scholarly journals Measurement of the neutral and charged K* (892) mesons in the MPD experiment at NICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Dmitry Ivanishchev ◽  
Dmitry Kotov ◽  
Evgeny Kryshen ◽  
Mikhail Malaev ◽  
Victor Riabov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Parton Energy Loss ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Charged Pions

Measurements of K*(892) meson production provide the means to study properties of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Because of their short lifetimes, the charged and neutral K*(892) mesons provide information about the properties of the late hadronic phase due to the presence of rescattering and regeneration effects that can modify resonance yields. The K*(892) mesons can also be used to study the various mechanisms that shape particle transverse momentum (pT) spectra, including the collective flow, in-medium parton energy loss and recombination. Measurement of neutral K*(892) mesons requires reconstruction of the charged pions and kaons originating from the primary vertex. At the same time, the measurement of charged K*(892) mesons involves reconstruction of the weakly decaying Ks mesons. Simultaneous measurement of the two particles is a way to minimize systematic uncertainties of the corresponding physical studies. We present results of feasibility studies for measurement of the charged and neutral K*(892) mesons in the MPD experimental setup in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies. Results are obtained using full-scale Monte Carlo simulations of the experimental setup.

scholarly journals Highlights from PHENIX at RHIC

2018 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Rachid Nouicer
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Quark ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Medium ◽  
Heavy Flavor ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Rapidity Region ◽  
Ion Collisions

Hadrons conveying strange quarks or heavy quarks are essential probes of the hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. With hidden strangeness, ϕ meson production and its transport in the nuclear medium have attracted high interest since its discovery. Heavy quark-antiquark pairs, like charmonium and bottomonium mesons, are mainly produced in initial hard scattering processes of partons. While some of the produced pairs form bound quarkonia, the vast majority hadronize into particles carrying open heavy flavor. In this context, the PHENIX collaboration carries out a comprehensive physics program which studies the ϕ meson production, and heavy flavor production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. In recent years, the PHENIX experiment upgraded the detector in installing silicon vertex tracker (VTX) at mid-rapidity region and forward silicon vertex tracker (FVTX) at the forward rapidity region. With these new upgrades, the experiment has collected large data samples, and enhanced the capability of heavy flavor measurements via precision tracking. This paper summarizes the latest PHENIX results concerning ϕ meson, open and closed charm and beauty heavy quark production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These results are presented as a function of rapidity, energy and system size, and their interpretation with respect to the current theoretical understanding.

scholarly journals The global geometrical property of jet events in high-energy nuclear collisions

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi-Yong Chen ◽  
Wei Dai ◽  
Shan-Liang Zhang ◽  
Qing Zhang ◽  
Ben-Wei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Parton Energy Loss ◽  
Boltzmann Transport ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Medium Modifications

AbstractWe present the first theoretical study of medium modifications of the global geometrical pattern, i.e., transverse sphericity ($$S_{\perp }$$ S ⊥ ) distribution of jet events with parton energy loss in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In our investigation, POWHEG + PYTHIA is employed to make an accurate description of transverse sphericity in the p + p baseline, which combines the next-to-leading order (NLO) pQCD calculations with the matched parton shower (PS). The Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model of the parton energy loss is implemented to simulate the in-medium evolution of jets. We calculate the event normalized transverse sphericity distribution in central Pb + Pb collisions at the LHC, and give its medium modifications. An enhancement of transverse sphericity distribution at small $$S_{\perp }$$ S ⊥ region but a suppression at large $$S_{\perp }$$ S ⊥ region are observed in A + A collisions as compared to their p + p references, which indicates that in overall the geometry of jet events in Pb + Pb becomes more pencil-like. We demonstrate that for events with 2 jets in the final-state of heavy-ion collisions, the jet quenching makes the geometry more sphere-like with medium-induced gluon radiation. However, for events with $$\ge 3$$ ≥ 3 jets, parton energy loss in the QCD medium leads to the events more pencil-like due to jet number reduction, where less energetic jets may lose their energies and then fall off the jet selection kinematic cut. These two effects offset each other and in the end result in more jetty events in heavy-ion collisions relative to that in p + p.

scholarly journals Properties of ρ(770)0, K*(892), ϕ(1020), ∑(1385)±, Λ(1520) and Ξ(1530)0 resonances in heavy-ion collisions at a center of mass energy of SNN=4-11GeV and their reconstruction using the MPD detector at NICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2103 (1) ◽  
pp. 012140
Author(s):  
D A Ivanishchev ◽  
D O Kotov ◽  
E L Kryshen ◽  
M V Malaev ◽  
V G Riabov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Hadronic Decay ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Medium ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Physical Program

Abstract The short-lived hadronic resonances are used to study properties of the hot and dense medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Due to their short lifetimes, the resonance yields and masses measured in the hadronic channels are sensitive to rescattering and regeneration effects in the hadronic phase. The measurement of resonances is foreseen in the physical program of the MPD experiment at NICA in heavy-ion collisions at S N N = 4 - 11 GeV , in the range of energies where extensive measurements of resonances are not experimentally available. In this contribution, we explore the sensitivity of the ρ(770)0, K*(892), ϕ(1020), ∑(1385)±, Λ(1520) and Ξ(1530)0 resonances measured in the hadronic decay channels to different stages of the heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies and report the feasibility studies for the reconstruction of resonances in the MPD setup

Neutral meson production in relativistic heavy ion collisions

1991 ◽  
Vol 340 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. D. Berg ◽  
A. Boonstra ◽  
H. P. Braak ◽  
N. Brummund ◽  
W. Döring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Neutral Meson ◽  
Ion Collisions
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