7527083
Interplay of soft and hard processes and hadron pT spectra in pA and AA collisions
Motivated by a schematic model of multiple parton scattering within the Glauber formalism, the transverse momentum spectra in $\mathrm{pA}$ and $\mathrm{AA}$ collisions are analyzed in terms of a nuclear modification factor with respect to $\mathrm{pp}$ collisions. The existing data at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron energies are shown to be consistent with the picture of Glauber multiple scattering in which the interplay between soft and hard processes and the effect of absorptive processes lead to nontrivial nuclear modification of the particle spectra. Relative to the additive model of incoherent hard scattering, the spectra are enhanced at large ${p}_{T}$ (hard) by multiple scattering while suppressed at low ${p}_{T}$ (soft) by absorptive correction with the transition occurring at around a scale ${p}_{0}\ensuremath{\sim}1\ensuremath{-}2 \mathrm{GeV}/c$ that separates soft and hard processes. Around the same scale, the ${p}_{T}$ spectra in $\mathrm{pp}$ collisions also change from an exponential form at low ${p}_{T}$ to a power-law behavior at high ${p}_{T}.$ At very large ${p}_{T}\ensuremath{\gg}{p}_{0},$ the nuclear enhancement is shown to decrease as ${1/p}_{T}^{2}.$ Implications of these nuclear effects on the study of jet quenching, parton thermalization, and collective radial flow in high-energy $\mathrm{AA}$ collisions are discussed.
17734649
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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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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Report of the RHIC Workshop p + A subgroup
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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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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.
15239653
Probing the topcolor-assisted technicolor model via the single t-quark production at the CERN LHC
The single t-quark production in proton-proton collisions can proceed through three distinct processes: tq, tb, tW productions. With the running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, it has good potential to measure each single t-quark production mode. The topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model, one of the promising dynamical theories, predicts some new particles at the several hundred GeV scale: three top-pion bosons ({pi}{sub t}{sup {+-}}, {pi}{sub t}{sup 0}) and one top-Higgs boson (h{sub t}). These particles are regarded as the typical feature of the TC2 model and can contribute to some processes. In this paper, we systematically study the contribution of the TC2 model to the single t-quark production at the Hadron colliders, especially at the LHC. The TC2 model can contribute to the cross section of the single t-quark production in two different ways. First, the existence of the top pions and top Higgs can modify the Wtb coupling via their loop contributions, and such modification can cause the correction to the cross sections of all three production modes. Our study shows that this kind of correction is negative and very small in all cases. Thus it is difficult to observe such a correction even at the LHC.more » On the other hand, there exist the tree-level flavor-changing (FC) couplings in the TC2 model which can also contribute to the cross sections of the tq and tb production processes. The resonant effect can greatly enhance the cross sections of the tq and tb productions. The first evidence of the single t-quark production has been reported by the D0 collaboration and the measured cross section for the single t-quark production of {sigma}(pp{yields}tb+X,tqb+X) is compatible at the 10% level with the standard model prediction. Because the light top pion can make a great contribution to the tb production, the top-pion mass should be very large in order to make the predicted cross section in the TC2 model be consistent with the Tevatron experiments. More detailed information about the top-pion mass and the FC couplings in the TC2 model should be obtained with the running of the LHC.« less
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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.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION OF THE NEUTRAL TOP-PION WITH A PAIR OF THIRD FAMILY QUARKS AT THE HADRON COLLIDERS
We study the associated production of the neutral top-pion $(\Pi_t^0)$ with the third family quarks within the context of the topcolor-assisted technicolor model at the hadron colliders. The studies show that, at the Tevatron, the cross-sections of all these processes are too small to produce enough identified signals. But the cross-sections can be largely enhanced at the LHC. Specially for the processes $pp\rightarrow t\bar{t}\Pi_t^0$ and $pp\rightarrow t\bar{c}\Pi_t^0$, the cross-sections can reach the level of a few hundred fb even a few pb for the light neutral top-pion. With the high yearly luminosity 100 fb-1 at the LHC, over 104 signals can be produced via the above two processes. There exists an ideal flavor-changing mode to detect neutral top-pion, i.e. $\Pi_t^0\rightarrow t\bar{c}$, because the SM background of such production mode are very clean. Therefore, we can conclude that neutral top-pion should be observable at the LHC via the processes $pp\rightarrow t\bar{t}\Pi_t^0$ and $pp\rightarrow ...
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STATUS OF POLARIZATION CONTROL EXPERIMENT AT SHANGHAI DEEP ULTRAVIOLET FREE ELECTRON LASER
A polarization control experiment by utilizing a pair of crossed undulators has been proposed for the Shanghai deep ultraviolet free electron laser test facility. Numerical simulations indicate that, with the electromagnetic phaseshifter located between the two crossed planar undulators, fully coherent radiation with 100 nJ order pulse energy, 5 picoseconds pulse length and circular polarization degree above 90% could be generated. The physical design study and the preparation status of the experiment are presented in the paper.
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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.