Heavy Ion Collisions and the study of hot and dense QCD matter
Javier L Albacete Universidad de Granada
Taller de Altas Energías 2013. Benasque
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HIC experimental programs • Past Programs: SIS/LBL, AGS/BNL, SPS/CERN • Present Programs: 1) RHIC/BNL (2000-On): Au-Au @ 200 GeV (also p+p, d+Au, Ca-Ca and lower energies): Discovery machine: First evidence for a new new, strongly interacting state of matter: a “perfect fluid”
Press release Apr ’05 HIC experimental programs • Past Programs: SIS/LBL, AGS/BNL, SPS/CERN • Present Programs: 1) RHIC/BNL (2000-On): Au-Au @ 200 GeV (also p+p, d+Au, Ca-Ca and lower energies): Discovery machine: First evidence for a new new, strongly interacting state of matter: a “perfect fluid”
Press release Apr ’05
2) LHC/CERN (2010-On) : Pb-Pb @ 2.76 TeV (also p+p @ 2.76 TeV and p+Pb @ 5 TeV) Confirmation & Precision machine: quantitative description of the thermal properties of the QGP - I month of running per year starting Nov ’10 - 1 dedicated experiment: ALICE (U. Santiago). CMS and ATLAS also involved in data taking/analysis - So far, excellent accelerator and detectors performances: Data collected ~ 0.15 nb-1 - 2013: p+Pb collisions @ 5 TeV (LHCb also joining!)
Press release Nov ’10 Outline ⇒ Part I
✓ Motivation. QCD & the QCD vacuum ✓ QCD at high temperature or density: Quark Gluon Plasma
⇒ Part II
✓ Heavy Ion collision experiments ✓ Relevant findings at RHIC and the LHC
5 Goal of HIC experiments: Study hot and dense QCD matter
☛ QCD physics: understanding the QCD vacuum, confinement and chiral symmetry.
☛ Field theory: Emergence of macroscopic (thermal) phenomena from fundamental gauge theories
☛ Cosmology: Reproduce in the laboratory conditions: ~10μs after the Big Bang Microscopic theory ⇒ Quantum Chromodynamics 1 = q¯ (i D m ) q F F µ ⇥ + . . . LQCD f ⇥ f f 4 µ ⇥ fl avors = 1, . . . 4 Lorentz index , a quarks q a = 1 . . . Nc = 3 Color index f ⇤ f = u, d, s, c, b, t Flavor index ⇥ µ = 1, . . . 4 Lorentz index gluons Aµ,a ⇥ a = 1 . . . N 2 1 = 8 Color index c
Gauge symmetry: SU(Nc=3) (non-abelian)
+2/3 u (3 MeV) c (1.2 GeV) t (171 GeV) -1/3 d (5 MeV) s (105 MeV) b (4.2 GeV)
7 Strong interactions are responsible for 99% of (visible) matter in the Universe
Electromagnetism Strong interactions
Microscopic theory: QED (p, e,γ ) Microscopic theory: QCD
⇒ (quarks, gluons) ⇒
Macroscopic, collective behavior: Macroscopic, collective behavior: • Phase transitions: gas, solid, fluid, superfluid ... • Condensed / solid state physics: Insulators, semi-conductors, ferromagnets, glasses ... ? • Chemistry ... industry
8 Strong interactions are responsible for 99% of (visible) matter in the Universe
Electromagnetism Strong interactions
Microscopic theory: QED (p, e,γ ) Microscopic theory: QCD
⇒ (quarks, gluons) ⇒
Macroscopic, collective behavior: Macroscopic, collective behavior: • Phase transitions: gas, solid, fluid, • What are the phases of QCD ? superfluid ...
• Condensed / solid state physics: ... • Is a color-chemistry possible? Insulators, semi-conductors, • Are there color-superconductors? ferromagnets, glasses ... • Color-industry? • Chemistry ... industry ⇒
Study of QCD matter at high density or temperature 9 Properties of QCD: • Asymptotic freedom: The strength of the interaction is smaller at short distances
αs=g2/(4π)
↳↳ smallQCD distances (III): ● The strengthlarge distances of the interaction is smaller at smaller distances: asymptotic freedom.
2 Well understood via αs=g /(4π) perturbative calculations ↳
● Partons carry color SU(3) which is not visible (singlets): confinement.
Heavy-Ion Collisions (I): 1. QCD. 5 Properties of QCD: • Asymptotic freedom: The strength of the interaction is smaller at short distances
• Confinement: Quarks and gluons are not observed as free states. They are confined in color singlet states, hadrons.
mesons (qq)- baryons (qqq) , K, ⇥ . . . p, n, s . . .
