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实验和理论研究:RHIC上200次GeV Au+Au碰撞中低质量双轻子增强的分析(论文)

Experimental and Theoretical Studies: Analysis of Low-mass Dilepton Enhancement in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC (thesis)

Marton Vargyas

摘要:

在热而致密的强子物质中,如果发生UA(1)对称性恢复,产生的强子和介子的质量会发生显著变化,它们的产生截面也会发生改变。在这篇硕士论文中,我寻找了200 GeV Au+Au碰撞中PHENIX双轻子谱中的eta'增强的特征,它在低质量区,例如在(0.1-1.0)GeV不变电子-正电子质量范围内有显著的增强。这也是eta'介子的达利兹衰变(eta'->ee gamma)的区域,因此eta'的增强可能至少是部分过剩的原因。在热的稠密介质中,其他介子的性质也可以改变,但在这篇论文中,我主要关注的是η介子的质量改变。为了探索eta '的作用,我使用EXODUS模拟产生了不同的双轻子谱,对应于不同的eta'性质。本文的结论是,过量不能仅用η '质量修正来描述,但与数据的一致性已得到显著改善。另一个可能使我们更接近理解过剩的想法是检查介子的径向流动,这在最初的PHENIX分析中没有包括在内。径向流在低pT范围内是重要的,在那里它很好地描述了粒子的光谱:就在双轻子光谱贡献最大的区域。因此,检查径向流的影响似乎是不可避免的,因为它可能是造成某些部分过量的原因。这里总结的结果是正在进行的工作,在RHIC的PHENIX协作框架下获得的。

英文摘要:

In case of an UA(1) symmetry restoration in a hot and dense hadronic matter, the mass of the produced hadrons and mesons can significantly change, and their production cross-section can also be modified. In this M.Sc. Thesis I search for the signature of an eta' enhancement in the PHENIX dilepton spectrum in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions, which has a significant enhancement in the low-mass region, e.g. in the (0.1-1.0) GeV invariant electron-positron mass range. This is also the region of the eta' meson's Dalitz-decay (eta'->ee gamma), so the eta' enhancement might be responsible for at least a part of the excess. Other mesons' (other) properties can also be changed in the hot, dense medium, but in this thesis I focus on the mass modification of the eta' meson. To explore the role of eta', I used EXODUS simulations to generate different dilepton spectra, corresponding to different eta' properties. The conclusion here was that the excess can not be described with just the eta' mass modification, but the agreement with data has been improved significantly. Another idea which might brings us closer to understand the excess is to examine the radial flow of the mesons, which was not included in the original PHENIX analysis. Radial flow is important in the low-pT range, where it describes the particles' spectra well: just in the region where the dilepton spectrum has the most contributions from. Thus examining the effect of the radial flow seems to be inevitable, as it might be responsible for certain parts of the excess. The results summarized here are work in progress, obtained with the framework of the PHENIX Collaboration at RHIC.

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