Baryon-to-meson production in a wide range of baryo-chemical potential at RHIC Paweł Staszel, Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics Jagiellonian University Quark Matter 2009 Knoxville, 30.03–

2 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 2 Outline 1. Introduction 2. BRAHMS experimental setup 3. Data analysis on p/p ratios 4. Results: a) Au+Au and p+p at 200 GeV b) Au+Au: 200 GeV versus 62 GeV c) Au+Au and p+p at 62 GeV and forward rapidity 5. Summary

3 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 3 Introduction High baryon to meson ratio at intermediate p T (~1) discovered at RHIC in Au+Au reactions (Adcox PHENIX) was inconsistent with pQCD predictions It was pointed out that baryon to meson ration p T dependence should be sensitive to: hadronization scenario baryon: 3 valence qarks, meson: quark – anti quark radial flow of bulk medium proton mass > pion mass Energy and centrality depencence of p/  + and pbar/  - and their evolution on rapidity may allow to verify the proposed scenarious

A bit of history Quark coalescence can explain large mid- rapidity pbar/  - ratio at intermediate p T range when allow mini-jet partons to coalescence with QGP (thermal) partons ( V. Greco, C.M. Ko, and P. Levai, PRL90 (2003) ) PHENIX Hydro model overpredicts mid-rapidity p/   ratio at low p T ( 2.5. Reasonable description by quark coalescence model ( E.J. Kim, et al., Nucl. Phys. A 774 (2006) 493 )

5 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS Strong rapidity dependence CuCu data consistent with AuAu for the same N part pp pbar/  - scaling with N part  s NN =200GeV

6 BRaHMS Broad Range Hadron Magnetic Spectrometers Tile Ring 1 Flow Ring 2 Si Ring 1

7 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 7 Data Analysis

protons Same acceptance for pions and protons in the real time measurements. For given  -p T bin p/  ratio is calculated on setting by setting basis using same pid technique: Tof2: 2.3->~8GeV/c, RICH: above 9 GeV/c, thus acceptance corrections, tracking efficiency and trigger normalization factors cancel out in the ratio. Remaining corrections: i) decay in flight, interaction in the beam pipe and detector material (GEANT calculation) ii) correction for PID: pion contamination in Tof2 and RICH ( limited mass 2 resolution) v eto-proton contamination by pions and kaons ( RICH efficiency < 1 ) pions

9 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 9 Data Analysis: Tof2 and RICH Pid

10 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 10 Results

11 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 11 Au+Au and p+p at 200 GeV positivenegative

12 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 12 Results: p+p at 200 GeV versus rapidity Strong rapidity dependence at intermediate p T At hight p T ratios seem to converge to common value of ~0.4 → consistent with pQCD predictions

Results: Au+Au and p+p at 200 GeV at low p T Negative: at low p T (<0.5GeV/c) p+p > 40-80% > 0-10%, crossing point at ~0.9 GeV/c. How sensitive are models in this p T range ( hydro versus quark coalescence scenario ? )

14 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 14 AMPT (A Multi-Phase Parton Transport model) Z. Lin, PRC 72 (2005) Au+Au and p+p at 200 GeV at low p T

THERMINATOR: under predicts data at mid-rapidity, but good description at forward rapidities (particularly for pbar/  - ) B. Biedroń and W. Broniowski, PRC 75, (2007) AMPT: qualitatively describes trends in rapidity evolution but fails in quantitative description (in general AMPT under predicts p/  + and over predicts pbar/  - ) Central Au+Au at 200GeV: p/  rapidity evolution – comparison with models

16 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 16 p/  rapidity evolution – AMPT: string fragmentation versus string melting

17 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 17 Au+Au: 200 GeV,  =2,2 versus 62 GeV,  =0

18 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 18 Au+Au and p+p at 62 GeV at forward rapidity Quark recombination incorporating parton momentum degradation and sea quark regeneration. Degradation parameter  ≅ 0.67 from fit to data R. Hwa and L. Zhu, PRC 78, (2008)

