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1 Heavy Ion Physics in Future -- Dense Matter Physics & Critical Point Search Nu Xu Nuclear Science Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Many Thanks to the Organizers! S. Gupta, F. Liu, V. Koch, X.F. Luo, B. Mohanty, H.G. Ritter, M. Stephanov, K.J. Wu, P.F. Zhuang

2 Nu Xu2/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Basics on Quantum Chromodynamics 1)Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the established theory of strongly interacting matter. 2)Gluons hold quarks together to from hadrons: 3)Gluons and quarks, or partons, typically exist in a color singlet state: confinement. baryonmeson

3 Nu Xu3/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 nuclei hadron gas CSC quark-gluon plasma TETE Baryon Chemical Potential Temperature Early Universe 1 2 3 2 T E RHIC, FAIR 1 T ini T C LHC, RHIC 3 Phase Boundary FAIR, NICA, CSR The QCD Phase Diagram and High-Energy Nuclear Collisions Quarkyonic

4 yr.101112131415161718192021 Timeline of QCD and Heavy Ion Facilities Spin STAR FGT BES RHIC-II STAR HFT EIC (meRHIC, eRHIC) US LRP FAIR CBM K300 LHC NICA Others RHIC Spin Heavy Ion R&D Future programs J-PARC (50 GeV p+A) JLab (12 GeV upgrade) Nu Xu, September 2009

5 Nu Xu5/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 HFT TPC FGT STAR Detectors: Full 2π particle identification! EMC+EEMC+FMS (-1 ≤  ≤ 4) TOF DAQ1000 HLT

6 Nu Xu6/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 STAR Physics Focus 1) At 200 GeV top energy - Study medium properties, EoS - pQCD in hot and dense medium 2) RHIC beam energy scan - Search for the QCD critical point - Chiral symmetry restoration Polarized p+p program - Study proton intrinsic properties Forward program - Study low-x properties, search for CGC - Study elastic (inelastic) processes (pp2pp) - Investigate gluonic exchanges Structure of Nucleon Structure of Cold Nuclear Matter Structure of Hot/Dense Matter Matter with partonic degrees of freedom. Theory of QCD.

7 Nu Xu7/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Outline (1)Introduction (2)Recent results from RHIC (3)Two Proposals: for exploring the locating QCD phase diagram (4)Summary and Outlook

8 Nu Xu8/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Search for Local Parity Violation in High Energy Nuclear Collisions Topological transitions have never been observed directly (e.g. at the level of quarks in DIS). An observation of the spontaneous strong, local parity violation would be a clear proof for the existence of the physics. Chiral Magnetic Effect: Kharzeev, PL B633 260 (06). Kharzeev, et al, NP A797 67(07). Kharzeev, et al, NP A803 227(08). Fukushima, et al, PRD78, 074033(08). Animation by Derek Leinweber

9 Nu Xu9/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Search for Local Parity Violation in High Energy Nuclear Collisions The separation between the same-charge and opposite- charge correlations. - Strong external EM field - De-confinement and Chiral symmetry restoration L or B Voloshin, PR C62, 044901(00). STAR; arXiv: 0909.1739 (PRL); 0909.1717 (PRC). Parity even observable

10 Nu Xu10/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 First Observation of STAR Preliminary 1 st observation anti-hyper nucleus! (1)Strangeness production saturated (2)Coalescence at work Submitted to Science by STAR 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

11 Nu Xu11/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 y x pypy pxpx coordinate-space-anisotropy  momentum-space-anisotropy Anisotropy Parameter v 2 Initial/final conditions, EoS, degrees of freedom

12 Nu Xu12/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Low p T (≤ 2 GeV/c): hydrodynamic mass ordering High p T (> 2 GeV/c): number of quarks ordering => Collectivity developed at partonic stage! => De-confinement in Au+Au collisions at RHIC! Partonic Collectivity at RHIC STAR: preliminary QM 0907.2265 PHENIX: nucl-ex/0604011 QM09: arXiv 0907.2265

13 Nu Xu13/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Collectivity, De-confinement at RHIC - v 2 of light hadrons and multi-strange hadrons - scaling by the number of quarks At RHIC:  n q -scaling novel hadronization process êPartonic flow De-confinement PHENIX: PRL91, 182301(03) STAR: PRL92, 052302(04), 95, 122301(05) nucl-ex/0405022, QM05 S. Voloshin, NPA715, 379(03) Models: Greco et al, PRC68, 034904(03) Chen, Ko, nucl-th/0602025 Nonaka et al. PLB583, 73(04) X. Dong, et al., Phys. Lett. B597, 328(04). …. i ii

14 Nu Xu14/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 sQGP and the QCD Phase Diagram In 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC, strongly interacting matter formed: - Jet energy loss: R AA - Strong collectivity: v 0, v 1, v 2 - Hadronization via coalescence: n q -scaling Questions: Is thermalization reached at RHIC? - Systematic analysis with dN/dp T and dv 2 /dp T results… - Heavy quark and di-lepton measurements When (at which energy) does this transition happen? What does the QCD phase diagram look like? - RHIC beam energy scan

15 Nu Xu15/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 The QCD Critical Point - Low baryon density, cross over - LGT calculation, universality, and models hinted the existence of the critical point on the QCD phase diagram* at finite baryon chemical potential. - Experimental evidence for either the critical point and/or 1 st order transition is important for our knowledge of the QCD phase diagram*. * Thermalization assumed M. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. Shuryak, PRL 81, 4816(98); K. Rajagopal, PR D61, 105017 (00) http://www.er.doe.gov/np/nsac/docs/Nuclear-Science.Low- Res.pdf RHIC (200) & LHC: Determine the temperature T ini, T C BES: Explore the QCD phase diagram T E and the location phase boundary

