1. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Status and Recent Results Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, UIUC and RBRC PHENIX status and run 2003 performance High sensitivity to rare processes J/  and high pT hadrons in Au-Au, d-Au and p-p collisions Brief review of run 2002 results Hadron production at high transverse momenta charged hadrons and  0 in Au-Au and p-p First look at PHENIX d-Au data

2. PHENIX Status and Recent Results USA Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, NY Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Dept. of Chemistry, Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY Dept. Phys. and Astronomy, Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Brazil University of São Paulo, São Paulo China Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing Peking University, Beijing France LPC, University de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand Dapnia, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette IPN-Orsay, Universite Paris Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay LLR, Ecòle Polytechnique, CNRS-IN2P3, Palaiseau SUBATECH, Ecòle des Mines at Nantes, Nantes Germany University of Münster, Münster Hungary Central Research Institute for Physics (KFKI), Budapest Debrecen University, Debrecen Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest India Banaras Hindu University, Banaras Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay Israel Weizmann Institute, Rehovot Japan Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima KEK, Institute for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba Kyoto University, Kyoto Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki RIKEN, Institute for Physical and Chemical Research, Wako RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Upton, NY University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Waseda University, Tokyo S. Korea Cyclotron Application Laboratory, KAERI, Seoul Kangnung National University, Kangnung Korea University, Seoul Myong Ji University, Yongin City System Electronics Laboratory, Seoul Nat. University, Seoul Yonsei University, Seoul Russia Institute of High Energy Physics, Protovino Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna Kurchatov Institute, Moscow PNPI, St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg Sweden Lund University, Lund 12 Countries; 57 Institutions; 460 Participants

3. PHENIX Status and Recent Results PHENIX: Run History Run Year Species s 1/2 [GeV ]  Ldt N tot 01 2000 Au-Au 130 1  b -1 10M 02 2001/2002 Au-Au 200 24  b -1 170M p-p 200 0.15 pb -1 3.7G 03 2002/2003 d-Au 200 2.74 nb -1 5.5G p-p 200 ongoing 2000 2001/2002 2002/2003

4. PHENIX Status and Recent Results PHENIX Status in 2003: Design Configuration! Central Arm Tracking Drift Chamber Pad Chambers Time Expansion Chamber Muon Arm Tracking Muon Tracker: North Muon Tracker Calorimetry PbGl PbSc Particle Id Muon Identifier: North Muon Identifier RICH TOF TEC Global Detectors BBC ZDC/SMD Local Polarimeter Forward Hadron Calorimeters NTC MVD Online Calibration and Production

5. PHENIX Status and Recent Results The PHENIX Detector: Central Arms

6. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Two Collisions as seen by the PHENIX Central Arms 2001/2002 Au-Au 2001/2002 d-Au

7. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Front End Electronics (25000 Channels) Buffers: 4  s deep … 14 Subsystems (350000 Channels read every 106 ns leading to a data volume: 3.5TB/s) EMC Subsystem Trigger Processor … 6 Subsystems (NTC, BBC, ZDC, EMC, RICH, muID) Level 1 Trigger Processor Trigger Request not to exceed 1kHz Event Builder SEB (37 CPUs) 120MB/s ATP (23 CPUs) 120MB/s Data Storage 40 TB Primitives for higher level trigger decision Write events at 1.0kHz DCMs DAQ and Trigger System: Rare Event Capability Trigger configuration in d-Au o Raw rate < 50 kHz o First level trigger: 3 minimum bias 1single electron (J/  ) 1electron pair (  ) 4 photon (0.8, 2.1, 2.8, 3.5 GeV) 2 muon 2 di-muon (J/  ) o Level 2: off o Extend to 300kHz in p-p

8. PHENIX Status and Recent Results DAQ Filter (shift crew) Pulser 0 Pulser 1 Pulser 2 Electron Photon: 2.1 GeV Di-muons Bufferbox a/b VA033VA034VA035VA036VA045VA046VA047 Calibration: BBC, EMC, FCAL,... Evaluation J/  (->ee,  ),  0 VA057 Online Calibration, Evaluation and Production PHENIX Online PHENIX online pc-farm

9. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Run 2003 d-Au 200 GeV

10. PHENIX Status and Recent Results ~ 211 J/  ’s 3.11 ±.02 GeV  = 143 ± 14 MeV opposite-sign pairs same-sign pair bkgd ~ 232 J/  ’s 3.18 ±.03 GeV  = 164 ± 27 MeV opposite-sign pairs same-sign pair bkgd Run 2003 d-Au 200 GeV: Performance of the Muon Spectrometers PHENIX ONLINE Yields South North Invariant Mass [GeV/c] Yields Di-muon invariant mass spectra PHENIX ONLINE

11. PHENIX Status and Recent Results PHENIX results Run -2 final results: –High pT pi0 (Au+Au @ 200 GeV): submitted to PRL nucl-ex/0304022 –High pT pi0 (p+p @ 200 GeV): submitted to PRL hep-ex/0304038 –Elliptic flow of identified particles (Au+Au @ 200 GeV): to be submitted to PRL –J/Psi yields (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) to be submitted to PRC –J/Psi yields (p+p @ 200 GeV) to be submitted to PRL –p,pbar high pT enhancement (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) to be submitted to PRL Run-2 preliminary results: –dN/dy and dE_T/dy (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) –Identified charged particle spectra and yields (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) –Inclusive charged particle at high pT (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) –phi -> KK (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) –Event-by-event fluctuations (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) –Di-Lepton continuum (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) –Two-pion correlations (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) –d and dbars (Au+Au @ 200 GeV) Run-3 preliminary results: –High pT pi0 (d+Au @ 200 GeV) –High pT inclusive charged particles (d+Au @ 200 GeV)

12. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Run 2002 p-p 200 GeV: J/  Invariant Mass Distribution Invariant Mass [GeV/c] Final to be submitted to PRL

13. PHENIX Status and Recent Results = 1.80 ± 0.23 (stat) ± 0.16 (sys) GeV Run 2002 p-p 200 GeV: J/  p T Distribution p T [GeV/c] Final to be submitted to PRL

14. PHENIX Status and Recent Results  = 3.98 ± 0.62 (stat) ± 0.56 (sys) ± 0.41(abs)  b Run 2002 p-p 200 GeV: J/  Rapidity Distribution rapidity Final to be submitted to PRL

15. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Run 2002 p-p 200 GeV: Comparison with Previous Experiments Final to be submitted to PRL

16. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Run 2002 Au-Au 200GeV: J/  Production Centrality Dependence 0-20% most central N coll =779 20-40% most central N coll =296 40-90% most central N coll =45 Proton R.L. Thews, M. Schroedter, J. Rafelski Phys. Rev. C63 054905 (2001): Plasma coalesence model for T=400MeV and y charm =1.0,2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. L. Grandchamp, R. Rapp Nucl. Phys. A&09, 415 (2002) and Phys. Lett. B 523, 50 (2001): Nuclear Absorption+ absoption in a high temperature quark gluon plasma A. Andronic et. Al. Nucl-th/0303036 Final to be submitted to PRC

17. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Hadron Production at Large Transverse Momenta in colored “quark matter” partons expected to loose significant energy via gluon bremsstrahlung –attenuation or absorption of jets “jet quenching” –suppression of high p T hadrons –modification of angular correlation –changes of particle composition q q hadrons leading particle jet production in quark matter leading particle

18. PHENIX Status and Recent Results 15 fm b 0 fm 0 N part 394 Spectators Participants For a given b, Glauber model predicts N part (No. participants) and N binary (No. binary collisions) Collision Geometry -- “Centrality” 0 N binary 1200

19. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Quantify Nuclear Modification of Hadron Spectra /  inel p+p nucleon-nucleon cross section 1. Compare Au+Au to nucleon-nucleon cross sections 2. Compare Au+Au central/peripheral Nuclear Modification Factor: If no “effects”: R < 1 in regime of soft physics R = 1 at high-p T where hard scattering dominates Suppression: R < 1 at high-p T AA

20. PHENIX Status and Recent Results PHENIX Run 2000 p-p 130 GeV: Discovery of High p T Hadron Suppression at RHIC o Charged hadron and neutral pion results with independent systematic errors! o Extrapolation from UA1 as proton reference.

