scholarly journals Highlights from BNL-RHIC 2011–2013

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (13) ◽  
pp. 1430017 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Tannenbaum
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Nucleon Nucleon ◽  
Brookhaven National Laboratory ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Qcd Critical Point

Highlights from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and experiments at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are presented for the years 2011–2013. This review is a combination of lectures which discussed the latest results each year at a three year celebration of the 50th anniversary of the International School of Subnuclear Physics in Erice, Sicily, Italy. Since the first collisions in the year 2000, RHIC has provided nucleus–nucleus and polarized proton–proton collisions over a range of nucleon–nucleon center-of-mass energies [Formula: see text] from 7.7 GeV to 510 GeV with nuclei from deuterium to uranium, most often gold. The objective was the discovery of the Quark Gluon Plasma, which was achieved, and the measurement of its properties, which were much different than expected, namely a "perfect fluid" of quarks and gluons with their color charges exposed rather than a gas. Topics including quenching of light and heavy quarks at large transverse momentum, thermal photons, search for a QCD critical point as well as measurements of collective flow, two-particle correlations and J/Ψ suppression are presented. During this period, results from the first and subsequent heavy ion measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN became available. These confirmed and extended the RHIC discoveries and have led to ideas for new and improved measurements.

scholarly journals Chiral Magnetic Effects in Nuclear Collisions

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Gang Wang
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Transport Phenomena ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Brookhaven National Laboratory ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Nuclear Collisions ◽  
Chiral Magnetic Effect

The interplay of quantum anomalies with strong magnetic fields and vorticity in chiral systems could lead to novel transport phenomena, such as the chiral magnetic effect (CME), the chiral magnetic wave (CMW), and the chiral vortical effect (CVE). In high-energy nuclear collisions, these chiral effects may survive the expansion of a quark–gluon plasma fireball and be detected in experiments. The experimental searches for the CME, the CMW, and the CVE have aroused extensive interest over the past couple of decades. The main goal of this article is to review the latest experimental progress in the search for these novel chiral transport phenomena at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Future programs to help reduce uncertainties and facilitate the interpretation of the data are also discussed.

scholarly journals HEAVY ION PHYSICS AT RHIC

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (05) ◽  
pp. 771-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. TANNENBAUM
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Nucleon Nucleon ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Brookhaven National Laboratory ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion Physics ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Nuclear Matter

The status of the physics of heavy ion collisions is reviewed based on measurements over the past 6 years from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The dense nuclear matter produced in Au + Au collisions with nucleon-nucleon c.m. energy [Formula: see text] at RHIC corresponds roughly to the density and temperature of the universe a few microseconds after the ‘big-bang’ and has been described as “a perfect liquid” of quarks and gluons, rather than the gas of free quarks and gluons, “the quark-gluon plasma” as originally envisaged. The measurements and arguments leading to this description will be presented.

scholarly journals Heavy Ion Physics and Quark-Gluon Plasma

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 2951-2962 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Nagle
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Brookhaven National Laboratory ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion Physics ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
American Physical

These proceedings represent a brief overview of the exciting physics coming out from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The experimental results from BRAHMS, PHOBOS, PHENIX and STAR indicate a strongly-coupled state of matter that can only be described on the partonic level. We review some of the latest experimental results as we presented at the meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society in Riverside, CA in August 2004.

scholarly journals QCD COLLISIONAL ENERGY LOSS IN AN INCREASINGLY INTERACTING QUARK–GLUON PLASMA

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (18) ◽  
pp. 3105-3122
Author(s):  
M. B. GAY DUCATI ◽  
V. P. GONÇALVES ◽  
L. F. MACKEDANZ
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Brookhaven National Laboratory ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

The discovery of the jet quenching in central Au + Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory has provided clear evidence for the formation of strongly interacting dense matter. It has been predicted to occur due to the energy loss of high energy partons that propagate through the quark–gluon plasma. In this paper we investigate the dependence of the parton energy loss due to elastic scatterings in a parton plasma on the value of the strong coupling and its running with the evolution of the system. We analyze different prescriptions for the QCD coupling and calculate the energy and length dependence of the fractional energy loss. Moreover, the partonic quenching factor for light and heavy quarks is estimated. We found that the predicted enhancement of the heavy to light hadrons (D/π) ratio is strongly dependent on the running of the QCD coupling constant.

scholarly journals TAGGED JETS AND JET RECONSTRUCTION AS A PROBE OF QGP INDUCED PARTONIC ENERGY LOSS

