1. 8.882 LHC Physics Experimental Methods and Measurements Heavy Ion Physics Overview [Lecture 4, February 17, 2009] with a 'thank you' to Bolek and Gunther for material and explanations

2. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Particle Detectors Overview 2 Organizational Issues  Course and recitation  new students: Michael and Erik  please make sure to catch up on recitation  any questions  Matthew is expert in setting up windows machines if needed  Recitation  Friday at 12:00 noon in 24-414

3. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 3 Lecture Outline Heavy Ion Physics Overview general introduction the strong force and QCD state diagram real life heavy ion physics variables and their implementation measurements experimental status

4. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 4 Particle Physics Searching for the smallest constituents – elementary particle un-dividable unit(s)‏ the atomos in the true sense of the word water droplet → water molecule → hydrogen atom → proton → quarks Search for the fundamental forces or interactions

5. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 5 Current Elementary Particles Matter particles fermions (half integer spin) ‏ Force carriers bosons (integer spin)‏ Fermions organized generations, families higher generations unstable: decay to lowest 1 st generation makes up almost all we see

6. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 6 Particle Physics and the Universe Heavy ion physics after elementary particle formation but before nucleon formation (~1 GeV)‏

7. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 7 The Strong Force Heavy Ion Physics is all about the strong force Examples of strong force binding of nucleons into the atom core: protons repel each other (electromagnetic charge), neutrons need to be added strong force in core let's proton decay (weak decay)‏ binding force of the proton itself (three quarks inside)‏ binding force of the pion (two quarks inside)‏ in fact binds all hadrons

8. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 8 Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD)‏ What is QCD? Theory of the strong force! fermions = quarks: fractional electric charge: u +2/3, d -1/3 force carrier is the gluon (8)‏ charge (QED) → color charge (QCD): red-green-blue asymptotic freedom quarks free to move when they are close coupling large: no perturbative solution

9. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Accelerators 9 Nobel Price 2004 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 Gross, Politzer, Wilczek: “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction” H. David Politzer Frank Wilczek Interesting to read http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/gross-autobio.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/politzer-autobio.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/wilczek-autobio.html David J. Gross the younger Wilczek

10. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 10 Discovery of the Quarks Repeat of Rutherford experiment Finding in a nutshell high energy electrons scatter of point-like quasi-free particles inside the proton proton has sub-structure (quarks)‏ 1990 Nobel Prize to Jerry Friedman (MIT), Henry Kendall (MIT), Richard Taylor (SLAC)‏

11. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Accelerators 11 Nobel Price 1990 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 Friedman, Kendall, Taylor: “ for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics” Henry W. Kendall Richard E. Taylor Interesting to read http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/friedman-autobio.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/kendall-autobio.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/taylor-autobio.html Jerome I. Friedman

12. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 12 Strong Force Paradox weakly bound proton constituents can be seen in high-energy scattering, but cannot be liberated even in most violent collisions Confinement direct search for quarks were performed without success why can they not be found by themselves? answer: confinement - objects are always colorless mesons: quark-antiquark= no color, ex. pion: baryons: green-blue-red = white, ex. proton [uud], neutron[udd]

13. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 13 The Color String – Flux Tube  The Color String  overall colorless  stores energy when quark-antiquark are pulled apart  breaks up when enough energy stored = fragmentation → quarks look like “jets”  baryons are formed when three quarks are close in phase space

14. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 14 Observation of the Gluon Gluon confined as the quarks indirect observation only gluon looks like a quark = “jet” three jet events are signature first shown by TASSO experiment at PETRA (1978-86)‏ detailed flow of fragmentation very interesting independent versus string fragmentation PETRA built to discover top

15. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 15 Heavy Ion Physics Goals find regime to set the quarks and gluons free we know, they are asymptotically free (QCD)‏ matter has to be extremely dense that protons break up recreates phase of the universe close to big bang quark-gluon-plasma (quark gluon gas, weakly coupled)‏ Implementation accelerates many neutrons and protons to very large energies and collide them best done by using heavy ions (heavy = large A)‏ ions to accelerate, electrons completely removed

16. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 16 Key Word: State Transition  From Thermodynamic  phase or state transition:  sudden change of an observable with respect to a state parameter  first order: discontinuous  second order: discontinuous first derivative  cross over: smooth transition  Random example  Argon ice  gas-fluid-liquid

17. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 17 State Transition: Quark-Gluon Plasma What would one expect to happen? phase transition of some observable: hadron regime → free gluon-quark regime observable should show sudden change of behavior What are observables in heavy ion collisions? normalized number of particles produced ratio of kaons to pions normalized number of heavy onia smart ideas might make you a hero in HI physics!

18. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 18 Quark Gluon Plasma or what? Expected to find Quark-Gluon Plasma gas in which quarks and gluons are free naïve starting point: put quarks/gluons close together but give them lots of energy (10-20 times than in proton)‏ expect asymptotic freedom to do the rest subtle balance between energy and force required problem: calculations are close to impossible Experiments find no quark-gluon plasma instead: quark-gluon conglomerate behaves like a liquid

19. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 19 State Diagram RHI C

20. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 20 A Typical Heavy Ion Collision Sequence of events Consider ● luminosity low: one collision per event ● need to extrapolate back from freeze out ● detailed collision parameters are crucial

21. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 21 Practical Problems Collision objects no elementary particles no protons either every collision needs to be characterized Participants nucleon can be observer or participant normalize to number of participants nucleus 1nucleus 2 spectators participants spectators

22. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 22 Number of Participants Number of participants also referred to as impact parameter b, b = 0 (full participation)‏ centrality: fully central means b = 0 b Number of collisions each participant can interact more than once‏ ≥ number of participants

23. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 23 Determine Number of Participants Fixed target experiments measure energy of spectators nParticipants = (1 – E cal /E beam ) A Non trivial problem for collider (boot strap)‏ use Monte Carlo to determine impact parameter measure tracks in forward region, N (different process)‏ Determine b impact parameter when f MC = f Data assume N related with b by monotonous function systematics has to be evaluated‏

24. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 24 Impact Parameter from N Particles

25. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 25 Variables of Interest Number of particles seen from collisions very straight forward quantity to measure natural comparison is pp collision neutron or proton should have very similar behavior concerning the strong force independent collisions could be directly compared normalize to number of participants (participant can have several collisions phase transition should appear by adding all experiments together Our first measurement use CDF data at 2 TeV proton-antiproton collisions

26. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 26 Status after RHIC Published

27. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 27 Jet Quenching Independent collisions should make this ratio exactly 1

28. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 28 Jet Quenching, Confirmed Analysis outline define main direction by leading trigger particle count number of particles in azimuthal angle expect to find opposite side jet as expected from pp Analysis result find particles around leading particle (jet) opposite side activity significantly reduced compared with corresponding pp data

29. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 29 Conclusions Heavy Ion physics create matter state close to the beginning of the universe: this is about strong interaction (QCD)‏ no sharp state transition observed number of particle produced on a smooth curve quark-gluon plasma not so gas like but rather like liquid jet quenching elliptic flow (not discussed here)‏ a surprise but not inconceivable: theory could not make precise predictions exciting experiences expected from the LHC

30. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 30 Next Lecture Charge multiplicity measurements introduction to observables and experimental status the CDF data and how they are organized trigger conditions and information contents of the ntuple prototype analysis main components for full analysis pile up events secondary interactions

31. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 31 Particle Physics

32. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 32 Explain in 60 Seconds  Quarks are fundamental building blocks of matter. They are most commonly found inside protons and neutrons, the particles that make up the core of each atom in the universe. Based on current experimental evidence, quarks seem to be truly fundamental particles; they cannot be further subdivided. Protons and neutrons mainly contain two types of quarks. These are called up and down quarks. For reasons still unknown, nature also designed two copies each of the up and down quarks, identical except for having larger masses. The heavier copies of the up quark are called charm and top quarks; the copies of the down quark are named strange and bottom quarks. Converting energy into mass, accelerators produce these heavier, short-lived quarks through particle collisions. Quark masses span an enormous range. The heaviest quark is the top quark, which is about 100,000 times more massive than the two lightest types, up and down. The explanation for this hierarchy is a deep mystery, but the top quark’s huge mass could turn out to be a virtue. Probing the detailed properties of the top may shed light on the origins of mass itself in the universe. Jay Hubisz, Fermilab

33. C.Paus, 8.882 LHC Physics: Heavy Ion Physics Overview 33 The Universe