The European Physical Journal A (EPJ A)

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Topical issue on Exploring Strongly Interacting Matter at High Densities - NICA White Paper 267

David Blaschke, Jörg Aichelin, Elena Bratkovskaya, Volker Friese, Marek Gazdzicki, Jørgen Randrup, Oleg Rogachevsky, Oleg Teryaev and Viacheslav Toneev

Published online: 29 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16267-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Exploring dense and cold QCD in magnetic fields 266

E. J. Ferrer and V. de la Incera

Published online: 29 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16266-y

Review

Particle correlations and the chiral magnetic effect 265

Adam Bzdak, Volker Koch and Jinfeng Liao

Published online: 29 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16265-0

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Letter

Evidence for creation of strong electromagnetic fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions 264

V. Toneev, O. Rogachevsky and V. Voronyuk

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16264-1

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Magnetic fields in QCD vacuum: A lattice view 263

P. V. Buividovich

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16263-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Imprints of a critical point on photon emission 262

F. Wunderlich and B. Kämpfer

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16262-3

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

From soft photon study at Nuclotron and U-70 to NICA - Soft photons 261

E. Ardashev, V. Avdeichikov, V. Balandin, G. Bogdanova, V. Dunin, O. Gavrishchuk, V. Golovkin, S. Golovnya, S. Gorokhov, A. Isupov et al. (22 more)

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16261-4

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Letter

Solving the problem of anomalous J/ suppression by the MPD experiment on the NICA collider 260

A. B. Kurepin and N. S. Topilskaya

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16260-5

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Diphoton and dipion productions at the Nuclotron/NICA 259

Kh. U. Abraamyan, A. B. Anisimov, M. I. Baznat, K. K. Gudima, M. A. Kozhin, V. I. Kukulin, M. A. Nazarenko, S. G. Reznikov and A. S. Sorin

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16259-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Dilepton and meson production in elementary and nuclear collisions at the NICA fixed-target experiment 258

György Wolf and Miklós Zétényi

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16258-y

Review

Thermal electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions 257

R. Rapp and H. van Hees

Published online: 24 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16257-0

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

NICA fixed target mode: Soft jet studies in the relative 4-velocity space 256

V. A. Okorokov

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16256-1

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

NICA-MPD: Azimuthal and femtoscopic particle correlations 255

V. A. Okorokov

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16255-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Analogy of QCD hadronization and Hawking-Unruh radiation at NICA 254

Abdel Nasser Tawfik

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16254-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Axiomatic nonextensive statistics at NICA energies 253

Abdel Nasser Tawfik

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16253-4

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Letter

Importance of third moments of fluctuations of conserved charges in relativistic heavy-ion collisions 252

Masayuki Asakawa, Shinji Ejiri and Masakiyo Kitazawa

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16252-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Complete strangeness measurements in heavy-ion collisions 251

Boris Tomášik and Evgeni E. Kolomeitsev

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16251-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Net baryon fluctuations from a crossover equation of state 250

J. Kapusta, M. Albright and C. Young

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16250-7

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Scaling in heavy-ion collisions and the low-energy frontier 249

Giorgio Torrieri

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16249-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Perspectives of anisotropic flow measurements at NICA 248

V. L. Korotkikh, I. P. Lokhtin, L. V. Malinina, S. V. Petrushanko and A. M. Snigirev

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16248-1

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies 247

Yu. B. Ivanov and A. A. Soldatov

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16247-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Directed flow is a sensitive probe of deconfinement transition 246

Yu. B. Ivanov and A. A. Soldatov

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16246-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at NICA: What is interesting to measure? 245

L. V. Bravina and E. E. Zabrodin

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16245-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Light cluster production at NICA 244

N. -U. Bastian, P. Batyuk, D. Blaschke, P. Danielewicz, Yu. B. Ivanov, Iu. Karpenko, G. Röpke, O. Rogachevsky and H. H. Wolter

Published online: 23 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16244-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Search for scaling onset in exclusive reactions with the lightest nuclei 243

Yu. N. Uzikov

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16243-6

Review

Relativistic ion collisions as the source of hypernuclei 242

A. S. Botvina, M. Bleicher, J. Pochodzalla and J. Steinheimer

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16242-7

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Measurement of strange particle production in the NICA fixed-target programme 241

Volker Friese

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16241-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Phenomena at the QCD phase transition in nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics (N FD) 240

