Drell-Yan Experiments for determining Nucleon Partonic Structures Wen-Chen Chang Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan The International Symposium on Physics of Unstable Nuclei 2014 ISPUN14 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 3-8, 2014
How to Probe the Structure of Nucleus / Nucleon? 2 Shoot high-energy beam
Elastic Electron Scattering of Nuclei and Nucleons 3 Nuclear Form Factor Nucleon Form Factor Charge distributions of nuclei and protons.
From Elastic Scattering to Deeply Inelastic Scattering (DIS) 4 Elastic scattering Inelastic scattering Very weak Q 2 -dependence, form factor 1! Scattering off point-like objects? Very weak Q 2 -dependence, form factor 1! Scattering off point-like objects?
Quark-Parton Model (Feynman) 5 p quark = xP proton 0 < x < 1 Limiting case: x = 1, elastic scattering Bjorken-x: momentum fraction of struck parton
“Elastic” Way 6
“Inelastic” Way 7
“Deeply Inelastic” Way 8
Structure Known 9
The Drell-Yan Process: Massive Di-lepton pairs from Hadron-Hadron Collisions 10 p+U +X PRL 25 (1970) 1523 S.D. Drell and T.M. Yan, PRL 25 (1970) 316
Dimuon Invariant Mass Spectrum 11 Indium-Indium collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon NA60, PRL 99 (2007) Drell-Yan p+U +X PRL 25 (1970) 1523 J/ Drell-Yan
Complementarity between DIS and Drell-Yan 12
Parton Distribution Functions (PDF) of Protons 13 Valance quarksSea quarks x: momentum fraction of partons
14 Gottfried Sum Rule =
15 Experimental Measurement of Gottfried Sum New Muon Collaboration (NMC), Phys. Rev. D50 (1994) R1 S G = ± ( Significantly lower than 1/3 ! ) S. Kumano, Physics Reports, 303 (1998) 183
Naïve Assumption: NMC (Gottfried Sum Rule): NA51 (Drell-Yan, 1994): Light Antiquark Flavor Asymmetry: Drell-Yan Experiments 16
Naïve Assumption: NMC (Gottfried Sum Rule): NA51 (Drell-Yan, 1994): E866/NuSea (Drell-Yan, 1998): Light Antiquark Flavor Asymmetry: Drell-Yan Experiments 17
Pauli blocking of valance quarks (Field and Feynman 1977) Meson cloud in the nucleons (Thomas 1983, Kumano 1991) : Sullivan process in DIS. Chiral quark model (Eichten et al. 1992; Wakamatsu 1992): Goldstone bosons couple to valence quarks. 18 “Flavor Structure of the Nucleon Sea” W.-C. Chang and J.-C. Peng, arXiv: Prog. in Part. and Nucl. Phys. 79 (2014) 95.
19 Fixed Target Beam lines Tevatro n 800 GeV Main Injector 120 GeV Fermilab E906 Physics data taking: Feb, 2014 – Dec, H, 2 H, and nuclear targets Unpolarized Drell-Yan using 120 GeV proton beam KEK, RIKEN, Tokyo Tech, Yamagata, AS and U.S. institutes
x+ x- t GPD s P P’ Generalized Parton Distribution (GPD) 20
Accessing GPD using Lepton Beam 21 Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Deeply Virtual Meson Production JLAB,
Explored Regions of Generalized Parton Distribution (GPD) 22
Spacelike vs. Timelike Processes Muller et al., PRD 86 (2012) Deeply Virtual Meson Production Exclusive Meson-induced Drell-Yan Cross sections of exclusive DY process drop with an increase of beam energy. No sensitivity to parton d.o.f. if beam energy is small. The beam energy of pions at J-PARC at GeV might be most ideal for studying this hard exclusive process. Cross sections of exclusive DY process drop with an increase of beam energy. No sensitivity to parton d.o.f. if beam energy is small. The beam energy of pions at J-PARC at GeV might be most ideal for studying this hard exclusive process.
24 High-res., High-momentum Beam Line at J-PARC High-intensity secondary Pion beam High-resolution beam: p/p~0.1% Dispersive Focal Point (DFP) p/p~0.1% Collimator 15kW Loss Target (SM) Exp. Target (FF) Pion Beam Up to 20 GeV/c H. Noumi See K. Tanaka’s talk
25 High-res., High-momentum Beam Line High-intensity secondary Pion beam – >1.0 x GeV/c High-resolution beam: p/p~0.1% * Sanford-Wang:15 kW Loss on Pt, Acceptance :1.5 msr%, m Open a new platform for hadron physics Prod. Angle = 0 deg. (Neg.) KK p bar K+K+ Prod. Angle = 3.1 deg (Pos.) H. Noumi
J-PARC E50 Spectrometer + MuID 26 LH 2 -target Ring Image Cherenkov Counter Internal DC FM magnet ss Fiber tracker Beam GC Internal TOF DC TOF wall 2m Decay p( ) 20 GeV/c Beam Acceptance: ~ 60% for D*, ~80% for decay + Resolution: p/p~0.2% at ~5 GeV/c ( Rigidity : ~2.1 Tm) | |<60 Scintillator Muon trigger device
20-GeV N + -N M X In E-50 Spectrometer + MuID 27 Red: Exclusive DY ( 5 pb ) Blue: Inclusive DY ( 500 pb ) Green: random BG from meson decay After 200-day data-taking Assumption: Δp/p = 0.2 % Missing Mass M X (GeV 2 ) Nevent The signal of exclusive Drell- Yan processes can be clearly identified in the missing mass spectrum of dimuon pairs. S. Sawada (KEK) S. Kumano (KEK) J.C. Peng (UIUC) T. Sawada (AS) W.C. Chang (AS)
Explored Regions of Generalized Parton Distribution (GPD) 28 J-PARC (exclusive DY)
Summary 29
Backup 30
Momentum Dependence of the Flavor Structure of the Nucleon Sea: NMC vs E866 J.C. Peng et al., PLB 736 (2014) JR14 NMC
Nucleon Partonic Structure 32 Wigner Distribution Transverse Momentum Dependent PDF Generalized Parton Distr. d 2 k t dz F.T. d2ktd2kt PDF dx Form Factors GPD Ji, PRL91,062001(2003) d3rd3r