R., Giri, A. K., Goeldi, D., Gold, M., Gollapinni, S., Gomes, R. A., Cadenas, J. J. Gomez, Goodman, M. C., Gorbunov, D., Goswami, S., Graf, N., Graham, M., Gramelini, E., Gran, R., Grant, C., Grant, N., Greco, V., Greenlee, H., Greenler, L., Groh, M., Grzelak, K., Guardincerri, E., Guarino, V., Guedes, G. P., Guenette, R., Guglielmi, A., Guthikonda, K. K., Guzzo, M. M., Habig, A. T., Hackenburg, A., Hackenburg, R. W., Hadavand, H., Haenni, R., Hahn, A., Haigh, M. D., Haines, T., Hamernik, T., Hamilton, P., Handler, T., Hans, S., Harris, D., Hartnell, J., Hasegawa, T., Hatcher, R., Hatzikoutelis, A., Hays, S., Hazen, E., Headley, M., Heavey, A., Heeger, K. M., Heise, J., Hennessy, K., Henry, S., Hernandez-Garcia, J., Hewes, V, Higuera, A., Hill, T., Himmel, A., Holin, A., Hoppe, E. W., Horikawa, S., Horton-Smith, G., Hostert, M., Hourlier, A., Howard, B., Howell, J., Hugon, J., Hurh, P., Huston, J., Hylen, J., Insler, J., Introzzi, G., Ioannisian, A., Izmaylov, A., Jaffe, D. E., James, C., James, E., Jang, C. H., Jediny, F., Jen, C., Jhingan, A., Jiménez, S., Johnson, M., Johnson, R., Johnstone, J., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Jung, C. K., Junk, T., Kaboth, A., Kadenko, I., Kamyshkov, Y., Karagiorgi, G., Karasavvas, D., Karyotakis, Y., Kaur, P., Kayser, B., Kazaryan, N., Kearns, E., Keener, P. T., Kemp, E., Kendziora, C., Ketchum, W., Kettell, S. H., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Klein, J., Ko, Y. J., Kobilarcik, T., Kocaman, B., Koerner, L. W., Kohn, S., Koizumi, G., Kopylov, A., Kordosky, M., Kormos, L., Kose, U., Kostelecký, V. A., Kramer, M., Kreslo, I., Kriesel, K., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Kulagin, S., Kumar, A., Kumar, J., Kumar, L., Kus, V., Kutter, T., Lande, K., Lane, C., Lang, K., Langford, T., Lanni, F., Laundrie, A., Le, T., Learned, J., Lebrun, P., Lee, D., Lee, W. M., de Oliveira, M. A. Leigui, Li, Q. Z., Li, S., Li, S. W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Lin, C. S., Lin, S., Linehan, R., Link, J., Liptak, Z., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, J., Liu, Q., Liu, T., Lockwitz, S., Lockyer, N., Loew, T., Lokajicek, M., LoMonaco, L., Long, K., Loo, K., Lopez, J. P., Lorca, D., LoSecco, J. M., Louis, W., Luethi, M., Luk, K. B., Lundin, T., Luo, X., Lux, T., Lykken, J., Maalampi, J., Machado, A. A., Macias, C. T., Macier, J. R., MacLellan, R., Magill, S., Mahler, G., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Mammoliti, F., Mandal, S. K., Mandodi, S., Manly, S., Mann, A., Marchionni, A., Marciano, W., Marfatia, D., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marino, A. D., Marshak, M., Marshall, C. M., Marshall, J., Marteau, J., Martin-Albo, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Masud, M., Matsuno, S., Matthews, J., Mauger, C., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazza, R., Mazzacane, A., Mazzucato, E., McCauley, N., McCluskey, E., McConkey, N., McDonald, K. T., McFarland, K. S., McGivern, C., McGowan, A. M., McGrew, C., McGuinness, S. R., McKeown, R., McNulty, D., McTaggart, R., Mefodiev, A., Mehta, P., Mei, D., Mena, O., Menary, S., Mendez, D. P., Mendez, H., Menegolli, A., Meng, G., Messier, M., Metcalf, W., Mewes, M., Meyer, H., Miao, T., Milincic, R., Miller, W., Mills, G., Mineev, O., Miranda, O. G., Mishra, C. S., Mishra, S. R., Mitrica, B., Mladenov, D., Mocioiu, I., Moffat, K., Mohanta, R., Mokhov, N., Bueno, L. Molina, Montanari, C., Montanari, D., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Morgan, B., Morris, C., Morse, W., Mossey, C., Moura, C. A., Mousseau, J., Mualem, L., Muether, M., Mufson, S., Murphy, S., Musser, J., Nakajima, Y., Naples, D., Navarro, J., Navas-Nicolás, D., Nelson, J., Nessi, M., Newbold, D., Newcomer, M., Nguyen, K. T. T., Nichol, R., Nicholls, T. C., Niner, E., Norman, A., Norris, B., Novakova, P., Novella, P., Nowak, E., Nowak, J., Nunes, M. S., O'Keeffe, H., Del Campo, A. Olivares, Oliveira, R., Olivier, A., Onishchuk, Y., Ovsjannikova, T., Pakvasa, S., Palamara, O., Paley, J., Palomares, C., Pantic, E., Paolone, V., Papadimitriou, V., Paramesvaran, S., Park, J., Parke, S., Parsa, Z., Pascoli, S., Pasternak, J., Pater, J., Patterson, R. B., Patton, S. J., Patzak, T., Paulos, B., Paulucci, L., Pavlovic, Z., Pawloski, G., Payne, D., Peeters, S. J. M., Pennacchio, E., Perdue, G. N., Peres, O. L. G., Periale, L., Perkin, J. D., Petridis, K., Petti, R., Petukhov, A., Picchi, P., Pietropaolo, F., Plonski, P., Plunkett, R., Poling, R., Popovic, M., Pordes, R., Pordes, S., Potekhin, M., Potenza, R., Potukuchi, B., Poudel, S., Pozimski, J., Prokofiev, O., Pruthi, N., Przewlocki, P., Pumulo, N., Pushka, D., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Raboanary, R., Radeka, V., Rademacker, J., Radics, B., Radovic, A., Rakhno, I., Rakotondramanana, H. T., Rakotondravohitra, L., Ramachers, Y. A., Rameika, R., Ramsey, J., Rappoldi, A., Raselli, G., Ratoff, P., Rebel, B., Regenfus, C., Reichenbacher, J., Reitzner, S. D., Remoto, A., Renshaw, A., Rescia, S., Rice, L., Rielage, K., Riesselmann, K., Rivera, D., Robinson, M., Rochester, L., Rodrigues, O. B., Rodrigues, P., Roe, B., Roser, R. M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rossella, M., Rout, J., Roy, S., Rubbia, A., Rubbia, C., Rucinski, R., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Russell, B., Ruterbories, D., Saakyan, R., Sachdev, K., Sahu, N., Sala, P., Samios, N., Sanchez, F., Sanchez, M. C., Sands, W. R., Santana, S., Santorelli, R., Santos, L. M., Santucci, G., Saoulidou, N., Savage, G., Scaramelli, A., Scarpelli, A., Schaffer, T., Schellman, H., Schlabach, P., Schmitz, D., Schneps, J., Scholberg, K., Schukraft, A., Segreto, E., Sehrawat, S., Sepulveda-Quiroz, J. A., Sergiampietri, F., Sexton, K., Sexton-Kennedy, L., Shaevitz, M. H., Shahi, J., Shahsavarani, S., Shanahan, P., Sharma, R., Sharma, R. K., Shaw, T., Shooltz, D., Shrock, R., Simos, N., Sinclair, J., Sinev, G., Singh, I., Singh, J., Singh, V., Sippach, F. W., Siyeon, K., Smith, A., Smith, P., Smolik, J., Smy, M., Snider, E., Snopok, P., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Solomey, N., Sondheim, W., Sorel, M., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Spanu, M., Spitz, J., Spooner, N. J. C., Stancari, M., Stefan, D., Stefanik, A., Steiner, H. M., Stewart, J., Stock, J., Stoica, S., Stone, J., Strait, J., Strait, M., Strauss, T., Striganov, S., Sulej, R., Sullivan, G., Sun, Y., Suter, L., Sutera, C. M., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A. M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Talaga, R., Tariq, S., Tatar, E., Tayloe, R., Terao, K., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L. F., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., Thorpe, M., Tian, X., Tiedt, D., Timm, S. C., Todd, J., Tonazzo, A., Tope, T., Torres, F. R., Torti, M., Tortola, M., Tortorici, F., Toups, M., Touramanis, C., Trevor, J., Tripathi, M., Tropin, I., Trzaska, W. H., Tsai, Y., Tsang, K. V., Tsaris, A., Tsenov, R., Tufanli, S., Tull, C., Turner, J., Tzanov, M., Tziaferi, E., Uchida, Y., Sankar, S. Uma, Urheim, J., Usher, T., Vagins, M. R., Vahle, P., Valdiviesso, G. A., Valerio, L., Vallari, Z., Valle, J., Van Berg, R., Van de Water, R., Varanini, F., Varner, G., Vasseur, G., Vaziri, K., Velev, G., Ventura, S., Verdugo, A., Vermeulen, M. A., Vernon, E., Viant, T., Vieira, T. V., Vignoli, C., Vihonen, S., Vilela, C., Viren, B., Vokac, P., Vrba, T., Wachala, T., Wahl, D., Wallbank, M., Wang, B., Wang, H., Wang, T., Warburton, T. K., Warner, D., Wascko, M., Waters, D., Weber, A., Weber, M., Wei, W., Weinstein, A., Wenman, D., Wetstein, M., White, A., Whitehead, L. H., Whittington, D., Wilking, M. J., Willhite, J., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Wittich, P., Wolcott, J., Wong, H. H., Wongjirad, T., Wood, K., Wood, L. S., Worcester, E., Worcester, M., Wu, S., Xu, W., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, S., Yang, T., Ye, J., Yeh, M., Yershov, N., Yonehara, K., Yu, B., Yu, J., Zalesak, J., Zambelli, L., Zamorano, B., Zang, L., Zani, A., Zaremba, K., Zeller, G. P., Zhang, C., Zhou, Y., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zuklin, J., Zutshi, V., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: ProtoDUNE-SP is the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype that is under construction and will be operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) starting in 2018. ProtoDUNE-SP, a crucial part of the DUNE effort towards the construction of the first DUNE 10-kt fiducial mass far detector module (17 kt total LAr mass), is a significant experiment in its own right. With a total liquid argon (LAr) mass of 0.77 kt, it represents the largest monolithic single-phase LArTPC detector to be built to date. It's technical design is given in this report., Comment: 165 pages, fix references, author list and minor numbers
Published: 2017

