scholarly journals Effect of magnetic screening mass on the diffusion of heavy quarks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahfuzur Rahaman ◽  
Santosh K. Das ◽  
Jan-e Alam ◽  
Sabyasachi Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Coefficients ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Heavy Quarks ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Magnetic Screening ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Diffusion

The drag and diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks propagating through quark–gluon plasma (QGP) have been estimated by shielding the infra-red divergences using electric and magnetic screening masses. The electric-type screening in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) has been widely studied and used in evaluating the diffusion coefficient of heavy quarks (HQs). The impact of magnetic screening on diffusion coefficients of HQs is not studied before to the best of our knowledge. We explore the effect of magnetic screening mass on the drag and diffusion coefficients of HQs and found it to be non-negligible. Therefore, the effect of magnetic screening should be taken into consideration to characterize hot and dense matter formed in the collisions of nuclei at ultra-relativistic energies. We estimate the suppression of heavy flavored mesons in heavy ion collisions compared to proton+proton collisions at high transverse momenta and found that the suppression is less with the inclusion of magnetic screening. The value of the magnetic screening mass is not known exactly because of its nonperturbative nature. Moreover, it may not be possible to single out the effect of magnetic mass because of the uncertainties in other parameters involved in the diffusion process of HQs. Still it is important to include the effects of magnetic screening because of its physical origin in QCD.

scholarly journals Heavy-Flavor Measurements with the ALICE Experiment at the LHC

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Róbert Vértesi
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Heavy Quarks ◽  
Heavy Flavor ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Alice Experiment ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
State Of Matter ◽  
Heavy Flavor Quarks ◽  
Dense State

Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are produced early in the nucleus–nucleus collisions, and heavy flavor survives throughout the later stages. Measurements of heavy-flavor quarks thus provide us with means to understand the properties of the Quark–Gluon Plasma, a hot and dense state of matter created in heavy-ion collisions. Production of heavy-flavor in small collision systems, on the other hand, can be used to test Quantum-chromodynamics models. After a successful completion of the Run-I data taking period, the increased luminosity from the LHC and an upgraded ALICE detector system in the Run-II data taking period allows for unprecedented precision in the study of heavy quarks. In this article we give an overview of selected recent results on heavy-flavor measurements with ALICE experiments at the LHC.

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 Anisotropic flow and jet quenching in relativistic nuclear collisions

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 1530001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang-You Qin
Keyword(s):  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Anisotropic Flow ◽  
Nuclear Collisions ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

The exploration of the strong-interaction matter under extreme conditions is one of the main goals of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We provide some of the main results on the novel properties of quark-gluon plasma, with particular focus given to the strong collectivity and the color opaqueness exhibited by such hot and dense matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and the LHC.

scholarly journals Holography for Heavy-Ion Collisions at LHC and NICA. Results of the last two years

2018 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 05010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Aref’eva
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Recent Experimental Data ◽  
Static Properties ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Concise Review ◽  
Holographic Approach ◽  
Total Multiplicity ◽  
And Diffusion

In the previous Quarks 2016 conference I have presented a concise review of description of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation in heavy-ion collisions (HIC) within the holographic approach. In particular, I have discussed how to get the total multiplicity and time formation of QGP in HIC that fit the recent experimental data. For this purpose we had to use an anisotropic holographic model. There are also experimental indications that QGP formed in HIC is anisotropic. In this talk I discuss static properties of anisotropic QGP, in particular, phase transition and diffusion coefficients.

scholarly journals Open heavy-flavour measurements with ALICE at the LHC

2018 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 00016
Author(s):  
Fabio Colamaria
Keyword(s):  
Collective Motion ◽  
D Meson ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Heavy Quarks ◽  
Particle Identification ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Central Rapidity ◽  
Wide Range

Heavy quarks are produced in the early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and their number is preserved throughout the subsequent evolution of the system. Therefore, they constitute ideal probes for characterising the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) medium and for the study of its transport properties. In particular, heavy quarks interact with the partonic constituents of the plasma, losing energy, and are expected to be sensitive to the medium collective motion induced by its hydrodynamical evolution. In pp collisions, the measurement of heavy-flavour hadron production provides a reference for heavyion studies, and allows also testing perturbative QCD calculations in a wide range of collision energies. Similar studies in p-Pb collisions help in disentangling cold nuclear matter effects from modifications induced by the presence of a QGP medium, and are also useful to investigate the possible existence of collective phenomena also in this system. The ALICE detector provides excellent performances in terms of particle identification and vertexing capabilities. Hence, it is fully suited for the reconstruction of charmed mesons and baryons and of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at central rapidity. Furthermore, the ALICE muon spectrometer allows reconstructing heavy-flavour decay muons at forward rapidity. A review of the main ALICE results on open heavy flavour production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions is presented. Recent, more differential measurements are also shown, including azimuthal correlations of heavy-flavour particles with charged hadrons in p-Pb collisions, and D-meson tagged-jet production in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions.

