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Quarkonia measurements in heavy-ion collisions in CMS
The production of quarkonia is one of the most promising signals at the LHC for the study of the production properties of Quark Gluon Plasma. In addition to the J/psi, the extent to which upsilon is suppressed should give much insight into the new state of matter. The large muon acceptance and the high precision tracker make the CMS detector ideal for studies of this physics. In this note, the performance of the CMS detector for quarkonia measurements in heavy-ion collisions in the dimuon channel is presented. Dimuon reconstruction efficiencies and mass resolution are calculated using detailed detector simulation. Mass spectra and signal to background ratios are estimated with a fast Monte Carlo program. Results obtained with the fast Monte Carlo are compared with more detailed simulations
Charmonium dynamics in heavy ion collisions
Applying the HSD transport approach to charmonium dynamics within the
'hadronic comover model' and the 'QGP melting scenario', we show that the
suppression pattern seen at RHIC cannot be explained by the interaction with
baryons, comoving mesons and/or by color screening mechanism. The interaction
with hadrons in the late stages of the collision (when the energy density falls
below the critical) gives a sizable contribution to the suppression. On the
other hand, it does not account for the observed additional charmonium
dissociation and its dependence on rapidity. Together with the failure of the
hadron-string models to reproduce high v2 of open charm mesons, this suggests
strong pre-hadronic interaction of c-cbar with the medium at high energy
densities.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at the international conference on
"Strangeness in Quark Matter", 24-29 June 2007, Levoca, Slovaki
Estimation of Collision Impact Parameter
We demonstrate that the nuclear collision geometry (i.e. impact parameter)
can be determined with 1.5 fm accuracy in an event-by-event analysis by
measuring the transverse energy flow in the pseudorapidity region with a minimal dependence on collision dynamics details at the LHC
energy scale. Using the HIJING model we have illustrated our calculation by a
simulation of events of nucleus-nucleus interactions at the c.m.s energy from 1
up to 5.5 TeV per nucleon and various type of nuclei.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Reaction â¶Li(p, Îâșâș)â¶He At 1.04 GeV And The ÎâN Interaction
The reaction â¶Li(p, Îâșâș)â¶He has been studied at 1.04 GeV for transferred momenta ranging from 0.11 to 0.35 (GeV/c)2. An exponential decrease of the cross section is observed. A Glauber-type calculation is presented. The possibility of extracting information on Ï(ÎN) and α(ÎN) is discussed
Charm and beauty of the Large Hadron Collider
With the acceleration of lead nuclei in the LHC, heavy-ion physics will enter
a new energy domain. One of the main novelties introduced by the 30-fold
energy-jump from RHIC to the LHC is the abundant heavy-quark production. After
discussing a few examples of physics issues that can be addressed using heavy
quarks, we present a selection of results on the expected experimental
capability of ALICE, the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the LHC, in the
open-heavy-flavour sector.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Invited talk at Strangeness in Quark Matter
(SQM) 2004, Cape Town, South Africa, 15-20 September 2004. Submitted to J.
Phys.
Charmonium dynamics in dA and AA at RHIC and LHC
We discuss features of charmonium suppression at \sqtr{s} = 200 GeV within
the framework of the Glauber-Gribov theory and the comovers interaction model.
The latter approach has been extended by allowing for secondary charmonium
production due to recombination of pairs in the medium, estimated
from pp data at the same bombarding energy. Centrality and rapidity dependence
of the nuclear modification factor for J/psi in d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au
collisions at RHIC are reproduced without fitting a single model parameter. A
strong suppression of J/psi is predicted for LHC energies.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings from Quark Matter 200
Hard probes in heavy ion collisions at the LHC: heavy flavour physics
We present the results from the heavy quarks and quarkonia working group.
This report gives benchmark heavy quark and quarkonium cross sections for
and collisions at the LHC against which the rates can be compared in
the study of the quark-gluon plasma. We also provide an assessment of the
theoretical uncertainties in these benchmarks. We then discuss some of the cold
matter effects on quarkonia production, including nuclear absorption,
scattering by produced hadrons, and energy loss in the medium. Hot matter
effects that could reduce the observed quarkonium rates such as color screening
and thermal activation are then discussed. Possible quarkonium enhancement
through coalescence of uncorrelated heavy quarks and antiquarks is also
described. Finally, we discuss the capabilities of the LHC detectors to measure
heavy quarks and quarkonia as well as the Monte Carlo generators used in the
data analysis.Comment: 126 pages Latex; 96 figures included. Subgroup report, to appear in
the CERN Yellow Book of the workshop: Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions at
the LHC. See also http://a.home.cern.ch/f/frixione/www/hvq.html for a version
with better quality for a few plot
Medium-evolved fragmentation functions
Medium-induced gluon radiation is usually identified as the dominant
dynamical mechanism underling the {\it jet quenching} phenomenon observed in
heavy-ion collisions. In its actual implementation, multiple medium-induced
gluon emissions are assumed to be independent, leading, in the eikonal
approximation, to a Poisson distribution. Here, we introduce a medium term in
the splitting probabilities so that both medium and vacuum contributions are
included on the same footing in a DGLAP approach. The improvements include
energy-momentum conservation at each individual splitting, medium-modified
virtuality evolution and a coherent implementation of vacuum and medium
splitting probabilities. Noticeably, the usual formalism is recovered when the
virtuality and the energy of the parton are very large. This leads to a similar
description of the suppression observed in heavy-ion collisions with values of
the transport coefficient of the same order as those obtained using the {\it
quenching weights}.Comment: LaTeX, 18 pages, 13 figures included using epsfig, uses JHEP3; v2:
enlarged discussions, one figure replaced, some references added, final
versio
Projectile and target-Roper excitation in the p (d, d')X reaction
In this paper we compare a model that contains the mechanisms of
excitation in the projectile and Roper excitation in the target with
experimental data from two (d, d') experiments on a proton target. The
agreement of the theory with the experiment is fair for the data taken at T_d =
2.3 GeV. The excitation in the projectile is predicted close to the
observed energy with the correct width. The theory, however, underpredicts by
about 40% the cross sections measured at T_d = 1.6 GeV at angles where the
cross section has fallen by about two orders of magnitude. The analysis done
here allows to extract an approximate strength for the excitation of the Roper
[N^*(1440)] excitation and a qualitative agreement with the theoretical
predictions is also found.Comment: 8 ps figure
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