Resonance-like QGP signals displayed in general charge balance functions

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (08) ◽  
pp. 1450036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Hua Pan ◽  
Wei-Ning Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Bound States ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Balance Function ◽  
Lattice Simulation ◽  
Charge Balance ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Quark Production ◽  
Balance Functions

Experiment and lattice simulation show that the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) system displays strong interaction between constituents at temperature a few times the critical temperature Tc. This QGP picture can be explained by assuming that the QGP matter above Tc is rich in different kinds of bound states, namely resonance-like QGP (RQGP). The chemical composition of the QGP system produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be investigated through a general charge balance function which describes two-wave quark production during expansion afterward. In this paper, we investigate the signals of this RQGP through general charge balance functions. We find that the quasiparticles in QGP contribute a little to the balance functions because of their heavy masses. The balance functions reduce to the situation discussed before where only one-wave charge production is involved if only the quasiparticles in QGP are considered. However, the baryonic bound states in QGP have a significant effect on the balance function [Formula: see text], causing a dip in the [Formula: see text] balance function at small Δy. The existence of the binary and baryonic bound states amplify the negative dip of the balance function BpK-(Δy) at Δy ∽ 1.

scholarly journals Review of QCD, quark–gluon plasma, heavy quark hybrids, and heavy quark state production in p–p and A–A collisions

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (07) ◽  
pp. 1630010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard S. Kisslinger ◽  
Debasish Das
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Quark ◽  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Quark State ◽  
Quark Production ◽  
State Production ◽  
Fragmentation Functions

This is a review of the Quantum Chromodynamics Cosmological Phase Transitions, the quark–gluon plasma, the production of heavy quark states via [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text] collisions and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (RHIC) using the mixed hybrid theory for the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] states; and the possible detection of the quark–gluon plasma via heavy quark production using RHIC. Recent research on fragmentation for the production of [Formula: see text] mesons is reviewed, as is future theoretical and experimental research on the Collins and Sivers fragmentation functions for pions produced in polarized [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text] collisions.

scholarly journals Chemical Evolution of Strongly Interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ying-Hua Pan ◽  
Wei-Ning Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Equilibrium ◽  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Short Time Scale ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Strongly Interacting ◽  
Quark Production ◽  
Short Time

At very initial stage of relativistic heavy ion collisions a wave of quark-gluon matter is produced from the break-up of the strong color electric field and then thermalizes at a short time scale (~1 fm/c). However, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) system is far out of chemical equilibrium, especially for the heavy quarks which are supposed to reach chemical equilibrium much late. In this paper a continuing quark production picture for strongly interacting QGP system is derived, using the quark number susceptibilities and the equation of state; both of them are from the results calculated by the Wuppertal-Budapest lattice QCD collaboration. We find that the densities of light quarks increase by 75% from the temperatureT=400 MeV toT=150 MeV, while the density of strange quark annihilates by 18% in the temperature region. We also offer a discussion on how this late production of quarks affects the final charge-charge correlations.

scholarly journals QUARKONIA IN THE QUARK GLUON PLASMA

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1340012 ◽  
Author(s):  
ÁGNES MÓCSY ◽  
PÉTER PETRECZKY ◽  
MICHAEL STRICKLAND
Keyword(s):  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Spectral Functions ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Quark Potential ◽  
Heavy Quark Potential ◽  
Complex Valued

In this paper, we review recent progress toward understanding the nature of quarkonia in the quark gluon plasma. We review the theory necessary to understand the melting of bound states due to color-screening, including lattice results for the heavy quark potential, lattice results on the correlation functions related to the relevant spectral functions, and the emergence of a complex-valued potential in high-temperature quantum chromodynamics. We close with a brief survey of phenomenological models of quarkonium suppression in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

CHARMONIUM PRODUCTION IN Pb–Pb COLLISIONS AT ALICE: FROM SUPPRESSION TO REGENERATION?

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (21) ◽  
pp. 1330018 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRICO SCOMPARIN
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Alice Experiment ◽  
Model Calculations ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Quark Production ◽  
History Of

Heavy quarkonium states are considered as one of the key observables for the study of the phase transition from a system made of hadrons towards a Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). In the last 25 years, experiments at CERN and Brookhaven have studied collisions of heavy ions looking for a suppression of charmonia/bottomonia, considered as a signature of the phase transition. After an introduction to the main concepts behind these studies and a short review of the SPS and RHIC results, I will describe the results obtained in Pb – Pb collisions by the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The ALICE findings will be critically compared to those of lower energy experiments, to CMS results, and to model calculations. The large cross-sections for heavy-quark production at LHC energies are expected to induce a novel production mechanism for charmonia in heavy-ion collisions, related to a recombination of [Formula: see text] pairs along the history of the collision and/or at hadronization. The occurrence of such a process at the LHC will be discussed. Finally, prospects for future measurements will be shortly addressed.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document