identified particle studies at the lhc with the alice experiment p. foka a on behalf of panos...
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Identified particle studies at the LHC with the ALICE experiment
P. Fokaa on behalf of Panos Christakogloub,c
for the ALICE Collaboration
a GSIb NIKHEF
c Utrecht University
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Introduction
ALICE is designed to study the physics of the strongly interacting matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma, produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC
The physics program of ALICE has already started with the study of proton-proton collisions at unprecedented high energies:o calibrate and prepare our detectors for the future heavy-
ion collisions,o the measured properties of these collisions will set the
baseline for the nucleus-nucleus collisions, o what are the properties of high multiplicity events
(collectivity, flow)? In this talk: results from pp collisions at √s = 0.9 and 7 TeV
o identified particleso pbar/p ratio
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ALICE @ the LHC
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PID in ALICE
PID for hadrons in the central barrel (|η| < 0.9)o ITS: Excellent (3σ) separation from ~50 MeV/c for πo TPC: π from 200 MeV/c, Κ from 300 MeV/co TOF: K from 500 MeV/c up to 2.5 GeV/c, p up to 3.5 GeV/co HMPID: intermediate to high momenta (up to 5 GeV/c)
Photons with the dedicated spectrometer (PHOS - |η| < 0.12) Electrons in the central barrel:
o ITS + TPC for low momentumo TRD from P ~ 1GeV/c (beauty measurements feasible even @1GeV/c!)
Muons reconstructed in the forward region (muon arm: -4 < η < -2.4) Strange particles identified via their topology
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PID – momentum reach
For more details see the talk of
Orlando Villalobos
ITS commissioning
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Design goalso Optimal resolution for primary vertex
and track impact parameter Minimize distance of innermost layer from
beam axis (<r>≈ 3.9 cm) and material budget
o Maximum occupancy (central PbPb) < few %
o dE/dx information in the 4 outermost layers for particle ID in 1/β2 region
Installed in 2007. Successfully commissioned during the
cosmics runs in 2008 and 2009.
Layer
Type
Radius (cm)
Length (cm)
Resolution (m)
PbPb dN/dy=6000
r z Part./cm2 Occupancy (%)
1 SPD 3.9 28.2 12 100 35 2.1
2 SPD 7.6 28.2 12 100 12 0.6
3 SDD 15.0 44.4 35 25 3 2.5
4 SDD 23.9 59.4 35 25 1.5 1.0
5 SSD 38.0 86.2 20 830 0.6 4.0
6 SSD 43.0 97.8 20 830 0.45 3.3
For more details see the talk of Emanuelle Biolcati dE/dx resolution ~ 13%
Main TPC characteristicso Cylindrical in shape, with an active
volume that has an inner radius of about 85 cm, an outer radius of about 250 cm, and an overall length along the beam direction of 500 cm (largest TPC ever built)
o Cylindrical field cage filled with ~90 m3 of Ne/CO2/N2 gas mixture (90:10:5)
o Drift time of ~90 μso Many (>90) 3D points (+dE/dx) per
track Since August 2009 more than 750
million events (cosmics, krypton, and laser) recorded, with and without B-field.o First round of calibrations (dE/dx,
momentum, alignment, gain) completed before collisions.
TPC commissioning
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J. Alme et al. (ALICE TPC), arXiv:1001.1950 (subm. to NIM)
TPC particle identification
dE/dx resolution ~ 5-6%
September 2009 (cosmic)
December 2009 (cosmic)
TOF
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18 sectors, 2π covering in |η| < 0.9
Granularity: 2.5x3.5 cm2 at ∼3.7 m from the primary vertex;
Fully installed 95% channels operational Resolution at present ∼90 ps
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Kaon pT distributions stable & decays
K → K0
S →
6 ways to measure Kaons
K p
%73.1
%27.3
%87.4
%13.21
%43.63
00
0
0
0
K
K
eK
K
K
π- kinks
(99%)
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• Kaons from kinks• K0s decaying into a pair of pions• ITS, TPC, TOF, HMPID
HMPID
Data collected in December 2009 pp @ √s = 900 GeV Good agreement between the 3 detectors (ITS, TPC, TOF) Shows that detectors’ calibration/understanding and analysis methods are OK Statistics not sufficient for more differential studies
Identified particle spectra – Tsallis fit
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pp @ LHC: multiplicity ≈ AA collisions at lower √so Does collective behavior develop with multiplicity?
Tsallis Blast Wave (PRC79 051901, 2009)o Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics replaced by “Tsallis statistics”o Adds one parameter q (quantifies degree of non equilibrium)
ITS included in these plotso Provides a significant reduction of the extrapolation to zero pto Constrains models (e.g. flow)
Ongoing study @ 7TeV (possibility for differential analysis – high statistics)
Combined spectra (ITS+TPC+TOF)
~250K collision candidates at 900GeV (December 2009)> 100M collision candidates at 7TeV (March2010 - …)
Prospects for the spectra measurements
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Baryo-chemical potential μB and Chemical freeze-out Temperature TchI.Kraus et al., in arXiv0711.0974 [hep-ph]
I.Kraus et al., J.Phys.G32 (2006) S495A.Andronic et al., Nucl. Phys. A772 (2006) 167 J.Rafelski et al., Eur. J. Phys. C45 (2006) 61 (non equilibrium)
Expectations at LHC: Tch =161±4 MeV μB =0.8+1.2-0.6 MeVA.Andronic et al., Last Call for Predictions, in arXiv0711.0974 [hep-ph]
But the ratios can be used for other studies as well…
Baryon number transport – Motivation
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Where does the conserved baryon number (BN) reappear after the pp collision?o G.C. Rossi and G. Veneziano, Nucl. Phys B123 (1977) 507.o B.Z. Kopeliovich and B. Zakharov, Z. Phys. C43 (1989) 241.