Marlene Nahrgang and Christoph Herold

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16240-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Spinodal amplification and baryon number fluctuations in nuclear collisions at NICA 239

Jan Steinheimer and Jørgen Randrup

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16239-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Baryon stopping probes deconfinement 238

Georg Wolschin

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16238-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Baryon stopping in heavy-ion collisions at E_lab = 2A-200A GeV 237

Yu. B. Ivanov and D. Blaschke

Published online: 22 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16237-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Observables of non-equilibrium phase transition^⋆ 236

Boris Tomášik, Martin Schulc, Ivan Melo and Renata Kopečná

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16236-5

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Missing baryonic resonances in the Hagedorn spectrum 235

Pok Man Lo, Michał Marczenko, Krzysztof Redlich and Chihiro Sasaki

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16235-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Investigating the QCD phase diagram with hadron multiplicities at NICA 234

F. Becattini and R. Stock

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16234-7

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Strangeness production at high baryon density 233

Helmut Satz

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16233-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Neutron star mass limit at 2M_⊙ supports the existence of a CEP 232

D. Alvarez-Castillo, S. Benic, D. Blaschke, Sophia Han and S. Typel

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16232-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Supporting the search for the CEP location with nonlocal PNJL models constrained by lattice QCD 231

Gustavo A. Contrera, A. Gabriela Grunfeld and David Blaschke

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16231-x

Review

Combined chiral and diquark fluctuations along QCD critical line and enhanced baryon production with parity doubling 230

Zhao Zhang and Teiji Kunihiro

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16230-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Glueballs and vector mesons at NICA 229

Denis Parganlija

Published online: 19 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16229-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Isentropic thermodynamics and scalar-mesons properties near the QCD critical end point 228

Pedro Costa

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16228-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

New signals of quark-gluon-hadron mixed phase formation 227

K. A. Bugaev, V. V. Sagun, A. I. Ivanytskyi, D. R. Oliinychenko, E. -M. Ilgenfritz, E. G. Nikonov, A. V. Taranenko and G. M. Zinovjev

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16227-6

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

From ultra-dense QCD towards NICA densities: Color-flavor locking and other color superconductors 226

Andreas Schmitt

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16226-7

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Consequences of simultaneous chiral symmetry breaking and deconfinement for the isospin symmetric phase diagram 225

Tobias Fischer, Thomas Klähn and Matthias Hempel

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16225-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Probing the hadron-quark mixed phase at high isospin and baryon density - Sensitive observables 224

Massimo Di Toro, Maria Colonna, Vincenzo Greco and Guo-Yun Shao

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16224-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Comments on manifestation of in-medium effects in heavy-ion collisions 223

D. N. Voskresensky

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16223-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Strangeness as a probe to baryon-rich QCD matter at NICA 222

Kenji Fukushima

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16222-y

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Studying the interplay of strong and electromagnetic forces in heavy-ion collisions with NICA 221

A. Rybicki, A. Szczurek, M. Kłusek-Gawenda and I. Sputowska

Published online: 16 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16221-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Novel QCD physics at NICA 220

Stanley J. Brodsky

Published online: 15 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16220-1

Review

Observables and open problems for NICA 219

E. L. Bratkovskaya, W. Cassing, P. Moreau and A. Palmese

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16219-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Exploring high-density baryonic matter: Maximum freeze-out density 218

Jørgen Randrup and Jean Cleymans

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16218-7

Review

Nuclear matter physics at NICA 217

P. Senger

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16217-8

Open Access

Letter

Multi-purpose detector at the JINR NICA collider in the landscape of heavy-ion projects 216

Marek Gazdzicki

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16216-9

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Spin physics experiments at NICA-SPD with polarized proton and deuteron beams 215

I. Savin, A. Efremov, D. Pshekhonov, A. Kovalenko, O. Teryaev, O. Shevchenko, A. Nagajcev, A. Guskov, V. Kukhtin and N. Toplilin

Published online: 12 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16215-x

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Simulation and analysis software for the NICA experiments 214

K. Gertsenberger, S. Merts, O. Rogachevsky and A. Zinchenko

Published online: 11 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16214-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

The fixed target experiment for studies of baryonic matter at the Nuclotron (BM@N) 213

Mikhail Kapishin

Published online: 09 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16213-0

Review

The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) of the collider experiment 212

V. Golovatyuk, V. Kekelidze, V. Kolesnikov, O. Rogachevsky and A. Sorin

Published online: 09 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16212-1

