Parton Physics – from Fermilab to RHIC

Mike Leitch – LANL Peter Barnes, Jan Boissevain(Eng), Melynda Brooks, Allan

Hansen(PD), Dave Lee, Ming Liu, Pat McGaughey, Joel Moss, Andrea Palounek, Walter Sondheim(Eng), John

Sullivan, Hubert vanHecke

FNAL: parton structure & processes; their modification in nuclei – nucleon flavor asymmetry, DY & J/ Adep, parton dE/dx …RHIC: QGP and spin physics – muons at PHENIX, QGP via J/’s, gluon shadowingPHENIX Run-II & the MVDSilicon-vertex upgrades for open heavy-mesons?

E772 - 1991

FNAL E866/NuSea

ACU, ANL, FNAL, GSU, IIT, LANL, LSU, NMSU, UNM, ORNL, TAMU, Valpo

A measurement of )(/)( xuxdAnti-quark asymmetry in the Nucleon Sea

From Draft NSAC Long Range Plan :“The Structure of the Nuclear Building Blocks”

Modification of parton momentum distributions of nucleons embedded in nuclei• e.g. shadowing – depletion of low-momentum partons. Process dependent?Nuclear effects on parton “dynamics”• energy loss of partons as they propagate through nuclei• and (associated?) multiple scattering effects

Nuclear modification of parton level structure & dynamics

Drell-Yan

E866 R(W/Be)E772 R(W/D)

Rat

io(W

/Be)

1.0

0.9

0.8

0.7

NMC DIS

Drell-Yan Process

Nuclear Dependence for heavy vector mesons, e.g. J/Ψ, Ψ ',

• production: color singlet or octet ( ) and color neutralization timescale

• hadronization time:

•Coherence length for cc fluctuations:

• absorption on nucleons or co-movers

• feed-down from higher mass resonances, e.g. χc

cc bb

)(2 2/

2'/ JJH mmEl

2//2 JJC mEl

E789

E866/NuSea: 800 GeV p-A (Fermilab)PRL 84, 3256 (2000)

• J/Ψ and Ψ’ similar at large xF where they both correspond to a traversing the nucleus•but Ψ’ absorbed more strongly than J/Ψ near mid-rapidity (xF ~ 0) where the resonances are beginning to be hadronized in nucleus.

open charm: no A-depat mid-rapidity

HadronizedJ/

cc

PT Broadening at 800 GeV

(pT) shape is independent of xF & same for NA3 at a lower energy

cc

E866 – Preliminary

Baier et al. NP B484, 265 (1987)

2

4 TCS p

N

dz

dE

or

22

22

)008.0(

)24.0(

Lfm

GeV

Lfm

GeVslopeE

So energy loss associated with observed pT broadening is tiny, e.g. for W:

PT Broadening in Drell-Yan and associated Radiative Energy Loss

GeVE

L

12.0

94.3

Analysis of our p-A Drell-Yan data (E772 - PRL 64, 2479 (1990) using the Kopeliovich model. Dashed lines with shadowing only; solid lines with parton energy loss of,dE/dz = 2.32 ± 0.52 ± 0.5 GeV/fm

Charged hadron and 0 production at PHENIX versus pT for central collisions which, when compared to pQCD models that work well for peripheral collisions, suggests that jet-quenching or energy-loss may be present.

dE/dx = 0

dE/dx =0.25

Johnson, Kopeliovich et al., PRL 86, 4483 (2001)

Shadowing

dE/dx & Shadowing

Quark energy loss in nuclear matter

Kopeliovich et al, hep-ph/0110221“Light Cone Dipole” approach

Theoretical Models for PT BroadeningR

(Au

/H)

(full)

(longitudinal only)

RHIC

LHC

Predicts a different dominant mechanism for pT broadening in DY at RHIC & LHC energies:

•For lower energy fixed target measurements initial-state multiple scattering is most important•But at RHIC & LHC color filtering preserves small dipole configurations which have high-pT and therefore give larger pT broadening

DY as bremsstrahlung in the target rest frame

qq

J/Ψ Polarization

E866/NuSea

)cos1(cos/ 2 Add

•NRQCD based predictions (color octet model) necessary to explain CDF charm cross sections•E866 J/ measurement not in agreement with NRQCD based predictions [Beneke & Rothstein, PRD 54, 2005 (1996)] which give0.31 < λ < 0.63•Complicated by feedown (~40%) from higher mass states.

