scholarly journals An Experimental Review on Heavy-Flavorv2in Heavy-Ion Collision

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Nasim ◽  
Roli Esha ◽  
Huan Zhong Huang
Keyword(s):  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Large Mass ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Azimuthal Anisotropy ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Medium ◽  
Heavy Flavor ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Ion Collision

For over a decade now, the primary purpose of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been to study the properties of QCD matter under extreme conditions—high temperature and high density. The heavy-ion experiments at both RHIC and LHC have recorded a wealth of data in p+p, p+Pb, d+Au, Cu+Cu, Cu+Au, Au+Au, Pb+Pb, and U+U collisions at energies ranging fromsNN=7.7 GeV to 7 TeV. Heavy quarks are considered good probe to study the QCD matter created in relativistic collisions due to their very large mass and other unique properties. A precise measurement of various properties of heavy-flavor hadrons provides an insight into the fundamental properties of the hot and dense medium created in these nucleus-nucleus collisions, such as transport coefficient and thermalization and hadronization mechanisms. The main focus of this paper is to present a review on the measurements of azimuthal anisotropy of heavy-flavor hadrons and to outline the scientific opportunities in this sector due to future detector upgrade. We will mainly discuss the elliptic flow of open charmed meson (D-meson),J/ψ, and leptons from heavy-flavor decay at RHIC and LHC energy.

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 Aspects of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Wolschin
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Charged Hadron ◽  
Distribution Functions ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Short Time Scale ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Ion Collisions

The rapid thermalization of quarks and gluons in the initial stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is treated using analytic solutions of a nonlinear diffusion equation with schematic initial conditions, and for gluons with boundary conditions at the singularity. On a similarly short time scale of t ≤ 1 fm/c, the stopping of baryons is accounted for through a QCD-inspired approach based on the parton distribution functions of valence quarks, and gluons. Charged-hadron production is considered phenomenologically using a linear relativistic diffusion model with two fragmentation sources, and a central gluonic source that rises with ln 3 ( s N N ) . The limiting-fragmentation conjecture that agrees with data at energies reached at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) is found to be consistent with Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data for Pb-Pb at s N N = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV. Quarkonia are used as hard probes for the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) through a comparison of theoretical predictions with recent CMS, ALICE and LHCb data for Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions.

scholarly journals An Experimental Review on Elliptic Flow of Strange and Multistrange Hadrons in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shusu Shi
Keyword(s):  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Elliptic Flow ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Flow Measurements ◽  
Ion Collisions

Strange hadrons, especially multistrange hadrons, are good probes for the early partonic stage of heavy ion collisions due to their small hadronic cross sections. In this paper, I give a brief review on the elliptic flow measurements of strange and multistrange hadrons in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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 Selected Experimental Results from Heavy-Ion Collisions at LHC

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranbir Singh ◽  
Lokesh Kumar ◽  
Pawan Kumar Netrakanti ◽  
Bedangadas Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Azimuthal Anisotropy ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Particle Multiplicity ◽  
Charged Particle Multiplicity ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Model Calculations ◽  
Ion Collisions

We review a subset of experimental results from the heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility at CERN. Excellent consistency is observed across all the experiments at the LHC (at center of mass energysNN=2.76 TeV) for the measurements such as charged particle multiplicity density, azimuthal anisotropy coefficients, and nuclear modification factor of charged hadrons. Comparison to similar measurements from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at lower energy (sNN=200 GeV) suggests that the system formed at LHC has a higher energy density and larger system size and lives for a longer time. These measurements are compared to model calculations to obtain physical insights on the properties of matter created at the RHIC and LHC.

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.

RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS: RECENT RESULTS FROM RHIC

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (07) ◽  
pp. 1111-1118
Author(s):  
D. HARDTKE
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Medium ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ◽  
Ion Collisions

High energy collisions of heavy nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider permit the study of nuclear matter at extreme densities and temperatures. Selected experimental highlights from the early RHIC program are presented. Measurements of the total multiplicity in heavy-ion collisions show a surprising similarity to measurements in e+e- collisions after nuclear geometry is taken into account. RHIC has sufficient center-of-mass energy to use large transverse momentum particles and jets as a probe of the nuclear medium. Signatures of "jet quenching" due to radiative gluon energy loss of fast partons in a dense medium are observed for the first time at RHIC. In order to account for this energy loss, initial energy densities of 30-100 times normal nuclear matter density are required.

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