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An experiment to measure cc suppression at the CERN SPS CHIC: Charm in Heavy Ion Collisions F. Fleuret 1, F. Arleo 2, E. G. Ferreiro 3, P.-B. Gossiaux 4, S. Peigné 4 1 LLR, École polytechnique – IN2P3/CNRS, Palaiseau, France 2 LAPTh, Université de Savoie – CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France 3 Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 4 SUBATECH, université de Nantes – IN2P3/CNRS, Nantes, France 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

The Physics case Charmonia in A+A QGP color screening through quarkonium measurements Quarkonium color screening in a Quark Gluon Plasma is a prediction of lattice QCD, for instance : Because of feed-downs and different Td, sequential suppression should show up. H. Satz, J. Phys. G 32 (2006) quarkonium dissociation temperature critical QGP temperature  production probability J/Y cc 3rd step Y’ 2nd step Sequential suppression - screening 1st step 60% direct J/Y + 30% ccJ/Y+g + 10% Y’  J/Y + X Inclusive J/Y yield Feed-downs contributing to J/Y inclusive yield Energy density 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Charmonia in A+A The Physics case Other possible QGP effect: 𝒄 𝒄 recombination In a QGP, 𝐜 and 𝐜 quarks can combine to form a J/Y. Requires a large number of 𝑐 𝑐 pairs  RHIC energies? LHC energies? TLHC-CERN > TRHIC-BNL > TSPS-CERN 1 TY’ > Tc Tc > TY’ > Tc TJ/Y > Tc > TY’ > Tc ~0.9 ~0.6 ~0 Sequential suppression Recombination J/Y production (a.u.) Temperature 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Charmonia in A+A Experimentally Charmonium production in A+A collisions studied at: SPS (s~17 GeV) : NA38, NA50, NA60 experiments RHIC (s~200 GeV) : PHENIX, STAR experiments LHC (s~2.76 TeV) : ALICE, CMS experiments Short summary for J/Y: NA50 (PbPb@SPS) observed an anomalous suppression PHENIX (AuAu@RHIC) observed a similar suppression (than NA50) ALICE (PbPb@LHC) observed a smaller suppression for low pT J/Y CMS (PbPb@LHC) observed a larger suppression for high pT J/Y Unclear picture : Observed Hot and Dense Matter effects. For quarkonia, are they due to color screening ? Apply in principle at SPS, RHIC and LHC Recombination ? Apply at RHIC? LHC? Both ? To understand Hot and Dense Matter effects on charmonium, need to (dis)prove color screening first. Study of recombination is a second step (at higher energies). 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Charmonia in A+A Color screening How to Test sequential suppression with charmonia ? must be in a regime where recombination is negligible  SPS energies must measure the suppression pattern of J/Y, Y’, cc : ~30% (resp. ~10%) of the inclusive J/Y yield comes from cc (resp. Y’) decay. According to lattice calculations, Td (Y’) < Td (cc) < Td (J/Y) If screening, one should observe a step-like suppression patterns Alternative scenario: suppression by comoving hadrons Smooth suppression Same suppression-starting point Slopes related to binding energy : SY ’ > Sc > SJ/Y Y’ cc J/Y production probability suppression by comovers Energy density production probability J/Y cc Y’ Sequential suppression - screening Energy density direct J/Y 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

