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ALICE-US possibilities for year-1 contributions to the ALICE pp program

ALICE-US possibilities for year-1 contributions to the ALICE pp program. R. Bellwied (Wayne State University) ALICE-US collaboration meeting Yale, Oct.6-7,2006. The relevance of pp results to the understanding of soft physics in AA collisions at RHIC and LHC.

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ALICE-US possibilities for year-1 contributions to the ALICE pp program

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  1. ALICE-US possibilities for year-1 contributions to the ALICE pp program R. Bellwied (Wayne State University) ALICE-US collaboration meeting Yale, Oct.6-7,2006

  2. The relevance of pp results to the understanding of soft physics in AA collisions at RHIC and LHC R. Bellwied (Wayne State University) Is hadron production in medium different than production in vacuum ? 1st Workshop of soft physics in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, Catania, Italy, Sept.27-29,2006

  3. Many physics topics will be addressed.. PWG-0 (day one) : Global observables PWG-2 (soft): identified spectra / HBT / flow / correlations PWG-3 (heavy flavor): hadronic c/b reconstruction ? PWG-4 (high pt): jets through high pt particles PWG layout is somewhat obsolete when it comes to pp physics

  4. My view on ALICE Day-1 configuration (based on last week’s discussion) • Official: • Full TPC • Partial TOF + TRD • Full ITS: • Strip • Pixel • Drift • Likely: • Full TPC • Both Si Pixel layers • Decision: Feb.07

  5. LHC Commissioning Scenario • Collider closure on 31st August 2007 • 2 – 3 months “getting the machine ready” • Beam – gas events • First collisions at Ös of 900 GeV • Collisions at Ös of 2.2 - 2.4 TeV (possibly) • 3.6 M events per day during commissioning (100 Hz DAQ rate, 10 hours per day) • Shutdown January – March 2008 • Highest possible energy (Ös = 14 TeV) will be achieved as soon as possible at low luminosity (< 6 · 1028 cm-2 s-1)  Great for ALICE!

  6. LHC Commissioning Scenario (2) • Luminosity limit for ALICE • 2 · 1029 cm-2 s-1 : 1 collision / drift time in the TPC ideal • 3 · 1030 cm-2 s-1 : 1 collision / drift time in the SDD (TPC: 20 collisions) tracking feasible, but data volume much higher • Nominal luminosity: 1034 cm-2 s-1 new strategies needed: e.g. beam displacement, defocusing at point 2 • ~ 109 pp events per year (DAQ rate)

  7. Karel’s note on statistics for first ALICE physics run • The global event properties of pp interactions are the first subject to be studied, for this the first sample of ~ 20k events will be used • Just few minutes of colliding beams needed • All ready detectors will be involved in collecting this information • In the first month of running (November 2007?), the average collision rate will be around 60kHz, we can expect up to ~ 70M events recorded in the central region, assuming 20 shifts of 10 hours each and 100 Hz readout rate in the central region

  8. The Physics Questions What do we know about fragmentation ? Hadronization process studies Baryon vs. meson production in pp Flavor production in pp Alternatives to string fragmentation ? Is there collectivity in pp ?

  9. Hadronization in QCD (the factorization theorem) hadrons Parton Distribution Functions hadrons Hard-scattering cross-section leading particle Fragmentation Function High pT (> 2.0 GeV/c) hadron production in pp collisions: ~ Jet: A localized collection of hadrons which come from a fragmenting parton c a Parton Distribution Functions Hard-scattering cross-section Fragmentation Function b d “Collinear factorization”

  10. Do we understand hadron productionin elementary collisions ? (Ingredient I: PDF) RHIC

  11. z z Ingredient II: Fragmentation functionsKKP (universality), Bourrely & Soffer (hep-ph/0305070) Non-valence quark contribution to parton fragmentation into octet baryons at low fractional momentum in pp !! Quark separation in fragmentation models is important. FFs are not universal. Depend on Q, Einc, and flavor

