化学非平衡夸克–胶子等离子体中的双轻子产生

研究了正在进行化学平衡的具有有限重子密度的夸克–胶子等离子体系统的演化和双轻子产生.结果发现由于夸克相的寿命随初始夸克化学势的增加而增加,以及其他一些因素,如较高的初始温度、较大的胶子密度和较大的胶子聚变和夸克湮没反应截面,导致热粲夸克对双轻子产生提供了占统治的贡献.这个效应造成中等质量双轻子的重大增强.     

胶子非弹性散射过程对夸克胶子等离子体中双轻子产生的影响

双轻子是研究夸克物质的形成和性质的重要探针.本文基于化学平衡化的黏滞性夸克胶子等离子体演化模型,计算了相对论重离子碰撞能量下金-金对心碰撞形成的夸克胶子等离子体中的双轻子产额.在黏滞性计算中加入了胶子非弹性散射过程对黏滞系数的贡献.相较仅考虑夸克和胶子弹性散射的情况,双轻子的产额有较明显的降低.这表明在黏滞系数中加入胶子非弹性散射的贡献使得系统的演化过程加快,演化时间变短.     

膨胀的热夸克胶子物质的中等质量双轻子的增强

基于一个描述夸克胶子火柱演化的相对论流体力学模型,研究了夸克相、强子相互作用以及非热过程(DrellYan对、粲强子衰变)的中等质量双轻子的产生.发现由于相边对夸克胶子物质演化的影响和RHIC能量核碰撞产生的夸克胶子物质具有高的初始温度,夸克相对双轻子的贡献显著增强,比那些来自强子相互作用的贡献重要,甚至能与来自非热的贡献比较.表明中等质量双轻子的增强是一个在核碰撞中产生了夸克胶子物质的可能信号. 关键词： 夸克-胶子物质 双轻子增强 相对论流体力学模型     

柱形夸克胶子等离子体的2π干涉学检测

在2п干涉学中,对不同的п源2п,关联函数可以是不同的. 如果在相对论重离子碰撞中出现柱形夸克胶子等离子体,п介子将从柱形夸克胶子等离子体表面发射,此时2п关联函数将出现一种特殊的振荡行为.这种振荡行为可以用来探明夸克胶子等离子体的存在性,同时也是相对论重离子碰撞中出现夸克胶子等离子体的一个信号.     

洛伦兹规范条件下对单胶子夸克势的QCD非微扰修正形式

在洛伦兹规范条件下,导出了具有平移不变性的双胶子两点函数真空平均值.利用所获得的双胶子真空期待值,给出了对微扰单胶子交换夸克–夸克势、夸克–反夸克对湮没和夸克–反夸克对激发势的最低阶非微扰QCD修正形式.     

非阿贝尔介质对外源的非线性响应方程

从动力论理论出发,使用弱湍理论方法,有效地展开了夸克–胶子等离子体的动力论方程,从而给出了夸克–胶子等离子体介质对外流的非线性非阿贝尔响应方程。     

球形夸克-胶子等离子体演化源的π干涉学分析

本文对球形演化的夸克–胶子等离子体膨胀源进行了2π干涉学分析.夸克–胶子等离子体的演化由相对论流体力学和熵密度的物态方程描述,而2πHanbury-Brown-Twiss(HBT)关联函数由量子几率振幅的路径积分公式计算.研究结果表明,由2π干涉学得到的源的空间参量敏感地依赖于π介子发射源的相空间分布,源的膨胀速度导致HBT半径变小,并会改变HBT半径与冻结温度之间的关系.     

QGP中胶子的经典输运方程

建立了夸克胶子等离子体中胶子的经典输运方程, 并讨论了它与胶子的量子输运方程以及它与夸克的经典输运方程之间的关系.     

夸克-胶子等离子体在相对论性核-核碰撞中形成的一种信号

从热力学关系,计算来自相对论性核-核碰撞的富重子夸克-胶子等离子体的初值.接着基于(3+1)维相对论性流体力学模型研究了系统的双轻子产生.发现随着碰撞核入射能量的增加,一个标志夸克-胶子等离子体形成的特征平台出现在双轻子的总产额中.这样的特征可在CERN和Brookhaven未来的实验中得到检验. 关键词：     

化学非平衡夸克-胶子物质中等质量双轻子的产生

研究了正在进行化学平衡的富重子夸克-胶子物质的双轻子产生，发现由于产生在RHIC能量 的化学非平衡的富重子夸克-胶子物质冷却慢和高的初始温度，导致中等质量双轻子产生重 大增强.因此，中等质量双轻子的增强可以是夸克-胶子物质形成的信号.同时，这个增强能 补偿由于初始夸克化学势增加引起的双轻子抑制，因而双轻子产额的抑制不再是夸克-胶子 物质产生的信号. 关键词： 化学非平衡夸克-胶子物质 热粲夸克 双轻子     

Enhancement of Dileptons with Intermediate Masses Produced in QGP

The production of dileptons in the intermediate mass region in QGP has been studied on the basis of a relativistic hydrodynamic model. Due to the influence of the phase boundary on the evolution of the QGP system and the high initial temperature of the QGP produced at RHIC energies, the quark phase contribution is much more important than that from hadronic interactions and even comparable with that from background sources. It is shown that such an enhancement is a signature for the QGP formation.     

