11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 1 Falsifying AdS/CFT Drag or pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC William Horowitz Columbia University Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) November 2, 2007 With many thanks to Miklos Gyulassy, Simon Wicks, and Ivan Vitev arXiv: (LHC predictions) arXiv: (RHIC predictions)

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11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 3 pQCD Success at RHIC: –Consistency: R AA (  )~R AA (  ) –Null Control: R AA (  )~1 –GLV Prediction: Theory~Data for reasonable fixed L~5 fm and dN g /dy~dN  /dy Y. Akiba for the PHENIX collaboration, nucl-ex/ (circa 2005)

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 4 e - R AA too small M. Djorjevic, M. Gyulassy, R. Vogt, S. Wicks, Phys. Lett. B632 :81-86 (2006) wQGP not ruled out, but what if we try strong coupling? D. Teaney, Phys. Rev. C68, (2003) Hydro  /s too small v 2 too large A. Drees, H. Feng, and J. Jia, Phys. Rev. C71 : (2005) (first by E. Shuryak, Phys. Rev. C66 : (2002)) Trouble for wQGP Picture

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 5 Strong Coupling Calculation The supergravity double conjecture: QCD  SYM  IIB – IF super Yang-Mills (SYM) is not too different from QCD, & – IF Maldacena conjecture is true –Then a tool exists to calculate strongly- coupled QCD in SUGRA

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 6 Mach wave-like structures s strong =(3/4) s weak, similar to Lattice  /s AdS/CFT ~ 1/4  << 1 ~  /s pQCD e - R AA ~ ,  R AA ; e - R AA (  ) T. Hirano and M. Gyulassy, Nucl. Phys. A69 :71-94 (2006) Qualitative AdS/CFT Successes: PHENIX, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, (2007) J. P. Blaizot, E. Iancu, U. Kraemmer, A. Rebhan, hep-ph/ AdS/CFT S. S. Gubser, S. S. Pufu, and A. Yarom, arXiv:

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 7 Quantitative AdS/CFT with Jets Langevin model –Collisional energy loss for heavy quarks –Restricted to low p T –pQCD vs. AdS/CFT computation of D, the diffusion coefficient ASW model –Radiative energy loss model for all parton species –pQCD vs. AdS/CFT computation of –Debate over its predicted magnitude ST drag calculation –Drag coefficient for a massive quark moving through a strongly coupled SYM plasma at uniform T –not yet used to calculate observables: let’s do it!

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 8 Energy Loss Comparison –ST Drag dp T /dt = -(    T 2 /2M q )p T –Compare to Bethe-Heitler dp T /dt ~ -(T 3 /M q 2 ) p T –Compare to LPM dp T /dt ~ -LT 3 log(p T /M q )

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 9 –Use future detectors’ identification of c and b to distinguish between pQCD, AdS/CFT R AA ~ (1-  (p T )) n(p T ), where p f = (1-  )p i (i.e.  = 1-p f /p i ) Asymptotic pQCD momentum loss: String theory drag momentum loss: –Independent of p T and strongly dependent on M q ! –T 2 dependence in exponent makes for a very sensitive probe –Expect:  pQCD 0 vs.  AdS indep of p T !! dR AA (p T )/dp T > 0 => pQCD; dR AA (p T )/dp T ST  rad   s L 2 log(p T /M q )/p T Looking for a Robust, Detectable Signal  ST  1 - Exp(-  L),  =    T 2 /2M q S. Gubser, Phys.Rev. D74 : (2006); C. Herzog et al. JHEP 0607:013,2006

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 10 Model Inputs for LHC Predictions –AdS/CFT Drag: nontrivial mapping of QCD to SYM “Obvious”:  s =  SYM = const., T SYM = T QCD –D/2  T = 3 inspired:  s =.05 –pQCD/Hydro inspired:  s =.3 (D/2  T ~ 1) “Alternative”: = 5.5, T SYM = T QCD /3 1/4 Start loss at thermalization time  0 ; end loss at T c –WHDG convolved radiative and elastic energy loss  s =.3 –WHDG radiative energy loss (similar to ASW) = 40, 100 –Use realistic, diffuse medium with Bjorken expansion –PHOBOS (dN g /dy = 1750); KLN model of CGC (dN g /dy = 2900)

