A microscopic calculation of secondary Drell-Yan production in heavy ion collisions

A study of secondary Drell-Yan production in nuclear collisions is presented for SPS energies. In addition to the lepton pairs produced in the initial collisions of the projectile and target nucleons, we consider the potentially high dilepton yield from hard valence antiquarks in produced mesons and antibaryons. We calculate the secondary Drell-Yan contributions taking the collision spectrum of hadrons from the microscopic model URQMD. The contributions from meson-baryon interactions, small in hadron-nucleus interactions, are found to be substantial in nucleus-nucleus collisions at low dilepton masses. Preresonance collisions of partons may further increase the yields. Received: 9 July 1997 / Revised version: 17 December 1997 / Published online: 10 March 1998     

Nuclear effects in J/ψ suppression

We compute the effect on the J/ψ production in nucleus-nucleus coollisions of the absorption of the J/ψ inside the colliding nuclei. Using a value of the absorptive J/ψ-nucleon cross section which reproduces the A-dependence of the J/ψ cross section in hadron-nucleus collisions, we obtain much less suppression than that measured by the NA38 Collaboration. The effect due to a strongly absorbed (A^0.7) component is also discussed. In order to explain the NA38 results one needs a very large contribution (50%) of the latter component.     

Strangeness production in the Dual Parton model

Production of strange mesons and baryons is studied in a Monte Carlo Dual Parton model for hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions with standard strangeness suppression in the chain fragmentation and enhanced strangeness (up to a SU(3) symmetric sea) at the sea chain ends. Additionally, production from the sea has been introduced into the chain formation process with the same probability as for the q→qq branching within the chain fragmentation. Rapidity distributions and multiplicity ratios are in reasonable agreement with recent experimental data.     

Transverse energy fluctuations and the pattern of J/psi suppression in Pb-Pb collisions

The NA50 Collaboration has recently observed that the J/psi production rate in Pb-Pb collisions decreases more rapidly as a function of the transverse energy for the most central collisions than for less central ones. We show that this phenomenon can be understood as an effect of transverse energy fluctuations in central collisions. A good fit of the data is obtained using a model which relates J/psi suppression to the local energy density. Our results suggest that the J/psi is completely suppressed at the highest densities achieved in Pb-Pb collisions.     

A non-plasma approach to the soft dilepton production inhA andAA collisions

We propose a method of evaluating the soft dilepton production rate in hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies based on summing the contributions from quark-antiquark systems (chains) created in individual hadron-nucleon interactions. The individual contributions are determined by using the square dependence of the soft dilepton production rate on hadron multiplicity predicted for hadron-hadron collisions by the soft-quarkannihilation model and observed recently inpp collisions at the CERN ISR. The possibility of additional contributions originating from the annihilation of quarks and antiquarks that belong to different chains is taken into account in a phenomenological way, which nevertheless enables to correlate different phenomena in soft dilepton production. More detailed predictions are given for proton-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV/c.     

Measurement of differences between J/psi and psi(') suppression in p-A collisions

Measurements of the suppression of the yield per nucleon of J/psi and psi(') production for 800 GeV/ c protons incident on heavy nuclear targets, relative to light nuclear targets, have been made with very broad coverage in x(F) and p(T). The observed suppression is smallest at x(F) values of 0.25 and below, and increases at larger values of x(F). It is also strongest at small p(T). Substantial differences between psi(') and J/psi production are observed for the first time in p-A collisions. The suppression for psi(') production is stronger than that for J/psi for x(F) near zero, but becomes comparable to that for J/psi for x(F)>0.6.     

高能诱导核反应中的核碰撞几何与末态粒子的间歇行为

考虑到核碰撞几何,我们推导出高能诱发核反应中二阶阶乘矩与参加反应核子数涨落之间的关系.分析表明,在高能碰撞的射弹碎裂区,强子-核反应末态粒子的间歇性质决定于其强子-强子子过程的间歇特征;而在靶碎裂区,它却主要依赖于参加反应核子数的涨落.推广到核-核反应(B<相似文献   

J/psi production versus centrality, transverse momentum, and rapidity in Au+Au collisions at square root sNN=200 GeV

The PHENIX experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured J/psi production for rapidities -2.2相似文献   

J/psi production in Indium-Indium collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon

The NA60 experiment studies muon pair production at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. In this Letter we report on a precision measurement of J/psi in In-In collisions. We have studied the J/psi centrality distribution, and we have compared it with the one expected if absorption in cold nuclear matter were the only active suppression mechanism. For collisions involving more than approximately 80 participant nucleons, we find that an extra suppression is present. This result is in qualitative agreement with previous Pb-Pb measurements by the NA50 experiment, but no theoretical explanation is presently able to coherently describe both results.     