Different approaches based on theory:o Baryon considered as bound quark-diquark state within QGSM. BN transport implies
breaking the diquark pair.o Gluonic mechanism aka String Junction (SJ). BN transport implies the stopping of the
SJ.
u
u
d u
u
d
Conventional approach - QGSM
Within QGSM one expects no BN transport (an asymmetry ~0) at LHC energies No BN transported at mid-rapidity from the fragmentation region
du
u
SJ
String Junction
P(y) ~ e(a J 1)y
P(y)const
BN transport (asymmetry) even at large rapidity gaps (large energies). Veneziano: Probability exponentially suppressed with aJ ~ 0.5 (aJ: J intercept) Kopeliovich: Probability constant with rapidity
LHC’s large rapidity gap between the incoming protons (yp-max = ±9.6) will give us the opportunity to distinguish between the different models.
Δy = ybeam – ybaryon = ‘rapidity loss’
AB NB N
B
NB NB
RNB
NB
Baryon number transport – Experimental results
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BRAHMS: Phys. Lett. B607 (2005) 42
p+p - Au+Au @√s = 200GeV
p+p Au+Au 20% central PYTHIAHIJING-B
STAR: Phys.Rev.Lett.86 (2001) 4778
Lessons from RHIC
A. Falkiewicz: DIS2008, London
Lessons from HERA
Proton excess at mid-rapidity can be attributed to the BN transport from the beam at RHIC energies
No sign of any rapidity or pt dependence
PYTHIA systematically overestimates the proton ratio
HIJING-B (includes a SJ formalism) describes the experimental data
Initially reported an asymmetry of ~8% for Δy ~ 7.o Results never
published due to large systematic uncertainties caused by the high beam-gas rate.
Results reported at the DIS2008 are compatible with an asymmetry for Λs ~0
AuAu@√sNN = 130 GeV
Baryon number transport – Corrections
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Np
N p
corrected
Np
N p
raw
Cabsorption Ccross sec tion Csecondaries p CcutsC feed down
Fluka in full agreement with the data Clear disagreement between the experimentally measured values and the input curves of GEANT3-GEANT4 (data points lower by a factor of 2-3 depending on the momentum). Recent physics lists provided by the G4 team reproduce the data points
Bendiscioli and Kharzeev, Riv.Nuovo Cim.17N6, 1-142 (1994)
Baryon number transport – Transverse momentum dependence
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Results show no sign of any transverse momentum dependence for both energies.
Experimental points are compared with different model predictions that include variation of BN transport mechanisms:o PYTHIA tunes having a
standard prescription for transferring the BN over large rapidity intervals (D6T, ATLAS-CSC, Perugia-0), describe the data well.
o Perugia-SOFT underestimates the data points
o HIJING-B clearly underestimates the pt dependence (particularly at the lower energy)K. Aamodt et al. [ALICE Collaboration],
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 072002 (2010)
Baryon number transport – Energy dependence
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p
p
1
1 Be( J P )y
Energy dependence of the ratio parameterized based on the contribution of different diagrams describing the p(bar) production (pair production at mid-rapidity and BN transfer) Intercept of the Pomeron set to 1.2 based on fit on the energy dependence of the multiplicity. Junction intercept fixed to 0.5 The curve describes the (high energy) points well.
o The lower ISR points are overestimated due to the contribution of yet another diagram which is suppressed at high energies.
J 0.5P 1.2B 11.5
Energy [TeV] 0.9 7
ALICE 0.957 ± 0.006
0.991 ± 0.005
PYTHIA
ATLAS-CSC (306) 0.96 1.0
Perugia-0 (320) 0.95 1.0
Perugia-SOFT (322)
0.88 0.94
QGSM
ε=0 0.98 1.0
ε = 0.076, αJ = 0.5 0.96 0.99
ε = 0.024, αJ = 0.9 0.89 0.95
HIJING-B 0.83 0.97
K. Aamodt et al. [ALICE Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 072002 (2010)
Conclusion
ALICE in a very good shapeo Most detectors perform close to specso Physicist perform also close to specs
Pbar/p ratio published in PRL Identified particle spectra paper under internal review
The identified particle spectra coming from different analyses/detectors agree remarkably well between each other.o Differential analysis (e.g. vs multiplicity) feasible with the large
stats 7TeV sample ongoing The pbar/p ratio has been measured at both 0.9 and 7TeV
o The data points favor the existence of the string junction with the value of the intercept of the J being 0.5 (Veneziano)
o Models with additional transfer (QGSM with ε = 0.9, HIJING/B) are disfavored.
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Still ALICE being mainly a HI experiment, we look forward to November/December
BACKUP
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ITS calibration and PID (SDD + SSD)
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Charge distribution measured on all the SDD moduleso ~95% of the detector included in the
readout during data taking
Charge distribution measured on all the SSD moduleso 90% of the detector active in 2009, (<1.5%
bad strips)o S/N ~40
dE/dx resolution ~ 13%
For more details see the talk of
Emanuelle Biolcati
Identified particle spectra
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Data collected in December 2009 pp @ √s = 900 GeV Good agreement between the 3 detectors (ITS, TPC, TOF) Shows that detectors’ calibration/understanding and analysis methods are OK Statistics not sufficient for more differential studies