Exploring sQGP and small systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 2130014
Author(s):  
Debasish Das
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ions ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Small Systems ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Low Viscosity

A strongly coupled Quark–Gluon Plasma (sQGP) is created in the high-energy heavy-ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our present understanding of sQGP as a very good liquid with astonishingly low viscosity is reviewed. With the arrival of the interesting results from LHC in high-energy [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], a new endeavor to characterize the transition from these small systems to heavy ions [Formula: see text] is now in place, since even the small systems showed prominent similarities to heavy ions in the rising multiplicity domains. An outlook of future possibilities for better measurements is also made at the end of this brief review.

scholarly journals Measurements of jets in heavy ion collisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 05010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Nattrass
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Ion Collisions

The Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in high energy heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This medium is transparent to electromagnetic probes but nearly opaque to colored probes. Hard partons produced early in the collision fragment and hadronize into a collimated spray of particles called a jet. The partons lose energy as they traverse the medium, a process called jet quenching. Most of the lost energy is still correlated with the parent parton, contributing to particle production at larger angles and lower momenta relative to the parent parton than in proton-proton collisions. This partonic energy loss can be measured through several observables, each of which give different insights into the degree and mechanism of energy loss. The measurements to date are summarized and the path forward is discussed.

scholarly journals A critical review of RHIC experimental results

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (08) ◽  
pp. 1430011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Trainor
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Ideal Gas ◽  
Asymptotic State ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Elementary Collision ◽  
Rhic Data

The relativistic heavy-ion collider (RHIC) was constructed to achieve an asymptotic state of nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions, a near-ideal gas of deconfined quarks and gluons denoted quark–gluon plasma or QGP. RHIC collisions are indeed very different from the hadronic processes observed at the Bevalac and AGS, but high-energy elementary-collision mechanisms are also non-hadronic. The two-component model (TCM) combines measured properties of elementary collisions with the Glauber eikonal model to provide an alternative asymptotic limit for A–A collisions. RHIC data have been interpreted to indicate formation of a strongly-coupled QGP (sQGP) or "perfect liquid". In this review, I consider the experimental evidence that seems to support such conclusions and alternative evidence that may conflict with those conclusions and suggest different interpretations.

scholarly journals On Pseudorapidity Distribution and Speed of Sound in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions Based on a New Revised Landau Hydrodynamic Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Na Gao ◽  
Fu-Hu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Speed Of Sound ◽  
Hydrodynamic Model ◽  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Central Source ◽  
Ion Collisions

We propose a new revised Landau hydrodynamic model to study systematically the pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles produced in heavy ion collisions over an energy range from a few GeV to a few TeV per nucleon pair. The interacting system is divided into three sources, namely, the central, target, and projectile sources, respectively. The large central source is described by the Landau hydrodynamic model and further revised by the contributions of the small target/projectile sources. The modeling results are in agreement with the available experimental data at relativistic heavy ion collider, large hadron collider, and other energies for different centralities. The value of square speed of sound parameter in different collisions has been extracted by us from the widths of rapidity distributions. Our results show that, in heavy ion collisions at energies of the two colliders, the central source undergoes a phase transition from hadronic gas to quark-gluon plasma liquid phase; meanwhile, the target/projectile sources remain in the state of hadronic gas. The present work confirms that the quark-gluon plasma is of liquid type rather than being of a gas type.

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.

Transit Times in Lltra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

1991 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 1037-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Wolschin
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ions ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Transit Times ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Mean transit times in heavy-ion collisions are calculated as functions of the relativistic incident energy and the impact parameter. As a consequence of special relativity, they become constant in a central collision of O with Pb at T~0.15TeV. Together with a geometrical estimate of the maximum energy densities in the interaction region, it is argued that heavy ions in a large hadron collider may produce a quark-gluon plasma due to the plateau in the transit times at ultra-relativistic energies

scholarly journals Quarkonia disintegration due to time dependence of the qq̄ potential in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (32) ◽  
pp. 1550162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Partha Bagchi ◽  
Ajit M. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Survival Probability ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Quarkonium State ◽  
Short Time

