121967811
The equation of state study in UU collisions at CSR, Lanzhou
The cooling storage ring, to be built at Lanzhou, will be able to deliver heavy ion beams up to uranium up to 0.52 GeV/u. It is expected to make considerable contribution to nuclear EOS study in the high net baryon-density region. With a relativistic transport model, we performed simulations for U+U collisions with different orientations. It is shown that by combining the forward neutron multiplicity and an event-wise elliptic flow selection, it is possible to identify the tip-tip and body-body head-on collisions. The effective identification of these two extreme configurations will allow us to study the EOS at the highest baryon density in the U+U collisions.
119270025
Search for the QCD Critical Point by Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at STAR
Abstract We present the measurements of the higher moments of the net-proton multiplicity distributions in Au + Au collisions from the first phase of the beam energy scan program at RHIC. The measurements are carried out at midrapidity ( | y | 0.5 ) and within the transverse momentum range 0.4 p T 0.8 GeV / c by STAR. We report the centrality and energy dependence of the moment products ( κ σ 2 and Sσ ), with σ 2 , S and κ being the variance, skewness and kurtosis, respectively. These moment products are related to the ratios of various order baryon number susceptibilities and sensitive to the correlation length, and hence can be used to search for the QCD critical point. The results are compared to the Poisson expectations, as well as transport model calculations to understand the contributions from effects not related to critical physics.
20087962
Research on DC-clearing electric field and changes of focusing structure parameters of storage ring
This paper presents DC clearing field to clear ions in vacuum pipe of Hefei ring. It also presents changes of focusing structure parameters caused by the clearing field. It concludes that tune shifts caused by the field are related to real-time closed orbit of the beam. The paper points out that the field asymmetrically distributed along the ring destroys the symmetry of focusing structure and decreases the ring acceptance, which has negative effect to injection and accumulation process in certain condition.
118720003
Probing the QCD Critical Point with Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions
Higher moments of event-by-event net-proton multiplicity distributions are applied to search for the QCD critical point in the heavy ion collisions. It has been demonstrated that higher moments as well as moment products are sensitive to the correlation length and directly connected to the thermodynamic susceptibilities computed in the Lattice QCD and Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model. In this paper, we will present measurements for kurtosis ($\kappa$), skewness ($S$) and variance ($\sigma^{2}$) of net-proton multiplicity distributions at the mid-rapidity ($|y|<0.5$) and $0.4<p_{T}<0.8$ GeV/$c$ for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=19.6, 39, 62.4, 130 and 200 GeV, Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=22.4, 62.4 and 200 GeV, d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV and p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=62.4 and 200 GeV. The moment products $\kappa \sigma^{2}$ and $S \sigma$ of net-proton distributions, which are related to volume independent baryon number susceptibility ratio, are compared to the Lattice QCD and HRG model calculations. The $\kappa \sigma^{2}$ and $S \sigma$ of net-proton distributions are consistent with Lattice QCD and HRG model calculations at high energy, which support the thermalization of the colliding system. Deviations of $\kappa \sigma^{2}$ and $S \sigma$ for the Au+Au collisions at low energies from HRG model calculations are also observed.
119215930
Search for the QCD Critical Point by Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC
Higher moments of net-proton multiplicity distributions are applied to search for the QCD critical point. In this paper, we will present measurements for kurtosis ($\kappa$), skewness ($S$) and variance $\sigma^2$) of net-proton multiplicity distributions at the mid-rapidity ($|y|<0.5$) and transverse momentum range $0.4<p_{T}<0.8$ {\gevc} for Au+Au collisions at {\sNN} = 7.7, 11.5, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV, Cu+Cu collisions at {\sNN} = 22.4, 62.4 and 200 GeV, $d$+Au collisions at {\sNN} = 200 GeV and p+p collisions at {\sNN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV. The moment products $\kappa \sigma^2$ and $S \sigma$ of net-proton distributions, which are related to volume independent baryon number susceptibility ratios, are consistent with Lattice QCD and Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model calculations at high energies ({\sNN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV). Deviations of $\kappa \sigma^2$ and $S\sigma$ for the Au+Au collisions at low energies ({\sNN} = 7.7, 11.5 and 39 GeV) from HRG model calculations are also observed.
119235607
Error estimation for moment analysis in heavy-ion collision experiment
Higher moments of conserved quantities are predicted to be sensitive to the correlation length and connected to the thermodynamic susceptibility. Thus, higher moments of net-baryon, net-charge and net-strangeness have been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally to explore phase structure and bulk properties of QCD matters created in a heavy-ion collision experiment. As the higher moment analysis is a statistic hungry study, the error estimation is crucial to extract physics information from the limited experimental data. In this paper, we will derive the limit distributions and error formula based on the delta theorem in statistics for various order moments used in the experimental data analysis. The Monte Carlo simulation is also applied to test the error formula.
119221604
Baseline drift effect on the performance of neutron and gamma ray discrimination using frequency gradient analysis
Frequency gradient analysis (FGA) effectively discriminates neutrons and gamma rays by examining the frequency-domain features of the photomultiplier tube anode signal. This approach is insensitive to noise but is inevitably affected by the baseline drift, similar to other pulse shape discrimination methods. The baseline drift effect is attributed to the factors such as power line fluctuation, dark current, noise disturbances, hum, and pulse tail in front-end electronics. This effect needs to be elucidated and quantified before the baseline shift can be estimated and removed from the captured signal. Therefore, the effect of baseline shift on the discrimination performance of neutrons and gamma rays with organic scintillation detectors using FGA is investigated in this paper. The relationship between the baseline shift and discrimination parameters of FGA is derived and verified by an experimental system consisting of an americium-beryllium source, a BC501A liquid scintillator detector, and a 5 GSPS 8-bit oscilloscope. Both theoretical and experimental results show that the estimation of the baseline shift is necessary, and the removal of baseline drift from the pulse shapes can improve the discrimination performance of FGA.