The system size dependence of dihadron azimuthal correlations in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision is simulated by a multi-phase transport model. The structure of correlation functions and yields of associated particles show clear participant path-length dependences in collision systems with a partonic phase. The splitting parameter ($D$) and Root Mean Square Width ($Δϕ_{rms}$) of away side correlation functions increase with collision system size from $^{14}$N+$^{14}$N to $^{197}$Au+$^{197}$Au collisions. The double-peak structure of away side correlation functions can only be formed in sufficient "large" collision systems. These properties provide some hints to study onset of deconfinement, which is related to the QCD phase boundary and QCD critical point, by an energy-size scan.
A collision system scan involving $α$-clustered $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O is studied by using a multiphase transport model for central collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 6.37$ TeV. Background subtracted away-side dihadron azimuthal correlation is performed via the zero yield at minimum (ZYAM) method from raw signals, and the quantitative parameters, such as RMS width and Kurtosis, seem nicely follow the $A^{-1/3}$ law of the system size if the nucleus has the normal Woods-Saxon nucleon distribution. However, for $α$-clustering light nuclei, specifically for $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O, the RMS width and Kur…
System-size dependence of dihadron azimuthal correlations in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision is simulated by a multi-phase transport model. The structure of correlation functions and yields of associated particles show clear participant path-length dependences in collision systems with a partonic phase. The splitting parameter and root-mean-square width of away-side correlation functions increase with collision system size from $^{14}$N+$^{14}$N to $^{197}$Au+$^{197}$Au collisions. The double-peak structure of away-side correlation functions can only be formed in sufficient "large" coll…
We perform an exploratory study of the role of coherent, medium-induced energy loss in azimuthal angular correlations in dihadron production in Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) at small $x$ where the target proton/nucleus is modeled as a Color Glass Condensate. In this approach coherent radiative energy loss is part of the higher order corrections to the leading order dihadron production cross section. We include the effects of both gluon saturation and coherent radiative energy loss and show that radiative cold-matter energy loss has a significant effect on the so-called coincidence probabilit…
Dihadron azimuthal asymmetry and light-quark dipole moments at the Electron-Ion Collider
School of Physics, Peking University（北京大学物理学院）；Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院高能物理研究所）；China Center of Advanced Science and Technology（中国科学技术大学北京校区）；Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University（北京大学高能物理中心）；Theory Center, Jefferson Lab（杰斐逊实验室理论中心）；High EnergyTheory Group, Physics Department,Brookhaven National Laboratory（布鲁克海文国家实验室物理系高能理论组）；Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学物理与天文学系）
Dihadron and gamma-hadron correlations from jet-induced medium excitation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
喷流传播被证明在夸克-胶子等离子体中产生类马赫锥介质激发。然而，在高能重离子碰撞中，只有这种介质激发和喷流簇射部分子被径向流偏转才导致双峰双强子关联。在AMPT Monte Carlo模型下分别研究了谐波流、热点和双喷流的双强子关联，发现它们都导致了双强子方位角关联的双峰。$γ$ -强子关联具有相似的双峰特征，但没有谐波流和热点的贡献。双强子和$γ$强子的相关性进行了比较，揭示了射流引起的介质激发和热点在膨胀介质。
We present a new proposal to study the helicity-dependent dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF), which describe the correlations of the longitudinal polarization of a fragmenting quark with the transverse momenta of the produced hadron pair. Recent experimental searches for this DiFF via azimuthal asymmetries in back-to-back hadron pair production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation by the ${\tt BELLE}$ Collaboration did not yield a signal. Here we propose a new way to access this DiFF in $e^+e^-$ annihilation, motivated by the recently recalculated cross section of this reaction, which explains why th…
We study the dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF) of longitudinally polarized quarks into pion pairs. The quark-jet framework is used to model the sequential hadronization of a polarized quark into hadrons, where the polarization transfer to the remnant quark in each hadron emission step is calculated using the spin density matrix formalism. Using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of the hadronization process, we find a nonvanishing helicity dependent DiFF, $G_1^\perp$ , which is also related to the longitudinal jet handedness. A method is developed for extracting the angular moments of this DiF…
The correlation between the longitudinal polarization of a fragmenting quark and the transverse momenta of the produced hadrons was predicted over two decades ago. Nevertheless, experimental searches in the electron-positron annihilation process, both through the so-called jet handedness measurements by the {\tt SLD} Collaboration and more recently via the measurements of the azimuthal asymmetry containing the helicity-dependent dihadron fragmentation function (DiFF) by the $\textrm{BELLE}$ Collaboration, did not yield a signal. We will first discuss our recent explanation of the zero result a…
Unveiling Light-Quark Yukawa Flavor Structure via Dihadron Fragmentation at Lepton Colliders
School of Physics, Peking University（北京大学物理学院）；School of Physics, Zhengzhou University（郑州大学物理学院）；Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University（北京大学高能物理中心）；Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院高能物理研究所）；China Center of Advanced Science and Technology（中国高等科学技术中心）
Transverse spin effects and light-quark dipole moments at colliders
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院高能物理研究所）；China Center of Advanced Science and Technology（中国高等科学技术中心）；Peking University（北京大学）；Brookhaven National Laboratory（布鲁克海文国家实验室）；Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）
