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Large Angle Hadron Correlations from Medium-Induced Gluon Radiation
Final state medium-induced gluon radiation in ultradense nuclear matter is
examined and shown to favor large angle emission when compared to vacuum
bremsstrahlung due to the suppression of collinear gluons. Perturbative
expression for the contribution of its hadronic fragments to the back-to-back
particle correlations is derived. It is found that in the limit of large jet
energy loss gluon radiation determines the yield and angular distribution of |
Delta phi | > Pi/2 di-hadrons to transverse momenta pT2 of the associated
particles. Clear transition from enhancement to suppression of the away-side
hadron correlations is established at moderate pT2 and its experimentally
accessible features are predicted versus the trigger particle momentum pT1.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Figures 1 and 2 and some of the text revised.
Footnote added. As published in Phys. Lett.
Elliptic Flow and Fixed p_T Suppression in a Final State Interaction Model
It has been shown that a final state interaction model, used to describe
J/psi suppression, can also describe the fixed p_T suppression of the pi^0 (and
charged pions) yield at all values of p_T, with a final state interaction
cross-section sigma close to one milibarn. We propose an extension of the model
to the pion motion in the transverse plane - which introduces a dependence of
the suppression on the azimuthal angle theta_R. Using the same value of sigma,
we obtain values of the elliptic flow v_2 close to the experimental ones, for
all values of p_T, including the soft p_T region.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figure
Neutral Pions with Large Transverse Momentum in d+Au and Au+Au Collisions
Measurements of transverse-momentum p_T spectra of neutral pions in Au+Au and
d+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV and 62.4 GeV by the PHENIX experiment at
RHIC in comparison to p+p reference spectra at the same sqrt{s_NN} are
presented. In central Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV a factor 4-5
suppression for neutral pions and charged hadrons with p_T > 5 GeV/c is found
relative to the p+p reference scaled by the nuclear overlap function .
In contrast, such a suppression of high-p_T particles is absent in d+Au
collisions independent of the centrality of the collision. To study the
sqrt{s_NN} dependence of the suppression Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV
and 62.4 GeV are compared.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, presented at Hot Quarks 2004, Taos, N
Relevance of baseline hard proton-proton spectra for high-energy nucleus-nucleus physics
We discuss three different cases of hard inclusive spectra in proton-proton
collisions: high single hadron production at 20 GeV and
at = 62.4 GeV, and direct photon production at = 200 GeV;
with regard to their relevance for the search of Quark Gluon Plasma signals in
A+A collisions at SPS and RHIC energies.Comment: Proceeds. Hot Quarks 2004 Int. Workshop on the Physics of
Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions. 26 pages. 26 figs. [minor
corrs., refs. added
Physics at the LHC: a short overview
The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started operation a few months ago. The
machine will deliver proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at energies
as high as sqrt(s)=14 TeV and luminosities up to L~10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}, never
reached before. The main open scientific questions that the seven LHC
experiments -- ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCb, TOTEM, LHCf and MOEDAL -- aim to solve
in the coming years are succinctly reviewed.Comment: 9 pages, 16 plots. Invited review talk Hot-Quarks 2010, La
Londe-Les-Maures, July 2010. J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 270, 012001 (2011). Minor
typos correcte
Evidence for Thermal Equilibration in Multifragmentation Reactions probed with Bremsstrahlung Photons
The production of nuclear bremsstrahlung photons (E 30 MeV) has
been studied in inclusive and exclusive measurements in four heavy-ion
reactions at 60{\it A} MeV. The measured photon spectra, angular distributions
and multiplicities indicate that a significant part of the hard-photons are
emitted in secondary nucleon-nucleon collisions from a thermally equilibrated
system. The observation of the thermal component in multi-fragment
Ar+Au reactions suggests that the breakup of the thermalized
source produced in this system occurs on a rather long time-scale.Comment: Revised version, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
4 pages, 4 fig
An insulating grid spacer for large-area MICROMEGAS chambers
We present an original design for large area gaseous detectors based on the MICROMEGAS technology. This technology incorporates an insulating grid, sandwiched between the micro-mesh and the anode-pad plane, which provides an uniform 200 m amplification gap. The uniformity of the amplification gap thickness has been verified under several experimental conditions. The gain performances of the detector are presented and compared to the values obtained with detectors using cylindrical micro spacers. The new design presents several technical and financial advantages
High-precision measurements from LHC to FCC-ee
This document provides a writeup of all contributions to the workshop on
"High precision measurements of : From LHC to FCC-ee" held at CERN,
Oct. 12--13, 2015. The workshop explored in depth the latest developments on
the determination of the QCD coupling from 15 methods where high
precision measurements are (or will be) available. Those include low-energy
observables: (i) lattice QCD, (ii) pion decay factor, (iii) quarkonia and (iv)
decays, (v) soft parton-to-hadron fragmentation functions, as well as
high-energy observables: (vi) global fits of parton distribution functions,
(vii) hard parton-to-hadron fragmentation functions, (viii) jets in p
DIS and -p photoproduction, (ix) photon structure function in
-, (x) event shapes and (xi) jet cross sections in
collisions, (xii) W boson and (xiii) Z boson decays, and (xiv) jets and (xv)
top-quark cross sections in proton-(anti)proton collisions. The current status
of the theoretical and experimental uncertainties associated to each extraction
method, the improvements expected from LHC data in the coming years, and future
perspectives achievable in collisions at the Future Circular Collider
(FCC-ee) with (1--100 ab) integrated luminosities yielding
10 Z bosons and jets, and 10 W bosons and leptons, are
thoroughly reviewed. The current uncertainty of the (preliminary) 2015 strong
coupling world-average value, = 0.1177 0.0013, is about
1\%. Some participants believed this may be reduced by a factor of three in the
near future by including novel high-precision observables, although this
opinion was not universally shared. At the FCC-ee facility, a factor of ten
reduction in the uncertainty should be possible, mostly thanks to
the huge Z and W data samples available.Comment: 135 pages, 56 figures. CERN-PH-TH-2015-299, CoEPP-MN-15-13. This
document is dedicated to the memory of Guido Altarell
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