22. Heavy quark dynamics within a Boltzmann transport model: radiative vs collisional energy loss

Author: Coci, G., Scardina, F., and Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We discuss the propagation of heavy quarks (charm and bottom) through the QGP by means of a relativistic Boltzmann transport approach including both collisional and radiative energy loss mechanisms. In particular we investigate the impact of induced gluon radiation by dynamical QCD medium implementing in our transport model a formula for the emitted gluon spectrum calculated in a higher-twist scheme. We notice that in the region of high transverse momentum ($p_T > 10$ GeV) radiative processes play an essential role giving a dominant contribution to the generation of $R_{AA}$ and $v_2$ at momentum values for which the energy loss by collisions is in the perturbative regime., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, proceeding of Hot Quarks 2016: Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions. (HQ2016) 12-17 Sep 2016. South Padre Island, Texas
Published: 2017
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23. Photons from the Early Stages of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Author: Oliva, L., Ruggieri, M., Plumari, S., Scardina, F., Peng, G. X., and Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present results about photons production in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The main novelty of our study is the calculation of the contribution of the early stage photons to the photon spectrum. The initial stage is modeled by an ensemble of classical gluon fields which decay to a quark-gluon plasma via the Schwinger mechanism, and the evolution of the system is studied by coupling classical field equations to relativistic kinetic theory; photons production is then computed by including the pertinent collision processes into the collision integral. We find that the contribution of the early stage photons to the direct photon spectrum is substantial for $p_T \approx 2$ GeV and higher, the exact value depending on the collision energy; therefore we identify this part of the photon spectrum as the sign of the early stage. Moreover, the amount of photons produced during the early stage is not negligible with respect to those produced by a thermalized quark-gluon plasma: we support the idea that there is no dark age in relativistic heavy ion collisions., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures. Matches published version
Published: 2017
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24. SQM2016: Theory Summary

Author: Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This is an overview of the main theoretical developments presented at SQM2016 held in Berkeley, California (USA) in June 2015., Comment: 6 pages, no figures
Published: 2016
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25. Extraction of heavy-flavor transport coefficients in QCD matter

Author: Rapp, R, Gossiaux, PB, Andronic, A, Averbeck, R, Masciocchi, S, Beraudo, A, Bratkovskaya, E, Braun-Munzinger, P, Cao, S, Dainese, A, Das, SK, Djordjevic, M, Greco, V, He, M, van Hees, H, Inghirami, G, Kaczmarek, O, Lee, Y-J, Liao, J, Liu, SYF, Moore, G, Nahrgang, M, Pawlowski, J, Petreczky, P, Plumari, S, Prino, F, Shi, S, Song, T, Stachel, J, Vitev, I, and Wang, X-N
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Heavy flavor, Transport coefficient, Diffusion coefficient, High-energy heavy-ion collisions, Quark gluon plasma, nucl-th, hep-ph, nucl-ex, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: We report on broadly based systematic investigations of the modeling components for open heavy-flavor diffusion and energy loss in strongly interacting matter in their application to heavy-flavor observables in high-energy heavy–ion collisions, conducted within an EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force framework. Initial spectra including cold-nuclear-matter effects, a wide variety of space-time evolution models, heavy-flavor transport coefficients, and hadronization mechanisms are scrutinized in an effort to quantify pertinent uncertainties in the calculations of nuclear modification factors and elliptic flow of open heavy-flavor particles in nuclear collisions. We develop procedures for error assessments and criteria for common model components to improve quantitative estimates for the (low-momentum) heavy-flavor diffusion coefficient as a long-wavelength characteristic of QCD matter as a function of temperature, and for energy loss coefficients of high-momentum heavy-flavor particles.
Published: 2018

26. INFN What Next: Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Author: Dainese, A., Scomparin, E., Usai, G., Antonioli, P., Arnaldi, R., Beraudo, A., Bruna, E., Bruno, G. E., Bufalino, S., Di Nezza, P., Lombardo, M. P., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Oppedisano, C., Piano, S., Prino, F., Rossi, A., Agnello, M., Alberico, W. M., Alessandro, B., Alici, A., Andronico, G., Antinori, F., Arcelli, S., Badala, A., Barbano, A. M., Barbera, R., Barile, F., Basile, M., Becattini, F., Bedda, C., Bellini, F., Beole, S., Bianchi, L., Bianchin, C., Bonati, C., Bossu, F., Botta, E., Caffarri, D., Camerini, P., Carnesecchi, F., Casula, E., Cerello, P., Cicalo, C., Cifarelli, M. L., Cindolo, F., Colamaria, F., Colella, D., Colocci, M., Morales, Y. Corrales, Cortese, P., De Caro, A., De Cataldo, G., De Falco, A., De Gruttola, D., D'Elia, M., De Marco, N., De Pasquale, S., Di Bari, D., Elia, D., Fantoni, A., Feliciello, A., Ferretti, A., Festanti, A., Fionda, F., Fiorenza, G., Fragiacomo, E., Fronze, G. G., Girard, M. Fusco, Gagliardi, M., Gallio, M., Garg, K., Giubellino, P., Greco, V., Grossi, E., Guerzoni, B., Hatzifotiadou, D., Incani, E., Innocenti, G. M., Jacazio, N., Das, S. Kumar, La Rocca, P., Lea, R., Leardini, L., Leoncino, M., Lunardon, M., Luparello, G., Sarti, V. Mantovani, Manzari, V., Marchisone, M., Margagliotti, G. V., Masera, M., Masoni, A., Mastroserio, A., Mazzilli, M., Mazzoni, M. A., Meninno, E., Mesiti, M., Milano, L., Moretto, S., Muccifora, V., Nappi, E., Nardi, M., Nicassio, M., Pagano, P., Pappalardo, G. S., Pastore, C., Paul, B., Petta, C., Pinazza, O., Plumari, S., Preghenella, R., Puccio, M., Puddu, G., Ramello, L., Ratti, C., Ravasenga, I., Riggi, F., Ronchetti, F., Rucci, A., Ruggieri, M., Rui, R., Sakai, S., Scapparone, E., Scardina, F., Scarlassara, F., Scioli, G., Siddhanta, S., Sitta, M., Soramel, F., Suljic, M., Terrevoli, C., Trogolo, S., Trombetta, G., Turrisi, R., Vercellin, E., Vino, G., Virgili, T., Volpe, G., Williams, M. C. S., and Zampolli, C.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: This document was prepared by the community that is active in Italy, within INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), in the field of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The experimental study of the phase diagram of strongly-interacting matter and of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) deconfined state will proceed, in the next 10-15 years, along two directions: the high-energy regime at RHIC and at the LHC, and the low-energy regime at FAIR, NICA, SPS and RHIC. The Italian community is strongly involved in the present and future programme of the ALICE experiment, the upgrade of which will open, in the 2020s, a new phase of high-precision characterisation of the QGP properties at the LHC. As a complement of this main activity, there is a growing interest in a possible future experiment at the SPS, which would target the search for the onset of deconfinement using dimuon measurements. On a longer timescale, the community looks with interest at the ongoing studies and discussions on a possible fixed-target programme using the LHC ion beams and on the Future Circular Collider., Comment: 99 pages, 56 figures
Published: 2016

27. Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects

Author: Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adamowski, M., Adams, C., Adamson, P., Adhikari, S., Ahmad, Z., Albright, C. H., Alion, T., Amador, E., Anderson, J., Anderson, K., Andreopoulos, C., Andrews, M., Andrews, R., Anghel, I., Anjos, J. d., Ankowski, A., Antonello, M., ArandaFernandez, A., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Aristizabal, D., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Aryal, K., Asaadi, J., Asner, D., Athar, M. S., Auger, M., Aurisano, A., Aushev, V., Autiero, D., Avila, M., Back, J. J., Bai, X., Baibussinov, B., Baird, M., Balantekin, A. B., Baller, B., Ballett, P., Bambah, B., Bansal, M., Bansal, S., Barker, G. J., Barletta, W. A., Barr, G., Barros, N., Bartoszek, L., Bashyal, A., Bass, M., Bay, F., Beacom, J., Behera, B. R., Bellettini, G., Bellini, V., Beltramello, O., Benetti, P. A., Bercellie, A., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Berns, H., Bernstein, R., Bertolucci, S., Bhandari, B., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Biery, K., Bishai, M., Blackburn, T., Blake, A., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blaufuss, E., Bleakley, B., Blucher, E., Bocean, V., Boffelli, F., Boissevain, J., Bolognesi, S., Bolton, T., Bonesini, M., Boone, T., Booth, C., Bordoni, S., Borysova, M., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Brandt, A., Bremer, J., Brice, S., Bromberg, C., Brooijmans, G., Brown, G., Brown, R., Brunetti, G., Bu, X., Buchanan, N., Budd, H., Bugg, B., Calafiura, P., Calligarich, E., Calvo, E., Camilleri, L., Campanelli, M., Cantini, C., Carls, B., Carr, R., Cascella, M., Castromonte, C., CatanoMur, E., Cavanna, F., Centro, S., CerveraVillanueva, A., Chandratre, V. B., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chaussard, L., Chembra, S., Chen, H., Chen, K., Chen, M., Cherdack, D., Chi, C., Childress, S., Choubey, S., Choudhary, B. C., Christodoulou, G., Christofferson, C., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cline, D., Coan, T., Cocco, A., Coelho, J., Cole, P., Collin, G., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Corey, R., Corwin, L., Cranshaw, J., Crivelli, P., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Curioni, A., Cushing, J., Adams, D. L., Dale, D., Das, S. R., Davenne, T., Davies, G. S., Davies, J., Dawson, J., De, K., deGouvea, A., deJong, J. K., deJong, P., DeLurgio, P., Decowski, M., Delbart, A., Densham, C., Dharmapalan, R., Dhingra, N., DiLuise, S., Diamantopoulou, M., Diaz, J. S., DiazBautista, G., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dolph, J., Drake, G., Duchesneau, D., Duvernois, M., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Dye, S., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Edgecock, R., Edmunds, D., Elliott, S., Elnimr, M., Emery, S., Endress, E., Eno, S., Ereditato, A., Escobar, C. O., Evans, J., Falcone, A., Falk, L., Farbin, A., Farnese, C., Farzan, Y., Fava, A., Favilli, L., Felde, J., Felix, J., Fernandes, S., Fields, L., Finch, A., Fitton, M., Fleming, B., Forest, T., Fowler, J., Fox, W., Fried, J., Friedland, A., Fuess, S., Fujikawa, B., Gago, A., Gallagher, H., Galymov, S., Gamble, T., Gandhi, R., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Garvey, G., Gehman, V. M., Gendotti, A., Geronimo, G. d., Ghag, C., Ghoshal, P., Gibin, D., Gil-Botella, I., Gill, R., Girardelli, D., Giri, A., Glavin, S., Goeldi, D., Golapinni, S., Gold, M., Gomes, R. A., GomezCadenas, J. J., Goodman, M. C., Gorbunov, D., Goswami, S., Graf, N., Graham, M., Gramelini, E., Gran, R., Grant, C., Grant, N., Greco, V., Greenlee, H., Greenler, L., Greenley, C., Groh, M., Grullon, S., Grundy, T., Grzelak, K., Guardincerri, E., Guarino, V., Guarnaccia, E., Guedes, G. P., Guenette, R., Guglielmi, A., Habig, A. T., Hackenburg, R. W., Hackenburg, A., Hadavand, H., Haenni, R., Hahn, A., Haigh, M. D., Haines, T., Hamernik, T., Handler, T., Hans, S., Harris, D., Hartnell, J., Hasegawa, T., Hatcher, R., Hatzikoutelis, A., Hays, S., Hazen, E., Headley, M., Heavey, A., Heeger, K., Heise, J., Hennessy, K., Hewes, V, Higuera, A., Hill, T., Himmel, A., Hogan, M., Holanda, P., Holin, A., Honey, W., Horikawa, S., Horton-Smith, G., Howard, B., Howell, J., Hurh, P., Huston, J., Hylen, J., Imlay, R., Insler, J., Introzzi, G., Ioanisyan, D., Ioannisian, A., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jackson, C., Jaffe, D. E., James, C., James, E., Jediny, F., Jen, C., Jhingan, A., Jiménez, S., Jo, J. H., Johnson, M., Johnson, R., Johnstone, J., Jones, B. J., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Jung, C. K., Junk, T., Kaboth, A., Kadel, R., Kafka, T., Kalousis, L., Kamyshkov, Y., Karagiorgi, G., Karasavvas, D., Karyotakis, Y., Kaur, A., Kaur, P., Kayser, B., Kazaryan, N., Kearns, E., Keener, P., Kemboi, S., Kemp, E., Kettell, S. H., Khabibullin, M., Khandaker, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Klein, J., Kobilarcik, T., Kohn, S., Koizumi, G., Kopylov, A., Kordosky, M., Kormos, L., Kose, U., Kostelecky, V. A., Kramer, M., Kreslo, I., Kriske, R., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Kulagin, S., Kumar, A., Kumar, G. K., Kumar, J., Kumar, L., Kutter, T., Laminack, A., Lande, K., Lane, C., Lang, K., Lanni, F., Learned, J., Lebrun, P., Lee, D., Lee, H., Lee, K., Lee, W. M., LeiguideOliveira, M. A., Li, Q., Li, S., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Libo, J., Lin, C. S., Lin, S., Ling, J., Link, J., Liptak, Z., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L., Littlejohn, B., Liu, Q., Liu, T., Lockwitz, S., Lockyer, N., Loew, T., Lokajicek, M., Long, K., Lopes, M. D. L., Lopez, J. P., Losecco, J., Louis, W., Lowery, J., Luethi, M., Luk, K. B., Lundberg, B., Lundin, T., Luo, X., Lux, T., Lykken, J., Machado, A. A., Macier, J. R., Magill, S., Mahler, G., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Malhotra, S., Malon, D., Mammoliti, F., Mancina, S., Mandal, S. K., Mandodi, S., Manly, S. L., Mann, A., Marchionni, A., Marciano, W., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marino, A., Marshak, M., Marshall, C., Marshall, J., Marteau, J., Martin-Albo, J., Martinez, D., Matsuno, S., Matthews, J., Mauger, C., Mavrokoridis, K., Mayilyan, D., Mazzucato, E., McCauley, N., McCluskey, E., McConkey, N., McDonald, K., McFarland, K. S., McGowan, A. M., McGrew, C., McKeown, R., McNulty, D., McTaggart, R., Mefodiev, A., Mehrian, M., Mehta, P., Mei, D., Mena, O., Menary, S., Mendez, H., Menegolli, A., Meng, G., Meng, Y., Merritt, H., Mertins, D., Messier, M., Metcalf, W., Mewes, M., Meyer, H., Miao, T., Milincic, R., Miller, W., Mills, G., Mineev, O., Miranda, O., Mishra, C. S., Mishra, S. R., Mitrica, B., Mladenov, D., Mocioiu, I., Mohanta, R., Mokhov, N., Montanari, C., Montanari, D., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C., Morfin, J., Morgan, B., Morris, C., Morse, W., Moss, Z., Mossey, C., Moura, C. A., Mousseau, J., Mualem, L., Muether, M., Mufson, S., Murphy, S., Musser, J., Musser, R., Nakajima, Y., Naples, D., Navarro, J., Navas, D., Nelson, J., Nessi, M., Newcomer, M., Ng, Y., Nichol, R., Nicholls, T. C., Nikolics, K., Niner, E., Norris, B., Noto, F., Novakova, P., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nunes, M. S., O'Keeffe, H., Oldeman, R., Oliveira, R., Olson, T., Onishchuk, Y., Osta, J., Ovsjannikova, T., Page, B., Pakvasa, S., Pal, S., Palamara, O., Palazzo, A., Paley, J., Palomares, C., Pantic, E., Paolone, V., Papadimitriou, V., Park, J., Parke, S., Parsa, Z., Pascoli, S., Patterson, R., Patton, S., Patzak, T., Paulos, B., Paulucci, L., Pavlovic, Z., Pawloski, G., Peeters, S., Pennacchio, E., Perch, A., Perdue, G. N., Periale, L., Perkin, J. D., Pessard, H., Petrillo, G., Petti, R., Petukhov, A., Pietropaolo, F., Plunkett, R., Pordes, S., Potekhin, M., Potenza, R., Potukuchi, B., Poudyal, N., Prokofiev, O., Pruthi, N., Przewlocki, P., Pushka, D., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Raboanary, R., Radeka, V., Radovic, A., Raffelt, G., Rakhno, I., Rakotondramanana, H. T., Rakotondravohitra, L., Ramachers, Y. A., Rameika, R., Ramsey, J., Rappoldi, A., Raselli, G., Ratoff, P., Rebel, B., Regenfus, C., Reichenbacher, J., Reitzner, D., Remoto, A., Renshaw, A., Rescia, S., Richardson, M., Rielage, K., Riesselmann, K., Robinson, M., Rochester, L., Rodrigues, O. B., Rodrigues, P., Roe, B., Rosen, M., Roser, R. M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rossella, M., Rubbia, A., Rubbia, C., Rucinski, R., RudolphvonRohr, C., Russell, B., Ruterbories, D., Saakyan, R., Sahu, N., Sala, P., Samios, N., Sanchez, F., Sanchez, M., Sands, B., Santana, S., Santorelli, R., Santucci, G., Saoulidou, N., Scaramelli, A., Schellman, H., Schlabach, P., Schmitt, R., Schmitz, D., Schneps, J., Scholberg, K., Schukraft, A., Schwehr, J., Segreto, E., Seibert, S., Sepulveda-Quiroz, J. A., Sergiampietri, F., Sexton-Kennedy, L., Sgalaberna, D., Shaevitz, M., Shahi, J., Shahsavarani, S., Shanahan, P., Shankar, S. U., Sharma, R., Sharma, R. K., Shaw, T., Shrock, R., Shyrma, I., Simos, N., Sinev, G., Singh, I., Singh, J., Singh, V., Sinnis, G., Sippach, W., Smargianaki, D., Smy, M., Snider, E., Snopok, P., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Solomey, N., Sondheim, W., Sorel, M., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Spitz, J., Spooner, N. J., Stancari, M., Stancu, I., Stefan, D., Steiner, H. M., Stewart, J., Stock, J., Stoica, S., Stone, J., Strait, J., Strait, M., Strauss, T., Striganov, S., Sulej, R., Sullivan, G., Sun, Y., Suter, L., Sutera, C. M., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Talaga, R., Tamsett, M., Tariq, S., Tatar, E., Tayloe, R., Taylor, C., Taylor, D., Terao, K., Thiesse, M., Thomas, J., Thompson, L. F., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., Thorpe, M., Tian, X., Tiedt, D., Timm, S. C., Tonazzo, A., Tope, T., Topkar, A., Torres, F. R., Torti, M., Tortola, M., Tortorici, F., Toups, M., Touramanis, C., Tripathi, M., Tropin, I., Tsai, Y., Tsang, K. V., Tsenov, R., Tufanli, S., Tull, C., Turner, J., Tzanov, M., Tziaferi, E., Uchida, Y., Urheim, J., Usher, T., Vagins, M., Vahle, P., Valdiviesso, G. A., Valerio, L., Vallari, Z., Valle, J., VanBerg, R., VandeWater, R., VanGemmeren, P., Varanini, F., Varner, G., Vasseur, G., Vaziri, K., Velev, G., Ventura, S., Verdugo, A., Viant, T., Vieira, T. V., Vignoli, C., Vilela, C., Viren, B., Vrba, T., Wachala, T., Wahl, D., Wallbank, M., Walsh, N., Wang, B., Wang, H., Wang, L., Wang, T., Warburton, T. K., Warner, D., Wascko, M., Waters, D., Watson, T. B., Weber, A., Weber, M., Wei, W., Weinstein, A., Wells, D., Wenman, D., Wetstein, M., White, A., Whitehead, L., Whittington, D., Wilking, M., Willhite, J., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Winslow, L., Wittich, P., Wojcicki, S., Wong, H. H., Wood, K., Worcester, E., Worcester, M., Wu, S., Xin, T., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, S., Yang, T., Yarritu, K., Ye, J., Yeh, M., Yershov, N., Yonehara, K., Yu, B., Yu, J., Zalesak, J., Zalewska, A., Zamorano, B., Zang, L., Zani, A., Zavala, G., Zeller, G., Zhang, C., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF/DUNE), a groundbreaking science experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies and for neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. The DUNE far detector will be a very large modular liquid argon time-projection chamber (LArTPC) located deep underground, coupled to the LBNF multi-megawatt wide-band neutrino beam. DUNE will also have a high-resolution and high-precision near detector.
Published: 2016

28. Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF

Author: Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adamowski, M., Adams, C., Adamson, P., Adhikari, S., Ahmad, Z., Albright, C. H., Alion, T., Amador, E., Anderson, J., Anderson, K., Andreopoulos, C., Andrews, M., Andrews, R., Anghel, I., Anjos, J. d., Ankowski, A., Antonello, M., ArandaFernandez, A., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Aristizabal, D., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Aryal, K., Asaadi, J., Asner, D., Athar, M. S., Auger, M., Aurisano, A., Aushev, V., Autiero, D., Avila, M., Back, J. J., Bai, X., Baibussinov, B., Baird, M., Balantekin, A. B., Baller, B., Ballett, P., Bambah, B., Bansal, M., Bansal, S., Barker, G. J., Barletta, W. A., Barr, G., Barros, N., Bartoszek, L., Bashyal, A., Bass, M., Bay, F., Beacom, J., Behera, B. R., Bellettini, G., Bellini, V., Beltramello, O., Benetti, P. A., Bercellie, A., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Berns, H., Bernstein, R., Bertolucci, S., Bhandari, B., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Biery, K., Bishai, M., Blackburn, T., Blake, A., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blaufuss, E., Bleakley, B., Blucher, E., Bocean, V., Boffelli, F., Boissevain, J., Bolognesi, S., Bolton, T., Bonesini, M., Boone, T., Booth, C., Bordoni, S., Borysova, M., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Brandt, A., Bremer, J., Brice, S., Bromberg, C., Brooijmans, G., Brown, G., Brown, R., Brunetti, G., Bu, X., Buchanan, N., Budd, H., Bugg, B., Calafiura, P., Calligarich, E., Calvo, E., Camilleri, L., Campanelli, M., Cantini, C., Carls, B., Carr, R., Cascella, M., Castromonte, C., CatanoMur, E., Cavanna, F., Centro, S., CerveraVillanueva, A., Chandratre, V. B., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chaussard, L., Chembra, S., Chen, H., Chen, K., Chen, M., Cherdack, D., Chi, C., Childress, S., Choubey, S., Choudhary, B. C., Christodoulou, G., Christofferson, C., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cline, D., Coan, T., Cocco, A., Coelho, J., Cole, P., Collin, G., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Corey, R., Corwin, L., Cranshaw, J., Crivelli, P., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Curioni, A., Cushing, J., Adams, D. L., Dale, D., Das, S. R., Davenne, T., Davies, G. S., Davies, J., Dawson, J., De, K., deGouvea, A., deJong, J. K., deJong, P., DeLurgio, P., Decowski, M., Delbart, A., Densham, C., Dharmapalan, R., Dhingra, N., DiLuise, S., Diamantopoulou, M., Diaz, J. S., DiazBautista, G., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dolph, J., Drake, G., Duchesneau, D., Duvernois, M., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Dye, S., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Edgecock, R., Edmunds, D., Elliott, S., Elnimr, M., Emery, S., Endress, E., Eno, S., Ereditato, A., Escobar, C. O., Evans, J., Falcone, A., Falk, L., Farbin, A., Farnese, C., Farzan, Y., Fava, A., Favilli, L., Felde, J., Felix, J., Fernandes, S., Fields, L., Finch, A., Fitton, M., Fleming, B., Forest, T., Fowler, J., Fox, W., Fried, J., Friedland, A., Fuess, S., Fujikawa, B., Gago, A., Gallagher, H., Galymov, S., Gamble, T., Gandhi, R., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Garvey, G., Gehman, V. M., Gendotti, A., Geronimo, G. d., Ghag, C., Ghoshal, P., Gibin, D., Gil-Botella, I., Gill, R., Girardelli, D., Giri, A., Glavin, S., Goeldi, D., Golapinni, S., Gold, M., Gomes, R. A., GomezCadenas, J. J., Goodman, M. C., Gorbunov, D., Goswami, S., Graf, N., Graham, M., Gramelini, E., Gran, R., Grant, C., Grant, N., Greco, V., Greenlee, H., Greenler, L., Greenley, C., Groh, M., Grullon, S., Grundy, T., Grzelak, K., Guardincerri, E., Guarino, V., Guarnaccia, E., Guedes, G. P., Guenette, R., Guglielmi, A., Habig, A. T., Hackenburg, R. W., Hackenburg, A., Hadavand, H., Haenni, R., Hahn, A., Haigh, M. 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Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF
Published: 2016

29. Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF

Author: DUNE Collaboration, Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adamowski, M., Adams, C., Adamson, P., Adhikari, S., Ahmad, Z., Albright, C. H., Alion, T., Amador, E., Anderson, J., Anderson, K., Andreopoulos, C., Andrews, M., Andrews, R., Anghel, I., Anjos, J. d., Ankowski, A., Antonello, M., ArandaFernandez, A., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Aristizabal, D., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Aryal, K., Asaadi, J., Asner, D., Athar, M. S., Auger, M., Aurisano, A., Aushev, V., Autiero, D., Avila, M., Back, J. J., Bai, X., Baibussinov, B., Baird, M., Balantekin, A. B., Baller, B., Ballett, P., Bambah, B., Bansal, M., Bansal, S., Barker, G. J., Barletta, W. A., Barr, G., Barros, N., Bartoszek, L., Bashyal, A., Bass, M., Bay, F., Beacom, J., Behera, B. R., Bellettini, G., Bellini, V., Beltramello, O., Benetti, P. A., Bercellie, A., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Berns, H., Bernstein, R., Bertolucci, S., Bhandari, B., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bian, J., Biery, K., Bishai, M., Blackburn, T., Blake, A., Blaszczyk, F. d. 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U., Sharma, R., Sharma, R. K., Shaw, T., Shrock, R., Shyrma, I., Simos, N., Sinev, G., Singh, I., Singh, J., Singh, V., Sinnis, G., Sippach, W., Smargianaki, D., Smy, M., Snider, E., Snopok, P., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Solomey, N., Sondheim, W., Sorel, M., Sousa, A., Soustruznik, K., Spitz, J., Spooner, N. J., Stancari, M., Stancu, I., Stefan, D., Steiner, H. M., Stewart, J., Stock, J., Stoica, S., Stone, J., Strait, J., Strait, M., Strauss, T., Striganov, S., Sulej, R., Sullivan, G., Sun, Y., Suter, L., Sutera, C. M., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Talaga, R., Tamsett, M., Tariq, S., Tatar, E., Tayloe, R., Taylor, C., Taylor, D., Terao, K., Thiesse, M., Thomas, J., Thompson, L. F., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., Thorpe, M., Tian, X., Tiedt, D., Timm, S. C., Tonazzo, A., Tope, T., Topkar, A., Torres, F. R., Torti, M., Tortola, M., Tortorici, F., Toups, M., Touramanis, C., Tripathi, M., Tropin, I., Tsai, Y., Tsang, K. V., Tsenov, R., Tufanli, S., Tull, C., Turner, J., Tzanov, M., Tziaferi, E., Uchida, Y., Urheim, J., Usher, T., Vagins, M., Vahle, P., Valdiviesso, G. A., Valerio, L., Vallari, Z., Valle, J., VanBerg, R., VandeWater, R., VanGemmeren, P., Varanini, F., Varner, G., Vasseur, G., Vaziri, K., Velev, G., Ventura, S., Verdugo, A., Viant, T., Vieira, T. V., Vignoli, C., Vilela, C., Viren, B., Vrba, T., Wachala, T., Wahl, D., Wallbank, M., Walsh, N., Wang, B., Wang, H., Wang, L., Wang, T., Warburton, T. K., Warner, D., Wascko, M., Waters, D., Watson, T. B., Weber, A., Weber, M., Wei, W., Weinstein, A., Wells, D., Wenman, D., Wetstein, M., White, A., Whitehead, L., Whittington, D., Wilking, M., Willhite, J., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Winslow, L., Wittich, P., Wojcicki, S., Wong, H. H., Wood, K., Worcester, E., Worcester, M., Wu, S., Xin, T., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, S., Yang, T., Yarritu, K., Ye, J., Yeh, M., Yershov, N., Yonehara, K., Yu, B., Yu, J., Zalesak, J., Zalewska, A., Zamorano, B., Zang, L., Zani, A., Zavala, G., Zeller, G., Zhang, C., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described.
Published: 2015

30. Modelling Early Stages of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: Coupling Relativistic Transport Theory to Decaying Color-electric Flux Tubes

Author: Ruggieri, M., Puglisi, A., Oliva, L., Plumari, S., Scardina, F., and Greco, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: In this study we model early times dynamics of the system produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions by an initial color electric field which then decays to a plasma by the Schwinger mechanism, coupling the dynamical evolution of the initial color field to the dynamics of the many particles system produced by the decay. The latter is described by relativistic kinetic theory in which we fix the ratio $\eta/s$ rather than insisting on specific microscopic processes. We study isotropization and thermalization of the system produced by the field decay for a static box and for a $1+1$D expanding geometry. We find that regardless of the viscosity of the produced plasma, the initial color electric field decays within $1$ fm/c; however in the case $\eta/s$ is large, oscillations of the field are effective along all the entire time evolution of the system, which affect the late times evolution of the ratio between longitudinal and transverse pressure. In case of small $\eta/s$ ($\eta/s\lesssim0.3$) we find $\tau_{isotropization}\approx 0.8$ fm/c and $\tau_{thermalization}\approx 1$ fm/c in agreement with the common lore of hydrodynamics. Moreover we have investigated the effect of turning from the relaxation time approximation to the Chapman-Enskog one: we find that this improvement affects mainly the early times evolution of the physical quantities, the effect being milder in the late times evolution., Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2015
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31. Electric Conductivity from the solution of the Relativistic Boltzmann Equation