⇒Potential models: V (R) = eff + K R R Coulomb Linear
⇒String tension
2 1 K (420 MeV) = 900 MeV fm Properties of QCD: • Asymptotic freedom: The strength of the interaction is smaller at short distances
• Confinement: Quarks and gluons are not observed as free states. They are confined in color singlet states, hadrons. r~ 1/ mesons (qq)- baryons (qqq) , K, ⇥ . . . p, n, s . . .
☛ Would a high-temperature (density) QCD system allow (quasi)free quarks and gluons, i.e a Quark Gluon Plasma?
Heat or pressure Hadron gas QGP
if T then (T ) 1 ⇥ QCD s
12 Hints from Lattice QCD: • The entropy, energy density or pressure of a an ideal (non-interacting) gas are proportional to the # d.o.f: s e p ; ; # d.o.f. T 3 T 4 T 4 / Pion gas ⇣ ⌘ + 0 d = 3 (⇡ , ⇡ , ⇡ ) ⇡ ! QGP 7 7 d = d + d = 2 (N2 1)+ 2 2 N N = 37 (for N = 2) q¯qg g 8 q¯q s · c 8 · q¯q · s · f · c f
13 Results from Lattice QCD: • The entropy, energy density or pressure of a an ideal (non-interacting) gas are proportional to the # d.o.f: s e p ; ; # d.o.f. T 3 T 4 T 4 / Pion gas ⇣ ⌘ + 0 d = 3 (⇡ , ⇡ , ⇡ ) ⇡ ! QGP 7 7 d = d + d = 2 (N2 1)+ 2 2 N N = 37 (for N = 2) q¯qg g 8 q¯q s · c 8 · q¯q · s · f · c f
• Explosion of degrees of freedom around T= 150 - 180 MeV
• Is there a phase transition around that temperature?
14 Results from Lattice QCD: • The string in potential models ¨melts¨at high temperatures :
>T
Lattice QCD
15 Order of the transition: Phase diagram and broken symmetries • Phase transitions of thermodynamical systems can be related to the restoration of broken symmetries of the system • Phase transitions are signaled by the abrupt changes in the behaviour of the order parameter
OrderFirst orderOrder : discontinuityof the of transition: theSecond transition: order: discontinuity Crossover: continuous in the order parameter in the 1st derivative behaviour parameter
order Water melting into ice Ferromagnets Heavy-Ion Collisions (I): 2. Finite-T QCD. Butter melting 15 (density) (magnetic susceptibility)
16 Heavy-Ion Collisions (I): 2. Finite-T QCD. 15 Heavy-Ion Collisions (I): 2. Finite-T QCD. 15 Phase diagram and broken symmetries • Phase transitions of thermodynamical systems can be related to the restoration of broken symmetries of the system • Phase transitions are signaled by the abrupt changes in the behaviour of the order parameter • Lattice calculations indicate that for realistic quark masses the phase transition from hadronic matter to a QGP at zero baryochemichal potential is actually a crossover
17 Phase diagram and broken symmetries
• QCD with massless quarks can be decomposed into right- and left-handed sectors 1 5 quarks = q¯L i D qL + q¯R i D qR q = q L L(R) 2
u a a u It is invariant under S U L ( N f ) S U L ( N f ) ; exp i L(R) ⇥ d L(R⇥ ) d L(R) ⇥ ⇤ ⌅ ⇥ QCD (IV): ⇒ Chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken in the vacuum ¯ 0 q¯q 0 = 0 q¯ q + q¯ q 0 (240 MeV)3 L R ● The qqbar potential⇤ | | ⌅ contains⇤ | L R a linearR L| ⌅ term:⇥ The chiral condensate can be regarded as an order parameter for the phase transition string, which breaks when V(rcrit)=mq+mqbar. = 0, for T < T 0 q¯q 0 = c ⇥ | | ⇤ = 0, for T > Tc ● Mass of light mesons and baryons has mainly a dynamical origin. 99% of the mass of visible matter has its dynamical origin in QCD
18 ● The Lagrangian, for 2 massless quarks, is SU(2)L X SU(2)R invariant: chiral symmetry.
