强磁场与涡旋场中的夸克胶子物质

相对论重离子碰撞可以产生高温的夸克胶子物质,同时也产生极强的电磁场和流体涡旋。在强电磁场和涡旋场中的夸克胶子物质呈现出新奇的宏观量子现象,比如手征磁效应、手征涡效应、手征分离效应、手征电分离效应、自旋极化现象等。它们一方面给我们提供了可以探测高温下量子色动力学的非平庸规范场拓扑结构、强相互作用的宇称破坏、夸克胶子物质中的自旋动力学等的实验手段,另一方面也与物理学其他分支,比如粒子物理、凝聚态物理、天体物理、冷原子物理等发生紧密联系,形成新的交叉研究领域。本文旨在对这些宏观量子现象的产生机制以及它们在相对论重离子碰撞中的探测等做一回顾和展望。特别地,我们揭示出重离子碰撞的磁场强度可以达到$10^{18}\sim 10^{20}$ G,流体涡旋可以达到$10^{22}$ s–1;这是我们已知当前宇宙中最强的磁场和流体涡旋。我们定量地对同量素碰撞实验做了分析,发现即便背景比例达到93%以上,当前的同量素碰撞实验仍然可在大约$3\sigma$的显著性水平上判断是否有手征磁效应的发生。我们系统地给出了满足因果律的自旋流体力学方程,并推导了其中的集体激发模式,这将有助于理解超子自旋极化中出现的符号问题。     

Forward gluon production in hadron–hadron scattering with pomeron loops

We discuss new physical phenomena expected in particle production in hadron–hadron collisions at high energy, as a consequence of pomeron loop effects in the evolution equations for the color glass condensate. We focus on gluon production in asymmetric, ‘dilute–dense’, collisions: a dilute projectile scatters off a dense hadronic target, whose gluon distribution is highly evolved. This situation is representative for particle production in proton–proton collisions at forward rapidities (say, at LHC) and admits a dipole factorization similar to that of deep inelastic scattering (DIS). We show that at sufficiently large forward rapidities, where the pomeron loop effects become important in the evolution of the target wavefunction, gluon production is dominated by ‘black spots’ (saturated gluon configurations) up to very large values of the transverse momentum, well above the average saturation momentum in the target. In this regime, the produced gluon spectrum exhibits diffusive scaling, so like DIS at sufficiently high energy.     

相对论重离子碰撞中手征磁效应寻找的现状(英文)

量子色动力学中夸克和拓扑胶子场的相互作用可以产生局域宇称和共轭电荷宇称不守恒,这也许能解释宇宙中物质-反物质的不对称性。在强磁场下,宇称不守恒会导致粒子按正负电荷分离,此现象称为手征磁效应。在重离子碰撞实验中对电荷分离的测量主要受物理本底的影响,大部分的理论和实验工作一直致力于消除或减少这些本底。在此综述了相对论重离子碰撞中手征磁效应寻找的现状。Quark interactions with topological gluon fields in QCD can yield local P and CP violations which could explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in our universe. Effects of P and CP violations can result in charge separation under a strong magnetic field, a phenomenon called the chiral magnetic effect (CME). Experimental measurements of the CME-induced charge separation in heavy-ion collisions are dominated by physics backgrounds. Major theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted to eliminating or reducing those backgrounds. We review the current status of these efforts in the search for the CME in heavy-ion collisions.     

Production of multiply heavy flavored baryons from quark gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions

It is argued that in heavy ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) there could be a sizable production of baryons containing two or three heavy quarks from statistical coalescence. This production mechanism is peculiar of quark gluon plasma, and the predicted rates, in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies, exceed those from a purely hadronic scenario, particularly for Xi(bc) and Omega(ccc). Thus, in addition to the interest in the discovery of these new states, enhanced ratios of these baryons over singly heavy flavored hadrons, like B or D, in heavy ion collisions with respect to pp at the same energy, would be a clear indication of kinetic equilibration of heavy quarks in the quark gluon plasma.     

Production of heavy vector particles in interactions of leptons with the massless gauge bosons

The cross section for vector leptoquark production in electron–gluon collisions is calculated analytically using the Lagrangian with the minimal couplings between the leptoquarks and the gauge fields of the standard model. It is found that the cross section significantly exceeds the corresponding quantity previously presented in the literature. The cross section of exclusive W boson production in neutrino–photon scattering emerges as a by-product of this Letter. The obtained results can be used for studies at ep colliders.     

