Publications

Below you can find the list of my publications. This list is likely to be outdated. See the links below for an up-to-date list:

Thesis works

  • PhD Thesis in Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt, 2018
    Title: “Quantum statistical van der Waals equation and its QCD applications”
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  • Master Thesis in Physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2013
    Title: “Evolution of the interacting hadronic system in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions”
    PDF (in Ukrainian, contains English summary)

  • Bachelor Thesis in Physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2011
    Title: “Description of the initial stage of evolution of the nucleon subsystem in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions using the Boltzmann equation”
    PDF (in Ukrainian)

List of publications

V. Koch, L. McLerran, G.A. Miller, V. Vovchenko (2024). Examining the possibility that normal nuclear matter is quarkyonic. Physical Review C 110, 025201 (2024) – Editors’ Suggestion.

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V.A. Kuznietsov, O. Savchuk, M.I. Gorenstein, V. Koch, V. Vovchenko (2022). Critical point particle number fluctuations from molecular dynamics. Physical Review C 105, 044903 (2022).

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T. Neidig, K. Gallmeister, C. Greiner, M. Bleicher, V. Vovchenko (2022). Towards solving the puzzle of high temperature light (anti)-nuclei production in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Physics Letters B 827, 136891 (2022).

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O. Savchuk, V. Vovchenko, V. Koch, J. Steinheimer, H. Stoecker (2022). Constraining baryon annihilation in the hadronic phase of heavy-ion collisions via event-by-event fluctuations. Physics Letters B 827, 136983 (2022).

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P. Hillmann, K. Käfer, J. Steinheimer, V. Vovchenko, M. Bleicher (2022). Coalescence, the thermal model and multi-fragmentation: the energy and volume dependence of light nuclei production in heavy ion collisions. Journal of Physics G 49, 055107 (2022).

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V. Vovchenko, V. Koch (2022). Thermodynamic approach to proton number fluctuations in baryon-rich heavy-ion matter created at moderate collision energies. arXiv:2204.00137.

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V. Vovchenko, V. Koch, C. Shen (2022). Proton number cumulants and correlation functions in Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7–200$ GeV from hydrodynamics. Physical Review C 105, 014904 (2022).

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V. Vovchenko (2022). Correcting event-by-event fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions for exact global conservation laws with the generalized subensemble acceptance method. Physical Review C 105, 014903 (2022).

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J.M. Karthein, V. Koch, C. Ratti, V. Vovchenko (2021). Constraining the hadronic spectrum and repulsive interactions in a hadron resonance gas via fluctuations of conserved charges. Physical Review D 104, 094009 (2021).

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O.S. Stashko, O.V. Savchuk, R.V. Poberehznyuk, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein (2021). Phase diagram of interacting pion matter and isospin charge fluctuations. Physical Review C 103, 065201 (2021).

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V. Vovchenko, V. Koch (2021). Particlization of an interacting hadron resonance gas with global conservation laws for event-by-event fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C 103, 044903 (2021).

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A. Motornenko, J. Steinheimer, V. Vovchenko, R. Stock, H. Stoecker (2021). Ambiguities in the hadro-chemical freeze-out of Au+Au collisions at SIS18 energies and how to resolve them. Physics Letters B 822, 136703 (2021).

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V. Vovchenko, V. Koch (2021). Efficiency corrections for factorial moments and cumulants of overlapping sets of particles. Nuclear Physics A 1010, 122179 (2021).

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R.V. Poberezhnyuk, O. Savchuk, M.I. Gorenstein, V. Vovchenko, H. Stoecker (2021). Higher order conserved charge fluctuations inside the mixed phase. Physical Review C 103, 024912 (2021).

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V. Vovchenko, B.B. Brandt, F. Cuteri, G. Endrődi, F. Hajkarim (2021). Pion Condensation in the Early Universe at Nonvanishing Lepton Flavor Asymmetry and Its Gravitational Wave Signatures. Physical Review Letters 126, 012701 (2021).

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V. Vovchenko, O. Savchuk, R.V. Poberezhnyuk, M.I. Gorenstein, V. Koch (2020). Connecting fluctuation measurements in heavy-ion collisions with the grand-canonical susceptibilities. Physics Letters B 811, 135868 (2020).

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V. Vovchenko, R.V. Poberezhnyuk, V. Koch (2020). Cumulants of multiple conserved charges and global conservation laws. Journal of High Energy Physics 10, 089 (2020).

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O. Savchuk, Y. Bondar, O. Stashko, R.V. Poberezhnyuk, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2020). Bose-Einstein condensation phenomenology in systems with repulsive interactions. Physical Review C 101, 024917 (2020).

