Parton Momentum Distribution at the Moment of Jet-Parton Collisions

The early parton momentum distribution is extracted by using the STAR collaboration data of ridge particles associated with a near-side jet in centred AuAu collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV. The ridge particles are identified as medium partons kicked by the jet near the surface and they carry direct information on the parton momentum distribution at the moment of jet-patton collisions. The extracted patton momentum distribution has a thermallike transverse momentum distribution but a rapidity plateau structure with a relatively fiat rapidity distribution at mid-rapidities with sharp kinematic boundaries at large rapidities that depend on the transverse momentum.     

Properties of baryonic,electric and strangeness chemical potentials and some of their consequences in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Analytic expressions are given for the baryonic, electric and strangeness chemical potentials which explicitly show the importance of various terms. Simple scaling relations connecting these chemical potentials are found. Applications to particle ratios and to fluctuations and related thermal properties such as the isothermal compressibility κT${\kappa }_T$ are illustrated. A possible divergence of κT${\kappa }_T$ is discussed.     

Detection of source inhomogeneity through event-by-event two-pion Bose–Einstein correlations

We develop a method for detecting the inhomogeneity of the pion-emitting sources produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, through event-by-event two-pion Bose–Einstein correlations. The root-mean-square of the error-inverse-weighted fluctuations between the two-pion correlation functions of single and mixed events are useful observables for the detection. By investigating the root-mean-square of the weighted fluctuations for different impact parameter regions people may hopefully determine the inhomogeneity of the particle-emitting in the coming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) heavy ion experiments.     

A Non-Zero Hadronic Elliptic Flow with a Vanished Partonic Elliptic Flow in a Coalescence Scenario

The elliptic flow of a hadron is calculated using a quark coalescence model based on the quark phase space distribution produced by a free streaming locally thermalized quark in a two-dimensional transverse plane at initial time. Without assuming the quark＇s elliptic flow, it is shown that the hadron obtains a non-zero elliptic flow in this model. The elliptic flow of the hadron is shown to be sensitive to both space momentum correlation and the hadron＇s internal structure. Quark number scaling is obtained only for some special cases.     

Eccentricity Scaling of Elliptic Flow in Relativistic Au+Au Collisions

Elliptic flow for Au＋Au non-central collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV is investigated within a （2＋ 1）-dimensiona＇l hydrodynamic model. The results show that the eccentricity scaling for the collisions is almost perfect. The evolution including the phase transition conforms to the demand of scaling invariance of hydrodynamics of the collision system.     

Differential Directed Flow of K+ Meson within Covariant Kaon Dynamics

The collective flow of positive charged kaons in heavy ion reactions at SIS energy is investigated within the frame of covariant kann dynamics. The theoretical results calculated by using quantum molecular dynamics show that the rapidity distribution of K^＋ mesons is more sensitive to the nuclear equation of state than the differential directed flow. The contribution of various K^＋ production reaction channels to the rapidity distribution of the K^＋ is also analysed in detail. The results indicate that the rapidity distribution of K^＋ mesons is mainly from the contribution of the N-△ and N-N channel. This means that the delta resonance state plays a predominantly important role for the K^＋ subthreshold production.     

Transverse radial expansion in nuclear collisions and two particle correlations

At the very first stage of an ultra-relativistic nucleus–nucleus collision new particles are produced in individual nucleon–nucleon collisions. In the transverse plane, all particles from a single NN collision are initially located at the same position. The subsequent thermalization and transverse radial expansion of the system create strong position-momentum correlations and lead to characteristic rapidity, transverse momentum, and azimuthal correlations among the produced particles.     

Limiting fragmentation from scale-invariant merging of fast partons

Exploiting the idea that the fast partons of an energetic projectile can be treated as sources of colour radiation interpreted as wee partons, it is shown that the recently observed property of extended limiting fragmentation implies a scaling law for the rapidity distribution of fast partons. This leads to a picture of a self-similar process where, for fixed total rapidity Y  , the sources merge with probability varying as 1/y$1/y$.     

Hadron Multiplicities in Pb＋Pb Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider and Pomeron Loop Effects

We study the pseudo-rapidity distribution of hadron multiplicities of high energy Pb＋Pb collisions by using color glass condensate dynamics at LHC/ALICE in the fixed coupling case. It is found that after including the pomeron loop effects the charged hadron multiplicities at central rapidity are about 1500 for central Pb＋Pb collisions, which are significantly smaller than the saturation based calculations, ～ 1700 ÷ 2500 and compatible with that based on a study of multiplicities in the fragmentation region.     

Transverse Momentum and Rapidity Distributions of Φ Mesons Produced in Pb-Pb Collisions at SPS Energies

To investigate the excitation degree of the interacting system and the penetrating power of the projectile nucleus and to understand their dependences on incident energy, the transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of particles produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies are studied by using a multisource ideal gas model. The calculated results are compared with the most recent NA49 experimental data of φ mesons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at the Super Proton Synchrotron （SPS） energies.     

Empirical constraints on parton energy loss in nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC

We present empirical features of parton energy loss in nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC through studies of the spectra and nuclear modification factors (R_AA$R_{AA}$) for charged hadrons, neutral pions (π⁰${\pi }^0$) and non-photonic electrons. The flat distribution of R_AA$R_{AA}$ at high transverse momentum (pT$p_T$) for a given collision centrality is consistent with a scenario where parton energy loss ΔpT$\mathrm{\Delta }{p}_T$ is proportional to pT$p_T$. The centrality dependence of the parton energy loss indicates the absence of path length dependence in the magnitude of energy loss. The lack of strong path length dependence suggests a dynamical picture where the dense partonic medium undergoes rapid expansion and the density of the medium falls rapidly in the first a few Fermi interval, which may be much shorter than the full path length. Implications of the empirical constraints on the parton energy loss will also be discussed.     

Correlations of neutral and charged particles in 40Ar- 58Ni reaction at 77 MeV/u

The measurement of the two-particle correlation function for different particle species allows to obtain information about the development of the particle emission process: the space-time properties of emitting sources and the emission time sequence of different particles. The single-particle characteristics and two-particle correlation functions for neutral and charged particles registered in forward direction are used to determine that the heavy fragments (deuterons and tritons) are emitted in the first stage of the reaction (pre-equilibrium source) while the majority of neutrons and protons originates from the long-lived quasi-projectile. The emission time sequence of protons, neutrons and deuterons has been obtained from the analysis of non-identical particle correlation functions.     

Fluctuations and correlations in STAR

The study of correlations and fluctuations can provide evidence for the production of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Various theories predict that the production of a QGP phase in relativistic heavy-ion collisions could produce significant event-by-event correlations and fluctuations in transverse momentum, multiplicity, etc. Some of the recent results using STAR at RHIC will be presented along with results from other experiments at RHIC. The focus is on forward-backward multiplicity correlations, balance function, charge and transverse-momentum fluctuations, and correlations.