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2. The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey: First X-ray catalogues and data release of the western Galactic hemisphere

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Merloni, A., Lamer, G., Liu, T., Ramos-Ceja, M. E., Brunner, H., Bulbul, E., Dennerl, K., Doroshenko, V., Freyberg, M. J., Friedrich, S., Gatuzz, E., Georgakakis, A., Haberl, F., Igo, Z., Kreykenbohm, I., Liu, A., Maitra, C., Malyali, A., Mayer, M. G. F., Nandra, K., Predehl, P., Robrade, J., Salvato, M., Sanders, J. S., Stewart, I., Tubín-Arenas, D., Weber, P., Wilms, J., Arcodia, R., Artis, E., Aschersleben, J., Avakyan, A., Aydar, C., Bahar, Y. E., Balzer, F., Becker, W., Berger, K., Boller, T., Bornemann, W., Brüggen, M., Brusa, M., Buchner, J., Burwitz, V., Camilloni, F., Clerc, N., Comparat, J., Coutinho, D., Czesla, S., Dannhauer, S. M., Dauner, L., Dauser, T., Dietl, J., Dolag, K., Dwelly, T., Egg, K., Ehl, E., Freund, S., Friedrich, P., Gaida, R., Garrel, C., Ghirardini, V., Gokus, A., Grünwald, G., Grandis, S., Grotova, I., Gruen, D., Gueguen, A., Hämmerich, S., Hamaus, N., Hasinger, G., Haubner, K., Homan, D., Chitham, J. Ider, Joseph, W. M., Joyce, A., König, O., Kaltenbrunner, D. M., Khokhriakova, A., Kink, W., Kirsch, C., Kluge, M., Knies, J., Krippendorf, S., Krumpe, M., Kurpas, J., Li, P., Liu, Z., Locatelli, N., Lorenz, M., Müller, S., Magaudda, E., Mannes, C., McCall, H., Meidinger, N., Michailidis, M., Migkas, K., Muñoz-Giraldo, D., Musiimenta, B., Nguyen-Dang, N. T., Ni, Q., Olechowska, A., Ota, N., Pacaud, F., Pasini, T., Perinati, E., Pires, A. M., Pommranz, C., Ponti, G., Poppenhaeger, K., Pühlhofer, G., Rau, A., Reh, M., Reiprich, T. H., Roster, W., Saeedi, S., Santangelo, A., Sasaki, M., Schmitt, J., Schneider, P. C., Schrabback, T., Schuster, N., Schwope, A., Seppi, R., Serim, M. M., Shreeram, S., Sokolova-Lapa, E., Starck, H., Stelzer, B., Stierhof, J., Suleimanov, V., Tenzer, C., Traulsen, I., Trümper, J., Tsuge, K., Urrutia, T., Veronica, A., Waddell, S. G. H., Willer, R., Wolf, J., Yeung, M. C. H., Zainab, A., Zangrandi, F., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., and Zheng, X.

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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The eROSITA telescope array aboard the Spektrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) satellite began surveying the sky in December 2019, with the aim of producing all-sky X-ray source lists and sky maps of an unprecedented depth. Here we present catalogues of both point-like and extended sources using the data acquired in the first six months of survey operations (eRASS1; completed June 2020) over the half sky whose proprietary data rights lie with the German eROSITA Consortium. We describe the observation process, the data analysis pipelines, and the characteristics of the X-ray sources. With nearly 930000 entries detected in the most sensitive 0.2-2.3 keV energy range, the eRASS1 main catalogue presented here increases the number of known X-ray sources in the published literature by more than 60%, and provides a comprehensive inventory of all classes of X-ray celestial objects, covering a wide range of physical processes. A smaller catalogue of 5466 sources detected in the less sensitive but harder 2.3-5 keV band is the result of the first true imaging survey of the entire sky above 2 keV. We show that the number counts of X-ray sources in eRASS1 are consistent with those derived over narrower fields by past X-ray surveys of a similar depth, and we explore the number counts variation as a function of the location in the sky. Adopting a uniform all-sky flux limit (at 50% completeness) of F_{0.5-2 keV} > 5 \times 10^{-14}$ erg\,s$^{-1}$\,cm$^{-2}$, we estimate that the eROSITA all-sky survey resolves into individual sources about 20% of the cosmic X-ray background in the 1-2 keV range. The catalogues presented here form part of the first data release (DR1) of the SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey. Beyond the X-ray catalogues, DR1 contains all detected and calibrated event files, source products (light curves and spectra), and all-sky maps. Illustrative examples of these are provided., Comment: 39 pages, 23 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. Accompanying eROSITA-DE Data Release 1

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2024
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3. Inclusive e$^+$e$^-$ production in collisions of pions with protons and nuclei in the second resonance region of baryons

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Yassine, R. Abou, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Becker, M., Behnke, C., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Deb, S., Deveaux, C., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Förtsch, J., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kampert, K-H., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Linev, S., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Mikhaylov, V., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J., Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pauly, C., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Povar, T., Prościnki, P., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schild, N., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Vazquez-Doce, O., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wladyszewska, A, Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zielinski, M., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Inclusive e$^+$e$^-$ production has been studied with HADES in $\pi^-$ + p, $\pi^-$ + C and $\pi^- + \mathrm{CH}_2$ reactions, using the GSI pion beam at $\sqrt{s_{\pi p}}$ = 1.49 GeV. Invariant mass and transverse momentum distributions have been measured and reveal contributions from Dalitz decays of $\pi^0$, $\eta$ mesons and baryon resonances. The transverse momentum distributions are very sensitive to the underlying kinematics of the various processes. The baryon contribution exhibits a deviation up to a factor seven from the QED reference expected for the dielectron decay of a hypothetical point-like baryon with the production cross section constrained from the inverse $\gamma$ n$\rightarrow \pi^-$ p reaction. The enhancement is attributed to a strong four-momentum squared dependence of the time-like electromagnetic transition form factors as suggested by Vector Meson Dominance (VMD). Two versions of the VMD, that differ in the photon-baryon coupling, have been applied in simulations and compared to data. VMD1 (or two-component VMD) assumes a coupling via the $\rho$ meson and a direct coupling of the photon, while in VMD2 (or strict VMD) the coupling is only mediated via the $\rho$ meson. The VMD2 model, frequently used in transport calculations for dilepton decays, is found to overestimate the measured dielectron yields, while a good description of the data can be obtained with the VMD1 model assuming no phase difference between the two amplitudes. Similar descriptions have also been obtained using a time-like baryon transition form factor model where the pion cloud plays the major role., Comment: (HADES collaboration)