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V. Vovchenko, B. Dönigus, B. Kardan, M. Lorenz, H. Stoecker (2020). Feeddown contributions from unstable nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Physics Letters B 809, 135746 (2020).

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A. Motornenko, V. Vovchenko, C. Greiner, H. Stoecker (2020). Kinetic freeze-out temperature from yields of short-lived resonances. Physical Review C 102, 024909 (2020).

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R.V. Poberezhnyuk, O. Savchuk, M.I. Gorenstein, V. Vovchenko, K. Taradiy, V.V. Begun, L. Satarov, J. Steinheimer, H. Stoecker (2020). Critical point fluctuations: Finite size and global charge conservation effects. Physical Review C 102, 024908 (2020).

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V. Vovchenko (2020). Hadron resonance gas with van der Waals interactions. International Journal of Modern Physics E 29, 2040002 (2020).

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O. Savchuk, V. Vovchenko, R.V. Poberezhnyuk, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2020). Traces of the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition in the analytic properties of hot QCD. Physical Review C 101, 035205 (2020).

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A. Motornenko, J. Steinheimer, V. Vovchenko, S. Schramm, H. Stoecker (2020). Equation of state for hot QCD and compact stars from a mean field approach. Physical Review C 101, 034904 (2020).

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O. Savchuk, V. Vovchenko, R.V. Poberezhnyuk, M.I. Gorenstein (2020). Binomial acceptance corrections for particle number distributions in high-energy reactions. Physical Review C 101, 024917 (2020).

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V. Vovchenko, C. Greiner, V. Koch, H. Stoecker (2020). Critical point signatures in the cluster expansion in fugacities. Physical Review D 101, 014015 (2020).

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V. Vovchenko, K. Gallmeister, J. Schaffner-Bielich, C. Greiner (2019). Nucleosynthesis in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC via the Saha equation. Physics Letters B 800, 135131 (2020).

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V. Vovchenko, B. Dönigus, H. Stoecker (2019). Canonical statistical model analysis of p-p, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Physical Review C 100, 054906 (2019).

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V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, C. Greiner, H. Stoecker (2019). Equation of state of QCD matter within the Hagedorn bag-like model. arXiv:1911.06420.

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R. Poberezhnyuk, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2019). Chemical freeze-out conditions and fluctuations of conserved charges in heavy-ion collisions within quantum van der Waals model. Physical Review C 100, 054904 (2019).

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V. Vovchenko, H. Stoecker (2019). Thermal-FIST: A package for heavy-ion collisions and hadronic equation of state. Computer Physics Communications 244, 295 (2019).

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V. Vovchenko, J. Steinheimer, O. Philipsen, H. Stoecker (2019). QCD equation of state at finite baryon density with fugacity expansion. PoS CORFU2018, 199 (2019).

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K. Taradiy, A. Motornenko, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2019). The analytic structure of thermodynamic systems with repulsive interactions. Physical Review C 100, 065202 (2019).

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V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, C. Greiner, H. Stoecker (2019). Hagedorn bag-like model with a crossover transition meets lattice QCD. Physical Review C 99, 045204 (2019).

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A. Motornenko, V.V. Begun, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2019). Hadron yields and fluctuations at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron: system size dependence from Pb+Pb to p+p collisions. Physical Review C 99, 034909 (2019).

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L.M. Satarov, I.N. Mishustin, A. Motornenko, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2019). Phase transitions and Bose-Einstein condensation in alpha-nucleon matter. Physical Review C 99, 024909 (2019).

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R. Poberezhnyuk, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2019). Non-congruent phase transitions in strongly interacting matter within the Quantum van der Waals model. Physical Review C 99, 024907 (2019).

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M. Hanauske, J. Steinheimer, A. Motornenko, V. Vovchenko, L. Bovard, E.R. Most, L.J. Papenfort, S. Schramm, H. Stoecker (2019). Neutron Star Mergers: Probing the EoS of Hot, Dense Matter by Gravitational Waves. Particles 2, 44 (2019).

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V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2018). Monte Carlo approach to the excluded-volume hadron resonance gas in grand canonical and canonical ensembles. Physical Review C 98, 064909 (2018).

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V.V. Begun, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2018). Puzzles in statistical hadron-gas treatment of systems created in proton-proton interactions at CERN SPS. Physical Review C 98, 054909 (2018).

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V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2018). Finite resonance widths influence the thermal-model description of hadron yields. Physical Review C 98, 034906 (2018).

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V.V. Begun, D. Kikoła, V. Vovchenko, D. Wielanek (2018). Estimation of the freeze-out parameters reachable in a fixed-target experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Physical Review C 98, 034905 (2018).

