High pT Probes of Dense Matter Created in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC

2006 ◽  
Vol 774 ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.A. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Ion Collisions

scholarly journals Kaon production from hot and dense matter formed in heavy-ion collisions

1991 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1881-1892 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Brown ◽  
C. M. Ko ◽  
Z. G. Wu ◽  
L. H. Xia
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Kaon Production ◽  
Ion Collisions

scholarly journals Apparent and Actual Shifts in Mass and Width of ϕ Mesons Produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Bhalerao ◽  
S. K. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Invariant Mass ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Mass Spectra ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Mass Shift ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Invariant Mass Spectra

We present a method of analyzing invariant-mass spectra of kaon pairs resulting from decay of ϕ mesons produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It can be used to extract the shifts in the mass and the width (ΔM and ΔΓ) of the ϕ mesons when they are inside the dense matter formed in these collisions. We illustrate our method with the help of available preliminary data. Extracted values of ΔM and ΔΓ are significantly larger than those obtained with an earlier method. Our results are consistent with the experimentally observed pT dependence of the mass shift. Finally, we present a phenomenological relation between ΔM and ΔΓ. It provides a useful constraint on theories which predict the values of these two quantities.

scholarly journals Electromagnetic probes of dense matter in heavy-ion collisions

1998 ◽  
Vol 630 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 563-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.Q. Li ◽  
G.E. Brown ◽  
C.M. Ko
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Electromagnetic Probes

scholarly journals A Description of Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles Produced in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC Energies

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Z. J. Jiang ◽  
Dongfang Xu ◽  
Yan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Rapidity Distributions ◽  
Pseudorapidity Distributions

In heavy ion collisions, charged particles come from two parts: the hot and dense matter and the leading particles. In this paper, the hot and dense matter is assumed to expand according to the hydrodynamic model including phase transition and decouples into particles via the prescription of Cooper-Frye. The leading particles are as usual supposed to have Gaussian rapidity distributions with the number equaling that of participants. The investigations of this paper show that, unlike low energy situations, the leading particles are essential in describing the pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles produced in high energy heavy ion collisions. This might be due to the different transparencies of nuclei at different energies.

scholarly journals K−/K+ratio in heavy-ion collisions with an antikaon self-energy in hot and dense matter

2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Tolós ◽  
Artur Polls ◽  
Angels Ramos ◽  
Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Self Energy ◽  
Ion Collisions

scholarly journals Isentropic evolution of the matter in heavy-ion collisions and the search for the critical endpoint

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Motta ◽  
Rainer Stiele ◽  
Wanda Maria Alberico ◽  
Andrea Beraudo
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Qcd Phase Diagram ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Momentum Spectra ◽  
Beam Energy Scan ◽  
Near Future

Abstract We study the isentropic evolution of the matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions for various values of the entropy-per-baryon ratio of interest for the ongoing and future experimental searches for the critical endpoint (CEP) in the QCD phase diagram: these includes the current beam-energy-scan (BES) program at RHIC and the fixed-target collisions foreseen for the near future at various facilities. We describe the hot-dense matter through two different effective Lagrangians: the PNJL (Polyakov–Nambu–Jona–Lasinio) and the PQM (Polyakov-quark-meson) models. We focus on quantities expected to have a direct experimental relevance: the speed of sound, responsible for the collective acceleration of the fireball, and the generalized susceptibilities, connected to the cumulants of the distributions of conserved charges. In principle they should affect the momentum spectra and the event-by-event fluctuations of the yields of identified particles. Taking realistic values for the initial temperature and the entropy-per-baryon ratio we study the temporal evolution of the above quantities looking for differences along isentropic trajectories covering different regions of the QCD phase diagram, passing far or close to the CEP or even intersecting the first-order critical line.

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