Author: Puglisi, A., Plumari, S., and Greco, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We present numerical results of electric conductivity $\sigma_{el}$ of a fluid obtained solving the Relativistic Transport Boltzmann equation in a box with periodic boundary conditions. We compute $\sigma_{el}$ using two methods: the definition itself, i.e. applying an external electric field, and the evaluation of the Green-Kubo relation based on the time evolution of the current-current correlator. We find a very good agreement between the two methods. We also compare numerical results with analytic formulas in Relaxation Time Approximation (RTA) where the relaxation time for $\sigma_{el}$ is determined by the transport cross section $\sigma_{tr}$, i.e. the differential cross section weighted with the collisional momentum transfer. We investigate the electric conductivity dependence on the microscopic details of the 2-body scatterings: isotropic and anisotropic cross-section, and massless and massive particles. We find that the RTA underestimates considerably $\sigma_{el}$; for example at screening masses $m_D \sim \,T$ such underestimation can be as large as a factor of 2. Furthermore, we study a more realistic case for a quark-gluon system (QGP) considering both a quasi-particle model, tuned to lQCD thermodynamics, as well as the case of a pQCD gas with running coupling. Also for these cases more directly related to the description of the QGP system, we find that RTA significantly underestimate the $\sigma_{el}$ by about a $60-80\%$., Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2014
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32. Relativistic Boltzmann transport approach with Bose-Einstein statistics and the onset of gluon condensation

Author: Scardina, F., Perricone, D., Plumari, S., Ruggieri, M., and Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We study the evolution of a gluon system under conditions of density and temperature similar to those explored in the early stage of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We first describe the implementation of Relativistic Boltzmann-Nordheim (RBN) transport approach that includes in the collision integral the quantum effects of Bose-Einstein Statistics. Then, we describe the evolution of a spatially uniform gluon system in a box under elastic collisions solving the RBN for various initial conditions. We discuss the critical phase-space density that leads to the onset of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and the time scale for this process to occur. In particular, thanks to the fact that RBN allows to relax the small angle approximation, we study the effect at both small and large screening mass $ m_{D} $. For small $ m_{D}\ll T $ we see that our solution of RBN is in agreement with the recent extensive studies within a Fokker-Planck scheme in small angle approximation. For the same total cross section but with large $ m_{D}\simeq 2\, T $ (large angle scatterings), we see a significant time speed-up of the onset of BEC respect to small $m_{D}\ll T$. This further strengthen the possibility that at least a transient BEC is formed in the early stage of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions., Comment: 12 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2014
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33. Shear viscosity $\eta$ to electric conductivity $\sigma_{el}$ ratio for the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Author: Puglisi, A., Plumari, S., and Greco, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The transport coefficients of strongly interacting matter are currently subject of intense theoretical and phenomenological studies due to their relevance for the characterization of the quark-gluon plasma produced in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions (uRHIC). We discuss the connection between the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, $\eta/s$, and the electric conductivity, $\sigma_{el}$. Once the relaxation time is tuned to have a minimum value of $\eta/s=1/4\pi$ near the critical temperature $T_c$, one simultaneously predicts $\sigma_{el}/T$ very close to recent lQCD data. More generally, we discuss why the ratio of $(\eta/s)/(\sigma_{el}/T)$ supplies a measure of the quark to gluon scattering rates whose knowledge would allow to significantly advance in the understanding of the QGP phase. We also predict that $(\eta/s)/(\sigma_{el}/T)$, independently on the running coupling $\alpha_s(T)$, should increase up to about $\sim 20$ for $T \rightarrow T_c$, while it goes down to a nearly flat behavior around $\simeq 4$ for $T \geq 4\, T_c$. Therefore we in general predict a stronger T dependence of $\sigma_{el}/T$ with respect to $\eta/s$ that in a quasiparticle approach is constrained by lQCD thermodynamics. A conformal theory, instead, predicts a similar T dependence of $\eta/s$ and $\sigma_{el}/T$., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Revised for publication
Published: 2014

34. Critical Endpoint and Inverse Magnetic Catalysis for Finite Temperature and Density Quark Matter in a Magnetic Background

Author: Ruggieri, M., Oliva, L., Castorina, P., Gatto, R., and Greco, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: In this article we study chiral symmetry breaking for quark matter in a magnetic background, $\bm B$, at finite temperature and quark chemical potential, $\mu$, making use of the Ginzburg-Landau effective action formalism. As a microscopic model to compute the effective action we use the renormalized quark-meson model. Our main goal is to study the evolution of the critical endpoint, ${\cal CP}$, as a function of the magnetic field strength, and investigate on the realization of inverse magnetic catalysis at finite chemical potential. We find that the phase transition at zero chemical potential is always of the second order; for small and intermediate values of $\bm B$, ${\cal CP}$ moves towards small $\mu$, while for larger $\bm B$ it moves towards moderately larger values of $\mu$. Our results are in agreement with the inverse magnetic catalysis scenario at finite chemical potential and not too large values of the magnetic field, while at larger $\bm B$ direct magnetic catalysis sets in., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2014
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35. Energy density fluctuations in Early Universe

Author: Guardo, G. L., Greco, V., and Ruggieri, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The primordial nucleosinthesys of the element can be influenced by the transitions of phase that take place after the Big Bang, such as the QCD transition. In order to study the effect of this phase transition, in this work we compute the time evolution of thermodynamical quantities of the early universe, focusing on temperature and energy density fluctuations, by solving the relevant equations of motion using as input the lattice QCD equation of state to describe the strongly interacting matter in the early universe plasma. We also study the effect of a primordial strong magnetic field by means of a phenomenological equation of state. Our results show that small inhomogeneities of strongly interacting matter in the early Universe are moderately damped during the crossover., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at Sventh European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, 15-27 September 2013, Santa Tecla (CT) - Italy
Published: 2014
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36. Neutron Star masses from the Field Correlator Method Equation of State

Author: Zappala, D., Burgio, G. F., Greco, V., and Plumari, S.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We analyse the hadron-quark phase transition in neutron stars by confronting the hadronic Equation of State (EoS) obtained according to the microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock many body theory, with the quark matter EoS derived within the Field Correlator Method. In particular, the latter EoS is only parametrized in terms of the gluon condensate and the large distance quark-antiquark potential, so that the comparison of the results of this analysis with the most recent measurements of heavy neutron star masses provides some physical constraints on these two parameters., Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of : International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics-ICNFP2013
Published: 2013
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37. Three-row versus two-row circular staplers for left-sided colorectal anastomosis: a propensity score-matched analysis of the iCral 2 and 3 prospective cohorts