  12. The Lessons from RHIC(I) unidentified particles

  13. Is there anything interesting in the non-identified charged particle spectra ? Deviations from a power-law as a function of multiplicity Conclusions: a.) hard component yield increases with nch b.) not more energetic partons but high frequency of events with single hard scattering (mean and width stays the same) c.) Levy function (soft component) = thermal radiation from moving sources d.) low Q2 parton scattering dominated by mini-jets Transverse parton fragmentation = hard Longitudinal string fragmentation = soft (LUND ?) Deviation from a two component fit: Levy function (soft) + Gaussian (hard) nucl-ex/0606028

  14. Is there anything interesting in the non-identified two particle correlations ? see T.Trainor’s talk on Friday

  15. Pseudorapidity density dN/dη pT spectrum of charged particles CDF: Phys. Rev. D41, 2330 (1990) 30000 events at √s=1.8TeV 9400 events at √s=640TeV CDF: Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 1819 (1988) 55700 events at √s=1.8TeV Multiplicity distribution Mean pT vs multiplicity UA5: Z. Phys 43, 357 (1989) 6839 events at √s=900GeV 4256 events at √s=200GeV CDF: Phys. Rev. D65,72005(2002) 3.3M events at 1.8TeV 2.6M events at 630GeV First publications (PWG-0) Claus Jorgensen • It only takes a handful of events to measure a few important global event properties (dN/dh, ds/dpT, etc.) – after LHC start-up, with few tens of thousand events we will do:

  16. Physics reach of ALICE – pp(charged particle spectra) Enormous reach in multiplicity and transverse momentum. Could this system behave collectively ??

  17. The Probe • Identified particle spectra: • - Meson / baryon spectra • Strangeness / heavy flavor spectra • - Resonance spectra • - Correlations (HBT etc.)

  18. The Lessons from RHIC(II) identified particles

  19. How to measure PID ? • Initial PID: charged hadrons vs. neutral pions • Detailed PID: • V0 topology • dE/dx • rdE/dx • TOF / RICH / TRD

  20. PID possibilities according to STAR

  21. Thermally-shaped Soft Production “Well Calibrated” Hard Scattering p0 in pp: well described by NLO (& LO) p+p->p0 + X • Ingredients (via KKP or Kretzer) • pQCD • Parton distribution functions • Fragmentation functions • ..or simply PYTHIA… hep-ex/0305013 S.S. Adler et al.

  22. pp at RHIC:Strangeness formation in QCD nucl-ex/0607033 Strangeness production not described by leading order calculation (contrary to pion production). It needs multiple parton scattering (e.g. EPOS) or NLO corrections to describe strangeness production. Part of it is a mass effect (plus a baryon-meson effect) but in addition there is a strangeness ‘penalty’ factor (e.g. the proton fragmentation function does not describe L production). s is not just another light quark

  23. How strong are the NLO corrections ? STAR • K.Eskola et al. (NPA 713 (2003)): Large NLO corrections not unreasonable at RHIC energies. Should be negligible at LHC.

  24. New NLO calculation based on STAR data (AKK, hep-ph/0502188, Nucl.Phys.B734 (2006)) K0s apparent Einc dependence of separated quark contributions.

  25. Non-strange baryon spectra in p+p Pions agree with LO (PYTHIA) Protons require NLO with AKK-FF parametrization (quark separated FF contributions) PLB 637 (2006) 161

  26. The Lessons from RHIC(III) baryon / meson physics

  27. Collision energy dependence of baryon vs. meson production 630 GeV Peak amplitude doubles in pp from 200 to 630 GeV Bump is intrinsic in pp, enhancement is unique to AA

  28. Baryon/Meson ratio @ 630 and 1800 GeV(Boris Hippolyte, Hot Quarks 2006) Extracting mixed ratio from UA1 spectra (1996) and from CDF spectra (2005) Ratio vs pT seems very energy dependent (RHIC < SPS > FNAL ?)

  29. First strange particle studies • Based on Pythia prediction at LHC, we can predict significant samples of strange particles in 70M minimum bias events: • K0 : 7x106 • L: 106 • X: 2x104 • W: 270! Will exceed the statistics of UA1!