Published
2023

6. Additional blood meals increase sporozoite infection in Anopheles mosquitoes but not Plasmodium falciparum genetic diversity

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Lorenz M. Hofer, Prisca A. Kweyamba, Rajabu M. Sayi, Mohamed S. Chabo, Rehema Mwanga, Sonali L. Maitra, Mariam M. Somboka, Annina Schnoz, Monica Golumbeanu, Pierre H. H. Schneeberger, Amanda Ross, Tibebu Habtewold, Christian Nsanzabana, Sarah J. Moore, and Mgeni M. Tambwe

Subjects
Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, Anopheles gambiae, Parasite development, Oocysts, Sporozoites, Medicine, Science
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Abstract The availability of nutrients from mosquito blood meals accelerates the development of Plasmodium falciparum laboratory strains in artificially infected Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. The impact of multiple blood meals on the number of P. falciparum genotypes developing from polyclonal natural human malaria infections (field-isolates) remains unexplored. Here, we experimentally infect An. gambiae with P. falciparum field-isolates and measure the impact of an additional non-infectious blood meal on parasite development. We also assess parasite genetic diversity at the blood stage level of the parasite in the human host and of the sporozoites in the mosquito. Additional blood meals increase the sporozoite infection prevalence and intensity, but do not substantially affect the genetic diversity of sporozoites in the mosquito. The most abundant parasite genotypes in the human blood were transmitted to mosquitoes, suggesting that there was no preferential selection of specific genotypes. This study underlines the importance of additional mosquito blood meals for the development of parasite field-isolates in the mosquito host.

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2024
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7. Screening of malaria infections in human blood samples with varying parasite densities and anaemic conditions using AI-Powered mid-infrared spectroscopy

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Issa H. Mshani, Frank M. Jackson, Rehema Y. Mwanga, Prisca A. Kweyamba, Emmanuel P. Mwanga, Mgeni M. Tambwe, Lorenz M. Hofer, Doreen J. Siria, Mario González-Jiménez, Klaas Wynne, Sarah J. Moore, Fredros Okumu, Simon A. Babayan, and Francesco Baldini

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Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
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Abstract Background Effective testing for malaria, including the detection of infections at very low densities, is vital for the successful elimination of the disease. Unfortunately, existing methods are either inexpensive but poorly sensitive or sensitive but costly. Recent studies have shown that mid-infrared spectroscopy coupled with machine learning (MIRs-ML) has potential for rapidly detecting malaria infections but requires further evaluation on diverse samples representative of natural infections in endemic areas. The aim of this study was, therefore, to demonstrate a simple AI-powered, reagent-free, and user-friendly approach that uses mid-infrared spectra from dried blood spots to accurately detect malaria infections across varying parasite densities and anaemic conditions. Methods Plasmodium falciparum strains NF54 and FCR3 were cultured and mixed with blood from 70 malaria-free individuals to create various malaria parasitaemia and anaemic conditions. Blood dilutions produced three haematocrit ratios (50%, 25%, 12.5%) and five parasitaemia levels (6%, 0.1%, 0.002%, 0.00003%, 0%). Dried blood spots were prepared on Whatman™ filter papers and scanned using attenuated total reflection-Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) for machine-learning analysis. Three classifiers were trained on an 80%/20% split of 4655 spectra: (I) high contrast (6% parasitaemia vs. negative), (II) low contrast (0.00003% vs. negative) and (III) all concentrations (all positive levels vs. negative). The classifiers were validated with unseen datasets to detect malaria at various parasitaemia levels and anaemic conditions. Additionally, these classifiers were tested on samples from a population survey in malaria-endemic villages of southeastern Tanzania. Results The AI classifiers attained over 90% accuracy in detecting malaria infections as low as one parasite per microlitre of blood, a sensitivity unattainable by conventional RDTs and microscopy. These laboratory-developed classifiers seamlessly transitioned to field applicability, achieving over 80% accuracy in predicting natural P. falciparum infections in blood samples collected during the field survey. Crucially, the performance remained unaffected by various levels of anaemia, a common complication in malaria patients. Conclusion These findings suggest that the AI-driven mid-infrared spectroscopy approach holds promise as a simplified, sensitive and cost-effective method for malaria screening, consistently performing well despite variations in parasite densities and anaemic conditions. The technique simply involves scanning dried blood spots with a desktop mid-infrared scanner and analysing the spectra using pre-trained AI classifiers, making it readily adaptable to field conditions in low-resource settings. In this study, the approach was successfully adapted to field use, effectively predicting natural malaria infections in blood samples from a population-level survey in Tanzania. With additional field trials and validation, this technique could significantly enhance malaria surveillance and contribute to accelerating malaria elimination efforts.

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2024
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8. Hadron production and propagation in pion-induced reactions on nuclei

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Yassine, R. Abou, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Becker, M., Behnke, C., Berger-chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Deb, S., Deveaux, C., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Förtsch, J., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kampert, K.-H., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Linev, S., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Mikhaylov, V., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J., Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pauly, C., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Povar, T., Prościński, K., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schild, N., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Udrea, I. C., Vazquez-Doce, O., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Władyszewska, A., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zielinski, M., Zumbruch, P., Curceanu, C., Piscicchia, K., and Scordo, A.

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2024
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9. Investigation of the $\mathbf{\Sigma^{0}}$ Production Mechanism in p(3.5 GeV)+p Collisions

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Yassine, R. Abou, Arnold, O., Becker, M., Bergmann, P., Blanco, A., Blum, C., Böhmer, M., Carolino, N., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Dreyer, J., Esmail, W., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Huck, H., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Malige, A., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michel, J., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J., Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Ritman, J., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Schild, N., Schwab, E., Seck, F., Singh, U., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zielinski, M., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The production of $\Sigma^0$ hyperons in proton proton collisions at a beam kinetic energy of 3.5 GeV impinging on a liquid hydrogen target was investigated using data collected with the HADES setup. The total production cross section is found to be $\mathrm{\sigma (pK^{+}\Sigma^{0}) [\mu b] = 17.7 \pm 1.7 (stat) \pm 1.6 (syst)}$. Differential cross section distributions of the exclusive channel $\mathrm{pp \rightarrow pK^{+}\Sigma^{0}}$ were analyzed in the center-of-mass, Gottfried-Jackson and helicity reference frames for the first time at the excess energy of 556 MeV. The data support the interplay between pion and kaon exchange mechanisms and clearly demonstrate the contribution of interfering nucleon resonances decaying to $\mathrm{K^{+}\Sigma^{0}}$. The Bonn-Gatchina partial wave analysis was employed to analyse the data. Due to the limited statistics, it was not possible to obtain an unambiguous determination of the relative contribution of intermediate nucleon resonances to the final state. However nucleon resonances with masses around 1.710 $\mathrm{GeV/c^{2}}$ ($\mathrm{N^{*}(1710)}$) and 1.900 $\mathrm{GeV/c^{2}}$ ($\mathrm{N^{*}(1900)}$ or $\mathrm{\Delta^{*}(1900)}$) are preferred by the fit.