Summary We presented results on p/  (p T ) ratio versus rapidity and collision centrality for Au+Au at 200 and 62.4 GeV and for p+p at 200 GeV 1) weak dependency on collision centrality at low p T up to ~1.5GeV/c. Below p T ~0.8GeV/c the pbar/  - ratios for p+p are larger that these measured in Au+Au. 2) the dependency on centrality (as documented by N part scaling) reveals above p T >1.5GeV 3) For central Au+Au at 200 GeV p/  + shows increasing trend with increasing rapidity from 1.0 (  ~0, p T =3 GeV/c) to about 2.5 (  ~3, p T =3 GeV/c). In opposite, pbar/  - decreases with increasing rapidity (from ~1 at  ~0 to 0.4 at  ~3). 4) The p/  ratios are remarkably similar for  √s NN =200 GeV at  =2.2, and for √s NN =62.4 GeV at  =0, where the bulk medium is characterized by the same value pbar/  - 5) For Au+Au and p+p at √s NN =62.4 GeV the astounding value of p/  is observed (~8 at p T =1.5GeV/c). Au+Au consistent with p+p → no evidence for system size dependency in the covered p T range. Data comparison with models: The THERMINATOR model provides reasonable quantitative description of the data except for p T >3 GeV/c and mid-rapidity where it under predicts the ratios. AMPT(default) provides qualitative description of the trends in rapidity evolution but can not describe dependency on centrality including p+p results. AMPT (string melting) is far from data particularly regarding the pbar/  - ratios

20 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 20 I.Arsene 7, I.G. Bearden 6, D. Beavis 1, S. Bekele 6, C. Besliu 9, B. Budick 5, H. Bøggild 6, C. Chasman 1, C. H. Christensen 6, P. Christiansen 6, R. Clarke 9, R.Debbe 1, J. J. Gaardhøje 6, K. Hagel 7, H. Ito 10, A. Jipa 9, J. I. Jordre 9, F. Jundt 2, E.B. Johnson 10, C.E.Jørgensen 6, R. Karabowicz 3, N. Katryńska 3, E. J. Kim 4, T.M.Larsen 11, J. H. Lee 1, Y. K. Lee 4, S.Lindal 11, G. Løvhøjden 2, Z. Majka 3, M. Murray 10, J. Natowitz 7, B.S.Nielsen 6, D. Ouerdane 6, R.Planeta 3, F. Rami 2, C. Ristea 6, O. Ristea 9, D. Röhrich 8, B. H. Samset 11, D. Sandberg 6, S. J. Sanders 10, R.A.Sheetz 1, P. Staszel 3, T.S. Tveter 11, F.Videbæk 1, R. Wada 7, H. Yang 6, Z. Yin 8, and I. S. Zgura 9 1 Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 2 IReS and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France 3 Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 4 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 5 New York University, USA 6 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 7 Texas A&M University, College Station. USA, 8 University of Bergen, Norway 9 University of Bucharest, Romania, 10 University of Kansas, Lawrence,USA 11 University of Oslo Norway 48 physicists from 11 institutions The BRAHMS Collaboration

21 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 21 BACKUP SLIDES

pions protons Same acceptance for pions and protons in the real time measurements. For given  -p T bin p/  ratio is calculated on setting by setting basis using same pid technique: Tof2: 2.3->~8GeV/c, RICH: above 9 GeV/c, thus acceptance corrections, tracking efficiency trigger normalization canceled out in the ratio. Remaining corrections: i) decay in flight, interaction in beam pipe and material budged (GEANT calculation) ii) correction for PID efficiency and contamination ( limited specie resolution)

Data Analysis: RICH inefficiency 1. ineffic = veto/all 2. Additional control of specie dependence by comparing A (less protons) and B (more protons) polarities: High field runs Low field runs 3. observed dependency on T5 x-slope, similar to that encountered at low field runs 1. Identify pions with no RICH ring (RICH veto pions) in tof2. ineffic = veto pions / all pions 2. two relevant dependencies are found: a) dependency on p/p th (Cherenkov threshold effect) b) dependency on track x-slope (geometrical effect) 3. For fields like 608 and 861 p/p th >>1 and geometrical effect can be studied alone. Then in can be use to disentangle Cherenkov threshold effect for lower field run (430) where both effect play a role.

Test of corrections for veto-protons

25 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS 25 Data Analysis – related systematic uncertainties At mid-rapidity an overall systematic error is 5%

Usual inefficiency formula Ordinary exponent with build-in matching to low p/p th RICH inefficiency scaling with p/p th

27 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS K - /K + and antihyperon/hyperon K - /K + = exp((2  s - 2  u,d )/T) pbar/p = exp(-6  u,d /T)  s =0  K - /K + = (pbar/p) 1/3 Fit shows that K - /K + = (pbar/p) 1/4   s = ¼  u,d How  s = ¼  u,d will work for hyperons? Hbar/H = (pbar/p) 3/4 for  = (pbar/p) 1/2 for  = (pbar/p) 1/4 for 

28 P. Staszel - Jagiellonian University, Kraków QM 2009, Knoxville 2009 BRAHMS Statistical model and  s vserus  u,d Fits with statistical model provide similar  u,d /  s ratio with weak dependency on y. This result is consistent with local net-strangeness conservation red line -  s = 0 black line – fit to BRAHMS data B. Bieron and W. Broniowski Phys. Rev. C75 (2007)