Heavy/Light PWG status

PHENIXにおける
最新のレプトン対測定結果
小沢恭一郎
東大・理
Open Questions
Formation of hot and dense matter is established.
Still, we have many important questions to answer.
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Is the matter deconfined?
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How does Heavy-flavor act?
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Heavy flavor measurements
Is Chiral symmetry restored?
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J/y suppression
Vector meson
Radiation? Mass shift?
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Di-lepton continuum
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@SPS
CERES
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CERES 2
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NA60
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 and  : fix yields such
as to get, after
subtraction, a smooth
underlying continuum
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:
() set upper limit,
defined by “saturating”
the measured yield in
the mass region close to
0.2 GeV/c2 (lower limit
for excess).
() use yield measured
for pT > 1.4 GeV/c
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What’s this?
[van Hees+RR ‘06]
• absolute norm., melting r
• M>0.9GeV: “4p”→mm;  and  ?!
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• baryon effects essential
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Model 2
Contributions included in our calculation:
QGP quasi-particle picture,
(Schneider et al. (2002))
In-medium Rho spectral function
(Eletsky et. al. (2001))
In-medium Omega spectral function
(Martell & Ellis (2004))
In-medium Phi not (yet)
included
Renk, Ruppert (2006)
(Results were obtained by folding with the schematic acceptance matrix, not the full
MC acceptance simulation.)
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φ・ω @RHIC
Chiral Symmetry in Hadronic matter
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Mass shift and/or
modification of vector
mesons are expected
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Lepton decays become
good probes
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Not interacting “strongly.”
However, we only see
integrated information from all
stages of collisions.
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R. Rapp (Nucl. Phys A661(1999) 238c
QGP, Mixed, Hadron gas
Comparisons between
lepton decays and hadron
decays in several collision
systems are important
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Hadron gas
QGP
Integrated
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information
After
Freeze Out
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Observables in vector meson
measurements
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Line shape
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Direct measurements
Yield
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Q value of  → KK is small
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Should be sensitive to mass
changes in either  or K
BR(  ee)
BR(  KK )
Lissauer and Shuryak, Phys. Lett. B253, 15 (1991).
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pT slope
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Difference between hadron
decays and lepton decays
It could show the difference of
collision stage.
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T.Hatsuda and S.Lee
(Phys.Rev.C46-R34-38, 1992)
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Measurement
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ωφ
Au+Au
p+p
J/y
Dalitz
Conversion g
After BG subtraction
Raw spectrum
Invariant
mass spectrum
of e+e- in PHENIX
(Combinatorial
BG included)
0
1
2
3 [GeV/c2]
Clear , , and J/y peaks with very
good mass resolution!!
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: hadron and lepton decays
Main issue:
K+K- and e+eseem not consistent
Many efforts are on-going
to understand the
difference btw K and e.
We have to prove that the difference is not made artificially.
Analysis in d+Au and p+p data is important as baseline.
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Baseline - dAu
Counts per 10 MeV/c2
d – Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
 e+eCombinatorial
Background
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N~120
PHENIX Preliminary
PHENIX Preliminary
e+e-
invariant mass
(GeV/c2)
To settle cold nuclear matter effect, Both 
e+e- and  K+K- are measured in d-Au
collisions and results are compared.
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S = 786 ± 34, S/B = 1/0.47
K+K- invariant mass (GeV/c2)
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dN/dy in dAu
dN/dy is compared
between ee and KK.
KK channel
dN/dy = 0.0468 +/- 0.0092(stat)
(+0.0095,-0.0092) (syst.)
ee channel
dN/dy=.056.015(stat) 50%(syst)
dN/dy
dN/dy
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No significant difference between ee and KK
within statistical and systematic errors.
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KK
ee
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p+p
omega
phi
ds/dy
Extracted by integration
OMEGA:
3.50037 +/- 0.175942 (stat) +/- 0.875 (sys)
4.37554 (upper sys) 2.62521 (lower sys)
PHI:
0.369182 +/- 0.0195987 (stat) +/- 0.0894 (sys)
0.458564 (upper sys) 0.2798 (lower sys)
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 spectra
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Spectra of  meson are measured in several collision
systems.
p+p
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d+Au
Au+Au
Results are mainly obtained using hadron decays.
Analysis for electron decay mode is underway.
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New approaches for  and 
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No PID method for   K+K-

