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Monte Carlo models: Quo vadimus?
Coherence, multiple scattering and the interplay between soft and hard processes are discussed. These physics phenomena are essential for understanding the nuclear dependences of rapidity density and p{sub T} spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The RHIC data have shown the onset of hard processes and indications of high p{sub T} spectra suppression due to parton energy loss. Within the pQCD parton model, the combination of azimuthal anisotropy ({nu}{sub 2}) and hadron spectra suppression at large p{sub T} can help one to determine the initial gluon density in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC.
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Probe initial parton density and formation time via jet quenching
Medium modification of jet fragmentation function due to multiple scattering and induced gluon radiation leads directly to jet quenching or suppression of leading particle distribution from jet fragmentation. One can extract an effective total parton energy loss which can be related to the total transverse momentum broadening. For an expanding medium, both are shown to be sensitive to the initial parton density and formation time. Therefore, one can extract the initial parton density and formation time from simultaneous measurements of parton energy loss and transverse momentum broadening. Implication of the recent experimental data on effects of detailed balance in parton energy loss is also discussed.
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Relics of Minijets amid Anisotropic Flows in High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions
Two dimensional low-$p_T$ dihadron correlations in azimuthal angle $\phi$ and pseudo-rapidity $\eta$ in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are investigated within both the HIJING Monte Carlo model and an event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic model. Without final-state interaction and collective expansion, dihadron correlations from HIJING simulations have a typical structure from minijets that contains a near-side two-dimensional peak and an away-side ridge along the $\eta$-direction. In contrast, event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic simulations with fluctuating initial conditions from the HIJING+AMPT model produce a strong dihadron correlation that has an away-side as well as a near-side ridge. Relics of intrinsic dihadron correlation from minijets in the initial conditions still remain as superimposed on the two ridges. By varying initial conditions from HIJING+AMPT, we study effects of minijets, non-vanishing initial flow and longitudinal fluctuation on the final state dihadron correlations. With a large rapidity gap, one can exclude near-side correlations from minijet relics and dihadron correlations can be described by the superposition of harmonic flows up to the 6th order. When long-range correlations with a large rapidity gap are subtracted from short-range correlations with a small rapidity gap, the remaining near-side dihadron correlations result solely from relics of minijets. Low transverse momentum hadron yields per trigger ($p_T^{\rm trig} <4$ GeV/$c$, $p_T^{\rm asso}<2$ GeV/$c$) in central heavy-ion collisions are significantly enhanced over that in p+p collisions while widths in azimuthal angle remain the same, in qualitative agreement with experimental data.
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Report of the RHIC Workshop p + A subgroup
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Berry curvature and four-dimensional monopoles in the relativistic chiral kinetic equation.
We derive a relativistic chiral kinetic equation with manifest Lorentz covariance from Wigner functions of spin-1/2 massless fermions in a constant background electromagnetic field. It contains vorticity terms and a four-dimensional Euclidean Berry monopole which gives an axial anomaly. By integrating out the zeroth component of the 4-momentum p, we reproduce the previous three-dimensional results derived from the Hamiltonian approach, together with the newly derived vorticity terms. The phase space continuity equation has an anomalous source term proportional to the product of electric and magnetic fields (FσρF[over ˜]σρ∼EσBσ). This provides a unified interpretation of the chiral magnetic and vortical effects, chiral anomaly, Berry curvature, and the Berry monopole in the framework of Wigner functions.
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Role of multiple minijets in high-energy hadronic reactions.
The multiplicity distributions of charged particles in high-energy hadron collisions including the production of multiple minijets are considered in the framework of the eikonal formalism. Large-multiplicity events at high energies are found to be dominated by the production of many jets with 2{le}{ital P}{sub {ital T}}{le}4 GeV. The contributions from larger-{ital P}{sub {ital T}} minijets become prevailing for high-multiplicity fluctuations in narrow rapidity intervals.