Published
2023

10. Production of hydrogen isotopes and charged pions in p (3.5 GeV) + Nb reactions

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Yassine, R. Abou, Arnold, O., Becker, M., Bergmann, P., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Carolino, N., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Dreyer, J., Esmail, W. A., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Huck, H., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Malige, A., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michel, J., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Pietraszko, J., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Schild, N., Schwab, E., Seck, F., Singh, U., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zumbruch, P., Kamys, B., and Sharma, S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The double differential production cross sections, $d^2\sigma/d\Omega dE$, for hydrogen isotopes and charged pions in the reaction of p + Nb at 3.5 GeV proton beam energy have been measured by the High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer (HADES). Thanks to the high acceptance of HADES at forward emission angles and usage of its magnetic field, the measured energy range of hydrogen isotopes could be significantly extended in comparison to the relatively scarce experimental data available in the literature. The data provide information about the development of the intranuclear cascade in the proton-nucleus collisions. They can as well be utilized to study the rate of energy/momentum dissipation in the nuclear systems and the mechanism of elementary and composite particle production in excited nuclear matter at normal density. Data of this type are important also for technological and medical applications. Our results are compared to models developed to describe the processes relevant to nuclear spallation (INCL++) or oriented to probe either the elementary hadronic processes in nuclear matter or the behavior of compressed nuclear matter (GiBUU).

Published
2023

11. Hadron Production and Propagation in Pion-Induced Reactions on Nuclei

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Yassine, R. Abou, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Becker, M., Behnke, C., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Deveaux, C., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Förtsc, J., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kampert, K-H., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Linev, S., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Mikhaylov, V., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J., Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pauly, C., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Povar, T., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schild, N., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Vazquez-Doce, O., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zumbruch, P., Curceanu, C., Piscicchia, K., and Scordo, A.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Hadron production ($\pi^\pm$, proton, $\Lambda$, $K_S^0$, $K^\pm$) in $\pi^- + \mathrm{C}$ and $\pi^- + \mathrm{W}$ collisions is investigated at an incident pion beam momentum of $1.7~\mathrm{GeV}/c$. This comprehensive set of data measured with HADES at SIS18/GSI significantly extends the existing world data on hadron production in pion induced reactions and provides a new reference for models that are commonly used for the interpretation of heavy-ion collisions. The measured inclusive differential production cross-sections are compared with state-of-the-art transport model (GiBUU, SMASH) calculations. The (semi-) exclusive channel $\pi^- + A \rightarrow \Lambda + K_S^0 +X$, in which the kinematics of the strange hadrons are correlated, is also investigated and compared to a model calculation. Agreement and remaining tensions between data and the current version of the considered transport models are discussed.

Published
2023

13. Proton, deuteron and triton flow measurements in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV

Author

HADES collaboration, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chlad, L., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wójcik, D., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

High precision measurements of flow coefficients $v_{n}$ ($n = 1 - 4$) for protons, deuterons and tritons relative to the first-order spectator plane have been performed in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV with the High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at the SIS18/GSI. Flow coefficients are studied as a function of transverse momentum $p_{t}$ and rapidity $y_{cm}$ over a large region of phase space and for several classes of collision centrality. A clear mass hierarchy is found for the slope of $v_{1}$, $d v_{1}/d y^{\prime}|_{y^{\prime} = 0}$ where $y^{\prime}$ is the scaled rapidity, and for $v_{2}$ at mid-rapidity. Scaling with the number of nucleons is observed for the $p_{t}$ dependence of $v_{2}$ and $v_{4}$ at mid-rapidity, which is indicative for nuclear coalescence as the main process responsible for light nuclei formation. $v_{2}$ is found to scale with the initial eccentricity $\langle \epsilon_{2} \rangle$, while $v_{4}$ scales with $\langle \epsilon_{2} \rangle^{2}$ and $\langle \epsilon_{4} \rangle$. The multi-differential high-precision data on $v_{1}$, $v_{2}$, $v_{3}$, and $v_{4}$ provides important constraints on the equation-of-state of compressed baryonic matter., Comment: 21 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables; Figs. 11 updated; The manuscript has associated data in the HEPData repository: https://doi.org/10.17182/hepdata.152804

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2022
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14. Measurement of global polarization of {\Lambda} hyperons in few-GeV heavy-ion collisions

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Yassine, R. Abou, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Asal, C., Becker, M., Belounnas, A., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepal, I., Cordts, M., Dreyer, J., Esmail, W. A., Fabbietti, L., Floersheimer, H., Fonte, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Förtsch, J., Galatyuk, T., Gniazdowski, T, Greifenhagen, R., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Huck, H., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kampert, K-H., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Kres, I., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Lalik, R., Lebedev, S., Linev, S., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Malige, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J., Otto, J. -H., Parschau, M., Pauly, C., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Pfeifer, D., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Povar, T., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Ritman, J., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Saraiva, J., Schild, N., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Selyuzhenkov, I., Singh, U., Skorpil, L., Smyrski, J., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M. S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Wagner, V., Wasiluk, M., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Wirth, J., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zielinski, M., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The global polarization of {\Lambda} hyperons along the total orbital angular momentum of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is presented based on the high statistics data samples collected in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4 GeV and Ag+Ag at 2.55 GeV with the High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at GSI, Darmstadt. This is the first measurement below the strangeness production threshold in nucleon-nucleon collisions. Results are reported as a function of the collision centrality as well as a function of the hyperon transverse momentum (p_T) and rapidity (y_{CM}) for the range of centrality 0--40%. We observe a strong centrality dependence of the polarization with an increasing signal towards peripheral collisions. For mid-central (20--40%) collisions the polarization magnitudes are (%) = 6.8 \pm 1.3 (stat.) \pm 2.1 (syst.) for Au+Au and (%) = 6.2 \pm 0.4 (stat.) \pm 0.6 (syst.) for Ag+Ag, which are the largest values observed so far. This observation thus provides a continuation of the increasing trend previously observed by STAR and contrasts expectations from recent theoretical calculations predicting a maximum in the region of collision energies about 3 GeV. The observed polarization is of a similar magnitude as predicted by 3D fluid dynamics and the UrQMD plus thermal vorticity model and significantly above results from the AMPT model., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures

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2022
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15. First measurement of massive virtual photon emission from N* baryon resonances

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Yassine, R. Abou, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Becker, M., Behnke, C., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Deb, S., Deveaux, C., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Fortsch, J., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kampert, K-H., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Linev, S., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Mikhaylov, V., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J., Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pauly, C., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Povar, T., Prościński, K., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schild, N., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Udrea, I. C., Vazquez-Doce, O., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Władyszewska, A., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zieliński, M., Zumbruch, P., and Zetenyi, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

First information on the time-like electromagnetic structure of baryons in the second resonance region has been obtained from measurements of dielectron (e+ e-) invariant-mass and angular distributions in the quasi-free reaction $\pi-$ p $\rightarrow$ n e+ e- at $\sqrt{s_{\pi p}}$ = 1.49 GeV with the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at GSI using the pion beam impinging on a CH$_2$ target. We find a total cross section $\sigma$ = 2.97 $\pm$ 0.07data $\pm$ 0.21acc $\pm$ 0.31Zeff $\mu$b. In complement to the analysis of the inclusive e+ e- channel, this data set provides a crucial test of the description of baryon time-like transitions. Approaches based on a Vector Meson Dominance amplitude containing direct photon and vector meson ($\rho$) couplings to the baryon provide a satisfactory agreement with the data. A good description is also obtained by electromagnetic time-like baryon transition form factors in a covariant spectator-quark model, pointing to the dominance of meson-cloud effects. The dielectron angular distributions exhibit the contributions of virtual photons ($\gamma^*$) with longitudinal polarization, in contrast to real photons. The virtual photon angular dependence supports the dominance of J=3/2, I=1/2 contributions observed in both the $\gamma^*$n and the $\pi \pi$n channels., Comment: revised version, 7 pages, 3 figures

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2022

16. Impact of the Coulomb field on charged-pion spectra in few-GeV heavy-ion collisions

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Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Ciepał, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Linev, S., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schild, N., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

In nuclear collisions the incident protons generate a Coulomb field which acts on produced charged particles. The impact of these interactions on charged pion transverse-mass and rapidity spectra, as well as on pion-pion momentum correlations is investigated in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.4 GeV. We show that the low-mt part of the data ($m_t < 0.2$ GeV/c$^2$) can be well described with a Coulomb-modified Boltzmann distribution that also takes changes of the Coulomb field during the expansion of the fireball into account. The observed centrality dependence of the fitted mean Coulomb potential deviates strongly from a $A_{part}^{2/3}$ scaling, indicating that, next to the fireball, the non-interacting charged spectators have to be taken into account. For the most central collisions, the Coulomb modifications of the HBT source radii are found to be consistent with the potential extracted from the single-pion transverse-mass distributions. This finding suggests that the region of homogeneity obtained from two-pion correlations coincides with the region in which the pions freeze-out. Using the inferred mean-square radius of the charge distribution at freeze-out, we have deduced a baryon density, in fair agreement with values obtained from statistical hadronization model fits to the particle yields., Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, to be published in EPJA

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2022
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18. Sparse non-SOS Putinar-type Positivstellens\'atze

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Roebers, Lorenz M., Vera, Juan C., and Zuluaga, Luis F.

Subjects
Mathematics - Classical Analysis and ODEs, Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry, Mathematics - Optimization and Control, 90C23
Abstract

Recently, non-SOS Positivstellens\"atze for polynomials on compact semialgebraic sets, following the general form of Schm\"{u}dgen's Positivstellensatz, have been derived by appropriately replacing the SOS polynomials with other classes of polynomials. An open question in the literature is how to obtain similar results following the general form of Putinar's Positivstellensatz. Extrapolating the algebraic geometry tools used to obtain this type of result in the SOS case fails to answer this question, because algebraic geometry methods strongly use hallmark properties of the class of SOS polynomials, such as closure under multiplication and closure under composition with other polynomials. In this article, using a new approach, we show the existence of Putinar-type Positivstellens\"atze that are constructed using non-SOS classes of non-negative polynomials, such as SONC, SDSOS and DSOS polynomials. Even not necessarily non-negative classes of polynomials such as sums of arithmetic-mean/geometric-mean polynomials could be used. Furthermore, we show that these certificates can be written with inherent sparsity characteristics. Such characteristics can be further exploited when the sparsity structure of both the polynomial whose non-negativity is being certified and the polynomials defining the semialgebraic set of interest are known. In contrast with related literature focused on exploiting sparsity in SOS Positivstellens\"atze, these latter results show how to exploit sparsity in a more general setting in which non-SOS polynomials are used to construct the Positivstellens\"atze.

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2021

19. Development and evaluation of a reference measurement model for assessing the resource and energy efficiency of software products and components—Green Software Measurement Model (GSMM)

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Guldner, Achim, Bender, Rabea, Calero, Coral, Fernando, Giovanni S., Funke, Markus, Gröger, Jens, Hilty, Lorenz M., Hörnschemeyer, Julian, Hoffmann, Geerd-Dietger, Junger, Dennis, Kennes, Tom, Kreten, Sandro, Lago, Patricia, Mai, Franziska, Malavolta, Ivano, Murach, Julien, Obergöker, Kira, Schmidt, Benno, Tarara, Arne, De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P., Weber, Sebastian, Westing, Max, Wohlgemuth, Volker, and Naumann, Stefan

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2024
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20. Investigation of the Σ0 Production Mechanism in p(3.5 GeV)+p Collisions

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Yassine, R. Abou, Arnold, O., Becker, M., Bergmann, P., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Carolino, N., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Dreyer, J., Esmail, W., Fabbietti, L., Fonte, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Grunwald, M., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Höhne, C., Hojeij, F., Holzmann, R., Huck, H., Idzik, M., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolas, J., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Krueger, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Linz, F., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Malige, A., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michel, J., Molenda, A., Müntz, C., Nabroth, M., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orliński, J. , Otto, J. -H., Parpottas, Y., Parschau, M., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Ritman, J., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Schild, N., Schwab, E., Seck, F., Singh, U., Spies, S., Stefaniak, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Wagner, V., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebtsova, E., Zielinski, M., and Zumbruch, P.