sequential suppression (QGP) ? Charmonia in A+A NA50 results Anomalous suppression at SPS Eur.Phys.J.C49:559-567,2007 sequential suppression (QGP) ? or comovers (no QGP) ? p+A S+U Pb+Pb 60% direct J/Y + 30% ccJ/Y+g + 10% Y’  J/Y + X Inclusive J/Y yield use J/Y feed-downs to discriminate 0.9 NA50 measured J/Y and Y’, but, Measuring J/Y and Y’ only is not the answer : too small Y’ J/Y feed-down need of a larger feed-down fraction Measure cc ! L (fm) e (GeV/fm3) 4.37 1.04 4.90 1.24 6.65 2.04 7.65 2.53 8.83 3.19 9.43 3.76 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Expectations in comovers scenario comovers - inclusive J/Y Charmonia in A+A Comovers Anomalous suppression at SPS Eur.Phys.J.C49:559-567,2007 Expectations in comovers scenario Binding energy p+A S+U Pb+Pb comovers - direct J/Y Taking breakup cross-sections: comovers-direct J/Y = 0.2 mb comovers – cc = 1.0 mb comovers – Y’ = 2.0 mb comovers – Y’ comovers - inclusive J/Y comovers - cc 60% direct J/Y + 30% ccJ/Y+g + 10% Y’  J/Y + X Inclusive J/Y yield and considering feed-downs L (fm) e (GeV/fm3) 4.37 1.04 4.90 1.24 6.65 2.04 7.65 2.53 8.83 3.19 9.43 3.76 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Suppression patterns Charmonia in A+A Anomalous suppression at SPS Eur.Phys.J.C49:559-567,2007 sequential suppression (QGP) ? or comovers (no QGP) ? p+A S+U Pb+Pb 60% direct J/Y + 30% ccJ/Y+g + 10% Y’  J/Y + X Inclusive J/Y yield Take advantage of large cc  J/Y feed-down fraction QGP - cc comovers - cc Measuring J/Y, Y’ and cc suppression patterns will give the answer L (fm) e (GeV/fm3) 4.37 1.04 4.90 1.24 6.65 2.04 7.65 2.53 8.83 3.19 9.43 3.76 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Charmonia in A+A Measuring cc at SPS Operate a new experiment Primary goal: cc  J/Y + g  m+ m- g Beam: high-intensity 158 GeV/c Pb beam high-intensity 158/450 GeV/c p beam Detector features : Vertex detector + Spectrometer Measures tracks before absorber for very good mass resolution Ultra-granular calorimeter Measures low energy g in high p0 multiplicity environment Absorber/trigger Absorbs p/K Minimize fake triggers from p/K decays Dipole field Dipole field 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Main purpose : measure ccJ/Y+g in Pb+Pb collisions at s = 17.2 GeV Apparatus artist view Main purpose : measure ccJ/Y+g in Pb+Pb collisions at s = 17.2 GeV Calorimeter: Measuring g ‘s in high p0 multiplicity environment  ultra-granular EMCal  W + Si calorimeter à la CALICE - 30 layers - 0.5 x 0.5 cm2 pads - 24 X0 in 20 cm - DE/E ~ 15% /E Absorber/dimuon trigger : 4.5 m thick instrumented Fe absorber  trigger rate ~ 0.3 kHz Could be magnetized to measure muon momentum Silicon Spectrometer : Measures tracks before absorber covers 1.5 rapidity unit Dp/p = 1%  J/Y mass resolution ~20 MeV/c² Estimations based on NA60 telescope performances Magnet : 1m long 2.5 T dipole 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Expected performances Signal extraction Typical mass plots (~1 week data taking w/ a 10% lI Pb target) 140 000 J/Y produced in Pb+Pb (70%) 60 000 cc produced in Pb+Pb (30%) (embedded in Pb+Pb Minbias events produced w/ EPOS) J/Y S/B=990 S/B=1.8 cc After acceptance and selection cuts: 35 000 J/Y  acc x eff = 17.4% mass resolution ~ 20 MeV/c² 1700 cc  acc x eff = 2.8 % mass resolution ~ 45 MeV/c² 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Expected performances Statistics Typical 40-day Pb+Pb run ~ 180 000 J/Ym+m- expected 2 extreme numerical scenarios: If cc suppressed as J/Y If cc suppressed as Y’ ~180 000 J/Y ~ 1300 Y’ ~ 3000 cc cc as Y’ cc as J/Y 406 677 530 1010 495 1091 421 1107 336 1093 647 1004 240 1143 3075 7125 Eur.Phys.J.C49:559-567,2007 Expect 3000 < N 𝝌 𝒄 < 7000 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) p+A program Cold Nuclear Matter A thorough p+A program mandatory as reference for hot nuclear matter effects Must control (understand) : charmonium absorption by cold nuclear matter  A dependence Shadowing/anti-shadowing (x2 scaling) Energy loss (saturation)… (xF scaling) Two detector configurations to cover yCMS  [-0.5 ; 2]  Need large yCMS range Mid-rapidity : yCMS  [-0.5 ; 1] Forward-rapidity : yCMS  [0.5 ; 2] 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) 13

