2598386
Particle Production in High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions
Particle production mechanisms in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are reviewed in connection with recent experimental data from RHIC. Implications on mini-jet production, parton saturation and jet quenching are discussed.
42468399
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.
126140598
Report of the RHIC Workshop p + A subgroup
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.
119298211
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.
33523602
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.
118550346
Exotic collective excitations at high spin: Triaxial rotation and octupole condensation
In this thesis work, two topics, triaxiality and reflection asymmetry, have been discussed. Band structures in $^{163}$Tm were studied in a "thin" target experiment as well as in a DSAM lifetime measurement. Two new excited bands were shown to be characterized by a deformation larger than that of the yrast sequence. These structures have been interpreted as Triaxial Strongly Deformed bands associated with particle-hole excitations, rather than with wobbling. Moreover, the Tilted-Axis Cranking calculations provide a natural explanation for the presence of wobbling bands in the Lu isotopes and their absence in the neighboring Tm, Hf and Ta nuclei. A series of so-called "unsafe" Coulomb excitation experiments as well as one-neutron transfer measurements was carried out to investigate the role of octupole correlations in the $^{238,240,242}$Pu isotopes. Some striking differences exist between the level scheme and deexcitation patterns seen in $^{240}$Pu, and to a lesser extent in $^{238}$Pu, and those observed in $^{242}$Pu and in many other actinide nuclei such as $^{232}$Th and $^{238}$U, for example. The differences can be linked to the strength of octupole correlations, which are strongest in $^{240}$Pu. Further, all the data find a natural explanation within the recently proposed theoretical framework of octupole condensation.
8346546
Integrable open spin chain in super Yang-Mills and the plane-wave/SYM duality
We investigate the integrable structures in an = 2 superconformal Sp(N) Yang-Mills theory with matter, which is dual to an open+closed string system. We restrict ourselves to the BMN operators that correspond to free string states. In the closed string sector, an integrable structure is inherited from its parent theory, = 4 SYM. For the open string sector, the planar one-loop mixing matrix for gauge invariant holomorphic scalar operators is identified with the hamiltonian of an integrable SU(3) open spin chain. Using the K-matrix formalism we identify the integrable open-chain boundary conditions that correspond to string boundary conditions. The solutions to the algebraic Bethe ansatz equations (ABAE) with a few impurities are shown to recover the anomalous dimensions that exactly match the spectrum of free open string in the plane-wave background. We also discuss the properties of the solutions of ABAE beyond the BMN regime.
119042314
CHARM PRODUCTION AT LARGE RAPIDITIES IN p+p AND d+Au COLLISIONS AT PHENIX AT RHIC
We study charm production through dimuon and single muon measurements at forward and backward rapidities in p+p and d+Au collisions with the PHENIX muon detectors. We also compare open charm to $J/\psi$ yields in the forward and backward rapidities in d+Au collisions and study the origin of the large forward and backward asymmetry in open charm production observed by the PHENIX experiment.
125595029
Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries for J/psi production in polarized p + p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV
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The productions of the top-pions and top-Higgs associated with the charm quark at the hadron colliders
In the topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model, the typical physical particles, top-pions and top-Higgs, are predicted and the existence of these particles could be regarded as robust evidence for the model. These particles are accessible at the Tevatron and LHC, and furthermore the flavor-changing (FC) feature of the TC2 model may provide us with a unique opportunity to probe them. In this paper, we study some interesting FC production processes of top-pions and top-Higgs particles at the Tevatron and LHC, i.e., cΠt- and cΠt0(ht0) productions. We find that the light charged top-pions are not favorable by the Tevatron experiments, and the Tevatron has little capability to probe the neutral top-pion and top-Higgs particles via these FC production processes. At LHC, however, the cross section can reach the level of 10–100 pb for cΠt- production and 10–100 fb for cΠt0(ht0) production. So one can expect that enough signals could be produced at the LHC experiments. Furthermore, the SM backgrounds should be clean due to the FC feature of the processes, and the FC decay modes Πt-→bc̄, Πt0(ht0)→tc̄ can provide us with the signal typical for the detection of the top-pions and top-Higgs particles. Therefore, one may have hope to find the signal of top-pions and top-Higgs particles with the running of LHC via these FC processes.