Measurement of Low Mass Vector Mesons Production and Possible Modification in Heavy Ion Collisions at Forward Rapidity
- Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)
The data collected over the past decade have demonstrated that the Relativistic Heavy Collider (RHIC) at BNL has created the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). A major objective of heavy ion physics nowadays is to study and quantify the fundamental properties of the QGP. One of the crucial probes of this matter is di-lepton measurement in the low mass region. Di-leptons are not affected by the strong interaction once produced; therefore, they can probe the whole evolution of the collision. The planned study will focus on the low mass vector mesons (p, ω, and Φ) through their di-lepton decay channel. The low mass vector mesons are especially good probes to study the properties of this matter created in heavy-ion collisions. Due to their short lifetimes, considerable fraction of them decays inside the hot and dense media. Knowledge of their production rates and spectral properties provides insights into the medium properties; they provide information about in-medium modifications of their spectral shape. The low mass vector mesons also allow understanding the nature of the chiral symmetry restoration in hot and/or dense matter. Generally, there are array of effects due to QGP which can contribute to the modification of the spectra and the true relative contribution is difficult to disentangle. Therefore, studying different colliding systems and wide range of observables at different kinematics will allow disentangling the modification effects and better understand the properties of QGP and the low mass vector mesons will provide very valuable information. In addition, this measurement offers a unique and critical look at QGP where we focus on the low mass vector mesons at forward rapidities which has not been done at RHIC.
- Research Organization:
- Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States). Research Foundation
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0013598
- OSTI ID:
- 1373720
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-GSU-13598-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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