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Abdallah, Mohamed Samy ; Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, J. R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Atchison, J. ; Bai, Xiaozhi ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhatta, Somadutta ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Cai, Xiang-Zhou ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, Z. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, Jing ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Cheng, Y. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Daugherity, M. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fawzi, F. M. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C. J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Francisco, Audrey ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, S. ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Hoffman, E. ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Y. ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jiang, K. ; Jin, C. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M. L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Khyzhniak, Yevheniia V. ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H. S. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Lan, Shaowei ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lee, J. H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Z. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lin, Y. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N. S. ; Luo, X. F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; McNamara, Grant ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mouli, Mriganka Mouli ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M. I. ; Nain, A. S. ; Nam, J. D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Kishora ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A. S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Pani, Tanmay ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B. R. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Protzman, Tristan ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qin, Z. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robotkova, Monika ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roy, D. ; Chowdhury, P. Roy ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seck, F-J. ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D. Y. ; Shen, K. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Sikora, Rafał ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Solyst, William ; Song, Y. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stewart, David J. ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, C. ; Sun, X. M. ; Sun, X. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Sweger, Zachary W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tsang, C. Y. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J. S. ; Wang, P. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wielanek, Daniel ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Xiao ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, Guannan ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yan, Z. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, Shenghui ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, J. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
Partons traversing the strongly interacting medium produced in heavy-ion collisions are expected to lose energy depending on their color charge and mass. We measure the nuclear modification factors for charm- and bottom-decay electrons, defined as the ratio of yields, scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, in sNN−−−√ = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions to p+p collisions (RAA), or in central to peripheral Au+Au collisions (RCP). We find the bottom-decay electron RAA and RCP to be significantly higher than that of charm-decay electrons. Model calculations including mass-dependent parton energy loss in a strongly coupled medium are consistent with the measured data. These observations provide clear evidence of mass ordering of charm and bottom quark energy loss when traversing through the strongly coupled medium created in heavy-ion collisions.
Abdallah, Mohamed Samy ; Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, J. R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Atchison, J. ; Bai, Xiaozhi ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhatta, Somadutta ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Cai, Xiang-Zhou ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, Z. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, J. ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Cheng, Y. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Daugherity, M. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fawzi, F. M. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C. J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Francisco, Audrey ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, S. ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Hoffman, E. ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Y. ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jiang, K. ; Jin, C. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M. L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Khyzhniak, Yevheniia V. ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H. S. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Lan, Shaowei ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lee, J. H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Z. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lin, Y. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N. S. ; Luo, X. F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; McNamara, Grant ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mouli, Mriganka Mouli ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M. I. ; Nain, A. S. ; Nam, J. D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Kishora ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A. S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Pani, Tanmay ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B. R. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Protzman, Tristan ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qin, Z. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robotkova, Monika ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roy, D. ; Chowdhury, P. Roy ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seck, F-J. ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D. Y. ; Shen, K. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Sikora, Rafał ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Solyst, William ; Song, Y. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stewart, David J. ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, C. ; Sun, X. M. ; Sun, X. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Sweger, Zachary W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tsang, C. Y. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J. S. ; Wang, P. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wielanek, Daniel ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Xiao ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, Guannan ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yan, Z. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, Shenghui ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, J. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
Partons traversing the strongly interacting medium produced in heavy-ion collisions are expected to lose energy depending on their color charge and mass. We measure the nuclear modification factors for charm- and bottom-decay electrons, defined as the ratio of yields, scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, in sNN−−−√ = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions to p+p collisions (RAA), or in central to peripheral Au+Au collisions (RCP). We find the bottom-decay electron RAA and RCP to be significantly higher than that of charm-decay electrons. Model calculations including mass-dependent parton energy loss in a strongly coupled medium are consistent with the measured data. These observations provide clear evidence of mass ordering of charm and bottom quark energy loss when traversing through the strongly coupled medium created in heavy-ion collisions.
