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Title: Probing parton dynamics of QCD matter with Ω and Φ production

Abstract

We present measurements of Ω and φ production at midrapidity from Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies sNN=7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Motivated by the coalescence formation mechanism for these strange hadrons, we study the ratios of N(Ω-+Ω#x0002B;)/[2N(φ)]. These ratios as a function of transverse momentum pT fall on a consistent trend at high collision energies, but start to show deviations in peripheral collisions at sNN=19.6, 27, and 39 GeV, and in central collisions at 11.5 GeV in the intermediate pT region of 2.4-3.6 GeV/c. We further evaluate empirically the strange quark pT distributions at hadronization by studying the Ω/φ ratios scaled by the number of constituent quarks (NCQ). The NCQ-scaled Ω/φ ratios show a suppression of strange quark production in central collisions at 11.5 GeV compared to sNN≥19.6 GeV. The shapes of the presumably thermal strange quark distributions in 0-60% most central collisions at 7.7 GeV show significant deviations from those in 0-10% most central collisions at higher energies. These features suggest that there is likely a change of the underlying strange quark dynamics in the transition from quark matter to hadronic matter at collisionmore » energies below 19.6 GeV.« less

Authors:
 [1]
  1. AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow (Poland). et al.
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Contributing Org.:
STAR Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1340354
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1239435; OSTI ID: 1459366
Report Number(s):
BNL-112090-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; PRVCAN; R&D Project: PO 004; KB0202012
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC00112704; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Citation Formats

Adamczyk, L. Probing parton dynamics of QCD matter with Ω and Φ production. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.93.021903.
Adamczyk, L. Probing parton dynamics of QCD matter with Ω and Φ production. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.93.021903
Adamczyk, L. Wed . "Probing parton dynamics of QCD matter with Ω and Φ production". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.93.021903. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1340354.
@article{osti_1340354,
title = {Probing parton dynamics of QCD matter with Ω and Φ production},
author = {Adamczyk, L.},
abstractNote = {We present measurements of Ω and φ production at midrapidity from Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies sNN=7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Motivated by the coalescence formation mechanism for these strange hadrons, we study the ratios of N(Ω-+Ω#x0002B;)/[2N(φ)]. These ratios as a function of transverse momentum pT fall on a consistent trend at high collision energies, but start to show deviations in peripheral collisions at sNN=19.6, 27, and 39 GeV, and in central collisions at 11.5 GeV in the intermediate pT region of 2.4-3.6 GeV/c. We further evaluate empirically the strange quark pT distributions at hadronization by studying the Ω/φ ratios scaled by the number of constituent quarks (NCQ). The NCQ-scaled Ω/φ ratios show a suppression of strange quark production in central collisions at 11.5 GeV compared to sNN≥19.6 GeV. The shapes of the presumably thermal strange quark distributions in 0-60% most central collisions at 7.7 GeV show significant deviations from those in 0-10% most central collisions at higher energies. These features suggest that there is likely a change of the underlying strange quark dynamics in the transition from quark matter to hadronic matter at collision energies below 19.6 GeV.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.93.021903},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 2,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (Color online) Mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.5) $\phi$ meson pT spectra from Au+Au collisions at different centralities and energies ($\sqrt{sNN}$ = 7.7 - 39 GeV). The green bands represent systematic errors. The dashed curves represent fits to the experimental data with a Levy function [10].

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