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 1605-1609
Author(s):  
RICHARD BRYON NEUFELD
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion Physics ◽  
Inclusive Jets

Recent experimental advances at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the large center-of-mass energies available to the heavy-ion program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will enable strongly interacting matter at high temperatures and densities, that is, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), to be probed in unprecedented ways. Among these exciting new probes are fully-reconstructed inclusive jets and the away-side hadron showers associated with a weakly or electromagnetically interacting boson, or, tagged jets. Full jet reconstruction provides an experimental window into the mechanisms of quark and gluon dynamics in the QGP which is not accessible via leading particles and leading particle correlations. Theoretical advances in this growing field can help resolve some of the most controversial points in heavy ion physics today. I here discuss the power of jets to reveal the spectrum of induced radiation, thereby shedding light on the applicability of the commonly used energy loss formalisms and present results on the production and subsequent suppression of high energy jets tagged with Z bosons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies using the Gyulassy-Levai-Vitev (GLV) parton energy loss approach.

scholarly journals Latest Results from RHIC + Progress on Determining q ^ L in RHI Collisions Using Di-Hadron Correlations

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Michael J. Tannenbaum
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Brookhaven National Laboratory ◽  
Collider Physics ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
The Future

Results from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Physics in 2018 and plans for the future at Brookhaven National Laboratory are presented.

HYDJET SIMULATIONS OF ELLIPTIC FLOW IN HEAVY ION COLLISIONS AT THE LHC

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (07n08) ◽  
pp. 1917-1922
Author(s):  
D. KROFCHECK ◽  
R. MAK ◽  
P. ALLFREY
Keyword(s):  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Elliptic Flow ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Event Generator ◽  
Simulation Tool ◽  
Mass Energy ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Ion Collisions

At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) elliptic flow signals (v2) appear to be stronger than those measured at lower center-of-mass energies. With the beginning of heavy ion beams at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) it is important to have a reliable tool for simulating v2 at the LHC Pb – Pb center-of-mass energy of 5.5 A TeV. In this work we used the heavy ion simulation tool HYDJET to study elliptic flow at the event generator level. The generator level elliptic flow v2 for Pb – Pb collisions was two-particle and four-particle cumulants.

scholarly journals A Review onϕMeson Production in Heavy-Ion Collision

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Nasim ◽  
Vipul Bairathi ◽  
Mukesh Kumar Sharma ◽  
Bedangadas Mohanty ◽  
Anju Bhasin
Keyword(s):  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Meson Production ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Proton Synchrotron ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Super Proton Synchrotron ◽  
Strangeness Enhancement

The main aim of the relativistic heavy-ion experiment is to create extremely hot and dense matter and study the QCD phase structure. With this motivation, experimental program started in the early 1990s at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) and the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) followed by Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven and recently at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. These experiments allowed us to study the QCD matter from center-of-mass energies (sNN) 4.75 GeV to 2.76 TeV. Theϕmeson, due to its unique properties, is considered as a good probe to study the QCD matter created in relativistic collisions. In this paper we present a review on the measurements ofϕmeson production in heavy-ion experiments. Mainly, we discuss the energy dependence ofϕmeson invariant yield and the production mechanism, strangeness enhancement, parton energy loss, and partonic collectivity in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Effect of later stage hadronic rescattering on elliptic flow (v2) of proton is also discussed relative to corresponding effect onϕmesonv2.

scholarly journals Comparing Multicomponent Erlang Distribution and Lévy Distribution of Particle Transverse Momentums

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua-Rong Wei ◽  
Ya-Hui Chen ◽  
Li-Na Gao ◽  
Fu-Hu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Erlang Distribution ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Final State ◽  
Heavy Particles ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Lévy Distribution ◽  
Levy Distribution

The transverse momentum spectrums of final-state products produced in nucleus-nucleus and proton-proton collisions at different center-of-mass energies are analyzed by using a multicomponent Erlang distribution and the Lévy distribution. The results calculated by the two models are found in most cases to be in agreement with experimental data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The multicomponent Erlang distribution that resulted from a multisource thermal model seems to give a better description as compared with the Lévy distribution. The temperature parameters of interacting system corresponding to different types of final-state products are obtained. Light particles correspond to a low temperature emission, and heavy particles correspond to a high temperature emission. Extracted temperature from central collisions is higher than that from peripheral collisions.

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