However (2S+3S), which should not suffer from feeddown, have maximal polarization consistent with the Octet model!

E866/NuSea – PRL 86, 2529 (2001).

)cos1(cos/ 2 Add

7. Are there new states of matter at ultrahigh temperatures and densities?

The theory of how protons and neutrons form the atomic nuclei of the chemical elements is well developed. At extremely high densities and temperatures, protons and neutrons may "dissolve" into an undifferentiated "soup" of quarks and gluons, which can be probed in heavy-ion accelerators. Still higher densities occur and can be probed in neutron stars and the early universe. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is in operation at the DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory to study of extremely hot, dense nuclear matter. It collides beams of gold nuclei at energies sufficient to form brief microcosms of the hot, dense soup of elementary particles (quarks and gluons) that previously existed only for the first microseconds after the Big Bang origin of our universe. The experimental data to date have revealed unexpected characteristics and provide the first tantalizing clues of possible quark-gluon plasma formation.

Physicists around the world are interested in the RHIC collisions, which occur thousands of times per second. Each one acts as a microscopic pressure cooker, producing temperatures and pressures more extreme than exist now even in the cores of the hottest stars. In fact, the temperature inside a RHIC collision can exceed 1,000,000,000,000 degrees above absolute zero - about ten thousand times the temperature of the sun. Although RHIC collisions may be super-fast and super-hot, which makes them interesting to physicists, they're too small and too brief to be dangerous.

In a RHIC experiment using the massive PHENIX detector, the impact of two gold nuclei ejected fewer particles transverse to the collision axis than standard theory predicts. This is the first indicator of an exotic state of matter, but much more evidence is needed. By combining this finding with many to come in the next few years, researchers may be able to understand a state of matter that hasn't existed since the dawn of the universe.

11 Physics Questions for the New Century The February 2002 issue of Discover magazine based its cover story on the recent 105-page public draft of the National Research Council Committee on Physics of the Universe report, Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: 11 Science Questions for the New Century.

From Science Highlights – DOE Office High Energy & Nuclear Physics.http://www.science.doe.gov/feature_articles_2002/February/eleven_questions/eleven-questions.htm

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NA50 -- Anomalous J/ suppression. Evidence for QGP??

J/Ψ suppression – an effective signature of Quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation?

• Color screening in a QGP would destroy pairs before they can hadronize into charmonium

• But ordinary nuclear effects also absorb or modify J/Ψ’s

•We need a comprehensive understanding of charmonium production in nuclei

•Competing effects may be identified in p-A collisions by their strong kinematic dependencies, together with complementary studies of Drell-Yan scattering and open-charm production

Gluon Shadowing for J/Ψ’s – predictions?

Kopeliovich, Tarasov, & Hufnerhep-ph/0104256

Eskola, Kolhinen, Vogt hep-ph/0104124J.C.Peng, LANL

E866/NuSeaPHENIXμ+μ- e+e-

PHENIX μ+μ- (Au)In PHENIX μ acceptance for Au-Au collisions?•Eskola… : ~ 0.8•Kopeliovich… : ~ 0.4•Strikman… [hep-ph/9812322] : ~ 0.4

Expected statistical errors from a 2-weekd-A run at PHENIX and measurements form E866/NuSea