16 Nu Xu16/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 RHIC run10 Physics Programs RHIC cool down early Dec. STAR shift starts Dec. 15 th Beam Energy (GeV) 25 cryo- week 30 cryo- week 20 cryo- week CR Physics 20010 Thermalization J/Ψ v 2, m ee 62.4445 3911.5 BES programs, T E, phase boundary 2724.5 1801.5 11.522.5 7.7112.5

17 Nu Xu17/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Exploring the QCD Phase Diagram (1)Proposal II: NQ scaling in v 2 for locating the possible QCD phase boundary (2)Proposal I: high moments for locating the possible QCD critical point

18 Nu Xu18/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 (II) At the CP at finite value of μ B, the power of the correlation length of the system is proportional to the order of the moments: Susceptibilities and High Moments M. Cheng et al., arXiv: 0811.1006 (I)Susceptibilities from the lattice QCD calculations μ B =0 Increase of the non-Gaussian fluctuation at the critical point M. Stephanov, PRL 102, 032301(09)

19 Nu Xu19/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Observables: χ q, χ S Event by Event: 1.net-proton Kurtosis K p (E) 2. two proton correlation function C 2 (E) 3. ratio of the d/p 4. ratio of K/p M. Cheng et al., PRD79, 074505(09);arXiv:0811.1006 F. Karsch, INT, 08 M. A. Stephanov, PRL102, 032301(09)

20 Nu Xu20/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Basics on Skewness and Kurtosis Mean: Variance: Skewness: Kurtosis: s(Gaussian) = κ(Gaussian)=0, Probe of non-Gaussian fluctuation. s 0

21 Nu Xu21/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Random Sources and Critical Point (1)The sum of independent thermal sources is also a random thermal source. The multiplicity distribution is Possion and follows the CLT. (2)In the absence of CP, it can be shown: (3)Energy and centrality (volume) dependence of the non-Gaussian behavior => Critical Point! (4)Extract thermodynamic properties of the medium! Random thermal source i Lattice results Clusters

22 Nu Xu22/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Higher Moments Analysis (BES) STAR Preliminary, QM09 1)Higher moments are more sensitive to QCD critical point related fluctuation. 2)The 4 th moment, Kurtosis, is directly related to the corresponding thermodynamic quantity: susceptibility of conserved quantum numbers such as Baryon number and strangeness. QM09: arXiv 0907.4542

23 Nu Xu23/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 κ  2 vs. Collision Energy -Energy and centrality dependence of κ  2 -Flat results from models without the CP MC data

24 QCD Phase Boundary and the Critical Point Summary I 1)Beam energy scan (BES) at RHIC is an important/necessary step forward for exploring the QCD phase diagram with high-energy nuclear collisions 2)LGT predicts a spike at finite value of μ B indicating the existence of CP 3)κ×σ 2 for net-protons are consistent with unity for the beam energy range: √s NN = 200 - 62.4 -19.6 GeV at RHIC. Other conventional observables should also be studied.

25 Nu Xu25/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 y x pypy pxpx coordinate-space-anisotropy  momentum-space-anisotropy Anisotropy Parameter v 2 Initial/final conditions, EoS, degrees of freedom

26 Nu Xu26/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 (a) Patonic matter: coalescence of massive quarks for hadronization   Clear NQ scaling in v 2 ! (b) Hadronic matter: rescatterings amongst hadrons   No NQ scaling in v 2 ! Au+Au Collisions at 9.2 GeV AMPT (v2.1) J. Tian et al, Phys. Rev. C79, 067901(2009).

27 Nu Xu27/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Observable*: Quark Scaling in v 2 - m  ~ m p ~ 1 GeV - ss  φ not K + K -  φ -   h <<  p ,  In the hadronic case, no number of quark scaling and the value of v 2 of φ will be small. * Thermalization is assumed!  

28 Energy Dependence of the v 2 -scaling and the QCD Phase Boundary Summary II 1)NQ scaling in v 2 : partonic collectivity & de- confinement in high-energy nuclear collisions. 2)Scaling in v 2 : partonic dof dominants No scaling in v 2 : hadronic dof dominants 3)The multi-strange hadrons are particularly clean for the search, φ, for example.

29 Nu Xu29/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Other Observables (1) Local parity violation (2) Event-by-Event fluctuations: N(K)/N(pion), N(K)/N(p),, … (3) Correlation functions: BB, MM, MB, clusters, light nuclei (4) … Chiral properties (?)

30 Nu Xu30/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 Observables and Advantages For STAR: - Large acceptance: full azimuthal coverage and |y| < 1.0 - Clean particle identification: (TPC, ToF, EMC) - Acceptance does not change with beam energy, systematic errors under control - Lower luminosity at lower beam energies. Fixed target exp. will be better Torrieri SPS RHIC

31 Nu Xu31/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 STAR DetectorMRPC ToF barrel 100% ready for run 10 BBC PMD FPD FMSFMS EMC barrel EMC End Cap DAQ1000 FGT Completed Ongoing MTD R&D HFT TPC FHC HLT

32 Nu Xu32/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 9.2 GeV Collider Acceptance √s NN 6 GeV 17 GeV √s NN = 9.2 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC Fix-target Mode NA49 Collider Mode STAR

33 Nu Xu33/33Hadronic Matter under Extreme Conditions, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 31 st, 2009 nuclei hadron gas CSC quark-gluon plasma TETE Baryon Chemical Potential Temperature Early Universe 1 2 3 2 T E RHIC, FAIR 1 T ini T C LHC, RHIC 3 Phase Boundary FAIR, NICA, CSR The QCD Phase Diagram and High-Energy Nuclear Collisions Quarkyonic

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