19 research outputs found
Magnetic Component of Quark-Gluon Plasma
We describe recent developments of the "magnetic scenario" of sQGP. We show
that at there is a dense plasma of monopoles, capable of
supporting metastable flux tubes. Their existence allows to quantitatively
explained the non-trivial -dependence of the static potential
energy calculated on the lattice. By molecular dynamics simulation we derived
transport properties (shear viscosity and diffusion constant) and showed that
the best liquid is given by most symmetric plasma, with 50%-50% of electric and
magnetic charges. The results are close to those of the ``perfect liquid''
observed at RHIC.Comment: Contribution to the 20th International Conference on Nucleus Nucleus
Collisions (Quark Matter 2008
Angular Dependence of Jet Quenching Indicates Its Strong Enhancement Near the QCD Phase Transition
We study dependence of jet quenching on matter density, using "tomography" of
the fireball provided by RHIC data on azimuthal anisotropy of high
hadron yield at different centralities. Slicing the fireball into shells with
constant (entropy) density, we derive a "layer-wise geometrical limit"
which is indeed above the data . Interestingly, the
limit is reached only if quenching is dominated by shells with the entropy
density exactly in the near- region. We show two models that
simultaneously describe the high and data and conclude
that such a description can be achieved only if the jet quenching is few times
stronger in the near- region relative to QGP at . One possible
reason for that may be recent indications that the near- region is a
magnetic plasma of relatively light color-magnetic monopoles.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Final version published as PRL102,202302(2009
Effect of Light Fermions on the Confinement Transition in QCD-like Theories
Dependence of the confinement transition parameters on the fermion content
provides information on the mechanism of confinement. Recent progress in
lattice gauge theories has allowed to study it for light flavor number and found this transition to shift toward significantly stronger
coupling. We propose an explanation for that: light fermions can occupy the
chromo-magnetic monopoles, via zero modes, making them "distinguishable" and
unsuitable for Bose-Einstein Condensation. Such dilution of unoccuplied
monopoles is compensated by stronger coupling that makes them lighter and more
numerous. We also suggest that flavor-carrying quark-monopole objects account
for the density beyond quark Fermi sphere seen in cold dense phase of
lattice QCD.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure; few references added; close to the final published
versio
Deciphering Deconfinement in Correlations of Conserved Charges
Diagonal and off-diagonal flavor and conserved charge susceptibilities reveal
the prevalent degrees of freedom of heated strongly interacting matter. Results
obtained from lattice simulations are compared with various model estimates in
an effort to weed down various possible pictures of a quark gluon plasma. We
argue that the vanishing of the off-diagonal quark flavor susceptibilities and
its derivatives with respect to chemical potential, at temperatures above
1.5Tc, can only be understood in a picture of a gas or liquid composed of
quasi-particles which carry the same quantum numbers as quarks and antiquarks.
A potential new observable, blind to neutral and non-strange particles, is
introduced and related via isospin symmetry to the ratio of susceptibilities of
baryonic strangeness to strangeness generated in the excited matter created at
RHIC.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, LATEX, To appear in the proceedings of the
International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Los Angeles, CA, Mar
26-31, 200
Quark-Gluon Plasma - New Frontiers
As implied by organizers, this talk is not a conference summary but rather an
outline of progress/challenges/``frontiers'' of the theory. Some fundamental
questions addressed are:
Why is sQGP such a good liquid? Do we understand (de)confinement and what do
we know about ``magnetic'' objects creating it? Can we understand the AdS/CFT
predictions, from the gauge theory side? Can they be tested experimentally? Can
AdS/CFT duality help us understand rapid equilibration/entropy production? Can
we work out a complete dynamical ``gravity dual'' to heavy ion collisions?Comment: final talk at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, Feb.200
Infrared Behavior of High-Temperature QCD
The damping rate \gamma_t(p) of on-shell transverse gluons with ultrasoft
momentum p is calculated in the context of next-to-leading-order
hard-thermal-loop-summed perturbation of high-temperature QCD. It is obtained
in an expansion to second order in p. The first coefficient is recovered but
that of order p^2 is found divergent in the infrared. Divergences from
light-like momenta do also occur but are circumvented. Our result and method
are critically discussed, particularly regarding a Ward identity obtained in
the literature. When enforcing the equality between \gamma_t(0) and
\gamma_l(0), a rough estimate of the magnetic mass is obtained. Carrying a
similar calculation in the context of scalar quantum electrodynamics shows that
the early ultrasoft-momentum expansion we make has little to do with the
infrared sensitivity of the result.Comment: REVTEX4, 55 page
Quantum simulations of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma
A strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) of heavy constituent
quasiparticles is studied by a path-integral Monte-Carlo method, which improves
the corresponding classical simulations by extending them to the quantum
regime. It is shown that this method is able to reproduce the lattice equation
of state and also yields valuable insight into the internal structure of the
QGP. The results indicate that the QGP reveals liquid-like rather than gas-like
properties. At temperatures just above the critical one it was found that bound
quark-antiquark states still survive. These states are bound by effective
string-like forces. Quantum effects turned out to be of prime importance in
these simulations.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures, revised version of the contribution to
proceedings of "Int. Workshop on High Density Nuclear Matter", Cape Town,
5-10 Apr., 201
Charge-Dependent Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions and the Chiral Magnetic Effect
We provide a phenomenological analysis of present experimental searches for
local parity violation manifested through the Chiral Magnetic Effect. We
introduce and discuss the relevant correlation functions used for the
measurements. Our analysis of the available data from both RHIC and LHC shows
that the present experimental evidence for the Chiral Magnetic Effect is rather
ambiguous. We further discuss in some detail various background contributions
due to conventional physics, which need to be understood quantitatively in
order to draw a definitive conclusion about the existence of local parity
violation in heavy ion collisions.Comment: 37 pages, to appear in Lect. Notes Phys. "Strongly interacting matter
in magnetic fields" (Springer), edited by D. Kharzeev, K. Landsteiner, A.
Schmitt, H.-U. Ye
Theoretical Overview: The New Mesons
After commenting on the state of contemporary hadronic physics and
spectroscopy, I highlight four areas where the action is: searching for the
relevant degrees of freedom, mesons with beauty and charm, chiral symmetry and
the D_{sJ} levels, and X(3872) and the lost tribes of charmonium.Comment: 10 pages, uses jpconf.cls; talk at First Meeting of the APS Topical
Group on Hadronic Physic
Working Group Report: Heavy-Ion Physics and Quark-Gluon Plasma
This is the report of Heavy Ion Physics and Quark-Gluon Plasma at WHEPP-09
which was part of Working Group-4. Discussion and work on some aspects of
Quark-Gluon Plasma believed to have created in heavy-ion collisions and in
early universe are reported.Comment: 20 pages, 6 eps figures, Heavy-ion physics and QGP activity report in
"IX Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-09)" held in
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India, during January 3-14, 2006. To be
published in PRAMANA - Journal of Physics (Indian Academy of Science