Abdallah, Mohamed Samy ; Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Aitbaev, A. ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aparin, Alexey ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Ashraf, Muhammad Usman ; Atetalla, F. G. ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Behera, Arabinda ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Cai, Xiang-Zhou ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, F-H. ; Chang, Z. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, J. ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Daugherity, M. ; Dedovich, T. G. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fawzi, F. M. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C. J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Francisco, Audrey ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, S. ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Hoffman, E. ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Y. ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jiang, K. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M. L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H. S. ; Kočenda, L. M. ; Korobitsin, A. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Lan, Shaowei ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J. H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lin, Y. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, P. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, Z. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N. S. ; Luo, X. F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Manukhov, S. L. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mouli, Mriganka Mouli ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M. ; Nam, J. D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Kishora ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A. S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Parfenov, P. ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B. R. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robotkova, Monika ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roy, D. ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Samigullin, E. ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schweid, Benjamin R. ; Seck, Florian ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D. Y. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Sikora, Rafał ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Solyst, William ; Song, Y. ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stefaniak, Maria ; Stewart, David J. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, X. M. ; Sun, Xu ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Sweger, Zachary W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Taranenko, Arkadiy ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J. S. ; Wang, P. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, Guannan ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
The strong force, as one of the four fundamental forces at work in the universe, governs interactions of quarks and gluons, and binds together the atomic nucleus. Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange, a full understanding of the strong interaction remains a major challenge in modern science. One remaining difficulty arises from the non-perturbative nature of the strong force, which leads to the phenomenon of quark confinement at distance scales on the order of the size of the proton. Here we show that in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, where quarks and gluons are set free over an extended volume, two species of produced vector (spin-1) mesons, namely ϕ and K∗0, emerge with a surprising pattern of global spin alignment. In particular, the global spin alignment for ϕ is unexpectedly large, while that for K∗0 is consistent with zero. The observed spin-alignment pattern and magnitude for the ϕ cannot be explained by conventional mechanisms, while a model with strong force fields accommodates the current data. This is the first time that the strong force field is experimentally supported as a key mechanism that leads to global spin alignment. We extract a quantity proportional to the intensity of the field of the strong force. Within the framework of the Standard Model, where the strong force is typically described in the quark and gluon language of Quantum Chromodynamics, the field being considered here is an effective proxy description. This is a qualitatively new class of measurement, which opens a new avenue for studying the behaviour of strong force fields via their imprint on spin alignment.
Abdallah, Mohamed Samy ; Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Aitbaev, A. ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aparin, Alexey ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Ashraf, Muhammad Usman ; Atetalla, F. G. ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Behera, Arabinda ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Cai, Xiang-Zhou ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, F-H. ; Chang, Z. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, J. ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Daugherity, M. ; Dedovich, T. G. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fawzi, F. M. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C. J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Francisco, Audrey ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, S. ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Hoffman, E. ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Y. ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jiang, K. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M. L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H. S. ; Kočenda, L. M. ; Korobitsin, A. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Lan, Shaowei ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J. H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lin, Y. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, P. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, Z. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N. S. ; Luo, X. F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Manukhov, S. L. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mouli, Mriganka Mouli ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M. ; Nam, J. D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Kishora ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A. S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Parfenov, P. ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B. R. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robotkova, Monika ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roy, D. ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Samigullin, E. ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schweid, Benjamin R. ; Seck, Florian ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D. Y. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Sikora, Rafał ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Solyst, William ; Song, Y. ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stefaniak, Maria ; Stewart, David J. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, X. M. ; Sun, Xu ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Sweger, Zachary W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Taranenko, Arkadiy ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J. S. ; Wang, P. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, Guannan ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
The strong force, as one of the four fundamental forces at work in the universe, governs interactions of quarks and gluons, and binds together the atomic nucleus. Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange, a full understanding of the strong interaction remains a major challenge in modern science. One remaining difficulty arises from the non-perturbative nature of the strong force, which leads to the phenomenon of quark confinement at distance scales on the order of the size of the proton. Here we show that in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, where quarks and gluons are set free over an extended volume, two species of produced vector (spin-1) mesons, namely ϕ and K∗0, emerge with a surprising pattern of global spin alignment. In particular, the global spin alignment for ϕ is unexpectedly large, while that for K∗0 is consistent with zero. The observed spin-alignment pattern and magnitude for the ϕ cannot be explained by conventional mechanisms, while a model with strong force fields accommodates the current data. This is the first time that the strong force field is experimentally supported as a key mechanism that leads to global spin alignment. We extract a quantity proportional to the intensity of the field of the strong force. Within the framework of the Standard Model, where the strong force is typically described in the quark and gluon language of Quantum Chromodynamics, the field being considered here is an effective proxy description. This is a qualitatively new class of measurement, which opens a new avenue for studying the behaviour of strong force fields via their imprint on spin alignment.