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A. Motornenko, V. Vovchenko, J. Steinheimer, S. Schramm, H. Stoecker (2018). QCD at high density: Equation of state for nuclear collisions and neutron stars. Nucl. Phys. A 982, 891 (2019).

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V. Vovchenko, B. Dönigus, H. Stoecker (2018). Multiplicity dependence of light nuclei production at LHC energies in the canonical statistical model. Physics Letters B 785, 171 (2018).

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V. Vovchenko, L. Jiang, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2018). Critical point of nuclear matter and beam energy dependence of net proton number fluctuations. Physical Review C 98, 024910 (2018).

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V. Vovchenko, J. Steinheimer, O. Philipsen, A. Pasztor, Z. Fodor, S.D. Katz, H. Stoecker (2018). Lattice-based QCD equation of state at finite baryon density: Cluster Expansion Model. Nucl. Phys. A 982, 859 (2019).

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V. Vovchenko, J. Steinheimer, O. Philipsen, H. Stoecker (2018). Cluster Expansion Model for QCD Baryon Number Fluctuations: No Phase Transition at $\mu_B / T < \pi$. Physical Review D 97, 114030 (2018).

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P. Alba, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2018). Flavor-dependent eigenvolume interactions in a hadron resonance gas. Nuclear Physics A 974, 22 (2018).

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V. Vovchenko, A. Motornenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2018). Beth-Uhlenbeck approach for repulsive interactions between baryons in a hadron gas. Physical Review C 97, 035202 (2018).

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V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2018). Modeling baryonic interactions with the Clausius-type equation of state. European Physical Journal A 54, 16 (2018).

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J. Steinheimer, V. Vovchenko, J. Aichelin, M. Bleicher, H. Stöcker (2017). Conserved charge fluctuations are not conserved during the hadronic phase. Physics Letters B 776, 32 (2018).

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L.M. Satarov, M.I. Gorenstein, A. Motornenko, V. Vovchenko, I.N. Mishustin, H. Stoecker (2017). Bose–Einstein condensation and liquid–gas phase transition in strongly interacting matter composed of $\alpha$ particles. Journal of Physics G 44, 125102 (2017).

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V. Vovchenko, A. Pasztor, Z. Fodor, S.D. Katz, H. Stoecker (2017). Repulsive baryonic interactions and lattice QCD observables at imaginary chemical potential. Physics Letters B 775, 71 (2017).

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R.V. Poberezhnyuk, V. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2017). Quantum van der Waals and Walecka models of nuclear matter. International Journal of Modern Physics E 26, 1750061 (2017).

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V. Vovchenko, A. Motornenko, P. Alba, M.I. Gorenstein, L.M. Satarov, H. Stoecker (2017). Multicomponent van der Waals equation of state: Applications in nuclear and hadronic physics. Physical Review C 96, 045202 (2017).

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V. Vovchenko (2017). Equations of state for real gases on the nuclear scale. Physical Review C 96, 015206 (2017).

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V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2017). van der Waals Interactions in Hadron Resonance Gas: From Nuclear Matter to Lattice QCD. Physical Review Letters 118, 182301 (2017).

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V. Vovchenko, H. Stoecker (2017). Examination of the sensitivity of the thermal fits to heavy-ion hadron yield data to the modeling of the eigenvolume interactions. Physical Review C 95, 044904 (2017).

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V. Vovchenko, H. Stöcker (2017). Surprisingly large uncertainties in temperature extraction from thermal fits to hadron yield data at LHC. Journal of Physics G 44, 055103 (2017).

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V.V. Begun, V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein (2017). Updates to the p+p and A+A chemical freeze-out lines from the new experimental data. Journal of Physics Conference Series 779, 012080 (2017).

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L.M. Satarov, V. Vovchenko, P. Alba, M.I. Gorenstein, H. Stoecker (2017). New scenarios for hard-core interactions in a hadron resonance gas. Physical Review C 95, 024902 (2017).

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V. Vovchenko, H. Stoecker (2017). Analysis of hadron yield data within hadron resonance gas model with multi-component eigenvolume corrections. Journal of Physics Conference Series 779, 012078 (2017).

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P. Alba, V. Vovchenko, H. Stoecker (2016). Study of hard core repulsive interactions in an hadronic gas from a comparison with lattice QCD. Journal of Physics Conference Series 736, 012022 (2016).

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R.V. Poberezhnyuk, V. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2016). Limiting temperature of pion gas with the van der Waals equation of state. Journal of Physics G 43, 095105 (2016).

