heavy quark energy loss: radiative v.s. collisional magdalena djordjevic
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Heavy quark energy loss: radiative v.s. collisional Magdalena Djordjevic The Ohio State University. Quark Gluon Plasma. High Energy Heavy Ion Physics. Form, observe and understand Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Heavy quark energy loss: radiative v.s. collisional
Magdalena Djordjevic
The Ohio State University
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Quark Gluon Plasma
Form, observe and understand Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP).
Heavy quarks (charm and beauty, M>1 GeV) are widely recognized as the cleanest probes of QGP.
High Energy Heavy Ion Physics
Heavy mesons not yet available, but they are expected soon!
N. Brambilla et al., e-Print hep-ph/0412158 (2004).
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Significant reduction at high pT suggests sizeable heavy quark energy loss!
Indirect probe- single electron suppression – is available
V. Greene, S. Butsyk, QM2005 talks J. Dunlop, J. Bielcik; QM05 talks
Can this be explained by the energy loss in QGP?
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Outline
Discuss the heavy quark energy loss mechanisms:
Radiative energy loss.
Collisional energy loss.
Single electron suppression results that come from the above mechanisms.
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Radiative heavy quark energy loss
Three important medium effects control the radiative energy loss:
1) Ter-Mikayelian effect (M.L.Ter-Mikayelian (1954); Kampfer-Pavlenko (2000);
Djordjevic-Gyulassy (2003)) 2) Transition radiation (Zakharov (2002); Djordjevic (2006)). 3) Medium induced radiative energy loss
(Djordjevic-Gyulassy (2003); Zhang-Wang-Wang (2004); Armesto-Salgado-Wiedemann (2004))
c
L
c
1) 2) 3)
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Transition & Ter-Mikayelian effects on 0th order radiative energy loss
Transition & Ter-Mikayelian effects approximately cancel each other for heavy quarks.
M.D., Phys.Rev.C73:044912,2006
CHARM BOTTOM
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c
c
L
Medium induced radiative energy loss
To compute medium induced radiative energy loss for heavy quarks we generalize
GLV method, by introducing both quark M and gluon mass mg.
Neglected in further computations.
Caused by the multiple interactions of partons in the medium.
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This leads to the computation of the fallowing types of diagrams:
++
nz
,n nq a
,n nq a
nz
,n nq a
,n nq a
nznz
,n nq a
,n nq a
Final Result to Arbitrary Order in Opacity (L/) with MQ and mg> 0M. D. and M. Gyulassy, Phys. Lett. B 560, 37 (2003); Nucl. Phys. A 733, 265 (2004)
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LHC, dNg/dy=3000 RHIC, dNg/dy=1000
Numerical results for 1st order in opacity induced radiative energy loss
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Radiative energy loss alone is not able to explain the single electron data as long as realistic parameter values are taken into account!
1000gdN
dy
M. D., M. Gyulassy, R. Vogt and S. Wicks, Phys. Lett. B 632, 81 (2006)
Can single electron suppression be explained by the radiative energy loss in QGP?
Radiative energy loss predictions
with dNg/dy=1000
Disagreement!
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E. Braaten and M. H. Thoma, Phys. Rev. D 44, 2625 (1991).
M. H. Thoma and M. Gyulassy, Nucl. Phys. B 351, 491 (1991).
Collisional energy loss is negligible!
Conclusion was based on inaccurate assumptions (i.e. they used α=0.2), and assumed that
dE/dL<0.5 GeV/fm is negligible.
Early work: Recent work:
Is collisional energy loss also important?
Collisional and radiative energy losses are comparable!
M.G.Mustafa,Phys.Rev.C72:014905,2005
A. K. Dutt-Mazumder et al.,Phys.Rev.D71:094016,2005
Will collisional energy loss still be important once finite size
effects are included?
Above computations are done in an ideal infinite QCD medium.
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Radiative energy loss Collisional energy loss
Collisional energy loss comes from the processes which have the same number of incoming and outgoing particles:
Radiative energy loss comes from the processes which there are more outgoing than incoming particles:
0th order
1st order
0th order
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The 0th order collisional energy loss is determined from:
L
Collisional energy loss in a finite size QCD medium
The effective gluon propagator:
Consider a medium of size L in thermal equilibrium at temperature T.
M.D., nucl-th/0603066
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Comparison between computations of collisional energy loss in finite and infinite QCD medium
Finite size effects are not significant, except for very small path-lengths.
M.D., nucl-th/0603066
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Bottom quark collisional energy loss is significantly smaller than charm energy loss.
M.D., nucl-th/0603066
Comparison between charm and bottom collisional energy loss
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Collisional v.s. medium induced radiative energy loss
Collisional and radiative energy losses are comparable!
