11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 1 Radial flow and non-equilibrium in heavy-ion collisions (from Tsallis-based Blast-Wave) Li Yi, Ming Shao, Zhangbu Xu Zebo Tang ( 唐泽波 ) University of Science and Technology of China Introduction & Motivation Why and how to implement Tsallis statistics in Blast-Wave framework Results − strange hadrons vs. light hadrons − J/ radial flow Conclusion
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 2 Thermalization and Radial flow Matter flows – all particles have the same collective velocity: Multi-strange decouple earlier than light hadrons From Blast-Wave
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 3 Decouple at chemical freeze-out Decouple with pion and proton Hydrodynamics evolution Light hadrons Multi-strange Multi-strange particle spectra can be well described by the same hydrodynamics at the same freeze-out as light hadrons in contrast to the Blast-wave results Ulrich Heinz, arXiv:
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 4 Blast-Wave Model Source is assumed to be: –Local thermal equilibrated Boltzmann distribution –Boosted radically –Temperature and T are global quantities random boosted E.Schnedermann, J.Sollfrank, and U.Heinz, Phys. Rev. C48, 2462(1993) Extract thermal temperature T fo and velocity parameter T BGBW: Boltzmann-Gibbs Blast-Wave Nu Xu
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 5 Limitation of the Blast-wave Strong assumption on local thermal equilibrium Arbitrary choice of p T range of the spectra Flow velocity =0.2 in p+p Lack of non-extensive quantities to describe the evolution from p+p to central A+A collisions –m T spectra in p+p collisions Levy function or m T power-law –m T spectra in A+A collisions Boltzmann or m T exponential
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 6 Non-extensive Tsallis statistics C. Tsallis, H. Stat. Phys. 52, 479 (1988) Wilk and Wlodarzcyk, EPJ40, 299 (2009) Particle p T spectra: Exponential Power law
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 7 Temperature fluctuation Wilk and Wlodarzcyk, EPJ40, 299 (2009) Wilk and Wlodarzcyk, PRL84, 2770 (2000) Reverse legend
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 8 Tsallis statistics in Blast-wave model BGBW: With Tsallis distribution: The Blast-wave equation is:
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 9 Fit results in Au+Au collisions ZBT,Yichun Xu, Lijuan Ruan, Gene van Buren, Fuqiang Wang and Zhangbu Xu, Phys. Rev. C 79, (R) (2009)
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 10 Fit strange hadrons only Strangeness, Au+Au 0-10%: = T = q = chi^2/nDof = 51/99 T strange >T light-hadrons Strangness decouple from the system earlier All available species
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 11 Centrality dependence for T and < Multi-strange hadrons decouple earlier Hadron rescattering at hadronic phase doesn’t produce a collective radial flow, instead, it drives the system off equilibrium Partons achieve thermal equilibrium in central collisions
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 12 How about heavy hadrons?
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 13 J/ suppression at RHIC and SPS Grandchamp, Rapp, Brown PRL 92, (2004) nucl-ex/ Regeneration? Test with J/ flow. quarkonium – gloden probe of QGP deconfinement (color screening) thermometer J/ suppression at RHIC ≈ J/ suppression at SPS (energy differs by ~10 times) Puzzle!
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 14 J/ Elliptic flow Heavy Flavor decay electron Too early to compare with models Won’t have enough statistics before 2011 J/ Ermias T. Atomssa, QM2009 Alan Dion, QM2009 PHENIX Beam Use Request
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 15 How about radial flow? Yifei Zhang, QM2008, STAR, arXiv:nucl-ex/ (submitted to PRL) Sizeable radial flow for heavy flavor decay electrons
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 16 J/ radial flow = T = q = 2 /nDof = / 26 J/ radial flow consistent with 0 Inconsistent with regeneration
11/05/2009 唐泽波 (USTC), 第十三届全国中高能核物理大会, 合肥 17 Summary Identified particle spectra from SPS to RHIC has been analyzed with Tsallis statistics in Blast-wave description (light hadrons, multi-strange hadrons, charmonium) Partonic phase –Partons achieve thermal quilibrium in central heavy-ion collisions –J/ are not thermalized and disfavor regeneration Multi-strange hadrons decouple earlier Hadronic phase –Hadronic rescattering doesn’t produce collective radial flow –It drives the system off equilibrium –Radial flow reflects that when the multi-strange decouples