Study of short-lived resonances in ALICE A. Badalà – INFN Sezione di Catania- Italy for the ALICE Collaboration Contents •Physics motivations •ALICE detector •Results on strange resonances (K*(892),(1520),(1020),..) from simulated p-p events @ 900 GeV and @14 TeV •Summary
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Study of short-lived resonances in ALICE
A. Badalà – INFN Sezione di Catania- Italy for the ALICE Collaboration
Contents
•Physics motivations
•ALICE detector
•Results on strange resonances (K*(892),(1520),(1020),..) from simulated p-p events @ 900 GeV and @14 TeV
•Summary
Why short-lived resonances?
Resonances are strongly decaying particles which have lifetimes of about a few fm/c (i.e resonance ~ fireball )
Resonances c (fm) (770) +- 1.3 f0(980) +- 2.6 K*(892)0 K 3.9(1520) Kp 13 (1020) K+K- 44
Modifications of properties of resonances (peak,width)
Partial chiral symmetry restoration
Interaction of the resonances and/or their daughters with fireball medium
Resonances may give information on the dynamics and on the chiral property of the hot and dense matter which is produced in the collision
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Resonances as a probe of chiral symmetry restoration
Resonance mass shift and width broadening have been suggested as a signature of chiral symmetry restoration
The best probes are resonances reconstructed by their leptonic decay channel since leptons are less likely to rescatter in the hadronic
medium
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R. Arnaldi et al. (NA60 Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(2006)162302
A significant excess of +- pairs is observed above the yield
expected from neutral meson decay. Its shape is consistent
with a contribution from +- annihilation
Models based on in-medium broadening scenario seem
able to reproduce data, while moving mass models seem
ruled out
NA60 RESULTSIn-In@
158AGeV
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Resonances from jets
High pT resonances from the away side jet could be modified by the partonic medium, but they are so fast to have low probability to be affected by the hadronic medium
Recently suggestion to study chiral symmetry
restoration by comparing resonance production in event
classes based on azimuthal distribution
respect to jet direction First attempt has been done studying h(high
pt)-(1020) correlations C. Markert, 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics Big Sky, Montana,
USA
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Interactions of resonances in hadronic nuclear medium
No interaction
Rescattering
Due to the rescattering , resonances may not be reconstructed
Regeneration
Pseudo-elastic collisions may regenerate resonances
The yields of resonances detected by their hadronic decay can be influenced by effects of rescattering and regeneration which depends on:
•the time between the chemical and the thermal freeze-out
• the lifetime of the resonances
• the interaction cross-section of the decay particles.
The resonances may probe the timescale between the chemical and the kinetic freeze-out
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p+p and Au+Au @ sNN =200 GeV
Suppression of K* and *
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Resonance/non-resonance ratio
B.I. Abelev (Star Collaboration) nucl-ex 0604019
At RHIC energies thermal models are able to
reproduce the ratios of stable particles
Deviations from these ratios have be used to estimate the time interval between
thermal and chemical freeze-out (UrQMD) = 13±3 fm/c
Lower limit (<4 fm/c, T=160 MeV) from measured K*/K and */ ratio by a thermal model with a rescattering phase (G. Torrieri and J. Rafelski, Phys. Lett. B509 (2001) 239 and
C. Market, J. Phys. G. Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 (2005) 1045)6
(*) Extraction of the signal/yields
(*) Mass and widths of resonances
(*) Transverse momentum and transverse mass spectra
(*) Particle ratios
Elliptic flow
Nuclear modification factors: RCP and RAA
Main observables concerning the study of resonances
in pp and AA collisions
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Elliptic flow
Baryons
Mesons
For KET >1 GeV, mesons and baryons scale separately
Universal scaling is observed for mesons and baryons when
quark number scaling is employed
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S. Adare et al. (Phenix coll.) nucl-ex 0608033
Elliptic flow for resonances
Measurement of flow for meson and baryon resonances is of great interest to further validate the picture sorting of this
scaling i.e. that partonic collectivity dominates the transverse expansion dynamics.
Mass meson ~ Mass proton
v2 of mesons confirms this
universal scalingS. Afanasiev et al. (PHENIX Coll. ) nucl-ex 0703024
Au-Au @200 GeV
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Nuclear Modification Ratios (RCP) for resonances
RHIC results have shown as, in the intermediate pt region, nuclear modification factors depend on the constituent
quarks rather than on particle mass.