Open charm production from d + Au collisions in STAR

Charmed hadrons are interesting observables in heavy ion collisions. They are becoming more accessible to experimental scrutiny at RHIC energies due to the increased production cross-section of charm with the larger centre-of-mass energy available at RHIC compared to SPS. One source of interest in charm production is due to the fact that gluon fusion dominates the charm production cross-section at high energy. Hence, a measurement of charm hadrons is directly sensitive to the gluon distributions of the colliding particles. In addition, any measurement of production at RHIC, and more importantly any observed suppression, must be compared to the overall production of pairs. A systematic study of charmed hadrons in all collision systems available at RHIC is therefore an invaluable experimental tool in the characterization of the matter produced at RHIC. In particular, d + Au collisions are a necessary step for the comparison of any possible modification of charm production in Au + Au collisions. We present preliminary results on D meson production from d + Au collisions in STAR at = 200 . Arrival of the final proofs: 26 July 2005 PACS: 13.20.Fc, 13.25.Ft, 25.75.-q, 24.85. + p     

色玻璃凝聚近似下极端相对论重离子碰撞中的双轻子和光子产生(英文)

在色玻璃凝聚胶子饱和框架下,研究了相对论重离子碰撞中的双轻子和光子产生。在胶子饱和区域,在微扰近似(kT-因子化近似) 下低转移动量双轻子和光子的主要产生机制是胶子-胶子相互作用。在RHIC 和LHC 能量区域的相对论重离子碰撞中,饱和动量的值远远大于量子色动力学禁闭标度ΛQCD,这使得αs?1。此时,当转移动量小于饱和动量Qs 时质子和原子核的胶子密度值就会很高,双轻子和光子的不变产生横截面会由于饱效应而得到增强。数值结果给出在RHIC 和LHC 能量区域的pp, pA 和AA碰撞中,来源于色玻璃凝聚的低转移动量双轻子和光子产生贡献是显著的。We investigate inclusive dileptons and photons production in relativistic heavy ion collisions based on the idea of gluon saturation in the color glass condensate (CGC) framework. In the gluon saturation region, the dominant mechanism for low-pT dileptons and photons production in the perturbative approach (the kT-factorization approach) is gluon-gluon interaction. At Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies, the value of saturation momentum becomes larger than the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) confinement scale ΛQCD for relativistic heavy ion collisions, which implies that αs?1. In this state, the gluon density for proton and nucleus with transverse momentum less than the saturation momentum Qs will reach a high value, and the invariant cross-section for dileptons and direct photons is further enhanced by saturation effects. The numerical results indicate that the production of low-pT dileptons and photons from the color glass condensate becomes prominent in pp, pA, and AA collisions at RHIC and LHC  Energies.     

弦张量与奇异粒子产生

用一种参数化的形式研究了弦上具有硬胶子纽结所导致的有效弦张量的增长，在此种形式下强子一强子碰撞中有效弦张量随碰撞能量的增加而增加是来自碰撞中微喷注的产生，这种机制既能解释强子一强子碰撞奇异夸克压低因嵶铀媾鲎材芰恐龆龅男形帜芙馐停澹澹蚊恢懈靡蜃佑肽芰拷莆薰氐南窒蟆     

The Firecracker Model,a possible collective effect in high energy heavy-ion collisions

We present a possible collective gluon emission effect based upon a string-like scenario (available if the QCD vacuum works like a color-superconductor type II, i.e. when the color force fields work like vortex-lines) and provide some detailed predictions on the Cronin effect, as well as on an increased (mini)jet production in the center of phase-space in high energy heavy ion collisions.     

Schwinger mechanism enhanced by the Nielsen–Olesen instability

We discuss gluon production by the Schwinger mechanism in collinear color-electric and magnetic fields which may be realized in pre-equilibrium stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Fluctuations of non-Abelian gauge fields around a purely color-magnetic field contain exponentially growing unstable modes in a longitudinally soft momentum region, which is known as the Nielsen–Olesen instability. With a color-electric field imposed parallelly to the color-magnetic field, we can formulate this instability as the Schwinger mechanism. This is because soft unstable modes are accelerated by the electric fields to escape from the instability condition. Effects of instability remain in the transverse spectrum of particle modes, leading to an anomalously intense Schwinger particle production.     

The vacuum structure in QCD and hadron-hadron scattering

Standard ideas on the structure of the vacuum in QCD suggest it to be full of fluctuating color fields. We investigate the possible influence of the chromomagnetic vacuum fields on high energy hadron-hadron reactions. We suggest that high energy quarks traversing these fields will produce soft gluon and photon radiation analogous to synchrotron radiation from electrons and positrons in a storage ring. We argue that this radiation will lead to polarization phenomena for quarks in spin- and colorspace which in turn can explain theK-factor in the Drell-Yan reaction. We point out that jet production offers another way to study these polarization phenomena. We present then a calculation of the number of “synchrotron” photons which should be emitted inp?p collisions at high energies. Thus, we predict a sizable signal of prompt photons of nnergy less than a few hundred MeV with a characteristic frequency distribution. Observation of such photons would give strong support to our naive picture. Finally we point out a number of other phenomena like charmed particle decays where our “synchrotron” effect may be of importance.     

Probing gluonic spin-orbit correlations in photon pair production

We consider photon pair production in hadronic collisions at large mass and small transverse momentum of the pair, assuming that factorization in terms of transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions applies. The unpolarized cross section is found to have azimuthal angular dependencies that are generated by a gluonic version of the Boer-Mulders function. In addition, the single transversely polarized cross section is sensitive to the gluon Sivers function. We present simple numerical estimates for the Boer-Mulders and Sivers effects in diphoton production at RHIC and find that the process would offer unique opportunities for exploring transverse-momentum dependent gluon distributions.     

