Jets as a probe of the Quark Gluon Plasma Jets as a probe of the Quark Gluon Plasma Christine Nattrass Yale University Goldhaber Lecture 2008 Christine Nattrass Yale University Goldhaber Lecture 2008
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Outline What is a quark gluon plasma? Why do we want to study it? How do we study it? What have we learned? Conclusions
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, The structure of matter
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Who was Gertrude Goldhaber? Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber July 14, 1911 — February 2, Beta decay – demonstrated that the beta particle was an electron Shell model – provided experimental evidence for closed shells in heavy nuclei Created first 3-D plot
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Nucleons – the proton and neutron NeutronProton
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Other particles - hadrons Baryons Mesons
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, The Standard Model Electromagnetic force Strong force Weak force
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, What keeps the nucleus together? distance strength Electromagnetic force Strongforce
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, How to make a Quark Gluon Plasma
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Evolution of the Universe Reheating Matter ?The universe gets cooler ! ? Need temperatures around 1.5·10 12 K ~10 6 times hotter than the core of the sun 10 6 yrs 3 min 6 sec 2·10 -6 sec sec sec 10 9 yrs ? sec
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, A heavy ion collision Relativistic pancakes Quark soup Explosive hadron soda
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider STAR PHENIX PHOBOSBRAHMS1.2k
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, The STAR detector ~4m~4m ~4m~4m Over 1,200 tons
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Peripheral collision
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Central collision ~2000 tracks
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, What are jets? proton Jets –hard scattering of partons (quarks and gluons) Studied in dozens of experiments
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Jets – azimuthal correlations trigger Phys Rev Lett 90, p+p dijet
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Jets – azimuthal correlations p+p dijet
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Looking in two dimensions d+Au
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, In two dimensions in Au+Au nucl-ex/
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, What I've studied nucl-ex/ Different systems and energies Cu+Cu √ s NN = 200 GeV Cu+Cu √ s NN = 62 GeV Au+Au √ s NN = 62 GeV Different particles K 0 S,, Results: Jet looks like p+p, Ridge looks like the rest of the A+A collision Ridge grows with energy The fewer nucleons in the collision, the smaller the Ridge
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Conclusions If we get nuclear matter dense enough, we make a new phase of matter This quark gluon plasma is similar to what was present in the early universe We can produce a QGP in heavy ion collisions We can study it using probes such as jets proton
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Conclusions We see evidence of a hot, dense medium from studying jets at RHIC One of the jets almost disappears The other jet is modified dramatically
Christine Nattrass (Yale), Goldhaber Seminar, BNL, May 23, Many, many thanks to John Harris Helen Caines Jana Bielcikova The entire Yale group, past and present STAR