study of bulk matter properties through strange hadrons with the star experiment
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Study of Bulk Matter Properties through Strange Hadrons with the STAR experiment. Marcelo G. Munhoz Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil for the Collaboration. Outline. Present new results from the STAR Collaboration towards the understanding of relativistic heavy ion collisions dynamics - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Study of Bulk Matter Properties through Strange Hadrons with the STAR experimentMarcelo G. MunhozUniversidade de São Paulo - Brasil
for the Collaboration
Outline• Present new results from the STAR Collaboration towards the understanding of relativistic heavy ion collisions dynamics▫ What are the observable signatures for the identification and characterization of the QGP, mainly related to strange hadrons ?
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“… a (locally) thermally equilibrated state of matter in which quarks and gluons are deconfined from hadrons, so that color degrees of freedom become manifest over nuclear, rather than merely nucleonic, volumes”,
STAR Collaboration, Nucl. Phys. A757 (2005)
Outline
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QGP
Outline
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Hot and High Density
Medium ?
Partonic degrees of freedom ?
Local Thermalization ?
• Bulk Strangeness production• v2
• Baryon/meson ratio vs pT
• v2 of strange hadrons
• v2 and v4: Hints from ideal hydro comparison?
d+Au collisions: Tests on cold nuclear matter
HIC
The STAR experiment at RHIC
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STAR Experiment
• Large acceptance detector
• Excellent particle identification capability
• High resolution tracking device
• All these points make STAR unique for strange and heavy flavored hadrons measurements
Bulk Properties and Strangeness•Bulk strangeness production is favored in the QGP environment relative to a pure hadronic one▫ Gluon fusion▫ Faster equilibration▫ Lower energy threshold for strangeness production
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J. Rafelski, B. Müller, PRL 48 (1982), 1066
Bulk Properties and Strangeness
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J. Rafelski, B. Müller, PRL 48 (1982), 1066
• QGP ⇒ Strangeness enhancement in heavy ion collisions relative to p+p or p+A collisions
• Can the “Strangeness Enhancement” be explained by a suppression in p+p collisions due to phase space limitations?
K. Redlich, A. Tounsi, Eur. Phys. J. C 24, 589–594 (2002)
Systematic Studies of Strangeness Production• Energy and system size
systematic measurements
• Allows to investigate the mechanisms behind strangeness production in these collisions
• What is the influence of the system geometry?
• How does strangeness production change as a function of energy?
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Systematic Studies of Bulk Strangeness Production• Strange hadrons production are enhanced relative to p+p
• Relative enhancement seems to be slightly lower than in SPS: no clear energy dependence
• Strangeness content “hierarchy”
• Production volume not proportional to Npart
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STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0809.0823
Systematic Studies of Bulk Strangeness Production
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STAR Collaboration, nucl-ex/0809.0823
• Strange hadrons production at Cu+Cu √sNN = 200 GeV does not follow the same Npart dependence as in Au+Au collisions▫ Multiple collision effect? Core-corona?
• The meson production shows equivalent enhancement, although it is not subject to “canonical suppression” ⇒ strangeness enhancement STAR Collaboration
Phys. Lett. B673, p.183 - 191, 2009.
Systematic Studies of Strangeness Production as a function of pT• Baryons are more
abundantly produced than mesons at intermediate pT as observed in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
▫ p/π, Λ/Ks0, Ω/Φ
• This behavior can be qualitatively reproduced by models that assume the coalescence of partons
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STAR Collaboration, J. Phys. G34, S933-936, 2007
R. J. Fries et al, Phys. Rev., C68:044902, 2003R. C. Hwa and C. B. Yang, Phys. Rev., C67:034902, 2003V. Greco et al, Phys. Rev. Lett., 90:202302,2003.
Systematic Studies of Strangeness Production as a function of pT
• Same behavior of Λ/Ks0 ratio observed for Au+Au and Cu+Cu at
√sNN = 62.4 GeV • What about Ω/Φ ratio for Au+Au and Cu+Cu at √sNN = 62.4 GeV?