  30. Mt scaling in pp

  31. Breakdown of mT scaling in pp ?

  32. mT slopes from PYTHIA 6.3 Gluon dominance at RHIC PYTHIA: Di-quark structures in baryon production cause mt-shift Recombination: 2 vs 3 quark structure causes mt shift

  33. Baryon production mechanism through strange particle correlations … • Test phenomenological fragmentation models OPAL ALEPH and DELPHI measurements: Yields and cosQ distribution between correlated pairs distinguishes between isotropic cluster (HERWIG) and non-isotropic string decay (JETSET) for production mechanism. Clustering favors baryon production JETSET is clearly favored by the data. Correlated L-Lbar pairs are produced predominantly in the same jet, i.e. short range compensation of quantum numbers.

  34. The Lessons from RHIC(III) flavor physics

  35. Strange enhancement vs. charm suppression ? A remarkable difference between RAA and RCP (Helen Caines talk) ‘Canonical suppression’ in pp is unique to strange hadrons. But is it a flavor effect ? Kaon behaves like D-meson, we need to measure Lc

  36. Charm cross-section measurements in pp collisions in STAR • Charmquarks are believed to be produced at early stage by initial gluon fusions • Charm cross-section should follow number of binary collisions (Nbin) scaling

  37. FONLL RHIC: LO: from hep-ph/0502203 NLO: LO / NLO / FONLL? • A LOcalculation gives you a rough estimate of the cross section • A NLOcalculation gives you a better estimate of the cross section and a rough estimate of the uncertainty • Fixed-Order plus Next-to-Leading-Log (FONLL) • Designed to cure large logs in NLO for pT >> mc where mass is not relevant • Calculations depend on quark mass mc, factorization scale mF (typically mF = mc or 2 mc), renormalization scale mR (typically mR = mF), parton density functions (PDF) • Hard to obtain large s with mR = mF (which is used in PDF fits)

  38. Charm - Experiment vs. Theory • The non-perturbative charm fragmentation needed to be tweaked in FONLL to describe charm. FFFONLL is much harder than used before in ‘plain’ NLO  FFFONLL≠ FFNLO

  39. hep-ex/0609010 RHIC: FONLL versus Data • Matteo Cacciari (FONLL): • factor 2 is not a problem • factor 5 is !!! nucl-ex/0607012 • Spectra in pp seem to require a bottom contribution • Does the factor 5 excess in the charm cross-section between FONLL and STAR also apply to bottom cross-section? This difference between STAR and PHENIX in the pp data (f=2.5), might lead to a significant difference in the R(AA) spectra between STAR and PHENIX for the non-photonic electrons

  40. First heavy flavour physics: charm • D0 K-p+ in pp Andrea Dainese 30% reach up to 11.5 – 14 GeV/c with 7107 evts

  41. Conclusions • We need to establish the energy dependence of the hadronization process in vacuum and the factorization theorem as a function of flavor. • This is an interesting overlap topic with high energy physicists. Not everybody is involved in the Higgs search. • Fragmentation studies are a link between pp and AA, between nuclear physics and high energy physics. Is there recombination in pp ? • Novel ideas of nuclear physics need to be applied to pp (HBT, blastwave, v2). How collective is pp ?

  42. Is there a radial flow component ?(blastwave fits to STAR data)

  43. There is an elliptic flow component

  44. STAR preliminary mT (GeV) mT (GeV) HBT in pp shows radial flow ? AA • Possibilities: • Resonances • Formation time  • Rescattering ?

  45. Outlook • There are significant questions regarding the fragmentation process at LHC energies • Topological V0 and rdE/dx analysis will allow us to measure many properties particle identified. • There is no ‘statistics’ problem out to 20 GeV/c. • There is a viable physics program besides being a reference for AA: • Hadronization (baryons vs. mesons ?) • Fragmentation (universality ?, applicability ?) • The collision energy dependence is crucial.

  46. The Black Hole search…..(Humanic, Koch, Stoecker, hep-ph/0607074) NOT Year-1 physics. For later…

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