Author: Catarci, M, Guadagni, S, Masedu, F, Ruffo, G, Viola, M, Borghi, F, Baldazzi, G, Scatizzi, M, Pirozzi, F, Delrio, P, Garulli, G, Marini, P, Campagnacci, R, De Luca, R, Ficari, F, Sica, G, Scabini, S, Liverani, A, Caricato, M, Patriti, A, Mancini, S, Baiocchi, G, Santoro, R, Siquini, W, Guercioni, G, Basti, M, Pedrazzani, C, Totis, M, Carrara, A, Lucchi, A, Pavanello, M, Muratore, A, D'Ugo, S, Di Leo, A, Pignata, G, Elmore, U, Anania, G, Carlini, M, Corcione, F, Vettoretto, N, Longo, G, Sorrentino, M, Giuliani, A, Ferrari, G, Taglietti, L, Verzelli, A, Di Cosmo, M, Cavaliere, D, Milone, M, Rausei, S, Ciaccio, G, Tebala, G, Brisinda, G, Berti, S, Millo, P, Boni, L, Guerrieri, M, Persiani, R, Parini, D, Spinelli, A, Genna, M, Bottino, V, Coratti, A, Scala, D, Rivolta, U, Piccoli, M, Talarico, C, Roviello, F, Anastasi, A, Ettorre, G, Montuori, M, Mariani, P, de Manzini, N, Donini, A, Armellino, M, Feo, C, Guerriero, S, Costanzi, A, Marchesi, F, Cicetti, M, Ciano, P, Benedetti, M, Montemurro, L, Mattei, M, Belloni, E, Apa, D, Di Carlo, M, Clementi, M, Bertocchi, E, Masini, G, Altamura, A, Rubichi, F, Cianflocca, D, Migliore, M, Cassini, D, Pandolfini, L, Falsetto, A, Sciuto, A, Pace, U, Bucci, A, Monari, F, Attina, G, Maurizi, A, Simone, M, Giudici, F, Cianchi, F, Baldini, G, Sensi, B, Aprile, A, Soriero, D, Scarinci, A, Capolupo, G, Sisti, V, Ricci, M, Sagnotta, A, Molfino, S, Amodio, P, Cardinali, A, Cicconi, S, Marziali, I, Frazzini, D, Conti, C, Tamini, N, Braga, M, Motter, M, Tirone, G, Martorelli, G, Cacurri, A, Di Marco, C, Marsanic, P, Federico, N, Spampinato, M, Crepaz, L, Andreuccetti, J, Canfora, I, Maggi, G, Chiozza, M, Spoletini, D, Marcellinaro, R, Lisi, G, Bracale, U, Peltrini, R, Di Nuzzo, M, Botteri, E, Santoni, S, Stefanoni, M, Del Vecchio, G, Magistro, C, Ruggiero, S, Birindelli, A, Budassi, A, Zigiotto, D, Solaini, L, Ercolani, G, De Palma, G, Tenconi, S, Locurto, P, Di Cintio, A, Chiarello, M, Cariati, M, Gennai, A, Grivon, M, Cassinotti, E, Ortenzi, M, Biondi, A, De Luca, M, Carrano, F, Fior, F, Ferronetti, A, Giuliani, G, Marino, G, Bertoglio, C, Pecchini, F, Greco, V, Piagnerelli, R, Canonico, G, Colasanti, M, Pinotti, E, Carminati, R, Osenda, E, Graziosi, L, De Martino, C, Ioia, G, Pindozzi, F, Organetti, L, Monteleone, M, Dalmonte, G, La Gioia, G, Catarci M., Guadagni S., Masedu F., Ruffo G., Viola M. G., Borghi F., Baldazzi G., Scatizzi M., Pirozzi F., Delrio P., Garulli G., Marini P., Campagnacci R., De Luca R., Ficari F., Sica G., Scabini S., Liverani A., Caricato M., Patriti A., Mancini S., Baiocchi G. L., Santoro R., Siquini W., Guercioni G., Basti M., Pedrazzani C., Totis M., Carrara A., Lucchi A., Pavanello M., Muratore A., D'Ugo S., Di Leo A., Pignata G., Elmore U., Anania G., Carlini M., Corcione F., Vettoretto N., Longo G., Sorrentino M., Giuliani A., Ferrari G., Taglietti L., Verzelli A., Di Cosmo M., Cavaliere D., Milone M., Rausei S., Ciaccio G., Tebala G., Brisinda G., Berti S., Millo P., Boni L., Guerrieri M., Persiani R., Parini D., Spinelli A., Genna M., Bottino V., Coratti A., Scala D., Rivolta U., Piccoli M., Talarico C., Roviello F., Anastasi A., Ettorre G. M., Montuori M., Mariani P., de Manzini N., Donini A., Armellino M. F., Feo C., Guerriero S., Costanzi A., Marchesi F., Cicetti M., Ciano P., Benedetti M., Montemurro L. A., Mattei M. S., Belloni E., Apa D., Di Carlo M., Clementi M., Bertocchi E., Masini G., Altamura A., Rubichi F., Cianflocca D., Migliore M., Cassini D., Pandolfini L., Falsetto A., Sciuto A., Pace U., Bucci A. F., Monari F., Attina G. M., Maurizi A., Simone M., Giudici F., Cianchi F., Baldini G., Sensi B., Aprile A., Soriero D., Scarinci A., Capolupo G. T., Sisti V., Ricci M. L., Sagnotta A., Molfino S., Amodio P., Cardinali A., Cicconi S., Marziali I., Frazzini D., Conti C., Tamini N., Braga M., Motter M., Tirone G., Martorelli G., Cacurri A., Di Marco C., Marsanic P., Federico N. S. P., Spampinato M., Crepaz L., Andreuccetti J., Canfora I., Maggi G., Chiozza M., Spoletini D., Marcellinaro R., Lisi G., Bracale U., Peltrini R., Di Nuzzo M. M., Botteri E., Santoni S., Stefanoni M., Del Vecchio G., Magistro C., Ruggiero S., Birindelli A., Budassi A., Zigiotto D., Solaini L., Ercolani G., De Palma G. D., Tenconi S., Locurto P., Di Cintio A., Chiarello M. M., Cariati M., Gennai A., Grivon M., Cassinotti E., Ortenzi M., Biondi A., De Luca M., Carrano F., Fior F., Ferronetti A., Giuliani G., Marino G., Bertoglio C. L., Pecchini F., Greco V., Piagnerelli R., Canonico G., Colasanti M., Pinotti E., Carminati R., Osenda E., Graziosi L., De Martino C., Ioia G., Pindozzi F., Organetti L., Monteleone M., Dalmonte G., La Gioia G., Catarci, M, Guadagni, S, Masedu, F, Ruffo, G, Viola, M, Borghi, F, Baldazzi, G, Scatizzi, M, Pirozzi, F, Delrio, P, Garulli, G, Marini, P, Campagnacci, R, De Luca, R, Ficari, F, Sica, G, Scabini, S, Liverani, A, Caricato, M, Patriti, A, Mancini, S, Baiocchi, G, Santoro, R, Siquini, W, Guercioni, G, Basti, M, Pedrazzani, C, Totis, M, Carrara, A, Lucchi, A, Pavanello, M, Muratore, A, D'Ugo, S, Di Leo, A, Pignata, G, Elmore, U, Anania, G, Carlini, M, Corcione, F, Vettoretto, N, Longo, G, Sorrentino, M, Giuliani, A, Ferrari, G, Taglietti, L, Verzelli, A, Di Cosmo, M, Cavaliere, D, Milone, M, Rausei, S, Ciaccio, G, Tebala, G, Brisinda, G, Berti, S, Millo, P, Boni, L, Guerrieri, M, Persiani, R, Parini, D, Spinelli, A, Genna, M, Bottino, V, Coratti, A, Scala, D, Rivolta, U, Piccoli, M, Talarico, C, Roviello, F, Anastasi, A, Ettorre, G, Montuori, M, Mariani, P, de Manzini, N, Donini, A, Armellino, M, Feo, C, Guerriero, S, Costanzi, A, Marchesi, F, Cicetti, M, Ciano, P, Benedetti, M, Montemurro, L, Mattei, M, Belloni, E, Apa, D, Di Carlo, M, Clementi, M, Bertocchi, E, Masini, G, Altamura, A, Rubichi, F, Cianflocca, D, Migliore, M, Cassini, D, Pandolfini, L, Falsetto, A, Sciuto, A, Pace, U, Bucci, A, Monari, F, Attina, G, Maurizi, A, Simone, M, Giudici, F, Cianchi, F, Baldini, G, Sensi, B, Aprile, A, Soriero, D, Scarinci, A, Capolupo, G, Sisti, V, Ricci, M, Sagnotta, A, Molfino, S, Amodio, P, Cardinali, A, Cicconi, S, Marziali, I, Frazzini, D, Conti, C, Tamini, N, Braga, M, Motter, M, Tirone, G, Martorelli, G, Cacurri, A, Di Marco, C, Marsanic, P, Federico, N, Spampinato, M, Crepaz, L, Andreuccetti, J, Canfora, I, Maggi, G, Chiozza, M, Spoletini, D, Marcellinaro, R, Lisi, G, Bracale, U, Peltrini, R, Di Nuzzo, M, Botteri, E, Santoni, S, Stefanoni, M, Del Vecchio, G, Magistro, C, Ruggiero, S, Birindelli, A, Budassi, A, Zigiotto, D, Solaini, L, Ercolani, G, De Palma, G, Tenconi, S, Locurto, P, Di Cintio, A, Chiarello, M, Cariati, M, Gennai, A, Grivon, M, Cassinotti, E, Ortenzi, M, Biondi, A, De Luca, M, Carrano, F, Fior, F, Ferronetti, A, Giuliani, G, Marino, G, Bertoglio, C, Pecchini, F, Greco, V, Piagnerelli, R, Canonico, G, Colasanti, M, Pinotti, E, Carminati, R, Osenda, E, Graziosi, L, De Martino, C, Ioia, G, Pindozzi, F, Organetti, L, Monteleone, M, Dalmonte, G, La Gioia, G, Catarci M., Guadagni S., Masedu F., Ruffo G., Viola M. G., Borghi F., Baldazzi G., Scatizzi M., Pirozzi F., Delrio P., Garulli G., Marini P., Campagnacci R., De Luca R., Ficari F., Sica G., Scabini S., Liverani A., Caricato M., Patriti A., Mancini S., Baiocchi G. L., Santoro R., Siquini W., Guercioni G., Basti M., Pedrazzani C., Totis M., Carrara A., Lucchi A., Pavanello M., Muratore A., D'Ugo S., Di Leo A., Pignata G., Elmore U., Anania G., Carlini M., Corcione F., Vettoretto N., Longo G., Sorrentino M., Giuliani A., Ferrari G., Taglietti L., Verzelli A., Di Cosmo M., Cavaliere D., Milone M., Rausei S., Ciaccio G., Tebala G., Brisinda G., Berti S., Millo P., Boni L., Guerrieri M., Persiani R., Parini D., Spinelli A., Genna M., Bottino V., Coratti A., Scala D., Rivolta U., Piccoli M., Talarico C., Roviello F., Anastasi A., Ettorre G. M., Montuori M., Mariani P., de Manzini N., Donini A., Armellino M. F., Feo C., Guerriero S., Costanzi A., Marchesi F., Cicetti M., Ciano P., Benedetti M., Montemurro L. A., Mattei M. S., Belloni E., Apa D., Di Carlo M., Clementi M., Bertocchi E., Masini G., Altamura A., Rubichi F., Cianflocca D., Migliore M., Cassini D., Pandolfini L., Falsetto A., Sciuto A., Pace U., Bucci A. F., Monari F., Attina G. M., Maurizi A., Simone M., Giudici F., Cianchi F., Baldini G., Sensi B., Aprile A., Soriero D., Scarinci A., Capolupo G. T., Sisti V., Ricci M. L., Sagnotta A., Molfino S., Amodio P., Cardinali A., Cicconi S., Marziali I., Frazzini D., Conti C., Tamini N., Braga M., Motter M., Tirone G., Martorelli G., Cacurri A., Di Marco C., Marsanic P., Federico N. S. P., Spampinato M., Crepaz L., Andreuccetti J., Canfora I., Maggi G., Chiozza M., Spoletini D., Marcellinaro R., Lisi G., Bracale U., Peltrini R., Di Nuzzo M. M., Botteri E., Santoni S., Stefanoni M., Del Vecchio G., Magistro C., Ruggiero S., Birindelli A., Budassi A., Zigiotto D., Solaini L., Ercolani G., De Palma G. D., Tenconi S., Locurto P., Di Cintio A., Chiarello M. M., Cariati M., Gennai A., Grivon M., Cassinotti E., Ortenzi M., Biondi A., De Luca M., Carrano F., Fior F., Ferronetti A., Giuliani G., Marino G., Bertoglio C. L., Pecchini F., Greco V., Piagnerelli R., Canonico G., Colasanti M., Pinotti E., Carminati R., Osenda E., Graziosi L., De Martino C., Ioia G., Pindozzi F., Organetti L., Monteleone M., Dalmonte G., and La Gioia G.
Abstract: Background: Since most anastomoses after left-sided colorectal resections are performed with a circular stapler, any technological change in stapling devices may influence the incidence of anastomotic adverse events. The aim of the present study was to analyze the effect of a three-row circular stapler on anastomotic leakage and related morbidity after left-sided colorectal resections. Materials and methods: A circular stapled anastomosis was performed in 4255 (50.9%) out of 8359 patients enrolled in two prospective multicenter studies in Italy, and, after exclusion criteria to reduce heterogeneity, 2799 (65.8%) cases were retrospectively analyzed through a 1:1 propensity score-matching model including 20 covariates relative to patient characteristics, to surgery and to perioperative management. Two well-balanced groups of 425 patients each were obtained: group (A) – true population of interest, anastomosis performed with a three-row circular stapler; group (B) – control population, anastomosis performed with a two-row circular stapler. The target of inferences was the average treatment effect in the treated (ATT). The primary endpoints were overall and major anastomotic leakage and overall anastomotic bleeding; the secondary endpoints were overall and major morbidity and mortality rates. The results of multiple logistic regression analyses for the outcomes, including the 20 covariates selected for matching, were presented as odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Results: Group A versus group B showed a significantly lower risk of overall anastomotic leakage (2.1 vs. 6.1%; OR 0.33; 95% CI 0.15–0.73; P = 0.006), major anastomotic leakage (2.1 vs. 5.2%; OR 0.39; 95% CI 0.17–0.87; P = 0.022), and major morbidity (3.5 vs. 6.6% events; OR 0.47; 95% CI 0.24–0.91; P = 0.026). Conclusion: The use of three-row circular staplers independently reduced the risk of anastomotic leakage and related morbidity after left-sided colorectal resection. Twenty-five pati
Published: 2023

