Net-Proton Nonstatistical Moments in High-Energy pp Collisions in PACIAE Model

The parton and hadron cascade model, PACIAE 2.0, is employed to calculate the net-proton nonstatistical moments in pp collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. By analyzing the results in the full phase space, it is found that the nonstatistical moments and moments products are significantly dependent on the collision energy. It is suggested that the net-proton nonstatistical moments in pp collisions may be studied in partial phase spaces with the PACIAE model.     

A Different Approach to the Multiplicity Problem in Hadron Collisions

The models frequently applied to estimate the target mass in high energy interactions are used in conjunction with the HEISENBERG formula to obtain a semi empirical formulation for multiplicity. It is seen that the experimental data obtained by us and other authors on multiplicity fit into that formulation when considering the initial colliding systems to be either π - p or π - π. Also the values of Cos θ (θ being the emission angle of the secondaries in lab system) averaged over all emitted particles estimated from the above formulation are in good agreement with our experimental data.     

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.     

高能强子–强子碰撞中硬软过程的比较分析

根据QCD中“圆锥定义”来确定喷注,对高能强子-强子碰撞中的硬、软过程作细致的分析.用Pythia产生蒙特卡罗模拟样本,得到的喷注赝快度分布在中心区有平台,喷注内部的粒子密度和横能密度,随离喷注轴的距离指数地下降,比较发现对整个事件样本,单事件平均横动量或最大横动量与多重数是正关联的,而对喷注事件它们是负关联的.引入两个物理量来描述喷注事件的硬、软程度.发现它们与单事件平均横动量是正关联的,而与多重数是负关联的.表明用单事件平均横动量比用多重数能更好地描述喷注事件的硬软程度.     

A New Review of Excitation Functions of Hadron Production in pp Collisions in the NICA Energy Range

Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters - Data on hadron multiplicities from inelastic proton-proton interactions in the energy range of the NICA collider have been compiled. The compilation...     

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.     

Parton Evolution Model and the EMC Effect

The effect of the evolution of partons in nuclear environment to the structure function of nucleons bound in a nucleus is investigated.Together with the nuclear shadowing effect caused by the spatial overlap of partons from neighboring nucleons in the nucleus in the small x region,the ratio of the average nuclear structure function of nucleus ⁵⁶Fe to the deuteron structure function is calculated and a good agreement between the calculated results and the experimental data is obtained.     

Dynamical correlations in the Dual Parton Model

The effect of multiple ‘chain’ contributions to particle production, which appears in the Dual Parton Model at collider energies, is investigated in an exploratory model, in which other sources of correlations are largely neglected. Attention is given to the question of KNO scaling for the multiplicities observed in restricted or unrestricted rapidity ranges. The rapidity distribution associated with a fixed number of particles within a suitably chosen interval, is found to be sensitive to details of the mechanism of multiple chain production.     

Excitation Functions of Tsallis-Like Parameters in High-Energy Nucleus–Nucleus Collisions

The transverse momentum spectra of charged pions, kaons, and protons produced at mid-rapidity in central nucleus–nucleus (AA) collisions at high energies are analyzed by considering particles to be created from two participant partons, which are assumed to be contributors from the collision system. Each participant (contributor) parton is assumed to contribute to the transverse momentum by a Tsallis-like function. The contributions of the two participant partons are regarded as the two components of transverse momentum of the identified particle. The experimental data measured in high-energy AA collisions by international collaborations are studied. The excitation functions of kinetic freeze-out temperature and transverse flow velocity are extracted. The two parameters increase quickly from ≈3 to ≈10 GeV (exactly from 2.7 to 7.7 GeV) and then slowly at above 10 GeV with the increase of collision energy. In particular, there is a plateau from near 10 GeV to 200 GeV in the excitation function of kinetic freeze-out temperature.     

宇宙线超高能相互作用的QCD部分子模型产生器

在pQCD的部分子模型和独立碎裂方案的部分子强子化模型基础上,建立了用于超高能宇宙线与空气核相互作用的产生器.通过拟合PP散射和e⁺e^－对撞实验数据来决定产生器中的参数.再现了从s=546GeV到1800GeVpp散射中喷注的产生和从s=14GeV到91GeV e⁺e^－对撞等实验的基本特征,并外推到≤22TeV的超高能区.     