scholarly journals DECONFINEMENT, MONOPOLES AND NEW PHENOMENA IN HEAVY ION COLLISIONS

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 532-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD SHURYAK
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Flux Tubes ◽  
Influence Propagation ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Magnetic Screening ◽  
Small Density ◽  
Deconfinement Phase Transition ◽  
New Phenomena

We discuss various manifestations of the "magnetic scenario" for the quark-gluon plasma viewed as a mixture of two plasmas, of electrically (quark and gluons) as well as magnetically charged quasiparticles. Near the deconfinement phase transition, T ≈ Tc very small density of free quarks should lead to negligible screening of electric field while magnetic screening remains strong. The consequence of this should be existence of a "corona" of the QGP, in a way similar to that of the Sun, in which electric fields influence propagation of perturbations and even form metastable flux tubes. The natural tool for its description is (dual) magnetohydrodynamics: among observable consequences is splitting of sound into two modes, with larger and smaller velocity. The latter can be zero, hinting for formation of pressure-stabilized flux tubes. Remarkably, recent experimental discoveries at RHIC show effects similar to expected for "corona structures". In dihadron correlation function with large-pt trigger there are a "cone" and a "hard ridge", while the so called "soft ridge" is a similar structure seen without hard trigger. They seem to be remnants of flux tubes, which – contrary to naive expectations – seem to break less often in near-Tc matter than do confining strings in vacuum.

scholarly journals Vector boson tagged jets and jet substructure

2018 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 05006
Author(s):  
Ivan Vitev
Keyword(s):  
Transverse Momentum ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Jet Substructure ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Jet Production ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Jet Shapes

In these proceedings, we report on recent results related to vector boson-tagged jet production in heavy ion collisions and the related modification of jet substructure, such as jet shapes and jet momentum sharing distributions. Z0-tagging and γ-tagging of jets provides new opportunities to study parton shower formation and propagation in the quark-gluon plasma and has been argued to provide tight constrains on the energy loss of reconstructed jets. We present theoretical predictions for isolated photon-tagged and electroweak boson-tagged jet production in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV at the LHC, addressing the modification of their transverse momentum and transverse momentum imbalance distributions. Comparison to recent ATLAS and CMS experimental measurements is performed that can shed light on the medium-induced radiative corrections and energy dissipation due to collisional processes of predominantly quark-initiated jets. The modification of parton splitting functions in the QGP further implies that the substructure of jets in heavy ion collisions may differ significantly from the corresponding substructure in proton-proton collisions. Two such observables and the implication of tagging on their evaluation is also discussed.

scholarly journals Jet charge in heavy-ion collisions

2020 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 05004
Author(s):  
Hai Tao Li
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Soft Collinear Effective Theory ◽  
Flavor Tagging ◽  
Proton Proton Collisions

Jet quenching effects have been widely used to study the properties of strongly-interacting matter, quark-gluon plasma, in heavy-ion collisions. Flavor tagging in heavy-ion collisions plays an important role to reveal the medium parton showers for quark and gluon evolution. Combining with kinematic information, the average jet charge can be used to separate the contribution of different jet flavors, which is defined as the momentum- weighted sum of the charges of hadrons inside a given jet. Using soft-collinear effective theory with medium interactions, we investigate the factorization of the jet charge in QCD medium. We provide predictions for jet charge distributions and their modifications compared to the ones in proton-proton collisions.

scholarly journals PROSPECTS OF SEARCHING FOR (UN)PARTICLES FROM HIDDEN SECTORS USING RAPIDITY CORRELATIONS IN MULTIPARTICLE PRODUCTION AT THE LHC

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (24) ◽  
pp. 4529-4572 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIGUEL-ANGEL SANCHIS-LOZANO
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Event Shape ◽  
Final State ◽  
Factorial Moments ◽  
Particle Correlation ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Simplifying Assumptions ◽  
The Impact

Most signatures of new physics have been studied on the transverse plane with respect to the beam direction at the LHC where background is much reduced. In this paper we propose the analysis of inclusive longitudinal (pseudo)rapidity correlations among final-state (charged) particles in order to search for (un)particles belonging to a hidden sector beyond the Standard Model, using a selected sample of p–p minimum bias events (applying appropriate off-line cuts on events based on, e.g. minijets, high-multiplicity, event shape variables, high-p⊥ leptons and photons, etc.) collected at the early running of the LHC. To this aim, we examine inclusive and semi-inclusive two-particle correlation functions, forward–backward correlations, and factorial moments of the multiplicity distribution, without resorting to any particular model but under very general (though simplifying) assumptions. Finally, motivated by some analysis techniques employed in the search for quark–gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions, we investigate the impact of such intermediate (un)particle stuff on the (multi)fractality of parton cascades in p–p collisions, by means of a Lévy stable law description and a Ginzburg–Landau model of phase transitions. Results from our preliminary study seem encouraging for possible dedicated analyses at LHC and Tevatron experiments.

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