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Preequilibrium particle emissions and in-medium effects on the pion production in heavy-ion collisions

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Within the framework of the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics (LQMD) transport model, pion dynamics in heavy-ion collisions near threshold energies and the emission of preequilibrium particles (nucleons and light complex fragments) have been investigated. A density, momentum and isospin-dependent pion-nucleon potential based on the \(\Delta\)-hole model is implemented in the transport approach, which slightly leads to the increase of the \(\pi^{-}/\pi^{+}\) ratio, but reduces the total pion yields. It is found that a bump structure of the \(\pi^{-}/\pi^{+}\) ratio in the kinetic energy spectra appears at the pion energy close to the \(\Delta (1232)\) resonance region. The yield ratios of neutrons to protons from the squeeze-out particles perpendicular to the reaction plane are sensitive to the stiffness of nuclear symmetry energy, in particular at the high-momentum (kinetic energy) tails.

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Feng, ZQ. Preequilibrium particle emissions and in-medium effects on the pion production in heavy-ion collisions. Eur. Phys. J. A 53, 30 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12217-6

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