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2024
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24. Sub-lethal exposure to chlorfenapyr reduces the probability of developing Plasmodium falciparum parasites in surviving Anopheles mosquitoes

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Prisca A. Kweyamba, Lorenz M. Hofer, Ummi A. Kibondo, Rehema Y. Mwanga, Rajabu M. Sayi, Fatuma Matwewe, James W. Austin, Susanne Stutz, Sarah J. Moore, Pie Müller, and Mgeni M. Tambwe

Subjects
Chlorfenapyr, Oocysts, Sporozoites, Prevalence, Intensity, Malaria transmission, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

Abstract Background Pyrethroid resistance in the key malaria vectors threatens the success of pyrethroid-treated nets. To overcome pyrethroid resistance, Interceptor® G2 (IG2), a ‘first-in-class’ dual insecticidal net that combines alpha-cypermethrin with chlorfenapyr, was developed. Chlorfenapyr is a pro-insecticide, requiring bio-activation by oxidative metabolism within the insect’s mitochondria, constituting a mode of action preventing cross-resistance to pyrethroids. Recent epidemiological trials conducted in Benin and Tanzania confirm IG2’s public health value in areas with pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles mosquitoes. As chlorfenapyr might also interfere with the metabolic mechanism of the Plasmodium parasite, we hypothesised that chlorfenapyr may provide additional transmission-reducing effects even if a mosquito survives a sub-lethal dose. Methods We tested the effect of chlorfenapyr netting to reduce Plasmodium falciparum transmission using a modified WHO tunnel test with a dose yielding sub-lethal effects. Pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles gambiae s.s. with L1014F and L1014S knockdown resistance alleles and expression levels of pyrethroid metabolisers CYP6P3, CYP6M2, CYP4G16 and CYP6P1 confirmed by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) prior to conducting experiments were exposed to untreated netting and netting treated with 200 mg/m3 chlorfenapyr for 8 h overnight and then fed on gametocytemic blood meals from naturally infected individuals. Prevalence and intensity of oocysts and sporozoites were determined on day 8 and day 16 after feeding. Results Both prevalence and intensity of P. falciparum infection in the surviving mosquitoes were substantially reduced in the chlorfenapyr-exposed mosquitoes compared to untreated nets. The odds ratios in the prevalence of oocysts and sporozoites were 0.33 (95% confidence interval; 95% CI 0.23–0.46) and 0.43 (95% CI 0.25–0.73), respectively, while only the incidence rate ratio for oocysts was 0.30 (95% CI 0.22–0.41). Conclusion We demonstrated that sub-lethal exposure of pyrethroid-resistant mosquitoes to chlorfenapyr substantially reduces the proportion of infected mosquitoes and the intensity of the P. falciparum infection. This will likely also contribute to the reduction of malaria in communities beyond the direct killing of mosquitoes. Graphical Abstract

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2023
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26. Intramolecular N−H⋅⋅⋅F Hydrogen Bonding Interaction in a Series of 4‐Anilino‐5‐Fluoroquinazolines: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Electronic and Conformational Effects

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Urner, Lorenz M, Lee, Ga Young, Treacy, Joseph W, Turlik, Aneta, Khan, Saeed I, Houk, KN, and Jung, Michael E

Subjects
Electronics, Fluorides, Fluorine, Hydrogen Bonding, Molecular Conformation, fluorine, hydrogen bonds, NMR spectroscopy, noncovalent interactions, quinazolines, Chemical Sciences, General Chemistry
Abstract

The 4-anilino-6,7-ethylenedioxy-5-fluoroquinazoline scaffold is presented as a novel model system for the characterization of the weak NH⋅⋅⋅F hydrogen bonding (HB) interaction. In this scaffold, the aniline NH proton is forced into close proximity with the nearby fluorine (dH,F ∼2.0 Å, ∠∼138°), and a through-space interaction is observed by NMR spectroscopy with couplings (1h JNH,F ) of 19±1 Hz. A combination of experimental (NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography) and theoretical methods (DFT calculations) were used for the characterization of this weak interaction. In particular, the effects of conformational rigidity and steric compression on coupling were investigated. This scaffold was used for the direct comparison of fluoride with methoxy as HB acceptors, and the susceptibility of the NH⋅⋅⋅F interaction to changes in electron distribution and resonance was probed by preparing a series of molecules with different electron-donating or -withdrawing groups in the positions para to the NH and F. The results support the idea that fluorine can act as a weak HB acceptor, and the HB strength can be modulated through additive and linear electronic substituent effects.

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2022

27. Correlated pion-proton pair emission off hot and dense QCD matter

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Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., B"ohmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fr"ohlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernh"auser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., H"ohne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., K"ampfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., M"untz, C., M"unzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Str"obele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wojcik, D., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

In this letter we report the first multi-differential measurement of correlated pion-proton pairs from 2 billion Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.42 GeV collected with HADES. In this energy regime the population of \Delta(1232) resonances plays an important role in the way energy is distributed between intrinsic excitation energy and kinetic energy of the hadrons in the fireball. The triple differential d3N/dM{\pi}pdpTdy distributions of correlated {\pi}p pairs have been determined by subtracting the {\pi}p combinatorial background using an iterative method. The invariant-mass distributions in the \Delta(1232) mass region show strong deviations from a Breit-Wigner function with vacuum width and mass. The yield of correlated pion-proton pairs exhibits a complex isospin, rapidity and transverse-momentum dependence. In the invariant mass range 1.1 < Minv (GeV/c2) < 1.4, the yield is found to be similar for {\pi}+p and {\pi}-p pairs, and to follow a power law ^{\alpha}, where is the mean number of participating nucleons. The exponent {\alpha} depends strongly on the pair transverse momentum (pT) while its pT-integrated and charge-averaged value is {\alpha} = 1.5 \pm 0.08stat \pm 0.2sys., Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures

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2020
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30. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests reliably detect asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections in school-aged children that are infectious to mosquitoes