Photon production from quark gluon plasma at finite baryon density

The photon yield from a baryon-rich quark gluon plasma (QGP) at SPS energy has been estimated. In the QGP phase, rate of photon production is evaluated up to two-loop level. In the hadron phase, dominant contribution from π,ρ, ω mesons has been considered. The evolution of the plasma has been studied with appropriate equation of state in both QGP and hadron phase for a baryon-rich system. At SPS energy, the total photon yield is found to increase marginally in the presence of baryon density.     

The thermodynamic properties of weakly interacting quark-gluon plasma via the one-gluon exchange interaction

The thermodynamic properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), as well as its phase diagram, are calculated as a function of baryon density (chemical potential) and temperature. The QGP is assumed to be composed of the light quarks only, i.e., the up and down quarks, which interact weakly, and the gluons which are treated as they are free. The interaction between quarks is considered in the framework of the one gluon exchange model which is obtained from the Fermi liquid picture. The bag model is used, with fixed bag pressure (B)for the nonperturbative part, and the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) coupling is assumed to be constant, i.e., with no dependence on the temperature or the baryon density. The effect of weakly interacting quarks on the QGP phase diagram are shown and discussed. It is demonstrated that the one-gluon exchange interaction for the massless quarks has considerable effect on the QGP phase diagram and it causes the system to reach to the confined phase at the smaller baryon densities and temperatures. The pressure of excluded volume hadron gas model is also used to find the transition phase diagram. Our results depend on the values of bag pressure and the QCD coupling constant. The latter does not have a dramatic effect on our calculations. Finally, we compare our results with the thermodynamic properties of strange quark matter and the lattice QCD prediction for the QGP transition critical temperature.     

初步的纯光子谱的物理蕴含

基于相对论流体力学,指出了新近报道的首次实测的纯光子谱虽然具有线性,但并不意味着极端相对论性原子核碰撞后的系统在整体上达到了热平衡. 运用动态相变机制的计算结果可以预言,若强子化相变是一级相变,当碰撞能量高于200GeV/u时,纯光子谱将呈现凹形曲线,可以用作诊断夸克-胶子等离子体是否存在的信号.     

Quark-hadron phase transition and strangeness conservation constraints

The implications of the strangeness conservation in a hadronic resonance gas (HRG) on the expected phase transition to the quark gluon plasma (QGP) are investigated. It is assumed that under favourable conditions a first order hadron-quark matter phase transition may occur in the hot hadronic matter such as those produced in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at CERN and BNL. It is however shown that the criteria of strict strangeness conservation in the HRG may not permit the occurrence of a strict first order equilibrium quark-hadron phase transition unlike a previous study. This emerges as a consequence of the application of a realistic equation of state (EOS) for the HRG and QGP phases, which account for the finite-size effect arising from the short range hard-core hadronic repulsion in the HRG phase and the perturbative QCD interactions in the QGP phase. For a first order hadron-quark matter phase transition to occur one will therefore require large fluctuations in the critical thermal parameters, which might arise due to superheating, supercooling or other nonequlibrium effects. We also discuss a scenario proposed earlier, leading to a possible strangeness separation process during hadronization. Received: 25 August 1997 / Revised version: 25 March 1998 / Published online: 26 August 1998     

Pion interferometry at RHIC: porobing a thermalized quark-gluon plasma?

We calculate the Gaussian radius parameters of the pion-emitting source in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, assuming a first-order phase transition from a thermalized quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to a gas of hadrons. Such a model leads to a very long-lived dissipative hadronic rescattering phase which dominates the properties of the two-pion correlation functions. The radii are found to depend only weakly on the thermalization time tau(i), the critical temperature Tc (and thus the latent heat), and the specific entropy of the QGP. The model calculations suggest a rapid increase of R(out)/R(side) as a function of KT if a thermalized QGP were formed.     

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.     

Direct hadron production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Hadrons emitted by the pre-surface layer of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) before the phase transition into a hadronic gas are considered as possible sources of direct information about QGP. It is shown that if QGP is created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, then these hadrons strongly contribute at soft p_t at SpS energy and dominate up to an order of magnitude at LHC energy.     

Physics around the QCD (tri)critical endpoint and new challenges for femtoscopy

On the basis of exactly solvable models with the tricritical and critical endpoints I discuss the physical mechanism of endpoints formation which is similar to the usual liquids. It is demonstrated that the necessary condition for the transformation of the 1-st order deconfinement phase transition into the 2-nd order phase transition at the (tri)critical endpoint is the vanishing of surface tension coefficient of large/heavy QGP bags. Using the novel model of the confinement phenomenon I argue that the physical reason for the cross-over appearance at low baryonic densities is the negative value of QGP bag surface tension coefficient. This implies the existence of highly non-spherical or, probably, even fractal surfaces of large and heavy bags at and above the cross-over, which, perhaps, can be observed via some correlations. The model with the tricritical endpoint predicts that at the deconfinement transition line the volume (mass) distribution of large (heavy) QGP bags acquires the power law form at the endpoint only, while in the model with the critical endpoint such a power law exists inside the mixed phase. The role of finite width of QGP bags is also discussed.     

Hard thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions

The recent status of hard thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed and the current rates are presented with emphasis on corrected bremsstrahlung processes in the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) and quark–hadron duality. Employing Bjorken hydrodynamics with an EOS supporting the phase transition from QGP to hot hadron gas (HHG), thermal photon spectra are computed. For SPS 158 GeV Pb + Pb collisions, comparison with other theoretical results and the WA98 direct photon data indicates significant contributions due to prompt photons. Extrapolating the presented approach to RHIC and LHC experiments, predictions of the thermal photon spectrum show a QGP outshining the HHG in the high-p_T-region.