NA60: dimuon and charm production in p-A and In-In collisions 1 NA60: dimuon and charm production in p-A and In-In collisions at the CERN SPS • Introduction and physics motivation • The NA60 experiment: apparatus and performance • First physics results • Conclusions and perspectives E. Scomparin – INFN Torino (Italy) on behalf of the NA60 Collaboration Quark Matter 2005 XVIII International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions August 4-9, Budapest, Hungary
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NA60: dimuon and charm production in p-
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NA60: dimuon and charm production in p-A and In-In collisions at the CERN SPS
• Introduction and physics motivation• The NA60 experiment: apparatus and performance• First physics results• Conclusions and perspectives
E. Scomparin – INFN Torino (Italy)on behalf of the NA60 Collaboration
Quark Matter 2005 XVIII International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
August 4-9, Budapest, Hungary
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A and In-In collisions 2
Introduction
• NA60 is a second generation experiment, designed to answer specific questions left open, in the leptonic sector, by the previous round of SPS experiments, finished in 2000 (and that can hardly be addressed at RHIC and LHC)
• It has been designed in order to reach unprecedented accuracy in the measurement of muon pair production in HI collisions
• After its approval in 2000, NA60 has taken data in 2002 (p-A), 2003 (In-In) and 2004 (p-A), now being analyzed
• First answers to the physics questions at the basis of the NA60 program are now available
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Physics topics: low mass continuum
• Still missing: clear discrimination between the various theoretical explanations
• Low mass excess well established by CERES (dielectrons)
Good statistics AND mass resolution are needed
1995/1996 2000
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Physics topics: intermediate mass region
centralcollisions
• IMR excess in S-U/S-W and Pb-Pb, with respect to p-A, established by NA38/NA50 and Helios-3• Can be ascribed to both:
• Anomalous open charm enhancement• Thermal dimuon production
NA60 proposal: discriminate between the two explanations, by tagging, using the muon offsets, the semi-leptonic decays of DD pairs
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Physics topics: J/ suppression
• Anomalous J/ suppression, discovered by NA50 in Pb-Pb collisions
NA60 proposal: is anomalous suppression present also in lighter nuclear systems ?
Can we identify a scaling variable for the suppression ?L, Npart, density of participants, energy density ?
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hadron absorberMuon
Other
and trackingMuon trigger
magnetic field
Iron wall
NA50 spectrometer2.5 T dipole magnet
Matching in coordinate and momentum space
targets
beam tracker
vertex tracker
or
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NA60: detector concept
• Improved dimuon mass resolution• Origin of muons can be accurately determined
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Data taking: In-In collisions• 5-week long run in 2003 – In-In @ 158 GeV/nucleon• ~ 4×1012 ions on target• ~ 2×108 dimuon triggers collected
Set ASet B
Raw +-
invariant massspectrum
mµµ (GeV/c2)
Events
/50
MeV
• Centrality selection: use• spectator energy in the ZDC• charged multiplicity in the vertex spectrometer
• Two muon spectrometer settings• Set A (low ACM current)
• Good acceptance at low mass• Used for LMR and IMR analysis
• Set B (high ACM current)• Good resolution at high mass• Used for J/ suppression
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Using the vertex spectrometer
Beam Trackersensors
windows
Zvertex
z ~ 200 m along the beam direction
(~ 10 - 20 m in the transverse direction)
Vertex reconstruction
(muon spectrometer)
Matching
Tracks (vertex spectrometer)
Matching
~ 20 MeV mass resolution at
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Background subtraction
• Combinatorial background • Significantly reduced by the track matching procedure• Nevertheless, still the dominant dimuon source for m<2 GeV/c2
• Mixed event technique developed accurate to 1-2%
• NA60 acceptance quite asymmetric Cannot use NN2Nbck
• Fake matches background • Muon matched to a wrong vertex telescope track• Two methods for rejection
• Overlay MC simpler approach• Mixed events more complicated, rigorous approach
• All the details on background subtraction in the presentation by R. Shahoyan (sect. 5b Aug. 6)
Anomalous J/ suppression is present in In-In collisions A finer centrality binning is needed to sharpen the picture
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Direct J/ sample• To overcome the problem of DY statistics, directly compare the measured J/ centrality distribution with the distribution expected in case of pure nuclear absorption
• Onset of anomalous suppression around Npart= 90 • Saturation at large Npart
Nuclearabsorption
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Comparison with previous results
Qualitative agreement with NA50 as a function of Npart
new set of Pb-Pb results needed, with reduced error bars
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Comparison with theoretical models
• Good accuracy of NA60 data allows a quantitative comparison with the predictions of the various theoretical models
• As an example, compare with predictions of a model based on percolation (Digal, Fortunato and Satz, Eur.Phys. J. C32(2004) 547)• Sharp onset at Npart~140 predicted, smeared by experimental resolution
• NA60 observes a pattern very similar to the predicted one, but with an onset at a lower Npart value
Theor. modelRescaling to Npart = 90
For more model comparisons, see parallel session (R. Arnaldi)
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Perspectives
Analysis of In-In data still ongoing
Spectra after matching
~ 25% of the 158 GeV p-A statistics• Acceptance corrected LMR spectra• Complete KK analysis• Radial flow for and • Improve alignment (IMR)• Detailed study of the J/ suppression pattern
• Use full statistics (now 50%)
It would be interesting to have such good quality data
• Physics results from NA60 are now available (In-In collisions)
• Low-mass region• Lepton pair excess at SPS energies confirmed• Mass shift of the intermediate ruled out• Broadening of the intermediate describes data• puzzle under study
• Intermediate-mass region• Enhancement of dimuon yield confirmed• Not consistent with an enhancement of open charm• Consistent with an enhanced prompt source
• J/ suppression• Anomalous J/ suppression present also in In-In• Centrality dependent, with an onset around Npart=90• Theoretical predictions (tuned on Pb-Pb) do not properly describe our data
S. Damjanovic,Sect. 6a
A. DeFalco,Sect. 6a
R. Shahoyan,Sect. 5b
R. Arnaldi,Sect. 6a
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http://cern.ch/na60
R. Arnaldi, K. Banicz, K. Borer, J. Buytaert, J. Castor, B. Chaurand, W. Chen, B. Cheynis, C. Cicalò, A. Colla, P. Cortese, S. Damjanović, A. David, A. de Falco, N. de Marco, A. Devaux, A. Drees, L. Ducroux, H. En’yo, A. Ferretti, M. Floris, P. Force, A. Grigorian, J.Y. Grossiord, N. Guettet, A. Guichard, H. Gulkanian, J. Heuser, M. Keil, L. Kluberg, Z. Li, C. Lourenço, J. Lozano, F. Manso, P. Martins, A. Masoni, A. Neves, H. Ohnishi, C. Oppedisano, P. Parracho, P.Pillot, G. Puddu, E. Radermacher, P. Ramalhete, P. Rosinsky, E. Scomparin, J. Seixas, S. Serci, R. Shahoyan, P. Sonderegger, H.J. Specht, R. Tieulent, E. Tveiten, G. Usai, H. Vardanyan, R. Veenhof and H. Wöhri