118659719
Statistical and dynamical fluctuations in the ratios of higher cumulants in relativistic heavy ion collisions
With the help of transport and statistical models, we find that the ratios of higher net-proton cumulants measured at RHIC are dominated by the statistical fluctuations. Future measurements should focus on the dynamical fluctuations, which are relevant to the underlying mechanisms of particle production, the critical phenomena in particular. We also demonstrate that a proton-antiproton correlation directly show if protons and antiprotons are emitted independently.
123111872
Statistical and dynamical fluctuations in the ratios of higher net-proton cumulants in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
With the help of transport and statistical models, we find that the ratios of higher net-proton cumulants measured at RHIC are dominated by Poisson-like statistical fluctuations. A way to eliminate this statistical fluctuation is suggested. The obtained dynamical ratios of higher net-proton cumulants are demonstrated to be more relevant to the underlying physics, i.e. the correlations between proton and antiproton, or the critical fluctuations.
119068540
Spherical-Harmonic Expansion Solution of Classical Transport Equations of Quark
The spherical-harmonic method of solving classical transport equation of quark is investigated. The hydrodynamics description of QGP as well as the relation between diffusion approximation and collective flow in nuclear collisions are discussed.
122537214
Search for local parity violation with STAR ZDC-SMD
Parity-odd domains are predicted to lead to charge separation of quarks along the orbital momentum of the system created in non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions. A signal consistent with several of the theoretical expectations has been detected by STAR, with a three particle azimuthal correlator which is a -even observable, but still sensitive to the charge separation effect. In this correlator, the first two particles are used to reveal the physics of interest, and the third particle serves as a reference for the reaction plane. In this work, to minimize the non-parity correlation between the third particle and the first two, we utilize the spectator neutrons detected by STAR ZDC-SMDs to define the event plane. The 1st-order event plane thus obtained can also be used to study the global strong parity violation effect, and to provide further systematic checks for this analysis. We report measurements of both -even and -odd observables using the STAR ZDC-SMDs in Au+Au at 200 GeV. The results are presented as a function of collision centrality, particle separation in rapidity and transverse momentum (pT). Systematic checks on the impact from the directed flow will also be discussed.
119253082
Non-photonic electron-hadron correlations and non-photonic electron v2 at STAR/RHIC
Abstract Non-photonic electrons ( p T > 3 GeV / c ) represent the directions of the parent heavy quarks, and their angular correlations with charged hadrons provide a good tool to study the relative contributions from D and B meson decays in p+p collisions, as well as the flavor-dependence of the energy loss mechanism in A+A collisions. We review the disentanglement of charm and bottom contributions to non-photonic electrons in p+p collisions at s = 200 GeV at RHIC. B decay contribution is approximately 50% at the electron transverse momentum of p T > 5 GeV / c from STAR results. Incorporating the energy loss ( R AA ) information of non-photonic electrons, the result indicates a B meson suppression at high p T in heavy ion collisions. We also present non-photonic electron-hadron correlations in d+Au collisions as a baseline reference for the investigation of the heavy quark energy loss in A+A collisions. The interactions between heavy quarks and the QCD medium can lead to a non-zero “elliptic flow” parameter ( v 2 ) of D and B mesons which can be studied through v 2 of non-photonic electrons. Preliminary v 2 measurements for non-photonic electrons are shown to be lower than v 2 of charged hadrons (or K S 0 , Λ ) for 200 GeV Au+Au collisions.
17737818
Non-photonic electron–hadron correlations at STAR
We present STAR's measurements of azimuthal correlations between non-photonic electrons and charged hadrons in p+p, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at GeV. In p+p collisions, from the non-photonic e?h correlation we have extracted the relative B meson semi-leptonic decay contributions to non-photonic electrons up to electron pt ~ 9 GeV/c. In central Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions where a dense medium is created, we find that the e?h correlation on the away side of the trigger non-photonic electron has been modified in comparison with the expectation from PYTHIA simulations.
121351951
LLRF systems for subharmonic buncher system of BEPCII Linac
The linear accelerator (Linac) completed in 2007 for the upgrading project of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII) provides 1.89 GeV electrons and positrons for the storage rings. BEPCII Linac decides to update the bunching system and adopts two-bunch operation to enhance beam quality and injection rate as its second update phase. Two subharmonic bunchers will be used in this project: one operates at 142.8 MHz and the other operates at 571.2 MHz. Each subharmonic buncher consists of the bunching cavity, power source, LLRF system and other related subsystems. This paper mainly describes the LLRF systems for the subharmonic buncher systems (SHB). (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
118032595
Progress on Analytical Modeling of Coherent Electron Cooling
We report recent progresses on analytical studies of Coherent Electron Cooling. The phase space electron beam distribution obtained from the 1D FEL amplifier is applied to an infinite electron plasma model and the electron density evolution inside the kicker is derived. We also investigate the velocity modulation in the modulator and obtain a closed form solution for the current density evolution for infinite homogeneous electron plasma.
15593532
Decay constants of heavy vector mesons in relativistic Bethe-Salpeter method
Abstract In a previous Letter, we computed the decay constants of heavy pseudoscalar mesons in the framework of relativistic (instantaneous) Bethe–Salpeter method (full 0 − Salpeter equation), in this Letter, we solve the full 1 − Salpeter equation and compute the leptonic decay constants of heavy–heavy and heavy–light vector mesons. The theoretical estimate of mass spectra of these heavy–heavy and heavy–light vector mesons are also presented. Our results for the decay constants and mass spectra include the complete relativistic contributions. We find F D s ∗ ≈ 375 ± 24 , F D ∗ ≈ 340 ± 23 ( D ∗ 0 , D ∗ ± ) , F B s ∗ ≈ 272 ± 20 , F B ∗ ≈ 238 ± 18 ( B ∗ 0 , B ∗ ± ) , F B c ∗ ≈ 418 ± 24 , F J / Ψ ≈ 459 ± 28 , F Ψ ( 2 S ) ≈ 364 ± 24 , F ϒ ≈ 498 ± 20 and F ϒ ( 2 S ) ≈ 366 ± 27 MeV .
96428988
On the transverse momentum distribution of strange hadrons produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Particles with strange quark content produced in the system 1.93A·GeV58Ni on58Ni have been investigated at GSI Darmstadt with the FOPI detector system. The correlation of these produced particles was analyzed with respect to the reaction plane.Λ baryons exhibit a very pronounced sideward flow pattern which is qualitatively similar to the proton flow. However, the kaon (K+,Ks0) flow patterns are significantly different from that of the protons, and their form may be useful to restrict theoretical models on the form of the kaon potential in the nuclear medium.
15992047
An analysis of the two-vortex case in the Chern-Simons Higgs model
Abstract. Extending work of Caffarelli-Yang and Tarantello, we present a variational existence proof for two-vortex solutions of the periodic Chern-Simons Higgs model and analyze the asymptotic behavior of these solutions as the parameter coupling the gauge field with the scalar field tends to 0.
