Post on 30-Dec-2015
Outline Jet and it’s importance in RHIC
Jets and hard scattering soft vs hard pQCD approach
pp pA AA
Angular correlation some examples Phenix experiment my angular correlation study outlook
Summary
Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC)
Goal Searching for the quark gluon plasma(QGP) exploring the physics of this new state of matter.
Jet quenching as probe
Au Au at
AGeVs 200
Jet quenching: a QGP signature
What is a Jet ? QCD energy loss in deconfined dense
matter Theory prediction dE/dx = 2-4GeV/fm QGP suppresses high pt particles
and angular correlations
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Jet and hard scattering at Jet production rate (K.J.Eskola,hep-ph/9610365)
Hard scattering contribution to particle production is important( )
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At SPS ( ) Hydrodynamic models. pQCD(X.N.Wang, hep-ph/9804357) at SPS : both works. Small jet cross-section, measure only to
At RHIC ( ) increase , larger jet cross-section,measure
to high pt ( ). Angular correlation
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pQCD approach
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Need to take into account intrinsic pt of partons Uncertainty principle high order pQCD process(initial state radiation,etc)
modify parton distribution function
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Assume only one hard parton-parton collision.
Enhancement of high Pt spectra (Cronin effect ) decrease with 1/pt
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AA--Jet quenching If we have QGP, multiple interactions of parton with
the medium lead to loss of energy. Time scale
(h 1/p0 0.1fm/c, p0 2GeV/c, s 1/QCD 1 fm/c)
High pt parton collisions happen in the earliest stage of collision. Then they suffer energy loss in the medium.
Hijing Assume (model dependent): constant energy loss incoherent multiple scattering.
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Angular correlation At RHIC
Back-to-Back correlation: QGP
(Di-)Jets suppression enhanced acoplanarity.
Study the centrality (impact parameter) dependence From peripheral to central
Some examples
Phenix Detector Good Charged particle tracking
high pt resolution, high interaction rate, L=1026~27cm2/s (read out 50Hz)
Phenix detector acceptance default acceptance:
Pt 0.2 GeV/c; 70<<110 or ||<0.35 -33.75<<56.25, 123.75<<213.75
1/2*sin(/2) = 17 of 4 acceptance in azimuthal leads to an intrinsic jet shape
Phenix acceptance : http://skipper.physics.sunysb.edu:80/talks/jjia
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Studies of pp collisions at
Pythia Generator 100000 pp events at min jet pt = 20GeV/c.
Analysis scheme (as CCOR): study distributions:
back to back correlation of jets ( w/o acceptance) modification with a HIC background (RQMD)
• one Pythia event(two jets) mixed with one RQMD event
effect of Phenix acceptance.
GeVs 200
GeVs 200
Outlook RQMD (Hadrons + Strings)
use other models as background (Hijing, Strings + Minijets) Determine methods to correct for and acceptance of Phenix(limited acceptance)
event by event acceptance correction investigate the fiducial region(,,pt)
Study angular correlation function: Rate estimate(1/2000) when we have the data….
Study angular correlation as a function of centrality. )2
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Detector acceptance
Summary Large pt partons or Jets are good probes of the dense matter in ultra-
relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In RHIC, can use pQCD based models to calculate high pt spectra.
Need to combine soft and hard processes together. Study back to back jets angular correlation
if QGP is generated, angular correlation will be affected by jet quenching
Phenix detector have limited acceptance, we can: increase pt and use the fiducial region learn how to correct for and acceptance.
We will further our study on jet angular correlation and look for jet quenching as a probe of QGP formation at RHIC.
References K.J.Eskola,hep-ph/9601365.
Give the parton production rate. Also K.J.Eskola,K.Kajantie,and J.Lindfors Nucl.Phys.B323,37(1989)
it calculate the parton production rate, saying: for RHIC, U + U, have 290 partons Pt>2GeV, and 75 partons Pt>3GeV. For hard Et,SPS 5%, RHIC 50%, Tevatron 80%.
X.N.Wang,nucl-th/9812021. Base of this talk.
X.N.Wang,Phys.Rep.280,287(1997). Base of this talk.
J.F.Owens,Rev.Mod.Phys. 59, 465 (1987). Gives the jet cross section formula.
X.N.Wang,hep-ph/9804357. Calculate the jet quenching under simple assumption.
M.Arneodo,Phys.Rep.240,301(1994) shadowing effect.
K.Geiger. Ultra-Relativistic nuclear collisions in a QCD based space-time description:the parton cascade model
a very good article delving into the history of AA collision, comparing with Hijing, and have a lot of interesting graph.
Nucl.Phys.B480 406. Having UA1 Jet cross section measurement
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