# Presentation: 214449

## Recent Results from BRAHMS

**Recent Results from BRAHMS**

**R. Debbe for the BRAHMS Collaboration**

**Physics Dept. Brookhaven National Laboratory**

- Jaipur, India Feb 4-10 2008

## Outline of presentation

-  Particle production (in rapidity space) as function of energy and system size.
-  Strangeness production in AuAu collisions at 62.4 GeV
-  Extracting high-x physics with the p/+ ratio and the RAuAu of protons in Au+Au collisions.
-  Systematics of baryon transport.

**Outline of presentation**

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## Energy loss: first order GLV

**Energy loss: first order GLV**

- (*x,y*)=(0,0)

*E*max

**Gauss

* ****E*****max****=45 GeV/fm****3**
*** ***********flat**** = 2.0**
*** ***********Gauss**** = 0.8**

******0 ****= 0.6 fm/c **

**We will make use of a 3D+1 hydrodynamic model provided graciously by T. Hirano to guide the description of our results.**

**y=2.95**

- Parameterization of initial energy density

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## The animations show equal energy density contours at four rapidity values in proper time steps of 0.2fm/c

- Partons simulated with Pythia are transported through the expanding system, average energy loss changes by ~X2 from y=0 to y=3, but the ratio of pT distributions of partons is insensitive to that change.

**y=0**

**y=1**

**y=2**

**y=3**

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## The RAuAu at high y is consistent with reduced energy loss and leaves room for saturation effects. 

- The RAuAu at high y is consistent with reduced energy loss and leaves room for saturation effects.

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**Notes:**
Rauau macro in AuAu/200/PRCmidrapidity/scripts: RaaPionMinus0_10.C
Data read from Catalin with  DataStealer

## Centrality dependence of RAuAu  pi- at 200 GeV

**Centrality dependence of R****AuAu  ****pi- at 200**** ****GeV**

**y=0**

**y=3.1**

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## At 62.4 GeV, dense system has shorter lifetime

- At high y(>2), effects of dense medium start to disappear. Isospin effects grow stronger

- I.G. Bearden 5th Feb.14:00

- Au+Au 0-10% central

**Top energy density ~20 GeV/fm****3**

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**Notes:**
The Raa macro sits in AuAu/62/Ionut/scripts
Numerator from Ionut pp reference from Truls the y=2.75 uses Flemming pp reference

## Particle production systematics

**Positive pion production in p+p collisions at √s=200 and 62.4 GeV.**

- Systematic errors shown with gray boxes are mainly driven by extrapolations of pT distributions.

- Measurements normalized to total inelastic cross section (41mb 200GeV and 36mb at 62.4 GeV)

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**Notes:**
Macro sits in /pp/200/kris/scrpts/dndyPions.C 
Includes pp 200 from Kris pi+ from Version 1
Pi+ from Flemming (blackcircles)
Pythia blue hist  Total inelastic 41mb 200 GeV Red hist Pythia 2XSD DD low pt QCD 2->2 data in data01 (....FVpar.root)

## Positive pion production in d+Au at 200 GeV

- The centrality dependence shows the presence of the Au “target” source at negative rapidity, as well as the projectile d at high rapidity. The distribution becomes similar to p+p in the most peripheral sample.

- H. Yang 9th Feb. 14:00

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**Notes:**
This is Hongyan figure macro sits in /dAu/200/hongyan/scripts/dndyPionsdAu200.C

## Positive pion production in Au + Au at √sNN = 62.4 GeV

- Fit to single gaussian yields width consistent with Landau’s model: 2=ln(√s/2mp)
- Landau= 1.87

**Positive pion production in Au + Au at √s****NN**** = 62.4 GeV**

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**Notes:**
Ionut’s Need the macro or I’ll make my own figure without the simulations

## Positive pion production in Au+Au at 200 GeV

**Positive pion production in Au+Au at 200 GeV**

- To first order, all distributions are described with a single gaussian. Width of central events consistent with Landau’s value:
- Landau= 2.16
- meas.= 2.23±0.06

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**Notes:**
Macro: AuAu/200/PRCmidrapidity/scripts/dndyCentrality.C
All Flemming data

## Evolution of the multiplicity dist. Shapes with centrality 

- Central collisions, (up to 40%) scale with Npart. The tails of the peripheral distributions deviate from that scaling. (This has been attributed to pion emission from spectators. PHOBOS PRL91 052303)

**Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV**

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- One can tune the baryo- chemical potential using the pbar/p values  measured at different rapidities.

- The high y K/pi+ ratios at RHIC (62.4 GeV) are very similar to the SPS results from the high energy slope of the “MarekHorn”. (At same pbar/p ratio and thus driven by the baryo-chemical potential.)

- I.C. Arsene 5th Feb. 15:00

- Poster by M. Murray

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**Notes:**
Macro: AuAu/62/Ionut/scripts/KPi_vs_PBarP_SPS_BRAHMS62.C

## High-x physics accessible with the p/+  ratio

**High-x physics accessible with the p/********+ **** ratio**

- The puzzling abundance of protons with respect to pions has been attributed to recombination effects that do reproduce the data at mid-rapidity for pt values that range up to ~6 GeV/c.