Recent suggestion by Maiani et al. (Phys. Lett. B645(2007)138) to use
this observable to solve the problem of the real quark composition of some resonances as the fo(980)( or
?)
][ ss ]][[ qssq
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ALICE ( A Large Ion Collider Experiment)
ITSLow pT trackingVertexing
TPCTracking, dE/dx
TRDElectron ID
TOFPID
HMPIDPID (RICH) @ high pT
PHOSγ, π0
PMDγ multiplicity
MUON-ARM μ-pairs MUON-ARM μ-pairs
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EMCAL Jets
reconstruction
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Reconstruction of short-lived resonances is improved by optimal performance on:
vertex reconstruction
Pb-Pb
p-p
Primary vertex in ALICE is reconstructed by means of
tracklets in the two innermost pixel layers and
by a Kalman vertex procedure for p-p events
< 40 m
~ 5 m
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Reconstruction of short-lived resonances is improved by optimal performance on:
dE/dx in silicon (ITS) and gas (TPC) + Time-of-Flight (TOF) + Cerenkov (RICH)
decay topology (K0, K+, K-, )
K and decays up to at least 10 GeV
leptons (e, ), photons, 0, electrons in TRD: p > 1 GeV, muons: p > 5 GeV, 0 in PHOS: 1 < p < 80 GeV
Particle Identification
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Resonance K*(892) Φ(1020) *(1520) Decay channel (B.R.) K (~100%) K+K- (49%) N K (45%)
Width [MeV/c2] 50.8 4.5 15.6 Life time [fm/c] 3.9 44 13
Several activities are going on in ALICE concerning the study of such resonances, both in pp and AA collisions, with contributions from several groups. (Other contributions to this conference from P.Ganoti and D. Tapia-Takaki).
•Software code development
•Test distributed analysis of events
•Optimization of reconstruction tools
•Background estimation
•Efficiency evaluation
Study of short-life resonances in ALICE
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Results from p-p events @ 900 GeV and 14 TeV
Events of PYTHIA were generated and fully reconstructed using
•Realistic simulation of the detector response for the whole ALICE assembly
•Realistic clusters and tracks reconstruction
2 Data Sets
2 x 105 minimum bias p-p PHYTIA events @ 900 GeV. Running scenario at LHC startup
1.5 x 106 minimum bias p-p PHYTIA events @ 14 TeV (about 0.2% 1-year data taking)
ALICE PID A common BAYESIAN approach is adopted by every ALICE detector
performing PID;The probability w(i|s) to be a particle of type i (i = e,, , K, p...) if a signal s
(dE/dx, TOF,...) is detected, is:
π...μ,e,kk
i
Ck|srCi|sr
s|iw
r(s|i)(Detector response function)conditional probability density functions to get a signal s in a
detector, if a particle of i-type hits the detector
Ci (particle concentration)a priori probability to find a
particle of type i in the detector
,...,,
)|()|(
)|(
ekk
i
iSRCiSRC
SiW
Probability to be a particle of i-type (i = e, , , K, p, … ), if we observe a vector S= {sITS, sTPC, sTOF, …} of PID signals in different detectors is:
Dependence of the two ratios K*/K and (1520)/, on the chemical freeze-out temperature and time interval between chemical and kinetic freeze-out. Model: termally produced particle yields + rescattering phase. Then regeneration is not taken into account.
G. Torrieri and J. Rafelski, Phys. Lett. B509 (2001) 239
C. Market, J. Phys. G. Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 (2005) 1045.
(1520)/ = 0.034 0.011 0.013
K*(892)/K = 0.19 0.05
> 4 fm/c for T=160 MeV
0-20% most central Au+Au
Identified particle spectra
ALICE has unique capabilities to reconstruct and to identify particles:Global tracking (ITS-TPC-TRD) (pt/pt ~ 3% at 100 GeV/c) + dE/dx (low pT + relativ. rise), TOF, HMPID, PHOS, … Reconstruction by invariant mass and topological decay , K, p: 0.1- 0.15 <pt< 50
GeV/c
pT (GeV/c)
PID in the relativistic rise
K
p
Estimated pt range for particle identification for 107 central Pb-Pb events (1-year data taking)
Weak or strong decaying particles: up to 10-15 GeV/c