Theoretical Overview on Soft Physics at RHIC

Seminar @ YITP
12/10/2008
Dynamical Modeling of
Heavy Ion Collisions
Tetsufumi Hirano
Department of Physics
The University of Tokyo
OUTLINE
• Introduction
• Basic Checks of observables
– Energy density
– Chemical and kinetic equilibrium
• Dynamics of Heavy Ion Collisions
– Hydrodynamic modeling
– Elliptic flow
• Towards precision physics of QGP
– Jet quenching (Transport coefficient)
– J/psi suppression
• Summary and Outlook
Two Faces of QCD
Confinement
Asymptotic free
q-qbar potential
Running coupling of QCD
Physics depends on (energy) scale.
Recipe for QGP
Compress and/or Heat-up!
•Density (chemical potential) scale
•Temperature scale
History of the Universe
~ History of Matter
Quark Gluon
Plasma
Hadronization
Nucleosynthesis
QGP study
Understanding
early universe
Little Bang!
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(2000-)
RHIC as a time machine!
STAR
front
view
STAR
Collision energy
100 GeV per nucleon
Au(197×100)+Au(197×100)
Multiple production
(N~5000)
Heat
side
view
Dynamics of Heavy
Ion Collisions
Dynamics of Heavy Ion Collisions
Freezeout
“Re-confinement”
Expansion, cooling
Thermalization
First contact
(two bunches of gluons)
Time scale
Temperature scale
10fm/c~10-23sec
100MeV~1012K
<<10-4(early universe)
y
Ncoll & Npart
Thickness function:
Woods-Saxon nuclear density:
# of binary collisions
x
Gold nucleus:
r0=0.17 fm-3
R=1.12A1/3-0.86A-1/3
d=0.54 fm
# of participants
sin = 42mb @200GeV
1-(survival probability)
Centrality
Npart and Ncoll as a function of
impact parameter
PHENIX: Correlation btw. BBC and ZDC signals
Elliptic Flow
What is Elliptic Flow?
Ollitrault (’92)
How does the system respond to spatial anisotropy?
No secondary interaction
Hydro behavior
y
f
x
INPUT
Spatial Anisotropy
2v2
OUTPUT
dN/df
dN/df
Interaction among
produced particles
Momentum Anisotropy
0
f
2p
0
f
2p
v2 from a Boltzmann simulation
Zhang et al.(’99)
ideal hydro limit
v2
: Ideal hydro
b = 7.5fm
: strongly
interacting
system
t(fm/c)
generated through secondary collisions
v2 is saturated in the early stage
sensitive to cross section (~1/m.f.p.~1/viscosity)
Why Hydrodynamics?
Once one accepts local
thermalization ansatz,
life becomes very easy.
Energy-momentum:
Conserved number:
Dynamic Phenomena in HIC
•Expansion, Flow
•Space-time evolution of
thermodynamic variables
Static
•EoS from Lattice QCD
•Finite T, m field theory
•Critical phenomena
•Chiral property of hadron
Why Hydrodynamics? (contd.)
• We would like to understand the QCD matter
under equilibrium.
• Lattice QCD is not able to describe dynamics
of heavy ion collisions.
• Analyze heavy ion reaction based on a
model with an assumption of local
equilibrium, and see what happens and
whether it is consistent with data.
• If consistent, it would be a starting point of
the physics of QCD matter.
Dynamics of Heavy Ion Collisions
Freezeout
“Re-confinement”
Expansion, cooling
Thermalization
First contact
(two bunches of gluons)
Inputs in hydrodynamic simulations:
•Initial condition
•Equation of state
•Decoupling prescription
Recent Hydro
Results
from Our Group
QGP fluid + hadronic cascade
time
hadron gas
QGP fluid
collision axis
0
Au
Au
Initial condition (t=0.6fm)
1. Glauber model
2. (CGC model)
QGP fluid:
3D ideal hydrodynamics
(Tc = 170 MeV)
Massless free u,d,s+g
gas + bag const.
Hadron phase:
1. Tth=100MeV
2. Hadronic cascade (JAM)
(Tsw = 169 MeV)
Hybrid approaches:
(1D) Bass, Dumitru (2D) Teaney, Lauret, Shuryak (3D) Nonaka, Bass, Hirano et al.
Inputs to Hydro: Multiplicity
Centrality dependence
1.Glauber model
Npart:Ncoll = 85%:15%
2. CGC model
Matching I.C. via e(x,y,hs)
Rapidity dependence
Kharzeev, Levin, and Nardi
Implemented in hydro
by TH and Nara
pT Spectra for PID hadrons
A hybrid model works well up to pT~1.5GeV/c.
Other components (reco/frag) would appear above.
Centrality Dependence of v2
TH et al. (’06).
Discovery of “Large” v2 at RHIC
• v2 data are comparable with
hydro results.
• Hadronic cascade cannot
reproduce data.
• Note that, in v2 data, there
exists eccentricity fluctuation
which is not considered in
model calculations.
Result from a hadronic cascade (JAM)
(Courtesy of M.Isse)
Pseudorapidity Dependence of v2
TH(’02); TH and K.Tsuda(’02);
TH et al. (’06).
QGP+hadron
QGP only
h<0 h=0
h>0
•v2 data are comparable
with hydro results again
around h=0
•Not a QGP gas  sQGP
•Nevertheless, large
discrepancy in
forward/backward rapidity
See next slides
Hadron Gas Instead of Hadron Fluid
T.Hirano and M.Gyulassy,Nucl.Phys.A769 (2006)71.