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V. Vovchenko, I.A. Karpenko, M.I. Gorenstein, L.M. Satarov, I.N. Mishustin, B. Kämpfer, H. Stoecker (2016). Electromagnetic probes of a pure-glue initial state in nucleus-nucleus collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Physical Review C 94, 024906 (2016).

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V. Vovchenko, L.-G. Pang, H. Niemi, I.A. Karpenko, M.I. Gorenstein, L.M. Satarov, I.N. Mishustin, B. Kämpfer, H. Stoecker (2016). Hydrodynamic modeling of a pure-glue initial scenario in high-energy hadron and heavy-ion collisions. PoS BORMIO2016, 039 (2016).

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V. Vovchenko, V.V. Begun, M.I. Gorenstein (2016). Hadron multiplicities and chemical freeze-out conditions in proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions. Physical Review C 93, 064906 (2016).

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V. Vovchenko, M.I. Gorenstein, L.M. Satarov, I.N. Mishustin, L.P. Csernai, I. Kisel, H. Stöcker (2016). Entropy production in chemically nonequilibrium quark-gluon plasma created in central Pb+Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Physical Review C 93, 014906 (2016).

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H. Stoecker, K. Zhou, S. Schramm, F. Senzel, C. Greiner, M. Beitel, K. Gallmeister, M. Gorenstein, I. Mishustin, D. Vasak, J. Steinheimer, J. Struckmeier, V. Vovchenko, L. Satarov, Z. Xu, P. Zhuang, L.P. Csernai, B. Sinha, S. Raha, T.S. Biró, M. Panero (2015). Glueballs amass at RHIC and LHC Colliders! - The early quarkless 1st order phase transition at $T=270$ MeV - from pure Yang-Mills glue plasma to GlueBall-Hagedorn states. Journal of Physics G 43, 015105 (2016).

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V. Vovchenko, R.V. Poberezhnyuk, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2015). Non-Gaussian particle number fluctuations in vicinity of the critical point for van der Waals equation of state. Journal of Physics A 49, 015003 (2016).

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V. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein, R.V. Poberezhnyuk (2015). Scaled variance, skewness, and kurtosis near the critical point of nuclear matter. Physical Review C 92, 054901 (2015).

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H. Stocker, M. Beitel, T.S. Biro, L.P. Csernai, K. Gallmeister, M.I. Gorenstein, C. Greiner, I.N. Mishustin, M. Panero, S. Raha, L.M. Satarov, S. Schramm, F. Senzel, B. Sinha, J. Steinheimer, J. Struckmeier, V. Vovchenko, Z. Xu, K. Zhou, P. Zhuang (2015). Under‐saturation of quarks at early stages of relativistic nuclear collisions: The hot glue initial scenario and its observable signatures. Astron.Nachrichten 336, 744-748 (2015).

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D. Anchishkin, V. Vovchenko (2015). Mean-field approach in the multi-component gas of interacting particles applied to relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Journal of Physics G 42, 105102 (2015).

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V. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2015). Particle number fluctuations for the van der Waals equation of state. Journal of Physics A 48, 305001 (2015).

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V. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2015). Van der Waals Equation of State with Fermi Statistics for Nuclear Matter. Physical Review C 91, 064314 (2015).

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V.Y. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2015). Mean transverse mass of hadrons in proton–proton reactions. Nuclear Physics A 936, 1-5 (2015).

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V. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2015). Hadron Resonance Gas Equation of State from Lattice QCD. Physical Review C 91, 024905 (2015).

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V. Vovchenko, D. Anchishkin, L.P. Csernai (2014). Time dependence of partition into spectators and participants in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C 90, 044907 (2014).

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V.Y. Vovchenko, D.V. Anchishkin, M.I. Gorenstein (2014). System-size and energy dependence of particle momentum spectra: The UrQMD analysis of $p+p$ and Pb + Pb collisions. Physical Review C 90, 024916 (2014).

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V. Vovchenko, D. Anchishkin, J. Azema, P. Lombardo, R. Hayn, A.-M. Daré (2013). A new approach to time-dependent transport through an interacting quantum dot within the Keldysh formalism. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 26, 015306 (2014).

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V. Vovchenko, D. Anchishkin, L.P. Csernai (2013). Longitudinal fluctuations of the center of mass of the participants in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C 88, 014901 (2013).

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D. Anchishkin, V. Vovchenko, S. Yezhov (2013). Hadronic Reaction Zones in Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions. International Journal of Modern Physics E 22, 1350042 (2013).

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D. Anchishkin, V. Vovchenko, L.P. Csernai (2013). Pionic freeze-out hypersurfaces in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Physical Review C 87, 014906 (2013).

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