- Our results at high y indicate that this ratio may rather be driven by beam fragmentation.

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## Comparison of the p/+ in p+p and Au+Au systems at 62.4 GeV

**Comparison of the p/********+ ****in p+p and Au+Au systems at 62.4 GeV**

- The overall difference between the ratio measured in pp and AuAu is consistent with the favored interpretation based on coalescence in Au+Au

- The similarity of the ratio in both systems may be driven by incoherent proton fragmentation.

- Large  p+p value of ratio may be driven by proximity to beam rapidity.

- Poster by N. Katrynska

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**p+p**

**Au+Au**

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## Comparison of the p/+ in p+p and Au+Au systems at 200 GeV

**Comparison of the p/********+ ****in p+p and Au+Au systems at 200 GeV**

- At mid-rapidity the difference between pp and AuAu system can be related to re-combination which favors proton production.

- A much pronounced effect at higher rapidity may be an interplay between fragmentation effects, parton coalescence and baryon transport.

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## Nuclear modification factor for protons as function of y in AuAu 0-10% 200 GeV

- As already seen with the p/+ ratio, baryons do not behave as mesons; this RAuAu shows the increased proton production at high y. Strong enhancement of pbars at y~3 is not understood, yet.

- protons

- anti-proton

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**Notes:**
Need to update the figure

## RAuAu of (p+pbar)/2 as function of centrality in AuAu 200 GeV

**R****AuAu**** of (p+pbar)/2 as function of centrality in AuAu 200 GeV**

- Remarkable enhancement of proton prod. In peripheral coll.

**y=0**

**y=3**

- Consistent with interplay of energy loss and multiple scattering effects. As well as radial flow.

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**Notes:**
Macros: AuAu/200/PRCmidrapidity/scripts/RaaCentralityProtonY3new.C

## Baryon transport studies

- BRAHMS experimental program will deliver a wealth of information on baryon transport with results that range from p+p collisions at 62.4 and 200 GeV to bigger systems like Cu+Cu and Au+Au at both energies an different centralities

**p+p collisions at 200 GeV**

- Poster by H.H. Dalsgaard

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**Notes:**
Macro: pp/200/hongyan/scripts/stopping

## Centrality dependent net-proton distributions AuAu 200 GeV

**Centrality dependent net-proton distributions AuAu 200 GeV**

- Npart scaling in semi-central to central coll. (below 40%). Similar scaling appears to extend to ~high rapidity. Shape changes are evident at the “rapidity shifted” peak.

- Poster by C. Nygaard

**Hijing-B v1.1**

**AMPT**

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**Notes:**
Macro: /AuAu/200/FV/scripts/netProtonScaledOneColumn.C
Comparison to other models

## Summary and outlook

-  Using some guidance from 3D+1 hydro dynamical expansion calculation, we find that, the fact that  nuclear modification factors remain constant as function of y,  is an indication that other factors besides energy loss do contribute to the overall small measured value. The strength of these effects would grow with y.
-  We have described ongoing analysis of particle production in all the measured systems. In particular, a comparison to  SPS indicates that the K/pi+ ratio is driven by the  B potential.
-  We have reported interesting effects related to protons at moderate pT at high rapidity.
-  We presented results on baryon transport, with special focus on the AuAu system.
-  We need to balance the need to bring analyses to publication and new focus for each member institution.

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## BRAHMS Collaboration

**I. C. Arsene****12****, I. G. Bearden****7****, D. Beavis****1****, S. Bekele****12****, C. Besliu****10****, B. Budick****6****, **
**H. Bøggild****7****, C. Chasman****1****, C. H. Christensen****7****, P. Christiansen****7****, H.Dahlsgaard****7****, R. Debbe****1****, **
**J. J. Gaardhøje****7****, K. Hagel****8****, H. Ito****1****, A. Jipa****10****, E.B.Johnson****11,**** J. I. Jørdre****9****,**
** ****C. E. Jørgensen****7****, R. Karabowicz****5****, ****N. Katrynska****5** ,**E. J. Kim****11****, T. M. Larsen****7****, J. H. Lee****1****, **
**Y. K. Lee****4****,S. Lindahl****12****, G. Løvhøiden****12****, Z. Majka****5****, M. J. Murray****11****,J. Natowitz****8****, C.Nygaard****7**
**B. S. Nielsen****7****, D. Ouerdane****7****, D.Pal****12****, F. Rami****3****, C. Ristea****8****, O. Ristea****11****, **
**D. R****ö****hrich****9****, B. H. Samset****12****, S. J. Sanders****11****, R. A. Scheetz****1****, P. Staszel****5****, **
**T. S. Tveter****12****, F. Videbæk****1****, R. Wada****8****, H. Yang****9****, Z. Yin****9****, I. S. Zgura****2 ****A. Qviller****7**
- 1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA
- 2. Institute of Space Science, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania
- 3. Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien et Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
- 4. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
- 5. M. Smoluchkowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
- 6. New York University, New York, USA
- 7. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 8. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
- 9. University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway
- 10. University of Bucharest, Romania
- 11. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
- 12. University of Oslo, Department of Physics, Oslo, Norway

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