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Jaroslav Bielčíkfor STAR collaboration
Czech Technical University
in Prague
Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions La Thuile, March 9-16, 2013
Heavy flavor and dilepton production in STAR experiment
• Motivation.
• Open heavy flavor.
• J/y and Upsilon measurements.
• Dilepton production.
• Summary.
Outline
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Heavy quarks as a probe of QGP
• p+p data: baseline of heavy ion measurements. test of pQCD calculations.
• Due to their large mass heavy quarks are primarily produced by gluon fusion in early stage of collision. production rates calculable by pQCD.M. Gyulassy and Z. Lin, PRC 51, 2177 (1995)
• heavy ion data:
• Studying energy loss of heavy quarks. independent way to extract properties of the medium.
• Dead cone effect.
light
M.Djordjevic PRL 94 (2004)
Radiative energy loss
Wicks et al, Nucl. Phys. A784 (2007) 426
The STAR Detector
Vertex Position Detector
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• VPD: minimum bias trigger.
• TPC: PID, tracking.
• TOF: PID.
• BEMC: PID, trigger.
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D0 and D* pT spectra in p+p collisions
D0 yield scaled by ND0/Ncc= 0.565
D* yield scaled by ND*/Ncc= 0.224
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• FONLL upper band is
consistent with charm
spectra
FONLL: 200 GeV M. Cacciari, PRL 95 (2005) 122001 500 GeV Ramona Vogt µF = µR = mc, |y| < 1 .
STAR Preliminary
200GeV: Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 72013
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D0 spectra in Au+Au 200 GeV
• Suppression at high pT in central and mid-central collisions.
• Suppression at high pT in central collisions similar to light hadrons.
• Enhancement at intermediate pT ~ models suggest radial flow of light quarks coalescence with charm. P. Gossiaux: arXiv: 1207.5445
• Strong suppression at high pT in central collisions
• D0, NPE results seems to be consistent kinematics smearing & charm/bottom mixing
• Uncertainty dominated by p+p result.
• High quality p+p data from Run09 and Run12 are on disk.
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Non-photonic Electron RAA in Au+Au 200 GeV
Non-photonic Electrons arefrom semileptonic c and b decays
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Quarkonia states in A+ACharmonia: J/y, Y’, cc Bottomonia: (1S), (2S), (3S)
Key Idea: Quarkonia melt in the QG plasma due to color screening of potential between heavy quarks
• Suppression of states is determined by TC and their binding energy
• Lattice QCD: Evaluation of spectral functions Tmelting
Sequential disappearance of states: Color screening Deconfinement
QCD thermometer Properties of QGP
H. Satz, HP2006
When do states really melt?Tdiss(y’) Tdiss(cc)< Tdiss((3S)) < Tdiss(J/y) Tdiss((2S)) < Tdiss((1S))
J/y in Au+Au collisions
Liu et al., PLB 678:72 (2009) and private comminication Zhao et al., PRC 82,064905(2010) and private communication
STAR high-pT : arxiv:1208.2736
• J/ψ suppression increases with collision centrality and decreases with pT
• Low-pT data agrees with two models including color screening and regeneration ef.• At high pT Liu et al. model describes data reasonable well,
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• Indications of suppression of (1S+2S+3S) getting stronger with centrality.
Nuclear modification factor of Upsilon
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ϒ RAA Comparison to models • Incorporating lattice-based
potentials, including real and imaginary parts– A: Free energy
• Disfavored.
– B: Internal energy • Consistent with data vs.
Npart
• Includes sequential melting and feed-down contributions– ~50% feed-down from cb.
M. Strickland, PRL 107, 132301 (2011).
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Dilepton Physics
Chronological division:• High Mass Range (HMR)
Mee > 3 GeV/c2
– primordial emission, Drell-Yan– J/Ψ and ϒ suppression
• Intermediate Mass Range (IMR)1.1 < Mee< 3 GeV/c2
– QGP thermal radiation– heavy-flavor modification
• Low Mass Range (LMR) Mee< 1.1 GeV/c2
– in-medium modification of vector mesons– possible link to chiral symmetry restoration
Dileptons are excellent penetrating probes– very low cross-section with QCD medium– created throughout evolution of system
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Production in p+p at 200 GeV• Understand the p+p reference
Cocktail simulation consistent with dataL. Ruan (STAR), Nucl. Phys. A855 (2011) 269
Charm contribution dominates IMR– consistent with STAR charm cross-
section
Adams et al (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 062301
Uncertainties:• vertical bars: statistical• boxes: systematic• grey band: cocktail simulation systematic• not shown: 11% normalization
Phys. Rev. C 86, 024906 (2012)
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Production in Au+Au 200 GeVLow Mass:
• enhancementwhen compared to cocktail (w/o ρ meson)
little centrality
dependence
Intermediate Mass: cocktail “overshoots” data in central collisionsbut, consistent within errors
modification of charm?