LHC能量下D介子的核修正因子

高能质子-质子(p-p)和质子-原子核(p-A)碰撞过程中产生的D介子是分析碰撞后生成的饱和胶子性质的重要途经。考虑领头阶下的强耦合效应,在色玻璃凝聚理论(CGC)框架下研究了LHC(Large Hadron Collider, LHC)能量下p-p(p-A)碰撞过程中的D介子产生。采用由KLR-AdS/CFT色偶极模型通过傅里叶变换得到的偶极关联因子,同时利用Glauber模型考虑冷核物质效应,计算了质心能量为5.02 TeV时质子-铅核(p-Pb)碰撞中不同碰撞中心度下D介子的产生截面,并在此基础上研究了p-Pb碰撞中D介子产生及其半轻子衰变过程中的核修正因子。通过与大型强子对撞机(LHC)实验结果比较发现:考虑强耦合效应后的理论结果与ALICE和LHCb合作组的最新实验数据符合得更好。最后,本文对LHC碰撞质心能量为8.16 TeV时p-Pb碰撞中D介子产生的核修正因子给出了理论预言, 结果显示此能量下核修正因子理论值比5.02 TeV时略大。     

Photoproduction of top quarks in peripheral heavy ion collisions

In relativistic heavy ion collisions, top quarks can be produced by photon-gluon fusion when a photon from the Weizs?cker-Williams virtual photon field of one nucleus interacts with a gluon in the other nucleus. Photoproduction with heavy ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the first accessible non-hadronic top production channel. We calculate the photoproduction cross sections, pair mass and top quark rapidity distributions in peripheral lead-lead and oxygen-oxygen collisions. The cross sections are sensitive to the top quark charge and the large- gluon distribution in the nucleus. We find a cross section of 15 pb in oxygen-oxygen collisions, leading to 210 pairs in a one month ( s) LHC run. In pA collisions, the rate is higher, 1100 pairs per month for pO. A comparison of the AA and pA data might allow for a study of gluon shadowing at high Q . Received: 18 May 2001 / Revised version: 13 June 2001 / Published online: 24 August 2001     

String Tension and Production of Strange Particles

The increase of effective string tension as a result of the hard gluon kinks on a string is investigated using a parametrization form. In this form the effective string tension increasing with energies in hadron-hadron collisions is due to the mini-jet (gluon) production in the collisions. The data for the energy dependence of the strange quark suppression factor in hadron-hadron collisions are very well reproduced with this mechanism. Meanwhile, the experimental phenomena of approximate energy independence of the strange quark suppression factor in e⁺e^－ -annihilations are discussed.     

Gluon saturation and baryon stopping in the SPS, RHIC, and LHC energy regions

A new geometrical scaling method with a gluon saturation rapidity limit is proposed to study the gluon saturation feature of the central rapidity region of relativistic nuclear collisions. The net-baryon number is essentially transported by valence quarks that probe the saturation regime in the target by multiple scattering. We take advantage of the gluon saturation model with geometric scaling of the rapidity limit to investigate net baryon distributions, nuclear stopping power and gluon saturation features in the SPS and RHIC energy regions. Predictions for net-baryon rapidity distributions, mean rapidity loss and gluon saturation feature in central Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC are made in this paper.     

Measuring the collective flow with jets

In nucleus-nucleus collisions, high-p(T) partons interact with a dense medium, which possesses strong collective flow components. Here, we demonstrate that the resulting medium-induced gluon radiation does not depend solely on the energy density of the medium, but also on the collective flow. Both components can be disentangled by the measurement of particle production associated with high-p(T) trigger particles, jetlike correlations, and jets. In particular, we show that flow effects lead to a characteristic breaking of the rotational symmetry of the average jet energy and jet multiplicity distribution in the eta x phi plane. We argue that data on the medium-induced broadening of jetlike particle correlations in Au + Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider may provide evidence for a significant distortion of parton fragmentation due to the longitudinal collective flow.     

Can the fluctuations in head-on ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions be large?

We apply the Low-nussinov model of hadron-hadron collisions to nucleus-nucleus collisions. We show that fluctuations in the multiplicity are larger than those for models which assume that the nucleons interact incoherently. The dependence of the total multiplicity onA is difficult to estimate. String formation and breaking is discussed using classical chromodynamic equations to describe the gluon fields. These equations display amusing collective phenomena.     

Midrapidity production of secondaries in pp collisions at RHIC and LHC energies in the quark–gluon string model

We consider the phenomenological implications of the assumption that baryons are systems of three quarks connected through a gluon string junction. The transfer of baryon number in rapidity space due to the string junction propagation is considered in detail. At high energies this process leads to a significant effect on the net baryon production in hN collisions at midrapidities. The numerical results for midrapidity inclusive densities of different secondaries in the framework of the quark–gluon string model are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data. One universal value, λ≃0.25, for the strangeness suppression parameter correctly describes the yield ratios of Λ/p, Ξ/Λ, and Ω/Ξ. The predictions for pp collisions at LHC energies are also presented. PACS 25.75.Dw