● This symmetry is not observed: SSB, Goldstone bosons (pions),
Heavy-Ion Collisions (I): 1. QCD. 6 Phase diagram and broken symmetries
• QCD with massless quarks can be decomposed into right- and left-handed sectors 1 5 quarks = q¯L i D qL + q¯R i D qR q = q L L(R) 2
u a a u It is invariant under S U L ( N f ) S U L ( N f ) ; exp i L(R) ⇥ d L(R⇥ ) d L(R) ⇥ ⇤ ⌅ ⇥
⇒ Chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken in the vacuum ¯ 0 q¯q 0 = 0 q¯ q + q¯ q 0 (240 MeV)3 L R ⇤ | | ⌅ ⇤ | L R R L| ⌅ ⇥ The chiral condensate can be regarded as an order parameter for the phase transition = 0, for T < T 0 q¯q 0 = c ⇥ | | ⇤ = 0, for T > Tc
⇒Other symmetries: Center symmetry Z(Nc) for Polyakov loops (infinitely heavy masses)
1 T 1 = 0, for T < Tc L(⌦x) = tr exp i g A4( , ⌦x) d 0 L(⌥x) 0 = Nc ⇥ | | ⇤ = 0, for T > Tc ⇤0 ⇥ 19 Phase diagram and broken symmetries • The chiral symmetry (Z(Nc)) is restored (broken) above the phase transition:
qq¯ ⇥
L(⇤x) ⇥
20 The QCD Phase diagram. A sketch
Quark Gluon Plasma
critical point? Hadron Gas
• Current understanding of phase diagram is rather speculative due to the lack of reliable theoretical tools or empiric information. Mostly based on models
• It has been suggested that the phase diagram may have a critical point where the first order phase transition happening at high baryon density ends
21 ⇒ Part II
✓ Heavy Ion collision experiments ✓ Relevant findings at RHIC and the LHC HIC experimental programs • Past Programs: SIS/LBL, AGS/BNL, SPS/CERN • Present Programs: 1) RHIC/BNL (2000-On): Au-Au @ 200 GeV (also p+p, d+Au, Ca-Ca and lower energies): Discovery machine: First evidence for a new new, strongly interacting state of matter: a “perfect fluid”
Press release Apr ’05
2) LHC/CERN (2010-On) : Pb-Pb @ 2.76 TeV (also p+p @ 2.76 TeV and p+Pb @ 5 TeV) Confirmation & Precision machine: quantitative description of the thermal properties of the QGP - I month of running per year starting Nov ’10 - 1 dedicated experiment: ALICE (U. Santiago). CMS and ATLAS also involved in data taking/analysis - So far, excellent accelerator and detectors performances: Data collected ~ 0.15 nb-1 - 2013: p+Pb collisions @ 5 TeV (LHCb also joining!)
Press release Nov ’10 Space-time picture of heavy ion collisions. The “little bang” Ion B Hadronic Detection Collision QGP Phase Phase
Ion A
Pre-equilibrium Text Freeze out t=0 ~0.5 fm/c ~10 fm/c ~15 fm/c time
Fireball:
• ~10-15 meters across • lives for ~5x10-23 seconds • Typical LHC event: 5 - TQGP ~ 10 T sun ~ 4 trillion ºC - ~15000 particles detected (l+l-, π’s, γ’s, p’s,resonances...) Observables Ion B Hadronic Detection Collision QGP Phase Phase
Ion A
Pre-equilibrium Freeze out t=0 ~0.5 fm/c Text~10 fm/c ~15 fm/c time
Fireball: Bulk Observables: p ~
Ion B Hadronic Detection Collision QGP Phase Phase Fast (light and heavy ) quarks and gluons (Energy loss, quenching)
Quarkonia dissociation Ion A Tc, εc
Colorless probes *, ± Pre-equilibrium γ γZ, W Freeze out (control) t=0 ~0.5 fm/c ~10 fm/c ~15 fm/c time
Fireball: Bulk Observables: p ~
Dilute regime at low energies Dense regime at high “BFKL” energies “BK-JIMWLK”
⌅ (x, kt) 2 ⌅ (x, kt) (x, kt) (x, kt) (x, kt) ⌅ ln(x0/x) ⇤ K ⇥ ⌅ ln(x0/x) ⇥ K radiation recombination
• In the saturation regime, color fields become perturbatively strong ~ 1/g. Classical scenario
1 + kt Qs(x) AA† aa [a, a†] 1 /h i⇠↵s ! ⇠
All these effects are accounted for by the Color Glass Condensate effective theory 1. Before the collision: Non-linear dynamics and saturation
• Empiric “confirmation”: RHIC and LHC total multiplicities are a lot smaller than those corresponding to a simple superposition of nucleon-nucleon collisions
MCrcBK 200GeV bMCrcBK 200GeV 10 10 Gaussian nucleon MCrcBK 2.76TeV bMCrcBK 2.76TeV ALICE 2.76TeV ALICE 2.76TeV 8 PHOBOS 200GeV 8 PHOBOS 200GeV /2 /2 part part LHC
/N 6 /N 6 η η Non-linear small-x evolution dN/d 4 dN/d 4 RHIC 2 2
0 100 200 300 400 0 100 200 300 400 Npart Npart
Figure 3. Centrality dependence of charged hadron multiplicity in Pb+Pb collision at √sNN =2.76 TeV and Au+Au collision at √sNN =200GeVfromtheMCrcBKmodelare compared.
