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Limiting Fragmentation Observations at. Richard S Hollis University of Illinois at Chicago For the Collaboration. Collaboration (April 2004). Birger Back, Mark Baker, Maarten Ballintijn, Donald Barton, Russell Betts, Abigail Bickley, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Limiting Fragmentation Observations at
Richard S Hollis
University of Illinois at Chicago
For the Collaboration
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Collaboration (April 2004)
Birger Back, Mark Baker, Maarten Ballintijn, Donald Barton, Russell Betts, Abigail Bickley,
Richard Bindel, Wit Busza (Spokesperson), Alan Carroll, Zhengwei Chai, Patrick Decowski,
Edmundo García, Tomasz Gburek, Nigel George, Kristjan Gulbrandsen, Clive Halliwell,
Joshua Hamblen, Adam Harrington, Michael Hauer, Conor Henderson, David Hofman,
Richard Hollis, Roman Hołyński, Burt Holzman, Aneta Iordanova, Jay Kane, Nazim Khan,
Piotr Kulinich, Chia Ming Kuo, Willis Lin, Steven Manly, Alice Mignerey,
Gerrit van Nieuwenhuizen, Rachid Nouicer, Andrzej Olszewski, Robert Pak, Inkyu Park,
Heinz Pernegger, Corey Reed, Christof Roland, Gunther Roland, Joe Sagerer, Helen Seals,
Iouri Sedykh, Wojtek Skulski, Chadd Smith, Maciej Stankiewicz, Peter Steinberg,
George Stephans, Andrei Sukhanov, Marguerite Belt Tonjes, Adam Trzupek, Carla Vale,
Sergei Vaurynovich, Robin Verdier, Gábor Veres, Peter Walters, Edward Wenger,
Frank Wolfs, Barbara Wosiek, Krzysztof Woźniak, Alan Wuosmaa, Bolek Wysłouch
ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORYINSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS PAN, KRAKOW MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
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Outline
• PHOBOS– Detector– Multiplicity Measurement Technique
• Multiplicity measurements– Au+Au– p+p– d+Au
• Flow measurements
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Limiting Fragmentation
• Term for particles produced at high η.– Particles produced close to the beam rapidity
of one of the colliding nuclei– Same “Limiting” distribution of charged-
particles in this region independent of energy
Center-of-mass System
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Rapidity and Pseudorapidity• |y|<2
– significant deviation between y and η
• |y|>2– Shape is similar– η distribution is wider– Approximation y ≈ η
• y shifts under a longitudinal boost– dN/dy is not distorted
• Shift to target rest frame by ybeam
– For both η and y
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Limiting Fragmentation
• Expected → a narrow Fragmentation Region
• Observed → “Extensive Longitudinal Scaling”
Target rest frame
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Detector
Multiplicity Array Octagon Rings
Trigger Counters Paddles T0 and Cerenkovs
Spectrometer
ToF
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Multiplicity Detectors
• Octagon:– Mid-rapidity (|η| < 3.2)
• Rings:– Forward detectors (3.0 < |η| < 5.4)
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Multiplicity Array
Single Event
OctagonRings Rings
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Multiplicity Reconstruction
• Hit Counting– Basic
• Count digital hit pads
– Hit density correction• Count digital
unoccupied pad• Assume Poisson
statistics• Determine mean
occupancy → Apply correction
– Occupancy corrections derived from data
• Analogue– Correction Applied
• Energy deposition spectra
• A fit to this determines the relative multi-hit contribution
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• Multiplicity– Almost all Phase
space covered– 3 energies
• √s = 19.6 to 200 GeV
– Large range of collision geometries
Total Number of Charged Particles
Data from PRL 91 052303 (2003)
Au+Au dNch/dη vs η
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Au+Au dNch/dη vs η
• Scaling by Npart/2– Distributions are
relatively the same
– <Npart> is almost the same for each energy
• ybeam grows with energy
• Shift each η by ybeam
Total Number of Charged Particlesdivided by half Npart
ybeam200
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Au+Au dNch/dη vs η–ybeam
• Region of ‘overlap’– For each energy– Close to rapidity of one
projectile
• Expected– Narrow fragmentation region
• Observed– Extensive longitudinal scaling
• Fragmentation Region– Grows with energy
200GeV130GeV19.6GeV
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Au+Au dNch/dη vs η–ybeam
• Region of overlap– Also covered by an
overlap in detector- space
– -1<η-ybeam<0• Covered by Rings for
200GeV• Covered by Octagon for
19.6GeV
• This is not a ‘detector’ effect!!