Centrality Dependence of Productions for Single Hadrons and Inclusive Jets in High-Energy p+A Collisions with NLO QCD

By using the recent spatially dependent nuclear PDF set EPS09s, we investigated the centrality-dependent Cold Nuclear Matter (CNM) effects for neutral π, η mesons and inclusive jets at RHIC in d+Au collisions and at LHC in p+Pb collisions. The nuclear modification factors as functions of transverse momentum are plotted at different centralities bins respectively. At all fixed centralities, the nuclear modification factors show no significant suppressions, contrast to the strong suppressions observed for central Au+Au collisions. Our results are consistent with the PHENIX preliminary Data in minimum bias and central d+Au collisions. The LHC experimental Data also support our predictions for both single inclusive hadron and inclusive jets productions in central p+Pb collisions. And the centrality dependence of the nuclear suppressions for all the observations in our calculations are lower than the RHIC and LHC Data.     

Centrality Dependence of Productions for Single Hadrons and Inclusive Jets in High-Energy p+A Collisions with NLO QCD

By using the recent spatially dependent nuclear PDF set EPS09 s, we investigated the centrality-dependent Cold Nuclear Matter(CNM) effects for neutral π, η mesons and inclusive jets at RHIC in d+Au collisions and at LHC in p+Pb collisions. The nuclear modification factors as functions of transverse momentum are plotted at different centralities bins respectively. At all fixed centralities, the nuclear modification factors show no significant suppressions,contrast to the strong suppressions observed for central Au+Au collisions. Our results are consistent with the PHENIX preliminary Data in minimum bias and central d+Au collisions. The LHC experimental Data also support our predictions for both single inclusive hadron and inclusive jets productions in central p+Pb collisions. And the centrality dependence of the nuclear suppressions for all the observations in our calculations are lower than the RHIC and LHC Data.     

Precision Tests of the Nonlinear Mode Coupling of Anisotropic Flow via High-Energy Collisions of Isobars

Valuable information on dynamics of expanding fluids can be inferred from the response of such systems to perturbations in their initial geometry.We apply this technique in high-energy ⁹⁶Ru+⁹⁶Ru and⁹⁶Zr+⁹⁶Zr collisions to scrutinize the expansion dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma,where the initial geometry perturbations are sourced by the differences in deformations and radial profiles between ⁹⁶Ru and ⁹⁶Zr,and the collective res...     

Dependence of Multiparticle Processes on the Interaction-Region Size in Collisions of High-Energy Protons and Nuclei

The problem of the dependence of multiparticle reaction-product formation on the interactionregion size is considered both at cosmic-ray and accelerator energies. In cosmic rays, a comparative analysis of interactions induced by protons and light nuclei was performed on the basis of data obtained by the Stratosphere Collaboration. At accelerator energies, the problem was studied by employing data of the EMU Collaboration. The results revealed a substantial distinction between the production processes in these event groups. An analysis of interactions between light nuclei, (C, O, Ne) + (C/N/O); between intermediate and light nuclei, (Si, S) + (C/N/O); and between heavy nuclei, (Au, Pb) + (Ag/Br), showed that there is a sizable enhancement of fluctuations as the size of the interaction region becomes smaller. A sharp growth of multiplicity and pseudorapidity correlations in the most central interactions, (C, O, Ne) + (C/N/O), is interpreted as a manifestation of internal virtual alpha-particle clustering of light nuclei.     

Essay: A New Era in High-Energy Physics

In TeV-scale gravity, scattering of particles with center-of-mass energy of the order of a few TeV can lead to the creation of nonperturbative, extended, higher-dimensional gravitational objects: Branes. Neutral or charged, spinning or spinless, Einsteinian or supersymmetric, low-energy branes could dramatically change our picture of high-energy physics. Will we create branes in future particle colliders, observe them from ultra high energy cosmic rays, and discover them to be dark matter?     

Parton distributions for the LHC

We present updated leading-order, next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order parton distribution functions (“MSTW 2008”) determined from global analysis of hard-scattering data within the standard framework of leading-twist fixed-order collinear factorisation in the [`(MS)]\overline{\mathrm{MS}} scheme. These parton distributions supersede the previously available “MRST” sets and should be used for the first LHC data taking and for the associated theoretical calculations. New data sets fitted include CCFR/NuTeV dimuon cross sections, which constrain the strange-quark and -antiquark distributions, and Tevatron Run II data on inclusive jet production, the lepton charge asymmetry from W decays and the Z rapidity distribution. Uncertainties are propagated from the experimental errors on the fitted data points using a new dynamic procedure for each eigenvector of the covariance matrix. We discuss the major changes compared to previous MRST fits, briefly compare to parton distributions obtained by other fitting groups, and give predictions for the W and Z total cross sections at the Tevatron and LHC.