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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 5

2020 May - 10 articles

Cover Story: This article presents aspects of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at energies reached at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC and the Large Hadron Collider LHC. A phenomenological viewpoint with experimental data as a guiding principle is taken, but the emphasis is on nonequilibrium statistics and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The rapid local equilibration of gluons and quarks in the initial stages of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is being modeled through exact analytical solutions of a nonlinear diffusion equation. On a similar time scale, stopping is accounted for in a QCD-inspired approach. The abundant production of charged mesons is discussed in a linear three-source relativistic diffusion model. An investigation of the dissociation of quarkonia in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) provides insights into its properties.View this paper.
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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,686 Views
13 Pages

In recent years, substantial progress has been made in black hole visualization. However, there is a lack of essential up-to-date information regarding black holes in current school curricula, in spite of students’ substantial interest in black...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Black Holes and Relativistic Jets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,382 Views
20 Pages

Localization of Energy and Momentum in an Asymptotically Reissner-Nordström Non-Singular Black Hole Space-Time Geometry

  • Irina Radinschi,
  • Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo,
  • Theophanes Grammenos,
  • Surajit Chattopadhyay and
  • Marius-Mihai Cazacu

The space-time geometry exterior to a new four-dimensional, spherically symmetric and charged black hole solution that, through a coupling of general relativity with a non-linear electrodynamics, is non-singular everywhere, for small r it behaves as...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,248 Views
9 Pages

We analyze the jet-disk coupling for different subsamples from a complete hard X-ray Seyfert sample to study the coupling indices and their relation to accretion rate. The results are: (1) the power-law coupling index ranges from nearly unity (linear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seyfert Galaxies Astrophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,777 Views
14 Pages

Evidence of Time Evolution in Quantum Gravity

  • Sergey Cherkas and
  • Vladimir Kalashnikov

In this paper, we argue that the problem of time is not a crucial issue inherent in the quantum picture of the universe evolution. On the minisuperspace model example with the massless scalar field, we demonstrate four approaches to the description o...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
3,858 Views
14 Pages

Cosmological Finsler Spacetimes

  • Manuel Hohmann,
  • Christian Pfeifer and
  • Nicoleta Voicu

Applying the cosmological principle to Finsler spacetimes, we identify the Lie Algebra of symmetry generators of spatially homogeneous and isotropic Finsler geometries, thus generalising Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker geometry. In particul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Finsler Modification of Classical General Relativity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,891 Views
7 Pages

An explanation of the origin of dark matter is suggested in this work. The argument is based on symmetry considerations about the concept of mass. In Wigner’s view, the rest mass and the spin of a free elementary particle in flat space-time are...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,588 Views
12 Pages

On the Non Metrizability of Berwald Finsler Spacetimes

  • Andrea Fuster,
  • Sjors Heefer,
  • Christian Pfeifer and
  • Nicoleta Voicu

We investigate whether Szabo’s metrizability theorem can be extended to Finsler spaces of indefinite signature. For smooth, positive definite Finsler metrics, this important theorem states that, if the metric is of Berwald type (i.e., its Chern...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Finsler Modification of Classical General Relativity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,575 Views
22 Pages

Young pulsars are thought to be highly magnetized neutron stars (NSs). The crustal magnetic field of a NS usually decays at different timescales in the forms of Hall drift and Ohmic dissipation. The magnetization parameter ω B τ i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neutron Star Astrophysics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,371 Views
30 Pages

The rapid thermalization of quarks and gluons in the initial stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is treated using analytic solutions of a nonlinear diffusion equation with schematic initial conditions, and for gluons with boundary conditions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heavy Ion Collisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,767 Views
12 Pages

Probing quark matter is one of the important tasks in the studies of neutron stars (NS). Some works explicitly consider the existence of quark matter in the appearance of hybrid star (HS) or pure quark star (QS). In the present work, we study the rot...

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