A QGP fluid surrounded
by hadronic gas
QGP core
QGP: Liquid (hydro picture)
Hadron: Gas (particle picture)
“Reynolds number”
Matter proper part:
(shear viscosity)
(entropy density)
big
in Hadron
small
in QGP
Importance of Hadronic “Corona”
QGP fluid+hadron gas
QGP+hadron fluids
QGP only
•Boltzmann Eq. for hadrons
instead of hydrodynamics
•Including viscosity through
finite mean free path
•Suggesting rapid increase
of entropy density
•Deconfinement makes
hydro work at RHIC!?
 Signal of QGP!?
T.Hirano et al.,Phys.Lett.B636(2006)299.
QGP Liquid + Hadron Gas Picture
Works Well
20-30%
Mass dependence is o.k.
Note: First result was obtained
by Teaney et al.
•Centrality dependence is ok
•Large reduction from pure
hydro in small multiplicity
events
T.Hirano et al.,Phys.Lett.B636(2006)299; Phys.Rev.C77,044909(2008).
Centrality Dependence of
Differential v2
PHENIX
Pions, AuAu 200 GeV
PHENIX
Hybrid Model at Work
at sqrt(sNN)=62.4 GeV
PHENIX
PHENIX
Pions, AuAu 62.4 GeV
Differential v2 in Au+Au and
Cu+Cu Collisions
Au+Au
Cu+Cu
Same Npart, different eccentricity
Au+Au
Cu+Cu
Same eccentricity, different Npart
Eccentricity Fluctuation
Adopted from D.Hofman(PHOBOS),
talk at QM2006
Yi
Y0
A sample event
from Monte Carlo
Glauber model
Interaction points of participants vary
event by event.
 Apparent reaction plane also varies.
 The effect is significant for smaller system
such as Cu+Cu collisions
Initial Condition with
Fluctuation
Throw a dice
to choose b:
bmin<b<bmax
Rotate each Yi
to Ytrue
E.g.)
bmin= 0.0fm
bmax= 3.3fm
in Au+Au collisions
at 0-5% centrality
average
over events
average
over events
Effect of Eccentricity
Fluctuation on v2 (Glauber)
AuAu
CuCu
v2(w.rot) ~ 2 v2(w.o.rot) at Npart~350 in AuAu
v2(w.rot) ~ 4 v2(w.o.rot) at Npart~110 in CuCu
Significant effects of fluctuation!
Effect of Eccentricity
Fluctuation on v2 (CGC)
AuAu
CuCu
CGC + QGP with (small) viscosity + hadronic gas!?
Toward precision
physics of QGP
Lesson from
Observational Cosmology
“Best” cosmological parameters
C.L.Bennett et al.,Ap.J.Suppl(’03)
Observation
COBE, WMAP,…
CMB tools:
CMBFAST, CAMB,
…
Taken from
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Analysis codes play a major role
in precision physics.
 Hydrodynamic model in H.I.C.
Tomography
CT (computed tomography) scan
“Tomography”
1. Known probes: Spectra reliably calculable via pQCD
2. Good detector: RHIC experiments!
3. Interaction btw. probes and unknowns:
Recent development in this field
*平野哲文、浜垣秀樹、「ジェットで探るクォークグルーオンプラズマ」、日本物理学会誌2004年12月号
Jet Tomography
Tool 1. Jet quenching
g
180 deg.
correlation?
Bjorken(’82)
Gyulassy,Plüme
Wang (’90)
g
g
High “density” matter
Tool 2. Jet acoplanarity
Bjorken(’82)
Appel (’86)
Blaizot & McLerran (’86)
Difference btw. pp and AA
AA collisions
pp collisions
QGP?
Nucleon
Jet
f
a
c
D
A× f’
a
s
Nucleon
b
f
c
D
d
D
s
d
D
f: Parton distribution
D: Fragmentation function
A× f’
b
RAA
Nuclear Modification Factor
1
0.341
(null result)
binary collision scaling
Au+Au 0-10% central
•b=2.8 fm
•Ncoll = 978
•Npart = 333
participant scaling
•Npart/Ncoll = 0.341
pT
“Transport Coefficient”
R.Baier, hep-ph/0209038
For static medium,
Baier et al.
for pQCD
Stopping power  One of the
important quantity to characterize
the QGP
RAA for p0 and IAA for charged
How do we understand this large K?
J/psi Suppression
Quarkonium suppression in QGP
Color Debye Screening
T.Matsui & H. Satz PLB178 416 (1986)
Suppression depends on temperature
(density) and radius of QQbar system.
c
c
Color Screening
TJ/psi : 1.6Tc~2.0Tc
Tc, Ty’ : ~ 1.1Tc
May serve as the thermometer in the
QGP.
M.Asakawa and T.Hatsuda, PRL. 92, 012001 (2004)
A. Jakovac et al. PRD 75, 014506 (2007)
G.Aarts et al. arXiv:0705.2198 [hep-lat]. (Full QCD)
See also T.Umeda,PRD75,094502(2007)
Results from Hydro + J/psi Model
8
• Best fit @ (TJ/y, Tc, fFD) = (2.00Tc, 1.34Tc, 10%)
1s
2s
Bar: uncorrelated sys.
Bracket: correlated sys.
Contour map
• Onset of J/y suppression at Npart ~ 160. ( Highest T at
Npart~160 reaches to 2.0Tc.)
• Gradual decrease of SJ/ytot above Npart~160 reflects
transverse area with T>TJ/y increases.
• TJ/y can be determined in a narrow region.
T. Gunji et al. Phys. Rev. C 76:051901 (R), 2007
Summary and Outlook
• Elliptic flow
– QGP fluid + hadron gas picture works well.
– Starting Point of finite temperature QCD in H.I.C.
• Tomography utilizing hydro model
– Statistical analysis of jet quenching parameter
(stopping power of high energy partons)
– J/psi suppression above T~2Tc. (Melting
temperature of charmonium)
• Toward establishment of the
“observational QGP physics”.