200GeV130GeV19.6GeV
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Centrality Dependence
• Centrality– Data divided into distinct
multiplicity bins
• Central 0-6%– Npart ~ 340
• Peripheral 25-35%– Npart ~ 140
• Not too peripheral– Restricted by the 19.6GeV
data
200GeV130GeV19.6GeV
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Centrality + Energy Dependence
• Observations– Reduction at η~0
– Increase at η-ybeam>0
– Important observation for the total yield
• Measure the yield at
η ≈ 0 for 200GeV– Central/Peripheral≈1.1
200GeV130GeV19.6GeV
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Departure Point fromLimiting Curve
200GeV130GeV19.6GeV
200GeV130GeV19.6GeV
Scale Peripheral by x1.1
Same ‘relative’ departure point
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Centrality dependenceat 200GeV
• Evolution from Central to peripheral– Slope decreases
• Can measure slope– From η-ybeam~-2 and 0
• For each centrality
• Parameterize p+p– extract the slope
UA5 data from Z.Phys.C 43 (1989) 1
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Centrality dependence of the slope
• As expected– Slope trend declines– Systematically higher
than p+p
• A more peripheral measurement is needed
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Slope and Midrapidity yield
• As expected– Slope trend declines– Systematically higher than
p+p
• Same trend seen at midrapidity
• Total yields ‘flat’– For increasing centrality
• Midrapidity rise• Decrease for η-ybeam>0
– Effects cancel each other
Midrapidity yield / pp
Limiting FragmentationSlope / pp
pp
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Slope and Total charged-particles
• As expected– Slope trend declines– Systematically higher than
p+p
• Same trend seen at midrapidity
• Total yields ‘flat’– For increasing centrality
• Midrapidity rise• Decrease for η-ybeam>0
– Effects cancel each other
Total Charged-Particles / pp
Limiting FragmentationSlope / pp
pp
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Slope and Midrapidity yield
• Same trend seen at midrapidity– Not Surprising
• dN/dη ~ trapezoid
– Midrapidity α slope
Midrapidity yield / pp
Limiting FragmentationSlope / pp
pp
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Smaller systems
• This measurement is not peculiar to Au+Au– First observed in p+p– Also in d+Au
• All exhibit the similar features
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p+p
• Collection of many data over a factor of ~50 in √s– Reasonable Limiting
Fragmentation agreement!
• η’ = η-ybeam
UA5 (200-900) → Z.Phys.C 43 (1989) 1ISR (23.6,45.2) → Nucl.Phys B129 365 (1977)
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d+Au
50-70% Centrality, PHOBOS data
d+Au data from nucl-ex/0409021p+Em referenced therein
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d+Au
• Limiting fragmentation in both– Projectile rest frame– Target rest frame
• Centrality dependence– Systematic comparison with lower energy
data– No need to change species
• All measured in same collision system
– Limiting fragmentation in each centrality bin
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Elliptic Flow
• The effect of the geometrical asymmetry– Non-central collisions
• Procedure– Measure the angle for the
highest yield (ΨR)• Relative to the detector• “Reaction Plane”
– Measure all particles relative to this angle
• 2V2cos (2(R)
dN/d(R ) = N0 (1 + 2V1cos (R) + 2V2cos (2(R) + ... )
R
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Flow Results
• Elliptic flow results– Statistical errors only
• Shift by ybeam again
Data from nucl-ex/0406021
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Flow Results
• Elliptic flow results– Statistical errors only
• Shift by ybeam again– Fold and average
signals
Data from nucl-ex/0406021
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Outlook
• Several questions remain– Centrality dependence for whole range– Collision species dependence
• Will Cu+Cu fit into Au+Au data?
– Is this observation specific to η?• Original hypothesis was for rapidity distributions
– Does each particle species exhibit the same features?
• PHOBOS cannot identify particles away from midrapidity
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Particle Species
• Lots of data available– Pions, Protons– Large rapidity and
energy coverage
Brahms (200) → PRL 91 072305 (2003) (protons) arXiv:nucl-ex/0403050 (mesons)
E895 (others) → PR C66 054905 (2003)
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Summary
• PHOBOS has measured multiplicity and flow at high-η.– Large systematic dataset– -5.4<η<5.4– 2 to 360 participants– √s = 19.6 to 200 GeV
• In the target rest frame– Multiplicity exhibits a common yield curve close to the
beam rapidity of one nucleus• Extensive longitudinal scaling observed in
– Au+Au, d+Au and p+p
– Flow exhibits similar type behavior