difficult to disentangle (modified) charm from thermal QGP contributions future detector upgrades required HFT+MTD
STAR Preliminary
STAR Preliminary
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Beam Energy Scan Dielectrons 2010 – 2011:
Au+Au at 62.4, 39, and 19.6 GeV
STAR data samples: 55M, 99M, and 34M min-bias events
Dielectron Production at lower √sNN
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Compare to Theory: in-medium ρ
• Robust theoretical description top RHIC down to SPS energies– calculations by Ralf Rapp (priv. comm.)– black curve: cocktail + in-medium ρ
• Measurements consistent with in-medium ρ broadening– expected to depend on total baryon density– tool to look for chiral symmetry restoration
STARPreliminary
Summary and Outlook
• Large suppression of heavy quark production at high-pT in D0 and non-photonic electrons measurements in 200 GeV central Au+Au collisions. Similar to light quarks.
• J/ψ suppression increases with collision centrality and decreases with pT.
• Increasing of ϒ suppression vs. centrality. RAA consistent with suppression of feed down from excited states only (~50%).
• Dielectron measurement in p+p 200 GeV. Cocktail describes the data well. • Dielectron measurement in Au+Au 19.6 – 200 GeV. Low mass enhancement down to low (SPS) energies observed. Consistent with in- medium ρ broadening.
• Heavy flavor tracker and Muon telescope detector upgrades. Significant improvement of heavy flavor, quarkonium and dilepton measurements.
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Heavy Flavor Tracker
TPC Volume
Solenoid
Outer Field Cage
Inner Field Cage
SSDISTPXL
EASTWEST
FGT
HFT
Detector Radius(cm)
Hit Resolution R/ - Z (m - m)
Radiation length
SSD 22 20 / 740 1% X0
IST 14 170 / 1800 <1.5% X0
PIXEL8 12 / 12 ~0.4% X0
2.5 12 / 12 ~0.4% X0
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Physics projections – punchline for Y13,14
RCP=a*N10%/N(60-80)%
Assuming D0 v2 distribution from quark coalescence.
500M Au+Au m.b. events at 200 GeV.
- Charm v2 Medium thermalization degreeDrag coefficients!
Assuming D0 Rcp distribution as charged hadron.
500M Au+Au m.b. events at 200 GeV.
- Charm RAA Energy loss mechanism!Color charge effect!Interaction with QCD matter!
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Future: ϒ via STAR MTD
• A detector with long-MRPCs – Covers the whole iron bars and leave the gaps in between uncovered. – Acceptance: 45% at ||<0.5– 118 modules, 1416 readout strips, 2832 readout channels
• Long-MRPC detector technology, electronics same as used in STAR-TOF• Run 2012 -- 10%; 2013 – 60%+; 2014 – 100%: ϒ via m+m-
MTD (MRPC)
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STAR Dileptons: Present & Future
• 2009 – 2011– TPC + TOF + EMC
• dielectron continuum• dielectron spectra, and v2 (pT)
– vector meson in-medium modifications
– LMR enhancement– modification in IMR?
• 2012-2013– TPC + TOF + EMC + MTD (partial)
• e-μ measurements
– IMR: Improve our understanding of thermal QGP radiation
– LMR: vector meson in-medium modifications
• 2014 and beyond– TPC + TOF + EMC +
MTD + HFT• dimuon continuum• e-μ spectra and v2
– LMR: vector meson in-medium modifications
– IMR: measure thermal QGP radiation
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D0 and D* pT spectra in p+p 200 GeV
Fixed-Order Next-to-Leading Logarithm: M. Cacciari, PRL 95 (2005) 122001.
• The charm cross section
at mid-rapidity:
Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 072013.
• Upper limit of FONLL
describes the data well
D0 and D* pT spectra in p+p collisions
[1] C. Amsler et al. (Particle Data Group), PLB 667 (2008) 1.
[2] FONLL calculation: Ramona Vogt µF = µR = mc, |y| < 1
STAR preliminary
D0 yield scaled by ND0/Ncc= 0.565[1]
D* yield scaled by ND*/Ncc= 0.224[1]
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FONLL upper band consistent with 500GeV (200GeV) charm spectra.
Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez
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in Au+Au 200 GeV, Centrality
14/Nov/12
Peripheral Central
STAR Preliminary
STAR Preliminary
STAR Preliminary
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• Advantage: has negligible recombination; smaller co-mover absorption
• Raw yield of e+e- with |y|<0.5 = 197 ± 36 ∫L dt ≈ 1400 µb-1
in Au+Au 200 GeV
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Dileptons Au+Au theory comparison• STAR central 200 GeV Au+Au• hadronic cocktail (STAR)
Ralf Rapp (priv. comm.)R. Rapp, Phys.Rev. C 63 (2001) 054907
R. Rapp & J. Wambach, EPJ A 6 (1999) 415
Complete evolution (QGP+HG)
cocktail + HG + QGP: Agreement w/in uncertainties
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289 hadronic phase: ρ “melts” when
extrapolated close to phase transition boundary• total baryon density plays the essential role
top-down extrapolated QGP rate closely coincides with bottom-up extrapolated hadronic rates