PHENIX μPHENIX eE866 (mid-rapidity)NA50

PHENIX Muon South

PHENIX Muon North

PHENIX Electron

E866

NuSea** S (GeV) 200 200 200 39

YCM 1.2 – 2.2 1.2 – 2.4 -0.35 – 0.35 -0.5 – 2.5

Acceptance J/ ’

4.3% “

3.0%

4.3% “

3.0%

0.8% “

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Resolution (MeV)

J/ ’

110 “

250

110 “

200

20 “

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100 “

125

Counts*

J/ ’

610k 10.5k 331

640k 11.5k 382

55k 900 ----

1.5M 60k

17k***

Charmonium at PHENIX - Coming soon!

e+e-

+- •PHENIX: South Muon & Electrons taking first data now (Au-Au over; p-p in progress)•North Muon in 2003 (after shutdown)•d-A collisions: strong consensus building; hopefully coming soon.

* Min-bias/RHIC-year for = .92 (Nagle & Brooks)** E866 nuclear dependence data only *** Upsilons from E772

Simulated

Simulated

Summary of PHENIX Run-II AccumulationsAu-Au p-p comments

LTOT 84 b-1

|ZVTX| < 45 cm 42 b-1 ZVTX cut worse in p-p

To Tape 23.6 b-1 0.15 pb-1

%”RHIC Yr” 1.3% 1.5%

Last 2 weeks 55% 85%

Original Run Plan

242 b-1 3.8 pb-1

% of Orig. Plan 10% 3.9%

MinBias evts 170M 190M

J/ 3.3k 1.3k = 0.92

J/ with eff. 830 316 0.5(trig) x 0.5(Tr)

J/ -> e+ e- 800 280

J/RHI

C yr.

280k 87k Into Acceptance

(w/o efficiencies)

single , pT>1 48k 800 ccbar = 350 b

pT cos(cs)

Mass(GeV)

x2

xF

x1

Distributions for 1615 Accepted J/ Simulated Events

From Draft NSAC Long Range Plan :

“The Structure of the Nuclear Building Blocks”

Physics Program - High-pT Single ’s

•High-pT single-’s come from heavy mesons, i.e. D’s or B’s•These mesons are produced primarily through gluon fusion and thus are sensitive to the gluon structure functions.•In p-A collisions the shadowing of gluons can be studied

•With polarized beams the gluon polarization, G, can be studied.•W± ± ν can be identified by high-pT single-’s and W+/W- can be used to measure the flavor asymmetry in the nucleon sea including its spin decomposition

Simulated

Simulated

PHENIX Muliplicity & Vertex Detector (MVD)

•dN/dη for charged particles over very broad rapidity range•Provides (Zvertex) < 2 mm for the rest of PHENIX, muon spectrometer needs vertex to maintian good J/ mass resolution•Reaction plane for in- & out-of-plane comparisons for various signals in PHENIX, e.g. J/ suppression, “jet-quenching”.

dN/dη from MVDfor 125 Au-Au events

dN/dη from MVDfor one Au-Au event

PHENIX w/o MVD : | η | < 0.35

MVD vertex resolution & efficiency for p-p, p-Au & Au-Au collisions

PHENIX Silicon Vertex Upgrade

Accurate projection to collision vertex=> close, thin detector

Matching tracklets in silicon to tracks in -armsMomentum measurementdisplaced vertexAnd also detect h in silicon

LANL LDRD supportingR&D for us ($250K/yr)

)or ( ΚhXhD

XD

eD KD 0

•Gluon polarization in proton•Nuclear dependence of open charm:

•Gluon shadowing•Charm cross section•To understand J/ in A-A collisions

Extra Slides

E772 (1987 - …)DY, J/, ’, Nuclear Dep.

Spokesman: Moss

E789 (1990 - …)bb, J/, D0 Nuclear Dep.

Spokesman: Peng

E866/NuSea (1996 - …) , J/, ’, Nuclear Dep.