核－核碰撞的独立源模型及中心快度区末态产生粒子横能量分布

将强子－核碰撞的独立源模型推广到核－核碰撞，给出了核－核碰撞末态产生粒子横能量分布方程，将其与ＣＥＲＮ的ＮＡ３５合作组得到的实验数据相比较，模型较好地解释了实验结果．     

“Naked” Cronin effect in A + A collisions from SPS to RHIC

Baseline computations of the Cronin effect in nuclear collisions at energies spanning the SPS and the RHIC accelerators are performed in the Glauber-Eikonal model, which ascribes the effect to initial-state incoherent multiple parton scatterings. The model accounts very well for the mid-rapidity Cronin effect in hadron-nucleus collisions in the -200 GeV center of mass energy range, and will be extended to nucleus-nucleus collisions. The computations are performed under the assumption that the partons do not interact with the medium produced in the collision. Therefore, medium effects such as energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma may be detected and measured as deviations from the presented baseline computation of the “naked” Cronin effect.Received: 11 February 2005, Published online: 31 May 2005PACS: 12.38.Mh, 24.85. + p, 25.75.-q     

Anti-de sitter/conformal-field-theory calculation of screening in a hot wind

One of the challenges in relating experimental measurements of the suppression in the number of J/psi mesons produced in heavy ion collisions to lattice QCD calculations is that whereas the lattice calculations treat J/psi mesons at rest, in a heavy ion collision a cc[over ] pair can have a significant velocity with respect to the hot fluid produced in the collision. The putative J/psi finds itself in a hot wind. We present the first rigorous nonperturbative calculation of the consequences of a wind velocity v on the screening length L(s) for a heavy quark-antiquark pair in hot N=4 supersymmetric QCD. We find L(s)(v,T)=f(v)[1-v(2)](1/4)/piT with f(v) only mildly dependent on v and the wind direction. This L(s)(v,T) approximately L(s)(0,T)/sqrt[gamma] velocity scaling, if realized in QCD, provides a significant additional source of J/psi suppression at transverse momenta which are high but within experimental reach.     

Nuclear effects in multiparticle production in 800 GeV and 400 GeV proton-nucleus interactions

We study nuclear effects in multiparticle production in proton-emulsion nuclei interactions at 800 GeV and 400 GeV. The observed pseudorapidity distributions are compared with the predictions of a simple quark model. The predicted dependence of the ratio of the normalised multiplicity distribution of the produced shower particles in hadron-nucleus (hA) to hadron-hadron (hh) interactions on the mean number of inelastic collisions in the central region is in good agreement with the experimental data.     

On energy densities reached in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS

We present a few estimates of energy densities reached in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS. The estimates are based on data and models of proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions. In all of these estimates the maximum energy density in central Pb+Pb interactions is larger than the critical energy density GeV/fm³ following from lattice gauge theory computations. In estimates which we consider as realistic the maximum energy density is about . In this way our analysis gives some support to claims that deconfined matter has been produced at the CERN SPS. Any definite statement requires a deeper understanding of formation times of partons and hadrons in nuclear collisions. We also compare our results with implicit energy estimates contained in earlier models of anomalous suppression in nuclear collisions. Received: 3 February 2003 / Revised version: 5 March 2003 / Published online: 5 May 2003     

J/ψ momentum distribution and lifetime of a quark-gluon plasma

Assuming that the formation of J/ψ resonances is inhibited in a plasma beyond a certain temperature, one can relate the amount of J/ψ suppression expected in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions to the spacetime evolution of the plasma formed in such collisions. In particular, we show that the momentum distribution of the J/ψ's provides information on the plasma lifetime.     

Coulomb scattering in the eikonal approximation

We derive a new expression for the eikonal approximation of the nuclear Coulomb scattering amplitude. Our expression should be particularly useful for the treatment of Coulomb scattering in hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus scattering at high and intermediate energies.     

Colour confinement in hadron-nucleus collisions

We study the evolution of colour confinement in hadron-nucleus collisions and determine the resultingx _F dependence for the suppression of quarkonium production on nuclear targets. The Landau-Pomeranchuk effect applied to colour bremsstrahlung is shown to play a considerable role in the from of the suppression.