388 research outputs found
J/\psi Suppression in Pb+Pb Collisions: A New Look at Hadrons vs. Plasma
A reexamination of hadronic comover scattering indicates that this mechanism
cannot explain the observed suppression in Pb+Pb interactions. The
possibility of quark-gluon plasma formation is therefore considered.Comment: Calculations redone, figures updated, conclusions unchanged, to be
published in Phys. Lett. B. 13 pages, LaTeX, uses epsf style, 4 figure
Some Field Theoretic Issues Regarding the Chiral Magnetic Effect
In this paper, we shall address some field theoretic issues regarding the
chiral magnetic effect. The general structure of the magnetic current
consistent with the electromagnetic gauge invariance is obtained and the impact
of the infrared divergence is examined. Some subtleties on the relation between
the chiral magnetic effect and the axial anomaly are clarified through a
careful examination of the infrared limit of the relevant thermal diagrams.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures in Latex. Typos fixed, version accepted to be
published in JHE
Absorption and J/psi Suppression in Heavy Ion Collisions
We discuss the J/psi suppression in the framework of multiple collision
models. From the analysis of the Pb-Pb NA50 data we conclude that the strength
of the absorption has increased, but we find no clear evidence for the
formation of the quark-gluon plasma.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Percolation of color sources and critical temperature
We argue that clustering of color sources, leading to the percolation
transition, may be the way to achieve deconfinement in heavy ion collisions.
The critical density for percolation is related to the effective critical
temperature of the thermal bath asociated to the presence of strong color
fields inside the percolating cluster. We find that the temperature is
rapidity, centrality and energy dependent. We emphasize the similarities of
percolation of strings with color glass condensate.Comment: LaTeX, 9 page
Chiral Heat Wave and mixing of Magnetic, Vortical and Heat waves in chiral media
We show that a hot rotating fluid of relativistic chiral fermions possesses a
new gapless collective mode associated with coherent propagation of energy
density and chiral density waves along the axis of rotation. This mode, which
we call the Chiral Heat Wave, emerges due to a mixed gauge-gravitational
anomaly. At finite density the Chiral Heat Wave couples to the Chiral Vortical
Wave while in the presence of an external magnetic field it mixes with the
Chiral Magnetic Wave. The coupling of the Chiral Magnetic and Chiral Vortical
Waves is also demonstrated. We find that the coupled waves - which are coherent
fluctuations of the vector, axial and energy currents - have generally
different velocities compared to the velocities of the individual waves.Comment: 33 pages, 6 figures; v2: minor changes, published versio
Quantum black holes and thermalization in relativistic heavy ion collisions
A new thermalization scenario for heavy ion collisions is discussed. It is
based on the Hawking--Unruh effect: an observer moving with an acceleration
experiences the influence of a thermal bath with an effective temperature , similar to the one present in the vicinity of a black hole horizon.
In the case of heavy ion collisions, the acceleration is caused by a pulse of
chromo--electric field ( is the saturation scale, and
is the strong coupling), the typical acceleration is , and the heat
bath temperature is MeV. In nuclear collisions
at sufficiently high energies the effect can induce a rapid thermalization over
the time period of accompanied by phase transitions. A
specific example of chiral symmetry restoration induced by the chromo--electric
field is considered; it is mathematically analogous to the phase transition
occurring in the vicinity of a black hole.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, based on invited talks given at the "Quark
Matter 2005" Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 4-9 August 2005, and Workshop on
"Quark-Gluon Plasma Thermalization", Vienna, Austria, 10-12 August 200
Observations on dA scattering at forward rapidities
We point out that the suppression in the ratio R_dAu recently observed by the
BRAHMS collaboration in forward scattering is stronger than usually
appreciated. This is related to the fact that at forward rapidities BRAHMS
measures negatively charged hadrons and that R_dAu is defined from the ratio of
dA and pp scattering cross sections. We also investigate the influence of
standard shadowing on R_dAu, and the typical values of partonic momentum
fractions relevant in forward scattering. We find that x_Au > 0.02 dominate in
the cross section.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX, 10 figures as eps files, minor addition, version to
appear in Phys.Lett.
Has saturation physics been observed in deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC?
In the framework of the recently proposed saturation picture, we examine in a
systematic way whether the nuclear modification factor measured for d-Au
collisions at RHIC may be simply explained. The Cronin peak which is obtained
at mid-rapidity around GeV may be reproduced at the proper
height only by boosting the saturation momentum by an additional nuclear
component as already shown in the literature. In this respect, mid-rapidity
RHIC data cannot necessarily be seen as a probe of the saturation picture. The
large rapidity () region allows us to test the shape of the
unintegrated gluon distribution in the nucleus, investigating various
parameterizations inspired by large rapidity solutions (of the BFKL and) of the
Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation. A satisfactory description of at
RHIC is obtained in the BK picture.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Color Glass Condensate at the LHC: hadron multiplicities in , and collisions
We make quantitative predictions for the rapidity and centrality dependencies
of hadron multiplicities in , and collisions at the LHC energies
basing on the ideas of parton saturation in the Color Glass Condensate.Comment: 26 pages, 8 figure
Generalized scaling of the transverse mass spectrum at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider
We argue that the transverse mass spectra of identified hadrons as measured
in gold-gold collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) follows
a generalized scaling law. Such a scaling behavior is motivated by the idea of
a Color Glass Condensate, or more generally, saturation of the gluon density.
In particular, we describe the shapes of transverse mass spectra as a function
of centrality. This scaling of the transverse mass spectrum is shown to be
consistent with previously observed scaling of multiplicity with centrality.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, refs. updated, version to appear in Nucl. Phys.
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