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Strangeness Production and Thermal Statistical Model Huan Zhong Huang Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Los Angeles Department of Engineering Physics Tsinghua University

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Strangeness Production and Thermal Statistical Model

Huan Zhong Huang

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Engineering Physics

Tsinghua University

Strange Particle Discovery

1935 Yukawa: meson exchange model for nuclear interactionElectromagnetic interaction – photons infinite range -- photon masslessNuclear Interaction (Strong Force) – mesons Range (Rutherford Scattering) ~ 1-2 fmUncertainty principle

E t ~ cmeson mass ~ 100-200 MeV/c2

1937 Cloud Chamber cosmic ray eventsmass 106 MeV/c2

not the Yukawa meson, muon1947 C. Powell, C. Lattes and G. Occhialini

photographic plates at a mountain topm ~ 140 MeV/c2

+v

Particle Discovery

neutral pion 0 1950 accelerator experiment1947 G.D. Rochester and C.C. Butler

v – decay vertex – discovery

V0

V+

m ~ 1000 me

Kaon versus pion

du dduu 2

1Pions: ud

Neutron pions – the anti-particle is itself !! not true to neutral K0

K0 and K0 are different particles !

u, d quark masses 5-10 MeV/c2

strange quark mass ~ 150 MeV/c2

SU(3) representation for u,d,s quarks, light quarks

Strangeness Quark Mass Important!

SU(3) Representation of Particles

Strangeness Conservation

222 pNN mmEms

In Strong Interaction: strange quarks can only be produced in pairs !

Associated Production:p + N NK+

Pair Production:p + N pNK+K-

Threshold in fixed target: s = (E+mN)2 – p2

KKNppNNth

KNpNNth

mmmmmmmE

mmmmmmE

22

22

2

2

Associated Production More Effective (lower Threshold) @ low beam energies

Strange Baryons Sensitive to Bulk Partonic Matter

Tc~ ms

The Melting of Quarks and Gluons-- Quark-Gluon Plasma --

Matter Compression: Vacuum Heating:

High Baryon Density-- low energy heavy ion collisions-- neutron starquark star

High Temperature Vacuum -- high energy heavy ion collisions -- the Big Bang

Deconfinement

High Baryon Density at the AGS Si+Si 14.6 A GeV

Si+Au14.6 A GeV

Au+Au11.7 A GeV

ARCYang Pang

Systematic Kaon Measurement

NPart

NPart

NK-

NK+

NK+

/NK-

E802/E859/E866

Au+Au

Si+Au

Measurement

~ 17 sper centralAu+Au @ AGS

Large to p Ratio

Anti-hyperon absorption in dense medium?

Dynamical conversion of anti-protons to anti-Lambda?

Similar results from E917.

E864/E878

Strangeness is ‘enhanced’ at SPS

No of Wounded Nucleons

YieldN-wound

Baryon and anti-baryons are both enhanced, but by different amount !

WA97/NA57 and NA49 Consistent Results

NPART or No Wounded Nucleons Nucleons wounded once, twice or n times are different !

NA49 Data

NPart

Beam-Target Fragmentation Important

E910 p+A @ AGS

Strange Baryon Production Increases with Number of Collisions !

NA49 results lead to the same conclusion for p+A collisions ! Both fragmentation and pair production increase @SPS !!

Proton Fragmentation and Hyperon Production

E941@AGS data Baryons Very Brittle!

pAup+XpAun+X EQUAL

Energy Dependence of Strangeness Production

Mid-rapidity Ratio versus CM energy

4 Integrated Ratio versus Energy

1/4NNs

Strange Quark Production

Quark to Pion Ratio

Kink or Not ?

The to Ratio

@mid-rapidityPb+Pb @SPSMany more sThan s !!

Scenarios of Baryon Number Transport

Direct Transport Through Gluon Junctions …

X)

Indirect Transport Through Pair Production Modified by Baryon Chemical Potential …

and K

and K

and p / n ) K

Net Baryon Density Increases the Associated Production and Transfers net baryon number to multiply-strange baryons !

Event-by-Event STAR Hyperon Correlations Doable with STAR TOF and SVT Upgrade !