Large rapidity coverage p+A program Large rapidity coverage A thorough p+A program Ebeam (s) Exp. yCMS x2 xF 158 GeV (17 GeV) NA50 [0;1] [0.07;0.18] [0;0.42] CHIC [-0.5;2] [0.02;0.30] [-0.19;1] 450 GeV (29 GeV) [-0.4;0.6] [0.06;0.16] [-0.09;0.14] [-0.9;1.6] [0.02;0.26] [-0.22;0.51] J/Y, Y’, cc in a large yCMS range Large coverage in x2 Large coverage in xF F. Arleo and S. Peigné, arXiv:1204.4609 NA50 (29.1 GeV) CHIC (29 GeV) E866 (17.2 GeV) CHIC (17.2 GeV) NA50 CHIC x2 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) p+A program High statistics A thorough p+A program J/Y, Y’, cc with several targets NA50: p+Be, p+Al, p+Cu, p+Ag, p+W, p+Pb Large statistics required Typical 1week/target NA50 data taking (EPJ C33 (2004) 31-40) Current SPS operation: Delivering proton beam to the LHC several months per year Length (cm) 13.0 12.0 7.5 4.5 Significantly larger (than NA50) amount of data available for CHIC 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

other physics opportunities Low mass dileptons Energy scan capabilities Open charm measurement 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Low mass dileptons Mass resolution CHIC expected performances for low mass dileptons Tracking performed upstream to the absorber  no multiple scattering due to absorber  momentum resolution affected by magnetic field only: 𝚫𝑷 𝑷 ∝ 𝟏 𝑩𝑳² 𝑷 Momentum resolution With a 1m long 2.5T dipolar magnetic field ∆ 𝑷 𝝁 𝑷 𝝁 = 1% for typical muon from J/Y (<Pm> ~10 GeV/c) ∆ 𝑷 𝝁 𝑷 𝝁 = 0.7% for typical muon from w (<Pm> ~7 GeV/c) Expected mass resolution: J/Y: ∆ 𝑷 𝝁 𝑷 𝝁 =1%  ∆ 𝑷 𝝁 √𝟐 𝑷 𝝁 = ∆ 𝑴 𝝁𝝁 𝑴 𝝁𝝁 =𝟎.𝟕% w: ∆ 𝑷 𝝁 𝑷 𝝁 =𝟎.𝟕%  ∆ 𝑷 𝝁 √𝟐 𝑷 𝝁 = ∆ 𝑴 𝝁𝝁 𝑴 𝝁𝝁 =𝟎.𝟓% ∆ 𝑴 𝝁𝝁 𝑱/𝜳 ~3.097 GeV/𝑐² ×0,7% ~ 𝟐𝟎 MeV/𝒄² NA50: ∆ 𝑀 𝜇𝜇 𝐽/Ψ ~90 MeV/𝑐² ∆ 𝑴 𝝁𝝁 𝝎 ~782.7 MeV/𝑐² ×0,5% ~ 𝟒 MeV/𝒄² NA60: ∆ 𝑀 𝜇𝜇 𝜔 ~20 MeV/𝑐² 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Rapidity of Center-of-mass Common coverage: yCMS ∈ [0;2] Energy scan Rapidity coverage Spectrometer acceptance: two detector configurations Mid-rapidity yCMS  [-0.5 ; 1] for Pbeam = 158 GeV/c Forward-rapidity yCMS  [0.5 ; 2] for Pbeam = 158 GeV/c Depending on the beam energy, different rapidity ranges accessible Pbeam (GeV/c) √s (GeV) Rapidity of Center-of-mass Mid-rapidity Forward-rapidity yCMS min yCMS max 158 17.2 2.91 -0.5 1 0.5 2 120 15.1 2.77 -0.36 1.14 0.65 2.14 80 12.3 2.57 -0.16 1.34 0.84 2.34 60 10.7 2.43 -0.02 1.48 0.98 2.48 Common coverage: yCMS ∈ [0;2] (NA50/NA60 coverage = [0;1]) 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Open charm Measuring muon offset Use same Strategy as NA60: measure muon vertex Open charm decay length: 𝐷 +/− :𝑐𝜏=311.8 𝜇m 𝐷 0 :𝑐𝜏=122.9 𝜇m Plab = 158 GeV/c  g=9.2  𝐷 +/− :𝛾𝑐𝜏=2.86 mm 𝐷 0 :𝛾𝑐𝜏=1.13 mm (simulation studies ongoing to estimate CHIC performances) CHIC: Vertex detector located 7.5 cm downstream from the target (7 cm for NA60) target NA60 vertex detector: muon offset resolution ~ 40 mm (in transverse plane) In principle, CHIC can measure open charm. Simulations on-going… NA60 capable to separate prompt (red) from charm (blue) contribution 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Conclusion Measuring together J/Y, Y’ and cc in p+A collisions with several targets will give a thorough control of Cold Nuclear Matter effects Measuring together J/Y, Y’ and cc in A+A collisions at SPS energies will (dis)prove sequential suppression scenario. The apparatus is well suited to explore other important physics subjects such as open charm or low mass lepton pairs production in heavy ion collisions. Testing sequential suppression scenario at SPS is crucial to fully understand RHIC and LHC results. 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