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The progress of development of four kickers' bump system for injection in HLS ring
There are three kicker magnets to manipulate local bump orbit in Hefei storage ring, which could satisfy basically the commissioning and operations of General Purpose Light Source (GPLS) mode. In the Phase Two Project of HLS, four kicker magnets will be employed and installed in one straight section to form a ladder-shaped bump orbit. So the parameters of bump orbit are independent of the ring lattice. The new system also satisfies the multicycle and multiturn injection of High Brightness Light Source (HBLS) mode and other modes, and it expected to run stably for a long time. This paper presents the development of the new bump orbit system.
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Heavy Flavor Production at PHENIX at RHIC
A study of heavy flavor production in different collision systems in various kinematic regions presents an opportunity to probe cold nuclear medium and hot dense matter effects. Results from the PHENIX experiment on J/ψ and open charm production in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sNN =200 GeV are presented. The data show strong J/ψ suppression in central AA collisions, similar to NA50 results, and strong suppression in high pT open charm production. The J/ψ production in Au+Au and d+Au collisions is compared to understand the cold nuclear medium effects. The data show significant cold nuclear effects in charm production in d+Au collisions at forward and backward rapidity ranges.
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Study of the single neutral top pion production process at {gamma}{gamma} collider
{gamma}{gamma}{yields}{pi}{sub t}{sup 0} is the major production mechanism of the neutral top pion at the linear colliders. In this paper, we calculate the cross section of the process {gamma}{gamma}{yields}{pi}{sub t}{sup 0} and discuss the potential to observe the neutral top pion via its various decay modes at the planned International Linear Collider. The study shows that, among the various neutral top-pion production processes at the linear colliders, the cross section of {gamma}{gamma}{yields}{pi}{sub t}{sup 0} is the largest one which can reach the level of 10{sup 1}-10{sup 2} fb. Because of the existence of the tree-level flavor-changing coupling {pi}{sub t}{sup 0}tc, {gamma}{gamma}{yields}{pi}{sub t}{sup 0}{yields}tc can provide enough number of typical signals to identify the neutral top pion with the clean SM background. Therefore, the process {gamma}{gamma}{yields}{pi}{sub t}{sup 0} plays an important role in searching for the neutral top pion and tests the TC2 model.
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Spatial anisotropy: a method to study anisotropic flow in heavy ion collisions
We introduce a method to study anisotropic flow parameter vn as a collective probe to Quark Gluon Plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The emphasis is put on the use of the Fourier expansion of initial spatial azimuthal distributions of participant nucleons in the overlapped region. The coefficients n of Fourier expansion are called the spatial anisotropy parameter for the n-th harmonic. We propose that collective dynamics can be studied by vn/n. In this paper, we will discuss in particular the second (n = 2) and the fourth (n = 4) harmonics.
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Pair production of Higgs bosons associated with Z boson in the left–right twin Higgs model at the ILC
Abstract The left–right twin Higgs (LRTH) model predicts the existence of three additional Higgs bosons: one neutral Higgs ϕ 0 and a pair of charged Higgs bosons ϕ ± . In this paper, we studied the production of a pair of charged and neutral Higgs bosons associated with standard model gauge boson Z at the ILC, i.e., e + e − → Z ϕ + ϕ − and e + e − → Z ϕ 0 ϕ 0 . We calculate the production rate and present the distributions of the various observables, such as, the distributions of the energy and the transverse momenta of final Z-boson and charged Higgs boson ϕ − , the differential cross section of the invariant mass of charged Higgs bosons pair, the distribution of the angle between charged Higgs bosons pair and the production angle distributions of Z-boson and charged Higgs boson ϕ − . Our numerical results show that, for the process e + e − → Z ϕ + ϕ − , the production rates are at the level of 10 − 1 fb with reasonable parameter values. For the process of e + e − → Z ϕ 0 ϕ 0 , we find that the production cross section are smaller than 6 × 10 − 3 fb in most of parameter space. However, the resonance production cross section can be significantly enhanced.