Rapid thermalization in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions leads to fast changing potential between a heavy quark and antiquark from zero temperature potential to the finite temperature one. Time-dependent perturbation theory can then be used to calculate the survival probability of the initial quarkonium state. In view of very short time scales of thermalization at relativistic heavy-ion collider (RHIC) and large hadron collider (LHC) energies, we calculate the survival probability of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] using sudden approximation. Our results show that quarkonium decay may be significant even when temperature of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) remains low enough so that the conventional quarkonium melting due to Debye screening is ineffective.

scholarly journals Open Heavy-Flavor Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 417-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Dong ◽  
Yen-Jie Lee ◽  
Ralf Rapp
Keyword(s):  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Transport Coefficients ◽  
Diffusion Constant ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Radiative Energy ◽  
Heavy Flavor ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Radiative Energy Loss ◽  
Ion Collisions

The ultrarelativistic heavy-ion programs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider have entered an era of quantitative analysis of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at high temperatures. The remarkable discovery of the strongly coupled quark–gluon plasma (sQGP), as deduced from its hydrodynamic behavior at long wavelengths, calls for probes that can reveal its inner workings. Charm- and bottom-hadron spectra offer unique insights into the transport properties and the microscopic structure of the QCD medium created in these collisions. At low momentum the Brownian motion of heavy quarks in the sQGP gives access to their diffusion constant, at intermediate momentum these quarks give insight into hadronization mechanisms, and at high momentum they are expected to merge into a radiative-energy loss regime. We review recent experimental and theoretical achievements on measuring a variety of heavy-flavor observables, characterizing the different regimes in momentum and extracting pertinent transport coefficients to unravel the structure of the sQGP and its hadronization.

scholarly journals Time reclustering for jet quenching studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Apolinário ◽  
André Cordeiro ◽  
Korinna Zapp
Keyword(s):  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Time Structure ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
Unique Potential

AbstractThe physics program of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) has brought a unique insight into the hot and dense QCD matter created in such collisions, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Jet quenching, a collection of medium-induced modifications of the jets’ internal structure that occur through their development in dense QCD matter, has a unique potential to assess the time structure of the produced medium. In this work, we perform an exploratory study to identify jet reclustering tools that can potentiate future QGP tomographic measurements with jets at current energies. Our results show that by using the inverse of formation time to obtain the jet clustering history, one can identify more accurately the time structure of QCD emissions inside jets, even in the presence of jet quenching.

scholarly journals Experimental Results on Chiral Magnetic and Vortical Effects

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Wang ◽  
Liwen Wen
Keyword(s):  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Chiral Magnetic Effect ◽  
Chiral Systems ◽  
Future Work

Various novel transport phenomena in chiral systems result from the interplay of quantum anomalies with magnetic field and vorticity in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and could survive the expansion of the fireball and be detected in experiments. Among them are the chiral magnetic effect, the chiral vortical effect, and the chiral magnetic wave, the experimental searches for which have aroused extensive interest. The goal of this review is to describe the current status of experimental studies at Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at BNL and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and to outline the future work in experiment needed to eliminate the existing uncertainties in the interpretation of the data.

scholarly journals Ion Colliders

2014 ◽  
Vol 07 ◽  
pp. 49-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfram Fischer ◽  
John M. Jowett
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Collision Energy ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Heavy Nuclei ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Polarized Protons ◽  
Ion Species

High energy ion colliders are large research tools in nuclear physics for studying the quark–gluon–plasma (QGP). The collision energy and high luminosity are important design and operational considerations. The experiments also expect flexibility with frequent changes in the collision energy, detector fields, and ion species. Ion species range from protons, including polarized protons in RHIC, to heavy nuclei like gold, lead, and uranium. Asymmetric collision combinations (such as protons against heavy ions) are also essential. For the creation, acceleration, and storage of bright intense ion beams, limits are set by space charge, charge change, and intrabeam scattering effects, as well as beam losses due to a variety of other phenomena. Currently, there are two operating ion colliders: the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

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