CMS@LHC New upsilon results Results from CMS ’’Observation of Sequential 𝚼 Suppression in PbPb collisions’’ (at LHC) PRL109, 222301 (2012) Charmonia @ SPS bottomonia @ LHC 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

J/Y@SPS .vs. 𝚼@LHC color screening ? NA50, PbPb sNN=17.2 GeV Y(1S) Y(2S) Charmonia @ SPS bottomonia @ LHC Testing sequential suppression scenario at SPS is crucial to fully understand RHIC and LHC results. 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) CERN strategy Conclusions of the CERN Town meeting on “Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions” CERN - june 29, 2012 “…The town meeting also observed that the CERN SPS would be well-positioned to contribute decisively and at a competitive time scale to central open physics issues at large baryon density. In particular, the CERN SPS will remain also in the future the only machine capable of delivering, heavy ion beams with energies exceeding 30 GeV/nucleon, and the potential of investigating rare penetrating probes at this machine is attractive.”  October 2012: Submission of an Expression of Interest to the SPSC 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Expression of interest Submitted to SPSC (october 2012) CERN-SPSC-2012-031 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Feedback from SPSC referees The SPSC has received an expression of interest to study charm production with proton and heavy ion beams. The SPSC recognizes the strong physics motivation of a study that addresses central open questions about the color screening of charmonium in heavy ion collisions and about cold nuclear matter effects. For a comprehensive investigation, an extension including open charm production would be desirable. For further review, the SPSC would require a letter of intent with information about the experimental implementation and the collaboration pursuing it.  January 2013 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr) Close and open issues People involved 1 experimentalist : F. Fleuret 4 theoricists : F. Arleo, E.G. Ferreiro, P.-B. Gossiaux, S. Peigné apparatus Tracking In the current design, tracking is performed upstream to the absorber. Keeping low occupancy  silicon technology : CMOS ? Lab currently involved : none Calorimetry Around 400 g per rapidity unit in central PbPb collisions Need ultragranular calorimetry à la CALICE Lab currently involved : LLR Trigger Absorber can be made of Fe (since tracking is performed upstream) Absorber can be magnetized and, since instrumented, can provide momentum information to be matched with the tracker (RPCs?, micromegas?) Timeline From T0 (3 labs involved): ~ 5 Years for full simulation and final design (2 years), construction and installation (2 years), commisionning (1 year) 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)

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J/Y@SPS .vs. U@LHC color screening ? NA50, PbPb sNN=17.2 GeV 0<y<1 Charmonia @ SPS bottomonia @ LHC On the same axis 01/03/2013 Frédéric Fleuret - LLR (fleuret@in2p3.fr)