However, we should check parameter dependence carefully. For example, if one changes the parameter C in the running coupling, evolution speed changes. In the bottom up scenario [10], the number of gluon produced just after the collision will 2 −2/5 increase by a factor of αs(Qs) during the subsequent evolution of the system. It would be interesting to include such effect into MCrcBK calculations.
3.3. Gaussian shape So far we assumed that nucleus-nucleus collision is described by the incoherent sum of nucleon- nucleon collisions which will occur when transverse distance squared between two nucleons is smaller than the inelastic proton-proton cross section σNN divided by π: σ (x x )2 +(y y )2 NN (10) i − j i − j ≤ π This amounts to assume that nucleon is hard sphere (or disk). However, this approximation may not work in very high energy hadronic collisions. Let us think about the Gaussian shape nucleon in order to take into account the effect of extension of nucleon size as incident energy increases. In this case the thickness function becomes 1 T (r)= exp[ r2/(2B)] , (11) p 2πB − and the probability of nucleon-nucleon collision P (b)atimpactparameterb is
P (b)=1 exp[ kT (b)],T(b)= d2sT (s) T (s b) . (12) − − pp pp p p − ! where (perturbatively) k corresponds to the product of gluon-gluon cross section and gluon density squared. We fix k so that integral over impact parameter becomes the nucleon-nucleon inelastic cross section σNN at the given energy:
σ = d2b (1 exp[ kT (b)]) . (13) NN − − pp ! CERN Initial Glasma fields
Lappi, McLerran (2006) (Semantics : Glasma ≡ Glas[s - plas]ma) Introduction
Bookkeeping ■ E! B! François Gelis InitialBefore classical the collision, fields, Glasma the chromo- and fields are localized Classical fields in two sheets transverse to the beam axis ● Diagrammatic expansion Lappi, McLerran (2006) François Gelis Glasma flux tubes ● Retarded propagators ■ Immediately after the collision, the chromo-E! and B! fields ● Classical fields 1/Qs CGC Glasma: The● Gluon medium spectrum at LO right after• Immediately the collision after the collision, the chromo-E! and B! fields have become longitudinal : Why small-x gluons matter ● Glasma • ! ! Color Glass Condensate The initial chromo-E and B fields form● Generating longitudinal functional are purely longitudinal and boost invariant : CGC Chromo electric-magnetic fields are longitudinal z i i z ij i j Factorization “flux tubes” extending between the projectiles: Why small-x gluonsE matter = ig , , B = ig" , Factorization Color Glass Condensate 1 2 1 2 Stages of AA collisions A A A A Leading Order Factorization Summary Leading Logs Stages of AA collisions ! " ! " Leading Order 0.8 2 2 Glasma fields Leading Logs 0.8 B z B Initial color fields Glasma fields 2 z Link to the Lund model Initial color fields E 2 z Rapidity correlations Link to the Lund model ] 0.6 E 2 2 z Rapidity correlations ] 0.6 /g 2 B 2 Matching to hydro 4 T Glasma stress tensor Matching to hydro /g 2 B µ) 4 T Glasma stress tensor 2 E Glasma instabilities 0.4 T 2 Glasma instabilities µ) 2 [(g 0.4 ET Summary Summary 0.2[(g 0.2 0 • Flux tubes 1 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 Correlation length in the transverse plane: ∆r Qs− 2 ⊥ ∼ 0 g µτ • 1 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 Correlation length in rapidity: ∆η αs− 2 ∼ g µτ • The flux tubes fill up the entire volume • Glasma = intermediate stage between the CGC and the François Gelis – 2007 Lecture III / IV – Hadronic collisions at theLHC and QCD at high density, Les Houches, March-April 2008 - p. 31 The ridge: extended in rapidity (longitudinal direction) 2-particlequark-gluon20 angular plasma correlations correlations 19 p-p min. bias p-Pb and p-p Nch>110 Pb-Pb Azimuthal asymmetries:
Pantha Rei: RHIC and LHC matter flow!
Elliptic flow h initial geometry Final state momentum d N 2 1 + 2 v2(pt) cos(2 ) + . . . anisotropy anisotropy d pt d
LHC RHIC Tannebaum ’06