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Lorenz M. Hofer, Prisca A. Kweyamba, Rajabu M. Sayi, Mohamed S. Chabo, Sonali L. Maitra, Sarah J. Moore, and Mgeni M. Tambwe

Subjects
Malaria diagnostics, Plasmodium falciparum, Asymptomatic malaria, Malaria transmission, Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto, Gametocytes, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

Abstract Background Asymptomatic malaria infections (Plasmodium falciparum) are common in school-aged children and represent a disease transmission reservoir as they are potentially infectious to mosquitoes. To detect and treat such infections, convenient, rapid and reliable diagnostic tools are needed. In this study, malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDT), light microscopy (LM) and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) were used to evaluate their performance detecting asymptomatic malaria infections that are infectious to mosquitoes. Methods One hundred seventy asymptomatic school-aged children (6–14 years old) from the Bagamoyo district in Tanzania were screened for Plasmodium spp. infections using mRDT (SD BIOLINE), LM and qPCR. In addition, gametocytes were detected using reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) for all qPCR-positive children. Venous blood from all P. falciparum positive children was fed to female Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto mosquitoes via direct membrane feeding assays (DMFAs) after serum replacement. Mosquitoes were dissected for oocyst infections on day 8 post-infection. Results The P. falciparum prevalence in study participants was 31.7% by qPCR, 18.2% by mRDT and 9.4% by LM. Approximately one-third (31.2%) of asymptomatic malaria infections were infectious to mosquitoes in DMFAs. In total, 297 infected mosquitoes were recorded after dissections, from which 94.9% (282/297) were derived from infections detected by mRDT and 5.1% (15/297) from subpatent mRDT infections. Conclusion The mRDT can be used reliably to detect children carrying gametocyte densities sufficient to infect high numbers of mosquitoes. Subpatent mRDT infections contributed marginally to the pool of oocyts-infected mosquitoes. Graphical Abstract

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2023
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31. Production and electromagnetic decay of hyperons: a feasibility study with HADES as a Phase-0 experiment at FAIR

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Adamczewski-Musch, J., Belyaev, A., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Charlotte, C., Borisenko, D. S., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Derichs, A., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Esmail, W. A., Fateev, O., Fonte, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Förtsch, J., Galatyuk, T., Georgadze, I., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Grunwald, M., Grzonka, D., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Heybeck, B., Höhne, C., Holona, M., Holzmann, R., Huck, H., Ierusalimov, A., Imre, M., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Kampert, K-H., Kardan, B., Kedych, V., Khomyakov, V., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kozela, A., Kozlov, V., Kres, I., Kuboś, J., Kugler, A., Kulessa, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Galliard, C. Le, Lebedev, A., Lebedev, S., Linev, S., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Lykasov, G., Malige, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Michel, J., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Orfanitsky, S., Otto, J. -H., Patel, V., Pauly, C., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Andrade, G. Perez, Petukhov, O., Pfeifer, D., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Prozorov, A., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Regina, J., Reshetin, A., Reznikov, S., Rieger, J. T., Ritman, J., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Saraiva, J., Schild, N., Schwab, E., Schönning, K., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Selyuzhenkov, I., Serdyuk, V., Shabanov, A., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobiella, M., Spies, S., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sumara, K., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Szewczyk, J., Taranenko, A., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Wagner, V., Wasiluk, M., Weber, A. A., Wendisch, C., Wintz, P., Włoch, B., Zbroszczyk, H. P., Zherebzova, E., Zhilin, A., Zinchenko, A., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A feasibility study has been performed in order to investigate the performance of the HADES detector to measure the electromagnetic decays of the hyperon resonances $\Sigma(1385)^0$, $\Lambda(1405)$ and $\Lambda{\Lambda}(1520)$ as well as the production of double strange baryon systems $\Xi^-$ and $\Lambda\Lambda$ in p+p reactions at a beam kinetic energy of 4.5 GeV. The existing HADES detector will be upgraded by a new Forward Detector, which extends the detector acceptance into a range of polar angles that plays a crucial role for these investigations. The analysis of each channel is preceded by a consideration of the production cross-sections. Afterwards the expected signal count rates using a target consisting of either liquid hydrogen or polyethylene are summarized., Comment: Draft prepared by Rafa{\l} Lalik, James Ritman, Piotr Salabura, 19 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables

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2020
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32. Directed, elliptic and higher order flow harmonics of protons, deuterons and tritons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV

Author

HADES collaboration, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mamaev, M., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wójcik, D., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Flow coefficients $v_{n}$ of the orders $n = 1 - 6$ are measured with the High-Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer (HADES) at GSI for protons, deuterons and tritons as a function of centrality, transverse momentum and rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV. Combining the information from the flow coefficients of all orders allows to construct for the first time, at collision energies of a few GeV, a multi-differential picture of the angular emission pattern of these particles. It reflects the complicated interplay between the effect of the central fireball pressure on the emission of particles and their subsequent interaction with spectator matter. The high precision information on higher order flow coefficients is a major step forward in constraining the equation-of-state of dense baryonic matter., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures; Figs. 2, 3 and 5 updated from re-analysis of data including UrQMD model predictions. Plotting error in Fig. 4 corrected; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

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2020
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33. Charged pion production in $\mathbf{Au+Au}$ collisions at $\mathbf{\sqrt{s_{NN}}}$ = 2.4$\mathbf{GeV}$

Author

Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Boehmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Froehlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernhaeuser, R., Glaessel, S., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., Muentz, C., Muenzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rathod, N., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Stroebele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wojcik, D., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present high-statistic data on charged pion emission from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.4 GeV (corresponding to $E_{beam}$ = 1.23 A GeV) in four centrality classes in the range 0 - 40$\%$ of the most central collisions. The data are analyzed as a function of transverse momentum, transverse mass, rapidity, and polar angle. Pion multiplicity per participating nucleon decreases moderately with increasing centrality. The polar angular distributions are found to be non-isotropic even for the most central event class. Our results on pion multiplicity fit well into the general trend of the world data, but undershoot by $2.5 \sigma$ data from the FOPI experiment measured at slightly lower beam energy. We compare our data to state-of-the-art transport model calculations (PHSD, IQMD, PHQMD, GiBUU and SMASH) and find substantial differences between the measurement and the results of these calculations., Comment: 17 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables

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2020
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34. Two-Pion production in the second resonance region in $\pi^- p$ collisions with HADES