Review

Three stages of the NICA accelerator complex 211

V. D. Kekelidze, R. Lednicky, V. A. Matveev, I. N. Meshkov, A. S. Sorin and G. V. Trubnikov

Published online: 08 August 2016

DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2016-16211-2

EPJ

The European Physical Journal A

Volume 52 / No 8 (August 2016)

Exploring strongly interacting matter at high densities - NICA White Paper

Topical issue on Exploring Strongly Interacting Matter at High Densities - NICA White Paper 267

Exploring dense and cold QCD in magnetic fields 266

Particle correlations and the chiral magnetic effect 265

Evidence for creation of strong electromagnetic fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions 264

Magnetic fields in QCD vacuum: A lattice view 263

Imprints of a critical point on photon emission 262

From soft photon study at Nuclotron and U-70 to NICA - Soft photons 261

Solving the problem of anomalous J/ suppression by the MPD experiment on the NICA collider 260

Diphoton and dipion productions at the Nuclotron/NICA 259

Dilepton and meson production in elementary and nuclear collisions at the NICA fixed-target experiment 258

Thermal electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions 257

NICA fixed target mode: Soft jet studies in the relative 4-velocity space 256

NICA-MPD: Azimuthal and femtoscopic particle correlations 255

Analogy of QCD hadronization and Hawking-Unruh radiation at NICA 254

Axiomatic nonextensive statistics at NICA energies 253

Importance of third moments of fluctuations of conserved charges in relativistic heavy-ion collisions 252

Complete strangeness measurements in heavy-ion collisions 251

Net baryon fluctuations from a crossover equation of state 250

Scaling in heavy-ion collisions and the low-energy frontier 249

Perspectives of anisotropic flow measurements at NICA 248

Elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies 247

Directed flow is a sensitive probe of deconfinement transition 246

Directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at NICA: What is interesting to measure? 245

Light cluster production at NICA 244

Search for scaling onset in exclusive reactions with the lightest nuclei 243

Relativistic ion collisions as the source of hypernuclei 242

Measurement of strange particle production in the NICA fixed-target programme 241

Phenomena at the QCD phase transition in nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics (N FD) 240

Spinodal amplification and baryon number fluctuations in nuclear collisions at NICA 239

Baryon stopping probes deconfinement 238

Baryon stopping in heavy-ion collisions at Elab = 2A-200A GeV 237

Observables of non-equilibrium phase transition⋆ 236

Missing baryonic resonances in the Hagedorn spectrum 235

Investigating the QCD phase diagram with hadron multiplicities at NICA 234

Strangeness production at high baryon density 233

Neutron star mass limit at 2M⊙ supports the existence of a CEP 232

Supporting the search for the CEP location with nonlocal PNJL models constrained by lattice QCD 231

Combined chiral and diquark fluctuations along QCD critical line and enhanced baryon production with parity doubling 230

Glueballs and vector mesons at NICA 229

Isentropic thermodynamics and scalar-mesons properties near the QCD critical end point 228

New signals of quark-gluon-hadron mixed phase formation 227

From ultra-dense QCD towards NICA densities: Color-flavor locking and other color superconductors 226

Consequences of simultaneous chiral symmetry breaking and deconfinement for the isospin symmetric phase diagram 225

Probing the hadron-quark mixed phase at high isospin and baryon density - Sensitive observables 224

Comments on manifestation of in-medium effects in heavy-ion collisions 223

Strangeness as a probe to baryon-rich QCD matter at NICA 222

Studying the interplay of strong and electromagnetic forces in heavy-ion collisions with NICA 221

Novel QCD physics at NICA 220

Observables and open problems for NICA 219

Exploring high-density baryonic matter: Maximum freeze-out density 218

Nuclear matter physics at NICA 217

Multi-purpose detector at the JINR NICA collider in the landscape of heavy-ion projects 216

Spin physics experiments at NICA-SPD with polarized proton and deuteron beams 215

Simulation and analysis software for the NICA experiments 214

The fixed target experiment for studies of baryonic matter at the Nuclotron (BM@N) 213

The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) of the collider experiment 212

Three stages of the NICA accelerator complex 211

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Baryon stopping in heavy-ion collisions at E_lab = 2A-200A GeV 237

Observables of non-equilibrium phase transition^⋆ 236

Neutron star mass limit at 2M_⊙ supports the existence of a CEP 232