21. PHENIX Status and Recent Results High p T p-p and Au-Au  0 Results Au-Au nucl-ex/0304022 p-p hep-ex/0304038 Final submitted to PRL Run 2001/2002 p-p + Au-Au 200 GeV: Good agreement with NLO pQCD Data reach pT=12 GeV

22. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Final submitted to PRL R AA : High p T Suppression Run 2001/2002 Au-Au 200 GeV: Au-Au nucl-ex/0304022

23. PHENIX Status and Recent Results p/  ~1 at high p T for central collisions In peripheral collisions, p/  ~ 0.4 Particle Composition at High p T Run 2001/2002 Au-Au 200 GeV: Final to be submitted to PRL

24. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Central to Peripheral Ratio for Protons and Pions - No apparent suppression in proton yields for 2 <p T <4 GeV/c - Different production mechanism for protons? Run 2001/2002 Au-Au 200 GeV: Final to be submitted to PRL

25. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Particle Composition at high p T (h + +h - )/2  0 ~ 50% greater in central than peripheral at mid p T similar again for pT>5 GeV/c Central Peripheral Final to be submitted to PRL Run 2001/2002 Au-Au 200 GeV:

26. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Run 2002/2003: d-Au and p-p at 200GeV p-p run goal: Access gluon polarization through double spin asymmetries A LL inclusive  0 production Required: 30% Polarization and  Ldt=500nb -1 A LL versus p T

27. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Successful Rotator Commissioning/Local Polarimetry Yellow Blue Rotators on--> radial polarization Rotators on --> vertical polarization See Kiyoshi Tanida’s talk Friday!

28. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Run 2002/2003: High p T Spectra in d-Au at 200 GeV PHENIX PRELIMINARY dAu min bias + EMC trigger p T [GeV/c]

29. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Charged Hadrons R AA for d+Au: R dA - Charged hadron are measured with tracking detectors in two independent arms - Cronin type enhancement relative to binary scaling Run 2002/2003 d-Au 200 GeV:

30. PHENIX Status and Recent Results  0 R AA for d+Au collisions: R dA Neutral pions are measured with 2 independent Calorimeters – PbSc and PbGl PHENIX Preliminary 1  errors - 2 results agree within errors - Not suppressed relative to binary scaling Run 2002/2003 d-Au 200 GeV:

31. PHENIX Status and Recent Results “Cronin” enhancement more pronounced in the charged hadron measurement Possibly a larger effect in protons at medium p T PHENIX Preliminary 1  errors R dA for charged hadrons compared to  0 Run 2002/2003 d-Au 200 GeV:

32. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Neutron tagged p-A collisions Run 2002/2003 d-Au 200 GeV: p n ZDC Neutron tagged events are enhanced in ultra-peripheral collisions ZDC Energy Deposit FCAL Energy Deposit

33. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Comparison of ultra-peripheral events ( =3.6+/-0.4) to minimum bias ( =8.5+/-0.7) No centrality dependence observed! Centrality Dependence of R dA Run 2002/2003 d-Au 200 GeV:

34. PHENIX Status and Recent Results  0 R AA Theory and Experiment for central Au+Au and d+Au collisions Theoretical predictions: d+Au: I. Vitev, nucl-th/0302002 and private communication. Au+Au: I. Vitev and M. Gyulassy, hep-ph/0208108, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A; M. Gyulassy, P. Levai and I. Vitev, Nucl. Phys. B 594, p. 371 (2001). PHENIX Preliminary Run 2002/2003 d-Au 200 GeV: shadowing anti-shadowing

35. PHENIX Status and Recent Results h +/- R AA Theory and Experiment for central Au+Au and d+Au collisions Run 2002/2003 d-Au 200 GeV: without shadowing

36. PHENIX Status and Recent Results Summary PHENIX operates in design configuration Successful d-Au and continuing p-p running Wealth of results from Run-2 on Au-Au and p-p physics Cronin like enhancement at high p T in d-Au We live in interesting times, more results in the near future!