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 11 –Unfortunately, large suppression pQCD similar to AdS/CFT–Large suppression leads to flattening –Use of realistic geometry and Bjorken expansion allows saturation below.2 –Significant rise in R AA (p T ) for pQCD Rad+El–Naïve expectations born out in full numerical calculation: dR AA (p T )/dp T > 0 => pQCD; dR AA (p T )/dp T ST LHC c, b R AA p T Dependence –LHC Prediction Zoo: What a Mess! –Let’s go through step by step WH, M. Gyulassy, nucl-th/

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 12 An Enhanced Signal But what about the interplay between mass and momentum? –Take ratio of c to b R AA (p T ) pQCD: Mass effects die out with increasing p T –Ratio starts below 1, asymptotically approaches 1. Approach is slower for higher quenching ST: drag independent of p T, inversely proportional to mass. Simple analytic approx. of uniform medium gives R cb pQCD (p T ) ~ n b M c / n c M b ~ M c /M b ~.27 –Ratio starts below 1; independent of p T R cb pQCD (p T )  1 -  s n (p T ) L 2 log(M b /M c ) ( /p T )

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 13 LHC R c AA (p T )/R b AA (p T ) Prediction Recall the Zoo: –Taking the ratio cancels most normalization differences seen previously –pQCD ratio asymptotically approaches 1, and more slowly so for increased quenching (until quenching saturates) –AdS/CFT ratio is flat and many times smaller than pQCD at only moderate p T WH, M. Gyulassy, nucl-th/

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 14 –Speed limit estimate for applicability of AdS/CFT drag computation  <  crit = (1 + 2M q / 1/2 T) 2 ~ 4M q 2 /(  T 2 ) –Limited by M charm ~ 1.2 GeV Similar to BH LPM –  crit ~ M q /( T) –Ambiguous T for QGP smallest  crit for largest T = T(  0, x=y=0): “(” largest  crit for smallest T = T c : “]” But There’s a Catch D3 Black Brane D7 Probe Brane Q Worldsheet boundary Spacelike  if  >  crit Trailing String “Brachistochrone” “z” x5x5

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 15 LHC R c AA (p T )/R b AA (p T ) Prediction (with speed limits) –T(  0 ): (O), corrections unlikely for smaller momenta –T c : (|), corrections likely for higher momenta WH, M. Gyulassy, nucl-th/

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 16 Measurement at RHIC –Future detector upgrades will allow for identified c and b quark measurements y=0 RHIC LHC NOT slowly varying –No longer expect pQCD dR AA /dp T > 0 Large n requires corrections to naïve R cb ~ M c /M b –RHIC production spectrum significantly harder than LHC

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 17 RHIC c, b R AA p T Dependence Large increase in n (p T ) overcomes reduction in E-loss and makes pQCD dR AA /dp T < 0, as well WH, M. Gyulassy, to be published

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 18 RHIC R cb Ratio Wider distribution of AdS/CFT curves due to large n : increased sensitivity to input parameters Advantage of RHIC: lower T => higher AdS speed limits WH, M. Gyulassy, to be published pQCD AdS/CFT pQCD AdS/CFT

11/02/07 William Horowitz Heavy Quark Workshop, LBNL 19 Conclusions Year 1 of LHC could show qualitative differences between energy loss mechanisms: –dR AA (p T )/dp T > 0 => pQCD; dR AA (p T )/dp T ST Ratio of charm to bottom R AA, R cb, will be an important observable –Ratio is: flat in ST; approaches 1 from below in pQCD partonic E-loss –A measurement of this ratio NOT going to 1 will be a clear sign of new physics: pQCD predicts ~ 2-3 times increase in R cb by 30 GeV— this can be observed in year 1 at LHC Measurement at RHIC will be possible –AdS/CFT calculations applicable to higher momenta than at LHC due to lower medium temperature