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1 Testing pQCD and AdS/CFT Energy Loss at RHIC and LHC
W. A. Horowitz University of Cape Town July 28, 2011 With many thanks to Miklos Gyulassy and Jiangyong Jia 7/28/2011 PANIC11

2 What Are We Interested In?
Measure many-body physics of strong force Test & understand theory of many-body non-Abelian fields Unique as compared to strongly coupled Abelian problems Long Range Plan, 2008 7/28/2011 PANIC11

3 QGP Energy Loss Learn about E-loss mechanism Most direct probe of DOF
pQCD Picture 7/28/2011 PANIC11

4 QGP Energy Loss Learn about E-loss mechanism Most direct probe of DOF
AdS/CFT Picture 7/28/2011 PANIC11

5 pQCD Rad Picture Bremsstrahlung Radiation Weakly-coupled plasma
Medium organizes into Debye-screened centers T ~ 250 MeV, g ~ 2 m ~ gT ~ 0.5 GeV lmfp ~ 1/g2T ~ 1 fm RAu ~ 6 fm 1/m << lmfp << L mult. coh. em. Gyulassy, Levai, and Vitev, NPB571 (2000) 7/28/2011 PANIC11

6 pQCD Rad Picture Bremsstrahlung Radiation Weakly-coupled plasma
Medium organizes into Debye-screened centers T ~ 250 MeV, g ~ 2 m ~ gT ~ 0.5 GeV lmfp ~ 1/g2T ~ 1 fm RAu ~ 6 fm 1/m << lmfp << L mult. coh. em. Gyulassy, Levai, and Vitev, NPB571 (2000) LPM dpT/dt ~ -LT3 log(pT/Mq) Bethe-Heitler dpT/dt ~ -(T3/Mq2) pT 7/28/2011 PANIC11

7 High Momentum Particles in AdS/CFT
Model heavy quark jet energy loss by embedding string in AdS space dpT/dt = - m pT m = pl1/2 T2/2Mq J Friess, S Gubser, G Michalogiorgakis, S Pufu, Phys Rev D75 (2007) Similar to Bethe-Heitler dpT/dt ~ -(T3/Mq2) pT Very different from usual pQCD and LPM dpT/dt ~ -LT3 log(pT/Mq) 7/28/2011 PANIC11

8 Light Quark and Gluon E-Loss
Chesler et al., PRD79 (2009) SS Gubser, QM08 Light quarks and gluons: generic Bragg peak Leads to lack of T dependence? DLqtherm ~ E1/3 DLqtherm ~ (2E)1/3 Gubser et al., JHEP0810 (2008) Chesler et al., PRD79 (2009) Arnold and Vaman, JHEP 1104 (2011) See also Marquet and Renk, PLB685 (2010), and Jia, WAH, and Liao, arXiv: , for v2 7/28/2011 PANIC11

9 High-pT Observables Naively: if medium has no effect, then RAA = 1
7/28/2011 PANIC11

10 High-pT Observables Naively: if medium has no effect, then RAA = 1
Common variables used are transverse momentum, pT, and angle with respect to the reaction plane, f pT f , g, e- Fourier expand RAA: 7/28/2011 PANIC11

11 pQCD Success at RHIC: (circa 2005) Null Control: RAA(g)~1
Y. Akiba for the PHENIX collaboration, hep-ex/ Consistency: RAA(h)~RAA(p) Null Control: RAA(g)~1 GLV Prediction: Theory~Data for reasonable fixed L~5 fm and dNg/dy~dNp/dy 7/28/2011 PANIC11

12 pQCD Picture Inadequate at RHIC
Lack of simultaneous description of multiple observables even with inclusion of elastic loss PHENIX, PRL 105 (2010) Wicks et al., NPA784, 2007 See also J Jia from QM09, J Nagle QM09 7/28/2011 PANIC11 Pert. at LHC energies?

13 Qualitative Expectations for LHC
For approx. power law production and energy loss probability P(e), e = (Ei - Ef)/Ei 7/28/2011 PANIC11

14 Qualitative Expectations for LHC
For approx. power law production and energy loss probability P(e), e = (Ei - Ef)/Ei Asymptotically, pQCD => DE/E ~ log(E/m)/E ~ flat RAA(pT) at RHIC Rising RAA(pT) at LHC NB: LHC is a glue machine 7/28/2011 PANIC11

15 pQCD at LHC? Appelshauser, ALICE, QM11 pT rise in data readily understood from generic perturbative physics! 7/28/2011 PANIC11

16 Rise in RAA a Final State Effect?
Y-J Lee, QM11 7/28/2011 PANIC11

17 Rise in RAA a Final State Effect?
Is rise really due to pQCD? Y-J Lee, QM11 7/28/2011 PANIC11

18 Rise in RAA a Final State Effect?
Is rise really due to pQCD? Or other quench (flat?) Y-J Lee, QM11 7/28/2011 PANIC11

19 Rise in RAA a Final State Effect?
Is rise really due to pQCD? Or other quench (flat?) + initial state CNM effects a la CGC? Y-J Lee, QM11 Albacete and Marquet, PLB687 (2010) Require p + A and/or direct g 7/28/2011 PANIC11 PHENIX PRL98, 2007