38. Performance of the TOTEM Detectors at the LHC

Author: TOTEM Collaboration, Antchev, G., Aspell, P., Atanassov, I., Avati, V., Baechler, J., Bagliesi, M. G., Berardi, V., Berretti, M., Bossini, E., Bottigli, U., Bozzo, M., Brücken, E., Buzzo, A., Cafagna, F. S., Catanesi, M. G., Cecchi, R., Covault, C., Csanád, M., Csörgő, T., Deile, M., Doubek, M., Eggert, K., Eremin, V., Ferro, F., Fiergolski, A., Garcia, F., Giani, S., Greco, V., Grzanka, L., Heino, J., Hilden, T., Karev, A., Kašpar, J., Kopal, J., Kundrát, V., Lami, S., Latino, G., Lauhakangas, R., Leszko, T., Lippmaa, E., Lippmaa, J., Lokajíček, M., Losurdo, L., Vetere, M. Lo, Rodríguez, F. Lucas, Macrí, M., Mäki, T., Mercadante, A., Minafra, N., Minutoli, S., Nemes, F., Niewiadomski, H., Oliveri, E., Oljemark, F., Orava, R., Oriunno, M., Österberg, K., Palazzi, P., Pedreschi, E., Procházka, J., Quinto, M., Radermacher, E., Radicioni, E., Ravotti, F., Robutti, E., Ropelewski, L., Ruggiero, G., Saarikko, H., Scribano, A., Smajek, J., Snoeys, W., Spinella, F., Sziklai, J., Taylor, C., Thys, A., Turini, N., Vacek, V., Vítek, M., Welti, J., Whitmore, J., and Wyszkowski, P.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The TOTEM Experiment is designed to measure the total proton-proton cross-section with the luminosity-independent method and to study elastic and diffractive pp scattering at the LHC. To achieve optimum forward coverage for charged particles emitted by the pp collisions in the interaction point IP5, two tracking telescopes, T1 and T2, are installed on each side of the IP in the pseudorapidity region 3.1 < = |eta | < = 6.5, and special movable beam-pipe insertions - called Roman Pots (RP) - are placed at distances of +- 147 m and +- 220 m from IP5. This article describes in detail the working of the TOTEM detector to produce physics results in the first three years of operation and data taking at the LHC., Comment: 40 pages, 31 figures, submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Published: 2013
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39. Double diffractive cross-section measurement in the forward region at LHC

Author: TOTEM Collaboration, Antchev, G., Aspell, P., Atanassov, I., Avati, V., Baechler, J., Berardi, V., Berretti, M., Bossini, E., Bottigli, U., Bozzo, M., Brücken, E., Buzzo, A., Cafagna, F. S., Catanesi, M. G., Csanád, M., Csörgő, T., Deile, M., Eggert, K., Eremin, V., Ferro, F., Fiergolski, A., Garcia, F., Giani, S., Greco, V., Grzanka, L., Heino, J., Hilden, T., Karev, A., Kašpar, J., Kopal, J., Kundrát, V., Kurvinen, K., Lami, S., Latino, G., Lauhakangas, R., Leszko, T., Lippmaa, E., Lippmaa, J., Lokajíček, M., Losurdo, L., Vetere, M. Lo, Rodríguez, F. Lucas, Macrí, M., Mäki, T., Mercadante, A., Minafra, N., Minutoli, S., Nemes, F., Niewiadomski, H., Oliveri, E., Oljemark, F., Orava, R., Oriunno, M., Österberg, K., Palazzi, P., Procházka, J., Quinto, M., Radermacher, E., Radicioni, E., Ravotti, F., Robutti, E., Ropelewski, L., Ruggiero, G., Saarikko, H., Scribano, A., Smajek, J., Snoeys, W., Sziklai, J., Taylor, C., Turini, N., Vacek, V., Vítek, M., Welti, J., Whitmore, J., and Wyszkowski, P.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The first double diffractive cross-section measurement in the very forward region has been carried out by the TOTEM experiment at the LHC with center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s)=7 TeV. By utilizing the very forward TOTEM tracking detectors T1 and T2, which extend up to |eta|=6.5, a clean sample of double diffractive pp events was extracted. From these events, we measured the cross-section sigma_DD =(116 +- 25) mub for events where both diffractive systems have 4.7 <|eta|_min < 6.5 ., Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, submitted for publication
Published: 2013
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40. Quark matter in Neutron Stars within the Field Correlator Method

Author: Plumari, S., Burgio, G. F., Greco, V., and Zappala, D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We discuss the appearance of quark matter in neutron star cores', focussing on the possibility that the recent observation of a very heavy neutron star could constrain free parameters of quark matter models. For that, we use the equation of state derived with the Field Correlator Method, extended to the zero temperature limit, whereas for the hadronic phase we use the equation of state obtained within both the non-relativistic and the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock many-body theory. We find a strong dependence of the maximum mass both on the value of the q\bar q interaction V_1, and on the gluon condensate G_2, for which we introduce a dependence on the baryon chemical potential mu_B. We find that the maximum masses are consistent with the observational limit for not too small values of V_1., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, revised version, tables and figures added
Published: 2013
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41. Elliptic Flow from a Beam Energy Scan: a signature of a phase transition to the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Author: Plumari, S., Greco, V., and Csernai, L. P.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We employ a relativistic transport theory to describe the fireball expansion of the matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (uRHICs). Developing an approach to fix locally the shear viscosity to entropy density $\eta/s$, we study the impact of a temperature dependent $\eta/s(T)$ on the build-up of the elliptic flow, $v_2$, a measure of the angular anisotropy in the particle production. Beam Energy Scan from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= \rm 62.4 GeV$ at RHIC up to 2.76 TeV at LHC has shown that the $v_2(p_T)$ as a function of the transverse momentum $p_T$ appears to be nearly invariant with energy. We show that such a surprising behavior is determined by a rise and fall of $\eta/s(T)$ with a minimum at $T\sim T_c$, as one would expect if the matter undergoes a phase transition or a cross-over. This provides an evidence for phase transition occurring in the uRHIC's and a first constraint on the temperature dependence of $\eta/s$. In particular, a constant $\eta/s$ at all temperatures or a too strong T-dependence would cause a breaking of the scaling of $v_2(p_T)$ with the energy., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2013

42. Elliptic Flow from Non-equilibrium Initial Condition with a Saturation Scale

Author: Ruggieri, M., Scardina, F., Plumari, S., and Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A current goal of relativistic heavy ion collisions experiments is the search for a Color Glass Condensate as the limiting state of QCD matter at very high density. In viscous hydrodynamics simulations, a standard Glauber initial condition leads to estimate $4\pi \eta/s \sim 1$, while a Color Glass Condensate modeling leads to at least a factor of 2 larger $\eta/s$. Within a kinetic theory approach based on a relativistic Boltzmann-like transport simulation, we point out that the out-of-equilibrium initial distribution proper of a Color Glass Condensate reduces the efficiency in building-up the elliptic flow. Our main result at RHIC energy is that the available data on $v_2$ are in agreement with a $4\pi \eta/s \sim 1$ also for Color Glass Condensate initial conditions, opening the possibility to describe self-consistently also higher order flow, otherwise significantly underestimated, and to pursue further the search for signatures of the Color Glass Condensate., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. // Title changed, some discussion added, main conclusions unchanged. Version accepted for publication on Phys. Lett. B
Published: 2013
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43. The ASY-EOS experiment at GSI: investigating the symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities

Author: Russotto, P., Chartier, M., De Filippo, E., Févre, A. Le, Gannon, S., Gašparić, I., Kiš, M., Kupny, S., Leifels, Y., Lemmon, R. C., Łukasik, J., Marini, P., Pagano, A., Pawłowski, P., Santoro, S., Trautmann, W., Veselsky, M., Acosta, L., Adamczyk, M., Al-Ajlan, A., Al-Garawi, M., Al-Homaidhi, S., Amorini, F., Auditore, L., Aumann, T., Ayyad, Y., Baran, V., Basrak, Z., Benlliure, J., Boiano, C., Boisjoli, M., Boretzky, K., Brzychczyk, J., Budzanowski, A., Cardella, G., Cammarata, P., Chajecki, Z., Chbihi, A., Colonna, M., Cozma, D., Czech, B., Di Toro, M., Famiano, M., Geraci, E., Greco, V., Grassi, L., Guazzoni, C., Guazzoni, P., Heil, M., Heilborn, L., Introzzi, R., Isobe, T., Kezzar, K., Krasznahorkay, A., Kurz, N., La Guidara, E., Lanzalone, G., Lasko, P., Li, Q., Lombardo, I., Lynch, W. G., Matthews, Z., May, L., Minniti, T., Mostazo, M., Papa, M., Pirrone, S., Politi, G., Porto, F., Reifarth, R., Reisdorf, W., Riccio, F., Rizzo, F., Rosato, E., Rossi, D., Simon, H., Skwirczynska, I., Sosin, Z., Stuhl, L., Trifiró, A., Trimarchi, M., Tsang, M. B., Verde, G., Vigilante, M., Wieloch, A., Wigg, P., Wolter, H. H., Wu, P., Yennello, S., Zambon, P., Zetta, L., and Zoric, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The elliptic-flow ratio of neutrons with respect to protons in reactions of neutron rich heavy-ions systems at intermediate energies has been proposed as an observable sensitive to the strength of the symmetry term in the nuclear Equation Of State (EOS) at supra-saturation densities. The recent results obtained from the existing FOPI/LAND data for $^{197}$Au+$^{197}$Au collisions at 400 MeV/nucleon in comparison with the UrQMD model allowed a first estimate of the symmetry term of the EOS but suffer from a considerable statistical uncertainty. In order to obtain an improved data set for Au+Au collisions and to extend the study to other systems, a new experiment was carried out at the GSI laboratory by the ASY-EOS collaboration in May 2011., Comment: Talk given by P. Russotto at the 11th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2012), San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 27-June 1, 2012. To appear in the NN2012 Proceedings in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Published: 2012
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44. Shear Viscosity of a strongly interacting system: Green-Kubo vs. Chapman-Enskog and Relaxation Time Approximation