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STAR Preliminary
Cu+Cu, √sNN = 62.4 GeV
STAR Preliminary
Au+Au, √sNN = 62.4 GeV
Systematic Studies of Strangeness Production as a function of pT
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STAR Preliminary
Cu+Cu, √sNN = 62.4 GeV
STAR Preliminary
Au+Au, √sNN = 62.4 GeV
• Is there coalescence of partons at lower energy? • Is this the only approach to describe such behavior?• See G. Vasconcelos talk
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2 2
y xy x
12 cos 2 , tan ( )y
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Azimuthal Anisotropy: Elliptic Flow
Almond shape overlap region in coordinate space
Anisotropy in momentum space
Interactions/ Rescattering
•Very important tool to probe the early stages of the collision dynamics !
Elliptic Flow and Strangeness
• Investigate particle type dependence (Ks0, Λ, Ξ)
• Low hadronic interaction (Ω, ): probe partonic collectivity
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partonic hadronic
J/Ψ, D , Ω, Ξ, Λ, KS0 , K, p
Elliptic Flow of Strange Hadrons• Hydro approach reproduces mass ordering
• v2 of strange hadrons shows baryon-meson difference:▫ nq scaling: hadronization of partons
• Indications of a different behavior for higher pT
STAR preliminary
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Hydro: P. Huovinen and P. V. Ruuskanen, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 56, 163 (2006)
Elliptic Flow of Ω and
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• Ω and : low hadronic interaction ⇒ partonic collectivity !
STAR preliminaryPHENIX: nucl-ex/0604011v1
STAR preliminary
Elliptic Flow of Strange Hadrons
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STAR preliminaryHydro limit
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=σ ⋅cs ⋅1SdNdy
where:H.-J. Drescher, A. Dumitru, C. Gombeaud and J.-Y Ollitraut, Phys. Rev. C76, 024905 (2007).
• From this approach, even in central Au + Au collisions, fitting results indicate that the system is still away from ideal hydro limit
The fourth harmonic (v4) of Strange Hadrons• v4(pT) has been measured for , KS
0 and
• The nq scaling for v4 is observed at (mT - m)/nq < 1 GeV/c2, similar to that of v2
• v4/v22 : can probe the
ideal hydro approach
STAR preliminary
STAR preliminary
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STAR preliminary
N. Borghini and J.-Y. Ollitraut, Phys. Lett. B 642 227 (2006)
Cold Nuclear Matter•Why d+Au collisions are interesting?▫Important probe to distinguish initial effects from final state interactions in Au+Au collisions
•Strangeness production in d+Au collisions▫Add important information on the particle type dependence of these effects for wide range of pT
▫The meson has a special role, since it is a meson with mass comparable to proton (baryon) and it has lower hadronic interaction cross section
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Cold Nuclear Matter and Strangeness• KS
0 and Λ yields fit the trend for the most peripheral Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions
• Ξ yields fit the trend for the most peripheral Cu+Cu collisions
• The strangeness hierarchy is preserved in d+Au
STAR Preliminarystatistical error only for d+Au data
Number of Participants Npart
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Cold Nuclear Matter and Strangeness• Most central d+Au data approaches peripheral Au+Au ratio values
• Similar explanation as in Au+Au?▫ Au+Au: Enhanced rescattering effects
STAR Preliminary
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Cold Nuclear Matter and Strangeness• K0
s agree with pions at low pT
• Λ agrees with proton at intermediate pT (2 – 4 GeV/c)
• Indications of particle type (baryon/meson) dependence of RdAu for pT from 2.0 to 4 GeV/c
• More data are necessary for Φ-meson measurement
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Summary
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Hot and High Density
Medium ?
Partonic degrees of freedom ?
Local Thermalization ?
• Strangeness enhancement and v2
• Hadronization through quark coalescence• Partonic collectivity
• Under investigation• Future effort
d+Au collisions: final state effects in HIC
HIC