20 Quant. (Qual?) Conclusions Require...
Further experimental results Theoretically, investigation of the effects of higher orders in as (large) kT/xE (large) MQ/E (large?) opacity (large?) geometry uncertainty in IC (small) coupling to flow (large?) Eloss geom. approx. (?) t < t0 (large: see Buzzatti and Gyulassy) dyn. vs. static centers (see Buzzatti and Gyulassy) hydro background (see Renk, Majumder) better treatment of Coh. vs. decoh. multigluons (see Mehtar-Tani) elastic E-loss E-loss in confined matter 7/28/2011 PANIC11

21 Coll. Approx. and Constrained v2
Fix dNg/dy from RAA, calculate v2 Expect: larger v2 for smaller opening angle tcoh = xE/kT2 larger for smaller qmax more paths in deep LPM (DE ~ L2) region Not large sensitivity Rad Only Rad + El v2 pT 20-30% p0 20-30% p0 v2 pT WAH, in preparation 7/28/2011 PANIC11

22 WHDG p0 RAA at LHC: First Results
Data shown at Kruger2010 WAH and M Gyulassy, arXiv: 7/28/2011 PANIC11

23 WHDG p0 RAA at LHC: First Results
WAH and M Gyulassy, arXiv: 7/28/2011 PANIC11

24 WHDG p0 RAA at LHC: First Results
Constrain WHDG at RHIC Make LHC predictions assuming dNg/dy ~ dNch/dh => dNgLHC/dy = 2.4 dNgRHIC/dy WAH and M Gyulassy, arXiv: 7/28/2011 PANIC11

25 WHDG p0 RAA at LHC: First Results
WHDG band from 1-s RHIC dNg/dy extraction Note that constrained predictions have small uncertainty from collinear approx WAH and M Gyulassy, arXiv: 7/28/2011 PANIC11

26 WHDG Describes RAA and v2?
Fixed by RHIC data, parameter-free WHDG describes preliminary RAA and v2 quite well v2 at very high pT? WAH and M Gyulassy, arXiv: Y-J Lee, QM11 and cdsweb.cern.ch/record/ 7/28/2011 PANIC11

27 And D RAA at LHC? WAH and M Gyulassy, arXiv:1107.2136 7/28/2011
PANIC11

28 And D RAA at LHC? NB: RAA requires production, E-loss, FF
Does not immediately follow that RpAA << RDAA << RBAA WAH and M Gyulassy, arXiv: 7/28/2011 PANIC11

29 AdS/CFT at RHIC and LHC Qualitative agreement Simple Bragg peak model
WAH, in preparation 0.2 TeV Qualitative agreement 2.76 TeV WAH, PhD Thesis Simple Bragg peak model 7/28/2011 PANIC11

30 pQCD vs. AdS/CFT at LHC WAH, M. Gyulassy, PLB666 (2008) 7/28/2011
PANIC11

31 LHC RcAA(pT)/RbAA(pT) Prediction (with speed limits)
WAH, M. Gyulassy, PLB666 (2008) T(t0): “(”, corrections likely small for smaller momenta Tc: “]”, corrections likely large for higher momenta Qualitatively, corrections to AdS/CFT result will drive double ratio to unity 7/28/2011 PANIC11

32 Conclusions (1 of 2) Does rise in RAA(pT) imply perturbative E-loss dominant at LHC? To make a qualitative statement need: Experimental control over production effects Reduced exp. uncertainties at large (~100 GeV/c) pT Consistency check btwn pQCD and multiple observables at large (~100 GeV/c) pT, especially v2 Recent LHC Results: Published ALICE RAA suppression generically difficult to understand in typical dE/dx picture (both pQCD and AdS/CFT) E-loss in (currently) uncontrolled pre-thermalization dynamics? Possibly signal of AdS/CFT Bragg peak physics Soft particle energy loss at very wide angles Not inconsistent with pQCD or AdS/CFT pictures 7/28/2011 PANIC11

33 Conclusions (2 of 2) WHDG zero parameter LHC predictions constrained by RHIC appear to: (Possibly) systematically oversuppress light hadron RAA Describe light hadron v2 at “intermediate” pT ~ 20 GeV/c Describe D meson suppression CAUTION: many important effects not currently under theoretical control HOWEVER: qualitative agreement suggests continued effort interesting and worthwhile AdS Eloss: consistent with RHIC and LHC within large theoretical uncertainties Looking forward to exciting future distinguishing measurements, esp. heavy quark suppression separation Exciting prospects for measuring initial spatial distribution of gluons in a highly relativistic nucleus at an EIC 7/28/2011 PANIC11

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