Multi-Strange Baryon Spectrum Shape

Too Many Baryons at Intermediate pT

Au+Au 0-10%

p+p

Cannot Simply Blame Gluon Fragmentation !

Glu

on/Q

uar

k

~10-20% difference in baryon production between gluon and quark jets

(SLD)

1/3

String Fragmentations Suppress Strange Baryons

Standard string fragmentation for baryon formation through diquark tunneling out of string potential: dependence m(ud-1) = 0.49 GeV m(ud-0) = 0.42 GeV predicts =0.35.

If , STAR data would imply , very unlikely !

RQMD

Diquark fragmentation scheme for multi-strange baryon production in A+A collisions – Ruled Out ?!

See M.Bleicher et al, PRL 88, 202501 (2002) on Discussion,

/2me

Multi-parton Dynamics and Baryon Production

q

qq

q

q q

Baryon Anti-Baryon

Baryon (Hyperon) Production may be Enhanced by Multi-parton Dynamics:

Gluon Junction Mechanism -- (Kharzeev, Gyulassy and Vance ….)

Quark Coalescence – (ALCOR-J.Zimanyi et al, AMPT-Lin et al,Molnar+Voloshin …..)

Quark Recombination – (R.J. Fries et al….)

Key Measurement: 0/ Ratio 0.35 String Fragmentation 0.65-0.75 Thermal Statistical 1 Gluon Junction/Coalescence

Physics Implication of multi-parton dynamics on v2 and RAA

Junction

Thermal Statistical Model

ch

i

ch

iT

n

T

n

nsi

chi T

mK

T

meeg

Tn ch

ss

ch

qq

s2

2

2

3

2

ezdzn

nzK

n

zn

n

n

21

221

)!2(

!2)(

Particle Density

Modified Bessel Function

Must Include all particles including resonances !!Physical meaning of s – phase space suppresion factor

Thermal Statistical Model

62.4 GeV 200 GeV

Tch (MeV) 160-170 160-170

B (MeV) 70 20

s (MeV) 0 0

200 GeV

Strangeness Enhancement and s

Chemical Freeze-out @ Phase Boundary

Misleadingly Appealing and Beautiful

Becattini: T=170, s=1

PBM (PLB518,(2000)41) predicts y=0ratios almost exactlyK-/K+=exp(2ms/T)(pbar/p)1/3

K- /K+=(pbar/p)1/4 is a fit to the data points

Agreement Appealing !Conceptually ?Equalibrium in local spatial region --- ButMeasurement in rapidity bin -- Fireball emission region in pT-y.I. Bearden, BRAHMS

Kinetic and Chemical Freezeout

R

s

R

s

Blast Wave

tanh 1 rE.Schnedermann et al, PRC48 (1993) 2462

dn

mT dmT r dr mT K1

mT coshT

0

R

I0pT sinh T

where:

r =s (r/R)n

STAR Preliminary

Blast Wave Fit

Parameters: Freeze-out T; Transverse Flow Velocity T

Different Freeze-out Conditions

Multi-strange Baryons freeze-out early: high T and small v

Physical origin for non-zero v?

/

p/K/

Have We Observed This ?

Strange Baryon Physics1 is special –

@AGS Quark level clustering or coalescence@SPS Sensitive to dynamics of baryon number transport@RHIC v2 and transverse radial flow reflects partonic

collectivityThere may be a special di-Omega state -]

2) Baryons, Strange Hyperons, --Multi-parton Dynamics: Gluon Junctions, Quark Coalescence

Quark Recombinations ……

We began to investigate quantitatively features which may be related to anisotropy and hadronization properties

of bulk partonic matter !

3) Strange Baryons and Heavy Quarks Are Sensitive Probes of Bulk Properties of Matter at RHIC ! STAR’s future Barrel TOF and MicroVertex detector upgrade will

greatly enhance STAR’s physics capability on these topics.

END of Talk

Statistical QCDStatistical QCD

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30TQCD

photon spin electrons spin

gluon spin, color quarks spin, color, flavor

Energy density reflects the information on what the matter is made of !

Strange Baryons and Dynamics of Early Stages

Precision Measurement of and Spectra Shape at the Low pT Region is Needed !!

Javier Castillo