high pt hadrons from snn = 130 gev au-au collisions measured in phenix
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High pt Hadrons from sNN = 130 GeV Au-Au collisions measured in PHENIX. Julia Velkovska (BNL) for PHENIX High p T measurements in PHENIX Identified protons and anti-protons – 3.5 GeV/c Neutral pion analysis – up to 4 GeV/c Charged hadron analysis - up to 5 GeV/c Results - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
High pt Hadrons from sNN = 130 GeV Au-Au
collisions measured in PHENIX Julia Velkovska (BNL) for PHENIX
• High pT measurements in PHENIX
– Identified protons and anti-protons – 3.5 GeV/c
– Neutral pion analysis – up to 4 GeV/c
– Charged hadron analysis - up to 5 GeV/c
• Results– Transverse momentum spectra (identified charged hadrons)
– <pT> and dN/dy as a function of Npart
– Combine with 0 measurement - > ratios at high pT for 10% central
– Decomposition of the charged hadron spectra to mesons and baryons
• Conclusions and outlook
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Identified charged hadronsTracking system:
Drift Chamber , PC1
p/p = 0.6% + 3.5% p (GeV/c)
Timing system: BBC - start
TOF - stop
= 115 ps
Acceptance: deg
PID :
momentum dependent bands in mass2
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Two analyses with very different systematics• pair measurement (yields from invariant mass distributions) • yields extracted statistically – large combinatorial background• requires many events
• difficult at low pT
• signal to background improves at higher pT
Neutral pion measurement
PbSc PbGl
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Charged hadrons
• single particles, no combinatorial background
• better per-event statistics, need fewer events for same pT range
• momentum reconstruction increasingly difficult with higher pT
Drift Chamber PC1: tracking
PC3 - used to cut background
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Measuring Collision Centrality
Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDC) Sensitive to spectator
neutrons
Using a combination of the ZDC’s and BBC’s we can define Centrality Classes
0 - 5 %
ZD
C
BBC
5 - 10 %
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Identified charged hadron spectra
Central
mid - centralperipheral
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Hydro + cascade or baryon junctions + pQCD ?
5% central
Hydro+cascadeD. Teaney et.al.
Baryon junctions + pQCDI.Vitev et.al.
Both theories can describe the data up to 3 GeV/c
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Mean transverse momentum
• Mean pt growing with Npart and mass - consistent fith flow
• (Anti)proton < pT> significant increase from pp collisions
• The same relative increase from peripheral to central for all particles
20+/- 5 % increase
20+/- 5 % increase
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Yields as a function of Npart
• Is the increase in dNch/dp) due to hard processes ?
• How does the yield per participant behave for different particles ?
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Identified charged hadron yields
• Anti-proton and proton yields per participant pair rise faster than pion yields with Npart !
• Different from SPS Pb-Pb
20 +/- 6% increase
65 +/- 7 % increase
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Identified hadron spectra in central Au-Au collisions
Excellent agreement between charged and neutral pions !(anti)proton – pion crossing confirmed!
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Nucleon to Pion Ratios
p/and p/rising with pT p/and p/rising or saturating at high pTDifferent from pp collisions - (anti)protons don’t come from jets
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Anti-proton /proton ratio in Central Au-Au Collisions
flat or falling?Not enough
statistics in year 2000 run
PHENIX has x 10 more
statistics on tape from year 2001
run
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
• p/p ratio falling with pT
– Jet quenching moves the p/p ratio below the pp value
– PHENIX will measure pp collisions this year
• p/ ratio has a peak which changes with centrality
hydrodynamics
• p/p ratio flat with pT
• p/ ratio steadily rising with pT
Theory expectations:pQCD++
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
High density QCD expects mT scaling :
The data are consistent with mT scaling up to 3.5 GeV.
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Hadron suppression at high pT
high pT hadron suppressiondifferent suppression for h and
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Decomposing the hadron spectra to mesons and nucleons
• Subtract anti-protons and protons from charged
hadrons
•Compare the meson spectrum to 0
Difference in high pT charged hadron
And 0 suppression primarily due to
nucleons
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
We can measure it - can you predict it for sNN = 200 GeV Au-Au collisions ?
• (Anti)proton / pion ratio as a function of pT for different centralities
• anti-proton / proton ratio as a function of pT for different centralities
• <pT> as a function of Npart and mass
• dN/dy as a function of Npart and mass
• High pT suppression for mesons and baryons
• All these taken together can help differentiate between different production mechanisms at high pT
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
• PHENIX measured p,p,0,h up to 3.5,4,5 GeV/c• All measurements are internally consistent• Protons dominate over pions at high pt in central collisions• Mean pT increases with Npart similarly for all particle species• dN/dy per participant pair rises faster for (anti)protons than for
pions• p/ratio rising with pt , approaching 1 and suggestive for
saturating behavior – more statistics needed• p/p ratio flat or falling at high pt - inconclusive due to low
statistics• Hadron suppression at high pt
– Different high pt behavior for mesons and baryons
Conclusions
Nov2,2001 High PT Workshop, BNL Julia Velkovska
Present run started July 2001Hope to collect: ~ 300 mb-1 Au + Au ~ 3.5 pb-1 p + p
Will be able to pin down the high pT behavior of p-/p and p-/ratios both in Au-Au and pp
New detectors:• 8 complete sectors of EMCAL (6 PbSc, 2 PbGl)• Rebuilt drift chamber• Multiplicity vertex detector (MVD)• South Muon Spectrometer• Upgraded trigger• Upgraded data aquisition
Outlook - Year 2 Run
GeV 200NN s