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相对论重离子碰撞中介子的产生
陈金辉中国科学院上海应用物理研究所
QCD相变与重离子碰撞物理国际暨第七届全国研讨会@USTC2008年 7月 10号 -12号
Many thanks to: X. Cai, S. Blyth, F. Jin, H. Huang, G. Ma, J. Ma,
B. Mohanty, N. Xu …
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Outline
Introduction– What we have learnt from RHIC
Motivation– Why we focus on -meson?
Results– -meson elliptic flow measurement– -meson spectra measurement– / and / ratio
Conclusion and Outlook
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pT Scales and Physical ProcessesRCP
Three PT Regions:
-- Fragmentation (high pT jet energy loss)
-- multi-parton dynamics (recombination or coalescence or …)
-- Hydrodynamics (constituent quarks ? parton dynamics from gluons to constituent quarks? )
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High pT suppression
Very dense matter has been created in central Au+Au collisions
The dense matter is responsible for the suppression of high pT particles and the disappearance of back-to-back correlation
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The Suppression is the Same for and – Parton level effect
No suppression photons don’t participate!
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High pT phenomena at RHIC
Very dense matter has been created in central Au+Au collisions!
This dense matter is responsible for the suppression of high pT particles and the disappearance of back-to-back correlation!
The energy loss observed at RHIC is in parton level, but the mechanism for parton energy loss is yet to be understood! [Won’t elaborate in this talk.]
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Intermediate pT, large p/ratio
Unexpected large p/ ratio in central Au+Au collisions
– The hadronization scheme should be different from e+e- !
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Intermediate pT, v2 and RCP grouping
STAR
PHENIX
Baryon
Meson
V2 and RCP for PID measurement shown a B/M grouping behavior
– partonic degree of freedom?
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What can we learn from those phenomena?
At RHIC intriguing experimental features:– enhanced baryon over meson production– strong elliptic flow– grouping behavior of v2 and RCP for PID
? Hadronization of bulk dense matter created at RHIC should be different from e+e- collisions! ? Quark Coalescence/Recombination ? Evidence for Deconfinement ? Possible for mass-effect rather than B/M type
are particularly important probes for these issues!
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Why -meson ?
[1] A. Shor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (1985) 1122
K+
K-
K-
K+
φ
φφ
K+K-
QGP The -meson is a clean probe from early time:● Small for interactions with non-strange
particles[1]
● Relatively long-lived (41 fm/c) → decays outside the fireball
The -mesoncan provide info on particle production mechanisms /medium constituents:● Theis a meson but as heavy as , p
baryons (mass vs. particle type?)
An interesting probe to understand the strangeness dynamics:● No net strangeness in the initial colliding nuclei
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-meson measurement, v2 and RCP
For v2 and RCP measurement, -meson follows the trend observed in the Ks, mesons rather than in the p baryons
– clear signature for the Coa./Reco. hadronization mechanism.STAR Col. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, (2007) 112301.
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-meson production at RHIC
<pT>
/K-
STAR Col. Phys. Lett. B 612, (2005) 181,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, (2007) 112301.
1. Evolution in the centrality dependence;
2. <pT>, -meson may decouple early;
3. N()/N(K), ruled out the K-coalescence.
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’sare mostly from bulk s quarks
N()/N() vs. pT is consistent with a model based on the recombination of thermal s quarks up to pT ~ 4.0 GeV/c, but disagrees at higher pT.
v2() shows similar behavior as PID’s, positive signature for partonic collectivity at RHIC.
STAR Col. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, (2007) 112301.
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Parton pT distributions at Hadronization?
)2/(
)3/(
)2/(
)3/(
T
T
T
T
p
pd
p
ps
Can we extract the strange quark pT distribution from multi-strange hadron data? If baryons of pT are mostly formed from coalescence of partons at pT/3 and mesons of pT are mostly formed from coalescence of partons at pT/2
and particles have no decay feed-down contribution!These particles will freeze-out earlier from the system and have small hadronic rescattering cross sections[1,2].
[1] A. Shor, PRL 54 (1985) 1122;[2] H. Van Hecke et al., PRL 81 (1998) 5764.
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Strange and down quark distribution
Strange quark distributions are flatter than light quarks!
arXiv:0801.2265
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Test on s/d ratio at hadronization
s/d quark ratios
=
= Yes! but with large uncertainties due to decay feed-down corrections in
arXiv:0801.2265
X. Wang
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Summary and Conclusion
N()/N(K) vs. Npart rules out the Kaon coalescence as a dominant channel for production at RHIC;
N()/N() vs. pT favors the model prediction that s are made via thermalied s-quarks coalescence at RHIC;
v2() vs. pT conclude that the partonic collectivity has been formed at RHIC;
N()/N() and N()/N() vs. pT/nq indicate that strange quarks may have developed a stronger collective radial flow than the light quarks during the initial parton evolution at RHIC;
Since mesons are made via coalescence of seemingly thermalized s quarks in central Au+Au collisions, the observations imply hot and dense matter with partonic collectivity has been formed at RHIC.
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Outlook: Extend PID Capability
ToF detector updated:
— 5 trays of ToF system installed in Run 8, commissioned, and used for physics.
— 90 (of 120) ToF trays to be installed for Run 9 and will be completed before Run 10.
/K separation to 1.6 GeV/c (0.65 TPC) (+K)/p to 3 GeV/c (1.1 TPC) Clean electron ID down to 0.2 GeV
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The location of the QCD Critical Point
Outlook: RHIC is ready for the Beam Energy Scan
Hadron gas
QGP
sketch by P. Sorensen
Key measurements
— PID spectra and v2
— K/ , <pT> … fluctuation