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in p+p
It
works very well especially in high pT region
Combinatorial BG is decreased
Improved BG estimation

in Au+Au
p0g
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Next steps
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Analysis for run4 should be completed soon
Improved statistics and background in run7
Improved understanding for dAu
Figure out how to analyze r mesons (short lived)
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r→ p+p- at STAR (Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 092301)
Try many measurements to figure out chiral
symmetry restoration
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Line shape?
Yield? Slope?
Ratio between hadron and electron or  and 
Ratio to p0
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electron positron continuum
electron-positron continuum
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Broadening of r meson makes
continuum on the invariant
mass of electron-positron pair
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prediction
In addition, thermal radiation by
the system via quark anti-quark
annihilation also makes
continuum and it carries direct
information from the matter.
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A
Matter is formed
Deconfinement
Thermalized
Experimentally, combinatorial
background is very large and
must be subtracted properly.
Also, useful for charm
measurements
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R.
Rapp, nucl-ex 0204003
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Results
submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
arXiv:0706.3034
Clear enhancement is observed
in the mass region below .
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pp – AuAu comparison
p+p MULTIPLIED
Ncoll
p+p NORMALIZED
TO mby
ee<100 MeV
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Centrality Dependence
LOW MASS
• p0 production scales with Npart
• If in-medium enhancement from pp or
qq annihilation
yield should increase faster than
proportional to Npart
INTERMEDIATE MASS
• p0 production scales with Npart
• charm
follows binary scaling
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 yield should increase proportional to Ncoll
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Further analysis
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Comparison with CuCu
Comparison with SPS
Finalizing pp
Reasonable normalization of pp
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Npart for low mass?
Ncoll for charm?
Improved statistics in run7
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Cu+Cu
pT dependence
reaction plane dependence
Use HBD to suppress background
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Hadron Blind Detector
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g  e+ e po  g e+ e -
Background is made by
combination of non-correlated
e+e- pair,
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e+e- from Dalitz and g
rejected by new detector
“combinatorial pairs”
signal electron
partner
positron
needed for
rejection
all signal
Dalitz rejector
Hadron Blind Detector
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photon
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Thermal photon
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Direct photon
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Directly emitted from the
medium
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Not from hadron
Hard photon
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Turbide, Rapp, Gale, Phys. Rev. C 69 (014903), 2004
Initial pQCD
Thermal photon
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Hadron gas
 QGP
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After subtraction of large
background from hadron
decays,
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Window for thermal photons from QGP in this calculation:
pT = 1 - 3 GeV/c
pQCD calculation should be confirmed in High pT region
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Idea -
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g

+
ee
Any source of real g emits virtual g with very low mass
Dalitz decay
p0
g
g
p0
Compton
q
g
g
q
q
g
g
e+
e-
g*
g*
e+
eq
Use lepton pairs to
measure virtual g
and extrapolate to real g
PHENIX can measure
low mass e+e- pairs
hadron decays and
direct photon
g*direct
g*incl.
can be measured.
*In the analysis, Mee distribution for Dalitz and direct photon is calculated theoretically.
Therefore, the ratio of Nee in two different mass region is converted to the ratio
between direct and inclusive photons. The systematic error is reduced.
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*
g
direct
/
*
g
inclusive
Significant 10% excess of
verylow-mass virtual direct photons
~25 % systematic error :
~20 % from measured /p0 ratio
~10 % from g inclusive
~5 % acceptance
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*
g
direct
/
*
g
inclusive
Significant 10% excess of
verylow-mass virtual direct photons
Results agrees well with
Conventional result
One can extract the direct photon
yield from the inclusive photon yield.
g*direct
g*
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gdirect
=
incl.
gincl.
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Direct photon yield
Direct photon yield is calculated from
the inclusive photon yield.
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Direct photon yield
Direct photon yield is calculated from
the inclusive photon yield.
Compare to NLO pQCD
L.E.Gordon and W. Vogelsang
Phys. Rev. D48, 3136 (1993)
Excess above the calculation
It might include contribution from
thermal photons
Reference measurement needed
pp and dAu
Using same analysis method
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Thermal photon?
Compare to NLO pQCD
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L.E.Gordon and W. Vogelsang
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Phys. Rev. D48, 3136 (1993)
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excess above pQCD
Compare to thermal model
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D. d’Enterria, D. Perresounko
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nucl-th/0503054
2+1 hydro
T0ave=360 MeV(T0max=570 MeV)
t0=0.15 fm/c
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data above thermal at high pT
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p+p
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Recalculation of Rg* in p+p
PHENIX Preliminary
Stat.errors on simulation are included in sys.errors on Rg*.
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It should be reduced.
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Comparison of Rg* with Run4-central result
PHENIX Preliminary
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Summary
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So many interesting analysis topics are ongoing at PHENIX
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Measurement for chiral symmetry is
underway.
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Such as, Heavy flavor measurements, J/y, , and
lepton pair continuum
First result will publish soon.
Enhancement is observed in e+econtinuum!
Interesting results in Direct photon
measurements.
We are still in an exciting time!
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