Author

Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepał, I., Deveaux, C., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kuboś, J., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Linev, S., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Mikhaylov, V., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Pietraszko, J., Prozorov, A. P., Przygoda, W., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Sing, U., Smyrski, J., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Ungethüm, C., Vazquez-Doce, O., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wójcik, D., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Pion induced reactions provide unique opportunities for an unambiguous description of baryonic resonances and their coupling channels by means of a partial wave analysis. Using the secondary pion beam at SIS18, the two pion production in the second resonance region has been investigated to unravel the role of the $N(1520) \frac{3}{2}^-$ resonance in the intermediate $\rho$ production. Results on exclusive channels with one pion ($\pi^{-}p$) and two pions ($\pi^{+}\pi^{-}n$, $\pi^{0}\pi^{-}p$) in the final state measured in the $\pi^{-}-p$ reaction at four different pion beam momenta (0.650, 0.685, 0.733, and 0.786 GeV/c) are presented. The excitation function of the different partial waves and $\Delta\pi$, $N\sigma$ and $N\rho$ isobar configurations is obtained, using the Bonn-Gatchina partial wave analysis. The $N(1520) \frac{3}{2}^-$ resonance is found to dominate the $N\rho$ final state with the branching ratio $BR=12.2 \pm 1.9\%$.

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2020
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35. Proton number fluctuations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.4 GeV Au+Au collisions studied with HADES

Author

Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., B"ohmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fr"ohlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernh"auser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., H"ohne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., K"ampfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., M"untz, C., M"unzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Str"obele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present an analysis of proton number fluctuations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.4 GeV Au+Au collisions measured with the High-Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer (HADES) at GSI. With the help of extensive detector simulations done with IQMD transport model events including nuclear clusters, various nuisance effects influencing the observed proton cumulants have been investigated. Acceptance and efficiency corrections have been applied as a function of fine grained rapidity and transverse momentum bins, as well as considering local track density dependencies. Next, the effects of volume changes within particular centrality selections have been considered and beyond-leading-order corrections have been applied to the data. The efficiency and volume corrected proton number moments and cumulants Kn of orders n = 1, . . . , 4 have been obtained as a function of centrality and phase-space bin, as well as the corresponding correlators C_n . We find that the observed correlators show a power-law scaling with the mean number of protons, i.e. $C_n \propto ^n$, indicative of mostly long-range multi-particle correlations in momentum space. We also present a comparison of our results with Au+Au collision data obtained at RHIC at similar centralities, but higher $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$., Comment: 35 pages, 33 figures

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2020
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36. The Athena X-IFU Instrument Simulator xifusim

Author

Kirsch, C., Lorenz, M., Peille, P., Dauser, T., Ceballos, M. T., Cobo, B., Merino-Alonso, P. E., Cucchetti, E., Smith, S. J., Gottardi, L., Hartog, R. H. den, Miniussi, A., Durkin, M., Prêle, D., and Wilms, J.

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2022
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37. A scalable high-performance magnetic shield for Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometry

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Wodey, E., Tell, D., Rasel, E. M., Schlippert, D., Baur, R., Kissling, U., Kölliker, B., Lorenz, M., Marrer, M., Schläpfer, U., Widmer, M., Ufrecht, C., Stuiber, S., and Fierlinger, P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics - Atomic Physics
Abstract

We report on the design, construction, and characterization of a 10 m-long high-performance magnetic shield for Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometry (VLBAI). We achieve residual fields below 4 nT and longitudinal inhomogeneities below 2.5 nT/m over 8 m along the longitudinal direction. Our modular design can be extended to longer baselines without compromising the shielding performance. Such a setup constrains biases associated with magnetic field gradients to the sub-pm/$\textrm{s}^2$ level in atomic matterwave accelerometry with rubidium atoms and paves the way towards tests of the universality of free fall with atomic test masses beyond the $10^{-13}$ level., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures

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2019
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38. Identical pion intensity interferometry at sqrt(s_{NN})=2.4 GeV

Author

Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wójcik, D., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

High-statistics $\pi^-\pi^-$ and $\pi^+\pi^+$ femtoscopy data are presented for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=2.4$ GeV, measured with HADES at SIS18/GSI. The experimental correlation functions allow the determination of the space-time extent of the corresponding emission sources via a comparison to models. The emission source, parametrized as three-dimensional Gaussian distribution, is studied in dependence on pair transverse momentum, azimuthal emission angle with respect to the reaction plane, collision centrality and beam energy. For all centralities and transverse momenta, a geometrical distribution of ellipsoidal shape is found in the plane perpendicular to the beam direction with the larger extension perpendicular to the reaction plane. For large transverse momenta, the corresponding eccentricity approaches the initial eccentricity. The eccentricity is smallest for most central collisions, where the shape is almost circular. The magnitude of the tilt angle of the emission ellipsoid in the reaction plane decreases with increasing centrality and increasing transverse momentum. All source radii increase with centrality, largely exhibiting a linear rise with the number of participants, irrespective of transverse momentum. A substantial charge-sign difference of the source radii is found, appearing most pronounced at low transverse momentum. The extracted source parameters are consistent with the extrapolation of their energy dependence down from higher energies., Comment: 20 pages, 19 figures, 7 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1811.06213

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2019
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39. Feeddown contributions from unstable nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Author

Vovchenko, V, Dönigus, B, Kardan, B, Lorenz, M, and Stoecker, H

Subjects
Statistical model, Light nuclei production, Excited nuclei, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract

We estimate the feeddown contributions from decays of unstable A=4 and A=5 nuclei to the final yields of protons, deuterons, tritons, 3He, and 4He produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at sNN>2.4 GeV, using the statistical model. The feeddown contribution effects do not exceed 5% at LHC and top RHIC energies due to the large penalty factors involved, but are substantial at intermediate collision energies. We observe large feeddown contributions for tritons, 3He, and 4He at sNN≲10 GeV, where they may account for as much as 70% of the final yield at the lower end of the collision energies considered. Sizable (>10%) effects for deuteron yields are observed at sNN≲4 GeV. The results suggest that the excited nuclei feeddown cannot be neglected in the ongoing and future analysis of light nuclei production at intermediate collision energies, including HADES and CBM experiments at FAIR, NICA at JINR, RHIC beam energy scan and fixed-target programmes, and NA61/SHINE at CERN. We further show that the freeze-out curve in the T-μB plane itself is affected significantly by the light nuclei at high baryochemical potential.