Dihadron azimuthal correlations containing a high transverse momentum ($p_T$) trigger particle are sensitive to the properties of the nuclear medium created at RHIC through the strong interactions occurring between the traversing parton and the medium, i.e. jet-quenching. Previous measurements revealed a strong modification to dihadron azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions with respect to p+p and d+Au collisions. The modification increases with the collision centrality, suggesting a path-length or energy density dependence to the jet-quenching effect. This paper reports STAR measurements …
We study the azimuthal angular decorrelation of the dijet production via photon fusion in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions. The impact parameter dependent cross section of quark-antiquark pairs production is derived using the equivalent photon approximation, and the contribution from final-state QCD radiations to the azimuthal angular distribution are calculated within Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. We carry out the QCD resummation of large logarithms of the azimuthal angle as well as the jet radius at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. In the end we present the normalized differenti…
It was argued in arXiv:1805.09342 and arXiv:1807.00825 that the systematics of the azimuthal anisotropy coefficients $v_{2,3}$ measured in ultrarelativistic light-heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC can be described in an initial state dilute-dense Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework. We elaborate here on the discussion in these papers and provide further novel results that strengthen their conclusions. The underlying mathematical framework and numerical techniques employed are very similar to those in the CGC based IP-Glasma model used previously as initial conditions for heavy-ion co…
Influence of a temperature-dependent shear viscosity on the azimuthal asymmetries of transverse momentum spectra in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
LHC data on the correlations of the elliptic flow $v_2$ of particles at low and high transverse momenta $p_T$ from Pb+Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV are analyzed in the framework of the HYDJET++ model. This model includes soft and hard components which allows to describe the region of both low and high transverse momenta. The origin of $v_2$ values in different $p_T$ regions is investigated at different centralities. It is shown that the experimentally observed correlations between $v_2$ at low and high $p_T$ in peripheral lead-lead collision…
A "breathing'' octupole $^{208}$Pb nucleus: resolving the elliptical-to-triangular azimuthal anisotropy puzzle in ultracentral relativistic heavy ion collisions
We demonstrate that the striking systematics of two-particle azimuthal Fourier harmonics $v_2$ and $v_3$ in ultrarelativistic collisions of protons, deuterons and helium-3 ions off gold nuclei measured by the PHENIX Collaboration [arXiv:1805.02973] at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is reproduced in the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective field theory. This contradicts the claim in [arXiv:1805.02973] that their data rules out initial state based explanations. The underlying systematics of the effect, as discussed previously in [arXiv:1705.00745,arXiv:1706.06260,arXiv:1801.09704],…
NNLL$^\prime$ resummation of azimuthal decorrelation for boosted top quark pair production at the LHC
Fudan University（复旦大学）；Shanghai Research Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NSFC and Fudan University（上海理论核物理研究中心，国家自然科学基金委员会与复旦大学）；Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University（北京大学高能物理中心）
Studying minijets via the $p_T$ dependence of two-particle correlation in azimuthal angle $ϕ$
在我以前的建议，两个粒子的关联函数可以用来解决的最小偏置事件的高能强子相互作用的粒子产生的微喷流的贡献，我研究的$p_T$和能量依赖的相关性。利用HIJING Monte Carlo模型，发现在高碰撞能量下，由于微喷流的产生，两粒子与$p_T>p_T^{cut}$之间的方位角$ϕ$的关联$c(ϕ_1,ϕ_2)$类似于两个背靠背的喷流，随着$p_T^{cut}$的增加.结果表明，$c(0,0)-c(0,π)$，这是有关的相对分数的颗粒从微型射流，增加与能量。固定$p_T^{cut}$的相关性的背景也随着能量的增加而增加，这是由于多个微型喷气式飞机生产的增加。本文还讨论了这一分析在超相对论重离子碰撞喷注猝灭研究中的应用。
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) via Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of large datasets is an adaptive exploratory method to uncover natural patterns underlying the data. Several recent applications of the PCA-SVD to event-by-event single-particle azimuthal angle distribution matrices in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC-LHC energies indicate that the sine and cosine functions chosen {\it a priori} in the traditional Fourier analysis are naturally the most optimal basis for azimuthal flow studies according to the data itself. We perform PCA-SVD analyses of mid-central Au+Au c…
We provide the first calculation of two-gluon production at mid-rapidity in ultra-peripheral collisions in the Color Glass Condensate framework. To estimate systematic uncertainty associated with poor understanding of the wave function of the nearly real photon, we consider two diametrically different models: the dilute quark-antiquark dipole approximation and a vector meson, in which color charge density is approximated by McLerran-Venugopalan model. In the experimentally relevant range, the target nucleus can be faithfully approximated by a highly saturated state. This simplification enables…
Estimates for elliptic flow in collisions of polarized light nuclei with spin $j\ge1$ with a heavy nucleus are presented. In such collisions the azimuthal symmetry is broken via polarization of the wave function of the light nucleus, resulting in nonzero one-body elliptic flow coefficient evaluated relative to the polarization axis. Our estimates involve experimentally well known features of light nuclei, such as their quadrupole moment and the charge radius, yielding the one-body elliptic flow coefficient in the range from 1\% for collisions with the deuteron to 5\% for for collisions with $^…