Author: Plumari, S., Puglisi, A., Scardina, F., and Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The shear viscosity $\eta$ has been calculated by using the Green-Kubo relation in the framework of a partonic transport approach solved at cascade level. We compare the numerical results for $\eta$ obtained from the Green-Kubo correlator with the analytical formulas in both the Relaxation Time Approximation (RTA) and the Chapman-Enskog approximation (CE). We investigate and emphasize the differences between the isotropic and anisotropic cross sections and between the massless and massive particles. We show that in the range of temperature explored in a Heavy Ion collision and for pQCD-like cross section the RTA significantly underestimates the viscosity by about a factor of 2-3, while a good agreement is found between the CE approximation and Gree-Kubo relation already at first order of approximation. The agreement with the CE approximation supplies an analytical formula that allows to develop kinetic transport theory at fixed shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, $\eta/s$. This open the possibility to explore dissipative non-equilibrium evolution of the distribution functions vs T-dependent $\eta/s$ and particle momenta in the dynamics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions., Comment: 24 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2012
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45. Measurement of the forward charged particle pseudorapidity density in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the TOTEM experiment

Author: Antchev, G., Aspell, P., Atanassov, I., Avati, V., Baechler, J., Berardi, V., Berretti, M., Bossini, E., Bozzo, M., Brogi, P., Brücken, E., Buzzo, A., Cafagna, F. S., Calicchio, M., Catanesi, M. G., Covault, C., Csanád, M., Csörgő, T., Deile, M., Eggert, K, Eremin, V., Ferretti, R., Ferro, F., Fiergolski, A., Garcia, F., Giani, S., Greco, V., Grzanka, L., Heino, J., Hilden, T., Intonti, M. R., Kašpar, J., Kopal, J., Kundrát, V., Kurvinen, K., Lami, S., Latino, G., Lauhakangas, R., Leszko, T., Lippmaa, E., Lokajíček, M., Vetere, M. Lo, Rodríguez, F. Lucas, Macrí, M., Magaletti, L., Mäki, T., Mercadante, A., Minafra, N., Minutoli, S., Nemes, F., Niewiadomski, H., Oliveri, E., Oljemark, F., Orava, R., Oriunno, M., Österberg, K., Palazzi, P., Procházka, J., Quinto, M., Radermacher, E., Radicioni, E., Ravotti, F., Robutti, E., Ropelewski, L., Ruggiero, G., Saarikko, H., Santroni, A., Scribano, A., Snoeys, W., Sziklai, J., Taylor, C., Turini, N., Vacek, V., Vitek, M., Welti, J., and Whitmore, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The TOTEM experiment has measured the charged particle pseudorapidity density dN_{ch}/deta in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV for 5.3<|eta|<6.4 in events with at least one charged particle with transverse momentum above 40 MeV/c in this pseudorapidity range. This extends the analogous measurement performed by the other LHC experiments to the previously unexplored forward eta region. The measurement refers to more than 99% of non-diffractive processes and to single and double diffractive processes with diffractive masses above ~3.4 GeV/c^2, corresponding to about 95% of the total inelastic cross-section. The dN_{ch}/deta has been found to decrease with |eta|, from 3.84 pm 0.01(stat) pm 0.37(syst) at |eta| = 5.375 to 2.38 pm 0.01(stat) pm 0.21(syst) at |eta| = 6.375. Several MC generators have been compared to data; none of them has been found to fully describe the measurement., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2012
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46. Polyakov Loop and Gluon Quasiparticles in Yang-Mills Thermodynamics

Author: Ruggieri, M., Alba, P., Castorina, P., Plumari, S., Ratti, C., and Greco, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract: We study the interpretation of Lattice data about the thermodynamics of the deconfinement phase of SU(3) Yang-Mills theory, in terms of gluon quasiparticles propagating in a background of a Polyakov loop. A potential for the Polyakov loop, inspired by the strong coupling expansion of the QCD action, is introduced; the Polyakov loop is coupled to tranverse gluon quasiparticles by means of a gas-like effective potential. This study is useful to identify the effective degrees of freedom propagating in the gluon medium above the critical temperature. A main general finding is that a dominant part of the phase transition dynamics is accounted for by the Polyakov loop dynamics, hence the thermodynamics can be described without the need for diverging or exponentially increasing quasiparticle masses as $T \rightarrow T_c$, at variance respect to standard quasiparticle models., Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2012
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47. Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section in p+p reactions measured by the LHC Experiment TOTEM at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

Author: Csörgő, T., Antchev, G., Aspell, P., Atanassov, I., Avati, V., Baechler, J., Berardi, V., Berretti, M., Bossini, E., Bozzo, M., Brogi, P., Brücken, E., Buzzo, A., Cafagna, F. S., Calicchio, M., Catanesi, M. G., Covault, C., Csanád, M., Deile, M., Dimovasili, E., Doubek, M., Eggert, K., Eremin, V., Ferretti, R., Ferro, F., Fiergolski, A., Garcia, F., Giani, S., Greco, V., Grzanka, L., Heino, J., Hilden, T., Intonti, M. R., Janda, M., Kašpar, J., Kopal, J., Kundrát, V., Kurvinen, K., Lami, S., Latino, G., Lauhakangas, R., Lippmaa, T. Leszko E., Lokajíček, M., Vetere, M. Lo, Rodríguez, F. Lucas, Macrí, M., Magaletti, L., Magazzù, G., Mercadante, A., Meucci, M., Minutoli, S., Nemes, F., Niewiadomski, H., Noschis, E., Novák, T., Oliveri, E., Oljemark, F., Orava, R., Oriunno, M., Österberg, K., Palazzi, P., Perrot, A. -L., Pedreschi, E., Petäjäjärvi, J., Procházka, J., Quinto, M., Radermacher, E., Radicioni, E., Ravotti, F., Robutti, E., Ropelewski, L., Ruggiero, G., Saarikko, H., Sanguinetti, G., Santroni, A., Scribano, A., Sette, G., Snoeys, W., Spinella, F., Sziklai, J., Taylor, C., Turini, N., Vacek, V., Vítek, M., Welti, J., and Whitmore, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Proton-proton elastic scattering has been measured by the TOTEM experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at $\sqrt{s} = 7 $ TeV in special runs with the Roman Pot detectors placed as close to the outgoing beam as seven times the transverse beam size. The differential cross-section measurements are reported in the |t|-range of 0.36 to 2.5 GeV^2. Extending the range of data to low t values from 0.02 to 0.33 GeV^2,and utilizing the luminosity measurements of CMS, the total proton-proton cross section at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is measured to be (98.3 +- 0.2(stat) +- 2.8(syst)) mb., Comment: Proceedings of the XLI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics. Accepted for publication in Prog. Theor. Phys
Published: 2012

48. Quark-to-gluon composition of the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Author: Scardina, F., Colonna, M., Plumari, S., and Greco, V.
Subjects: Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We study the evolution of the quark-gluon composition of the plasma created in ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (uRHIC's) employing a partonic transport theory that includes both elastic and inelastic collisions plus a mean fields dynamics associated to the widely used quasi-particle model. The latter, able to describe lattice QCD thermodynamics, implies a "chemical" equilibrium ratio between quarks and gluons strongly increasing as $T\rightarrow T_c$, the phase transition temperature. Accordingly we see in realistic simulations of uRHIC's a rapid evolution from a gluon dominated initial state to a quark dominated plasma close to $T_c$. The quark to gluon ratio can be modified by about a factor of $\sim 20$ in the bulk of the system and appears to be large also in the high $p_T$ region. We discuss how this aspect, often overflown, can be important for a quantitative study of several key issues in the QGP physics: shear viscosity, jet quenching, quarkonia suppression. Furthermore a bulk plasma made by more than $80\%$ of quarks plus antiquarks provides a theoretical basis for hadronization via quark coalescence., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, version published in Phys.Lett. B724 (2013) 296
Published: 2012
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49. Heavy Quark Dynamics in the QGP

Author: Greco, V., van Hees, H., and Rapp, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We assess transport properties of heavy quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) that show a strong non-perturbative behavior. A T-matrix approach based on a potential taken from lattice QCD hints at the presence of heavy-quark (HQ) resonant scattering with an increasing strength as the temperature, $T$, reaches the critical temperature, $T_c \simeq 170 \; \MeV$ for deconfinement from above. The implementation of HQ resonance scattering along with a hadronization via quark coalescence under the conditions of the plasma created in heavy-ion collisions has been shown to correctly describe both the nuclear modification factor, $R_{AA}$, and the elliptic flow, $v_2$, of single electrons at RHIC and have correctly predicted the $R_{AA}$ of D mesons at LHC energy., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of EPIC@LHC Workshop, 6-8 July, Bari
Published: 2011
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50. Impact of temperature dependence of the energy loss on jet quenching observables

Author: Scardina, F., Di Toro, M., and Greco, V.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The quenching of jets (particles with $p_T>>T, \Lambda_{QCD}$) in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been one of the main prediction and discovery at RHIC. We have studied, by a simple jet quenching modeling, the correlation between different observables like the nuclear modification factor $\Rapt$, the elliptic flow $v_2$ and the ratio of quark to gluon suppression $R_{AA}(quark)/R_{AA}(gluon)$. We show that the relation among these observables is strongly affected by the temperature dependence of the energy loss. In particular the large $v_2$ and and the nearly equal $\Rapt$ of quarks and gluons can be accounted for only if the energy loss occurs mainly around the temperature $T_c$ and the flavour conversion is significant.Finally we point out that the efficency in the conversion of the space eccentricity into the momentum one ($v_2$) results to be quite smaller respect to the one coming from elastic scatterings in a fluid with a viscosity to entropy density ratio $4\pi\eta/s=1$., Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, Workshop WISH 2010
Published: 2011
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