Published
2020

40. Sub-threshold production of K^{0}_{s} mesons and {\Lambda} hyperons in Au(1.23A GeV)+Au

Author

HADES collaboration, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K. N., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Zanevsky, Y., Zumbruch, P., and Leifels, Y.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present first data on sub-threshold production of K0 s mesons and {\Lambda} hyperons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.4 GeV. We observe an universal scaling of hadrons containing strangeness, independent of their corresponding production thresholds. Comparing the yields, their scaling, and the shapes of the rapidity and the pt spectra to state-of-the-art transport model (UrQMD, HSD, IQMD) predictions, we find that none of the latter can simultaneously describe all observables with reasonable \c{hi}2 values., Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures

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2018
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41. Strong absorption of hadrons with hidden and open strangeness in nuclear matter

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Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Atomssa, E. T., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dittert, D., Dreyer, J., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kubos, J., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Linev, S., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Markert, J., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Mikhaylov, V., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowsk, K., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Pietraszko, J., Prozorov, A. P., Przygoda, W., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rost, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schmidt-Sommerfeld, K., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Smyrski, J., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Ungethüm, C., Doce, O. Vazquez, Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present the first observation of K- and \phi absorption within nuclear matter by means of \pi- -induced reactions on C and W targets at an incident beam momentum of 1.7 GeV/c studied with HADES at SIS18/GSI. The double ratio (K-/K+)W / (K-/K+)C is found to be 0.319 \pm 0.009(stat)+0.014-0.012 (syst) indicating a larger absorption of K- in heavier targets as compared to lighter ones. The measured \phi/K- ratios in \pi-+C and \pi^- +W reactions within the HADES acceptance are found to be equal to $0.55 \pm 0.03(stat)+0.06-0.07$ (syst) and to $0.63 \pm 0.05(stat)-0.11+0.11$ (syst), respectively. The similar ratios measured in the two different reactions demonstrate for the first time experimentally that the dynamics of the \phi meson in nuclear medium is strongly coupled to the K- dynamics. The large difference in the \phi production off C and W nuclei is discussed in terms of a strong \phiN in-medium coupling., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures

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2018
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45. Proton, deuteron and triton flow measurements in Au+Au collisions at sNN=2.4 GeV

Author

Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chlad, L., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wójcik, D., and Zumbruch, P.

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2023
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46. An open-source GIS approach to understanding dunefield morphologic variability at Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), Central Australia

Author

Lorenz M. Fischer, Christian Sommer, and Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons

Subjects
geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA), open-source geographic information systems (GIS), geomorphic mapping, linear dunes, Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), Australia, Science
Abstract

Future climate projections indicate an expansion of the world’s drylands, and with that a commensurate increase in the mobilization of unconsolidated desert sediments such as sand and dust. It is therefore increasingly important to investigate the large-scale formation of dryland landscapes such as dunefields in order to better understand the processes responsible for their genesis, evolution, and thresholds for mobilization. Assessing dunefield morphologic variability, including analysis of the morphologic relationship between aeolian bedforms and other landforms such as fluvial channels and bedrock uplands, underpins such investigations. So far, however, meaningful investigations of erg-scale geomorphic patterns have been limited. This is in part due to the technological limitations of geographic information system (GIS) tools, particularly in the case of open-source datasets and software, which has effectively hindered investigations by colleagues in drylands of the global south where many of the world’s dunefields are located. Recent years have overseen the increasing availability of open-source remote sensing datasets, as well as the development of freely available software which can undertake geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA). These new tools facilitate cartography and statistical analysis of dunefields at large scales. In this study we make use of open-source GIS to characterise a morphologically diverse linear dunefield southwest of Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) in central Australia. We focus on three parameters; dune orientation, spacing and Y-junctions using semi-automated GEOBIA, and investigate these in the context of local fluvial channels, depressions (pans) and uplands. Our results suggest a possible correlation between dune orientation, wind regime and the role of uplands as deflective barriers to longitudinal dune migration; dune spacing and sediment supply, likely relating to the location of both ephemeral and abandoned fluvial channels; and Y-junction frequency with underlying topography. Our study provides a framework for understanding process-based interactions between dunes and other landforms, as well as the first completely open-source approach which can be applied to linear dunefields worldwide.

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2023
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49. Using Column Generation to Solve Extensions to the Markowitz Model

Author

Roebers, Lorenz M., Selvi, Aras, and Vera, Juan C.

Subjects
Mathematics - Optimization and Control, Quantitative Finance - Portfolio Management
Abstract

We introduce a solution scheme for portfolio optimization problems with cardinality constraints. Typical portfolio optimization problems are extensions of the classical Markowitz mean-variance portfolio optimization model. We solve such type of problems using a method similar to column generation. In this scheme, the original problem is restricted to a subset of the assets resulting in a master convex quadratic problem. Then the dual information of the master problem is used in a sub-problem to propose more assets to consider. We also consider other extensions to the Markowitz model to diversify the portfolio selection within the given intervals for active weights., Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, 1 pseudocode

Published
2018

50. Identical pion intensity interferometry in central Au+Au collisions at 1.23A GeV

Author

Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Belyaev, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Biernat, J., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chernenko, S., Chlad, L., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Dybczak, A., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzon, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Golubeva, M., Greifenhagen, R., Guber, F., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Ierusalimov, A., Ivashkin, A., Kämpfer, B., Karavicheva, T., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kotte, R., Kühn, W., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Kurepin, A., Kurilkin, A., Kurilkin, P., Ladygin, V., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lebedev, A., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Morozov, S., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K. N., Palka, M., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Sadovsky, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Strzempek, P., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Usenko, E., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wojcik, D., Zanevsky, Y., and Zumbruch, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We investigate identical pion HBT intensity interferometry for central Au+Au collisions at 1.23A GeV. High-statistics $\pi^-\pi^-$ and $\pi^+\pi^+$ data are measured with HADES at SIS18/GSI. The radius parameters, derived from the correlation function depending on relative momenta in the longitudinal-comoving system and parametrized as three-dimensional Gaussian distribution, are studied as function of transverse momentum. A substantial charge-sign difference of the source radii is found, particularly pronounced at low transverse momentum. The extracted Coulomb-corrected source parameters agree well with a smooth extrapolation of the center-of-mass energy dependence established at higher energies, extending the corresponding excitation functions down towards a very low energy. Our data would thus rather disfavour any strong energy dependence of the radius parameters in the low energy region., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, updated author and grant lists

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2018
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