M.D., nucl-th/0603066
Complementary approach by A. Adil et al., nucl-th/0606010: consistent results obtained.
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Most up to date single electron prediction (collisional + radiative)
Inclusion of collisional energy loss leads to better agreement with single electron data, even
for dNg/dy=1000.
(S. Wicks, W. Horowitz, M.D. and M. Gyulassy, nucl-th/0512076)
Radiative energy loss alone is not able to explain the single
electron data, as long as realistic gluon rapidity density
dNg/dy=1000 is considered.
See talk by S. Wicks, parallel session I
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Conclusions
Radiative energy loss mechanisms alone are not able to explain the recent single electron data.
Collisional and radiative energy losses are comparable, and both contributions are important
in the computations of jet quenching.
Inclusion of the collisional energy loss lead to better agreement with the experimental results.
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Acknowledgements:
Miklos Gyulassy
(Columbia University)
Simon Wicks
(Columbia University)
Ramona Vogt
(LBNL, Berkeley and University of California, Davis)
William Horowitz
(Columbia University)
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Ter-Mikayelian effectThis is the non-abelian analog of the well known dielectric
plasmon effect (kpl~ gT.
In pQCD vacuum gluons are massless and transversely polarized. However, in a medium the gluon propagator has both
transverse (T) and longitudinal (L) polarization parts.
T
L
vacuum
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In order to compute the main order radiative energy loss we calculated |Mrad|2, where Mrad is given by Feynman diagram:
We used the optical theorem, i.e.:
Where M is the amplitude of the following diagram:
DielectricEffect
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medium vacuum
L
medium vacuum
L
c
mgmed
This computation was performed assuming a static medium.
To compute the effect we start from work by B.G. Zakharov, JETP Lett.76:201-205,2002.
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1) Initial heavy quark pt distributions
2) Heavy quark energy loss
3) c and b fragmentation functions into D, B mesons
4) Decay of heavy mesons to single e-.
Single electron suppression
D, B
1)
production
2)
medium energy loss
3)
fragmentation
c, b e-
4)
decay
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D mesons
, ’,
A
B
Initial heavy quark pt distributions
200S GeV
High quark mass, i.e. M»ΛQCD
Perturbative calculations of heavy quark production possible.
M. Cacciari, P. Nason and R.Vogt, Phys.Rev.Lett.95:122001,2005;
MNR code (M. L. Mangano, P.Nason and G. Ridolfi,
Nucl.Phys.B373,295(1992)).
R.Vogt, Int.J.Mod.Phys.E 12,211(2003).
M. Djordjevic 25M. D., M. Gyulassy and S. Wicks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 112301 (2005).
Pt distributions of charm and bottom before and after quenching at RHIC
Before quenching After quenching
M. Gyulassy, P. Levai and I. Vitev, Phys.Lett.B538:282-288 (2002).
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Panels show single e- from FONLL M. Cacciari, P. Nason and R. Vogt, Phys.Rev.Lett.95:122001,2005
M. D., M. Gyulassy, R. Vogt and S. Wicks, Phys.Lett.B632:81-86,2006
Single electrons pt distributionsB
efor
e q
uen
chin
g
Aft
er q
uen
chin
g
Bottom dominate the single e- spectrum above 4.5 GeV!
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Single electron suppression as a function of pt
At pt~5GeV, RAA(e-) 0.7±0.1 at RHIC.
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Are there other energy loss mechanisms?
Collisional and radiative energy losses are comparable!
M.G.Mustafa,Phys.Rev.C72:014905,2005
Finite size effects significantly lower collisional energy loss
S. Peigne, P.-B. Gossiaux, T. Gousset, hep-ph/0509185
The paper, however, did not make separation between elastic and part of
radiative energy loss effects.
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Why, according to pQCD, pions have to be at least two times more suppressed than single electrons?
Suppose that pions come from
light quarks only and single e-
from charm only.
Pion and single e- suppression would really be the same.
g
0
b
b+ce-
However,
1) Gluon contribution to pions increases the pion suppression, while
2) Bottom contribution to single e- decreases the single e- suppression
leading to at least factor of 2 difference between pion and single e- RAA.
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Comparison with other models
Ideal infinite QCD medium case:
Thoma-Gyulassy (1990) (linear response approach).
Braaten-Thoma (1991) (quantum-mechanical approach).
Romatasche-Strickland (2003) (anisotropic medium).
Finite QCD medium case:
Peigne-Gossiaux-Gousset (hep-ph/0509185, 2005) (linear response approach): Finite size effects significantly reduce the collisional energy loss.
Wang (nucl-th/0604040, 2006) (quantum-mechanical approach): interference effects exist at 0 th order energy loss level.
Adil-Gyulassy-Horowitz-Wicks (nucl-th/0606010, 2006) (linear response approach): obtained consistent results.