Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 1 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI Pion HBT from pp Collisions at STAR Thomas D. Gutierrez For the STAR Collaboration University of California, Davis HBT Motivation Results Outlook APS DNP Meeting Lansing, MI October 12, 2002

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 2 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI HBT Interferomertry An intensity interferometry technique using two-particle correlations. Compares relative momenta of identical particles to determine information about space-time geometry of source. Experimentally, 1D Qinv correlation functions are created by comparing relative 4-momenta of pairs from a “real” event signal to pairs from “mixed” events. The mixed background presumably has no HBT signal. STAR Preliminary

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 3 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI HBT The correlation function, “C 2 ”, is created by dividing the “real” pairs by “mixed” pairs. The histogram is then normalized to the baseline. The data are fit to a Gaussian C 2g = 1 + λexp(-q inv 2 R inv 2 ) or an exponential C 2e = 1 + λexp(-q inv R inv ) to extract fit parameters R inv and λ. lambda_g= / ; R_g=1.16 fm +/ ; lambda_e= / ; R_e=1.94 fm +/ ~1/R ~λ The Coulomb repulsion experienced by charged pairs tends to deplete the correlation function at low Q -- this can be corrected Both fits are to the Coulomb corrected data (dark blue) STAR Preliminary

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 4 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI Why study HBT in pp collisions? There is a long history of doing Bose-Einstein pion correlations in elementary particle collisions In the context of RHIC, it provides a baseline for the heavy ion results Dowell., Proc. Of the VII Topical Workshop on Proton-AntiProton Collider Physics, p115, Word Scientific Lindsey. “Results from E735 at the Tevetron Proton-AntiProton Collider with root s= 1.8TeV”, Presented at the Quarkmatter 1991, Gatlinberg, Tennessee, Nov 11-15, OPAL Collaboration. Physics Letters B. Vol 267 #1, 5 September, NA22 Collaboration “Estimation of Hydrodynamical model parameters from the invariant spectrum and the Bose- Einstein Corrilations…”, Nijmegen preprint, HEN-405, Dec. 97. NA22 AMY OPAL UA1 E735 π+/p e+/e- p/pbar Just a sampling fm

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 5 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI HBT study of the pp system is interesting in its own right HBT studies in pp interactions provide a peek into the fascinating soft-physics regime of hadronic collisions We can ask questions (some old, some new) of the pp data coming out of RHIC. For example: What do the regions of homogeneity look like? Combining HBT with spectra, what does the phase space density look like? How do the HBT parameters depend on event multiplicity? This analysis is a first step in answering some of these questions

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 6 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI A look at the STAR data 3.44 million full field, minimum bias pp events at 200GeV from RHIC using the STAR detector For negative pions at mid- rapidity (-0.5<y<0.5), two kt ranges were analyzed (0.2<kt<0.4 and 0.4<kt<0.6) kt is the average transverse momentum of the pair. Particle identification was done by taking a one sigma cut around the pion bethe- bloch curve while excluding other particles at the two sigma level. dEdx vs. P (GeV/c) STAR Preliminary

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 7 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI Details Some additional cuts used for this analysis Event level (~2M events accepted after cuts): vertices accepted 3m across the STAR TPC Event Multiplicity < 30 Track level (~2M tracks accepted after cuts) -0.5 < y < 0.5 (mid rapidity) PID cuts as discussed Primary tracks only Pair level Two kt bins between: 0.2 GeV < kt <0.6GeV anti-merging and anti-splitting cuts STAR Preliminary

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 8 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI 1D Correlation Functions All fits are to the Coulomb corrected data: lambda_g= / ; R_g=1.16 fm +/ ; lambda_e= / ; R_e=1.94 fm +/ lambda_g= / ; R_g=1.01 fm +/ ; lambda_e= / ; R_e=1.62 fm +/ STAR Preliminary

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 9 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI Comparison to Au-Au 200 GeV pp has a smaller source size than AuAu (not a shock) Within statistical error bars, pp has a weaker kt dependence than AuAu Au-Au 200 GeV (closed dots) p-p 200 GeV (open boxes) Preliminary 200GeV AuAu data from Mercedes Lopez Noriega : AuAu data analyzed with pt cuts ; data point placed at fort Q->0 STAR Preliminary For pp: Red=exp fit Black=gaussian fit Error bars on kt axis represent bin width, not error Central Peripheral For AuAu all fits are Gaussian

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 10 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI 3D correlation function: BP parameterization for 0.2<kt<0.4GeV C 2 = 1 + λexp(-q out 2 R out 2 -q side 2 R side 2 -q long 2 R long 2 ) lambda= / ; R_out=0.73 fm +/ ; R_side=0.79 +/ ; R_long=1.25 fm +/ STAR Preliminary Fits and correlations projected 120MeV in the “other” directions Black=Coulomb corrected Red=no CC Causes “out hole”

Thomas D. Gutierrez UC Davis 11 Saturday October 12, 2002 APS DNP Meeting, Lansing, MI Outlook This was a first look at preliminary pp 200 GeV pi-minus HBT from STAR at RHIC Found: 1D Gaussian radii are consistent with systematics of previous elementary particle results (~1fm) Smaller source sizes than AuAu kt dependence appears weaker than AuAu 3D correlation functions show promise Next-Step Plans for 200 GeV pp data Analyze more statistics Look at Pi+ results Refine 3D correlations Refine kt analysis Study event multiplicity dependence of HBT parameters