Spokesmen: Garvey,McGaughey,Leitch

E906 (2006?) at high-x, parton dE/dzSpokesman: Reimer (ANL)

NA44 (1990 - …)Bose-Einstein Correlations,…

Jacak, Sullivan,van Hecke

PHENIX (1990 - …)Muons: J/, single-, open-charm,

spin, p-A, QGPMVD: dN/dη, ZVERTEX

SSC (GEM,SLD 1990 - …)GEM Silicon tracker

(Brooks, Lee, Palounek)

History of the LANL HENP Program

ud /

ud /

PHENIX Timetable

FY2002

FY2003

Prepare S Swith Au-Au beams

May2001

March 2002

Jan2001

June 2002

Sept 2002

1st physics (J/ suppression & single ’s)

Run N & S

Au-Au Beams Beam

Build N chambers

Install N FEEStart Building N FEE

Install N chambers

2-Arm physics

Prepare MVD(60%)

Run MVD Run MVDFinish MVD

1st MVD physics (dN/dη, vertex & fluctuations)

Si vertex upgrade R&D for charm physics

Complete N FEE

Jan 26 2002

Fix S

p-p

p-p

In FY2003 d-A, p-p and Au-Au collisions are all likely

The North- Arm

North arm

South arm

North- arm advantages:•Superior arm with more kick, better momentum resolution & better mass resolution than South (for ’s: North= 190 MeV compared to South = 240 MeV )•While J/’s should melt in a QGP, ’s are smaller and should not, so a well separated peak (separation of 1S & 2S is 563 MeV) is critical mesons may be broadened, shifted in mass or even enhanced in a QGP. With its 10o (as opposed to 12o for South) minimum theta, the North- arm has much larger acceptance for ’s which tend to decay into ’s are small angles.•The ID is directly behind the tracking volume (in contrast with the South- arm which has a large gap). This should help reduce backgrounds and improve matching between tracking and ID.

Two -arms:•Doubles the counting rate• Allows measuring forward and backward +- simultaneously, i.e. negative & positive rapidity at the same time. Important for the study of formation-time effects in p-A.•Allows for events with one in each arm, e.g. mid-rapidity ’s•Required for W± ± ν spin measurements since the Z0 +- backgrounds can be determined only using two arms.

•Physicists:

–Barnes (1/2 on EDM, return-to-research funding ended last year) : chamber construction, PHENIX physics.

–Brooks : -tracking detector council representative, -software leader, -electronics, PHENIX Institutional Board representative.

–Garvey (retired) : E866, eRHIC, advisor to BNL management & John Browne, RHIC program supporter but no direct involvement in PHENIX.

–Hansen (postdoc) : hadron physics, MVD electronics & software.

–Lee : chamber construction manager, silicon-vertex upgrade.

–Leitch : HENP team leader , -electronics, -calibration system, -software, J/ suppression, p-A, shadowing, parton energy-loss, E866 spokesman, PHENIX Executive Council

–McGaughey : -electronics, -calibration system, -software, parton enegy-loss, silicon-vertex upgrade LDRD spokesman, former E866 spokesman, E906.

–Liu (newest staff member) : -electronics, -software, online monitoring, spin physics

–Mischke (now off the program) : was -electronics manager & is now expert consultant.

–Moss : spin physics, parton energy-loss, silicon-vertex upgrade, APS DNP chair.

–Peng (1/4 time on EDM; leaving LANL in Jan) : E866 physics, parton energy-loss, p-A and parton physics at RHIC, PHENIX upgrades, extensive long-range planning work, FNAL/E906, JHF.

–Silvermyr : new postdoc (April 2002).

–Sullivan : MVD PHENIX detector council representative, hadron physics, MVD electronics & software.

–Van Hecke : MVD ancillary systems & DAQ, hadron physics

•Engineers

–Boissevain (1/4) : MVD constuction, layout engineering.

–Sondheim (funded by construction $’s) : PHENIX lead engineer & system integration