Abdallah, Mohamed Samy ; Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Aitbaev, A. ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aparin, Alexey ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Ashraf, Muhammad Usman ; Atetalla, F. G. ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Behera, Arabinda ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Cai, Xiang-Zhou ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, F-H. ; Chang, Z. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, J. ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Daugherity, M. ; Dedovich, T. G. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fawzi, F. M. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C. J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Francisco, Audrey ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, S. ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Hoffman, E. ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Y. ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jiang, K. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M. L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H. S. ; Kočenda, L. M. ; Korobitsin, A. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Lan, Shaowei ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J. H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lin, Y. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, P. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, Z. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N. S. ; Luo, X. F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Manukhov, S. L. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mouli, Mriganka Mouli ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M. ; Nam, J. D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Kishora ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A. S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Parfenov, P. ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B. R. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robotkova, Monika ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roy, D. ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Samigullin, E. ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schweid, Benjamin R. ; Seck, Florian ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D. Y. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Sikora, Rafał ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Solyst, William ; Song, Y. ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stefaniak, Maria ; Stewart, David J. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, X. M. ; Sun, Xu ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Sweger, Zachary W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Taranenko, Arkadiy ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J. S. ; Wang, P. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, Guannan ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange, a full understanding of the strong interaction remains a major challenge in modern science. One remaining difficulty arises from the non-perturbative nature of the strong force, which leads to the phenomenon of quark confinement at distances on the order of the size of the proton. Here we show that in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, where quarks and gluons are set free over an extended volume, two species of produced vector (spin-1) mesons, namely ϕ and K∗0, emerge with a surprising pattern of global spin alignment. In particular, the global spin alignment for ϕ is unexpectedly large, while that for K∗0 is consistent with zero. The observed spin-alignment pattern and magnitude for the ϕ cannot be explained by conventional mechanisms, while a model with a connection to strong force fields, i.e. an effective proxy description within the Standard Model and Quantum Chromodynamics, accommodates the current data. This connection, if fully established, will open a potential new avenue for studying the behaviour of strong force fields.
Di-hadron correlations with identified leading hadrons in 200 GeV Au+Au and d+Au collisions at STAR
(2015)
Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Aparin, Alexey ; Arkhipkin, Dmitry A. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Bai, Xiaozhi ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Banerjee, A. ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhati, Ashok Kumar ; Bhattarai, P. ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Bouchet, J. ; Brandenburg, D. ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Bunzarov, Ivan ; Butterworth, Joseph ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Campbell, J.M. ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Cervantes, M.C. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chang, Z. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, X. ; Chen, J.H. ; Cheng, J. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Christie, William ; Contin, Giacomo ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Das, Supriya ; De Silva, L.C. ; Debbe, R.R. ; Dedovič, Tatiana G. ; Deng, J. ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; di Ruzza, Benedetto ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dilks, Christopher ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Draper, James E. ; Du, C.M. ; Dunkelberger, L.E. ; Dunlop, James C. ; Efimov, Leonid G. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esha, Roli ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Federič, Pavol ; Fedorišin, Jan ; Feng, Z. ; Filip, Peter ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flores, C.E. ; Fulek, Łukasz ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Garand, D. ; Geurts, Frank ; Gibson, Adam ; Girard, M. ; Greiner, Leo Clifford ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gunarathne, D.S. ; Guo, Y. ; Gupta, S. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamad, Ayman ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Haque, R. ; Harris, John W. ; He, L. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Hirsch, Andrew S. ; Hoffmann, Gerald W. ; Hofman, D.J. ; Horvat, S. ; Huang, T. ; Huang, Bingchu ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, X. ; Huck, P. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Igo, George J. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jang, H. ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jiang, K. ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Khan, Z.H. ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard ; Kočenda, L. M. ; Koetke, Donald D. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kraishan, A.F. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Krueger, Keith William ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Lamont, Matthew A. C. ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Landry, K.D. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J.H. ; Li, X. ; Li, W. ; Li, Z.M. ; Li, Y. ; Li, C. ; Li, X. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomnitz, M. ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Luo, X. ; Ma, G.L. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Ma, R. ; Ma, L. ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Majka, Richard Daniel ; Manion, A. ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Masui, H. ; Matis, Howard S. ; McDonald, Daniel ; Meehan, K. ; Mei, J.C. ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mishra, Debadeepti ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mouli, Mriganka Mouli ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Mustafa, M.K. ; Nandi, Basanta Kumar ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Tapan Kumar ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Noh, S.Y. ; Novak, J. ; Nurušev, Sandibek B. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, K. ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Olvitt, D. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Y.X. ; Pandit, Y. ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pei, Hua ; Perkins, Chris ; Peterson, A. ; Pile, P. ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Poniatowska, K. ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Poskanzer, Arthur M. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Ramachandran, Suvarna ; Raniwala, Rashmi ; Raniwala, Sudhir ; Ray, Robert L. ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roberts, Jabus B. ; Rogačevskij, Oleg V. ; Romero, Juan L. ; Roy, Ankhi ; Ruan, L. ; Rusnak, Jan ; Rusnakova, O. ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sahu, Pradip Kumar ; Sakrejda, Iwona ; Salur, Sevil ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Sarkar, Amal ; Schambach, Joachim ; Scharenberg, Rolf Paul ; Schmah, Alexander ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Sharma, B. ; Sharma, M.K. ; Shen, W.Q. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shou, Q.Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Sikora, Rafał ; Šimko, Miroslav ; Singha, Subhash ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Smirnov, Dmitri V. ; Song, L. ; Sorensen, Paul Richard ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stepanov, M. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Šumbera, Michal ; Summa, Branden ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Z. ; Sun, X.M. ; Sun, X. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Szelezniak, M.A. ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Tawfik, Abdel Nasser ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; van Nieuwenhuizen, G. ; Vandenbroucke, M. ; Varma, Raghava ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vértesi, Róbert ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Viyogi, Yogendra P. ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Vossen, A. ; Wang, J.S. ; Wang, F. ; Wang, H. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Webb, Grant ; Webb, Jason C. ; Wen, L. ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, Y.F. ; Wu ; Xiao, Z.G. ; Xie, W. ; Xin, K. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y.F. ; Xu, N. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, Y. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yepes, Pablo P. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Yu, N. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, J.B. ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, X.P. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, J. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhong, C. ; Zhou, L. ; Zhu, X. ; Zoulkarneeva, Youlia
The STAR collaboration presents for the first time two-dimensional di-hadron correlations with identified leading hadrons in 200 GeV central Au+Au and minimum-bias d+Au collisions to explore hadronization mechanisms in the quark gluon plasma. The enhancement of the jet-like yield for leading pions in Au+Au data with respect to the d+Au reference and the absence of such an enhancement for leading non-pions (protons and kaons) are discussed within the context of a quark recombination scenario. The correlated yield at large angles, specifically in the \emph{ridge region}, is found to be significantly higher for leading non-pions than pions. The consistencies of the constituent quark scaling, azimuthal harmonic model and a mini-jet modification model description of the data are tested, providing further constraints on hadronization.
Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Atchison, J. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhatta, Somadutta ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Cai, Xiang-Zhou ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Češka, Jakub ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, Z. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, J. ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Cheng, Y. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Dale-Gau, Gabriel ; Das, A. ; Daugherity, M. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C. J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flor, Fernando Antonio ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Y. ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jalotra, Ashish ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jin, C. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M. L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Khyzhniak, Yevheniia V. ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H. S. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lee, J. H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Z. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, C. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, L. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, Z. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomicky, O. ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N. S. ; Luo, X. F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; McNamara, Grant ; Mi, K. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M. I. ; Nain, A. S. ; Nam, J. D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A. S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Pani, Tanmay ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B. R. ; Posik, Matthew ; Protzman, Tristan ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qin, Z. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robertson, C. W. ; Robotkova, Monika ; Aguilar, M. A. Rosales ; Roy, D. ; Chowdhury, P. Roy ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seck, F-J. ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, Monika ; Sharma, Natasha ; Sharma, R. ; Sharma, S. R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D. Y. ; Shen, K. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Si, F. ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Song, Y. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stefaniak, Maria ; Stewart, David J. ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Su, Y. ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, C. ; Sun, X. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Sweger, Zachary W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tamis, A. ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tsang, C. Y. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J. S. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wielanek, Daniel ; Wieman, Howard ; Wilks, G. ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Xiao ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yan, Z. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, X. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, J. ; Zhou, S. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
A decisive experimental test of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is considered one of the major scientific goals at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) towards understanding the nontrivial topological fluctuations of the Quantum Chromodynamics vacuum. In heavy-ion collisions, the CME is expected to result in a charge separation phenomenon across the reaction plane, whose strength could be strongly energy dependent. The previous CME searches have been focused on top RHIC energy collisions. In this Letter, we present a low energy search for the CME in Au+Au collisions at sNN−−−√=27 GeV. We measure elliptic flow scaled charge-dependent correlators relative to the event planes that are defined at both mid-rapidity |η|<1.0 and at forward rapidity 2.1<|η|<5.1. We compare the results based on the directed flow plane (Ψ1) at forward rapidity and the elliptic flow plane (Ψ2) at both central and forward rapidity. The CME scenario is expected to result in a larger correlation relative to Ψ1 than to Ψ2, while a flow driven background scenario would lead to a consistent result for both event planes. In 10-50\% centrality, results using three different event planes are found to be consistent within experimental uncertainties, suggesting a flow driven background scenario dominating the measurement. We obtain an upper limit on the deviation from a flow driven background scenario at the 95\% confidence level. This work opens up a possible road map towards future CME search with the high statistics data from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Phase-II.
Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Atchison, J. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhatta, Somadutta ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Cai, Xiang-Zhou ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Češka, Jakub ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, Z. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, J. ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Cheng, Y. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Dale-Gau, Gabriel ; Das, A. ; Daugherity, M. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C. J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flor, Fernando Antonio ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Y. ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jalotra, Ashish ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jin, C. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M. L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Khyzhniak, Yevheniia V. ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H. S. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lee, J. H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Z. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, C. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, L. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, Z. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomicky, O. ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N. S. ; Luo, X. F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; McNamara, Grant ; Mi, K. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M. I. ; Nain, A. S. ; Nam, J. D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A. S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Pani, Tanmay ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B. R. ; Posik, Matthew ; Protzman, Tristan ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qin, Z. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robertson, C. W. ; Robotkova, Monika ; Aguilar, M. A. Rosales ; Roy, D. ; Chowdhury, P. Roy ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seck, F-J. ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, Monika ; Sharma, Natasha ; Sharma, R. ; Sharma, S. R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D. Y. ; Shen, K. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Si, F. ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Song, Y. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stefaniak, Maria ; Stewart, David J. ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Su, Y. ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, C. ; Sun, X. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Sweger, Zachary W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tamis, A. ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tsang, C. Y. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J. S. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wielanek, Daniel ; Wieman, Howard ; Wilks, G. ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Xiao ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yan, Z. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, X. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, J. ; Zhou, S. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
A decisive experimental test of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is considered one of the major scientific goals at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) towards understanding the nontrivial topological fluctuations of the Quantum Chromodynamics vacuum. In heavy-ion collisions, the CME is expected to result in a charge separation phenomenon across the reaction plane, whose strength could be strongly energy dependent. The previous CME searches have been focused on top RHIC energy collisions. In this Letter, we present a low energy search for the CME in Au+Au collisions at sNN−−−√=27 GeV. We measure elliptic flow scaled charge-dependent correlators relative to the event planes that are defined at both mid-rapidity |η|<1.0 and at forward rapidity 2.1<|η|<5.1. We compare the results based on the directed flow plane (Ψ1) at forward rapidity and the elliptic flow plane (Ψ2) at both central and forward rapidity. The CME scenario is expected to result in a larger correlation relative to Ψ1 than to Ψ2, while a flow driven background scenario would lead to a consistent result for both event planes. In 10-50\% centrality, results using three different event planes are found to be consistent within experimental uncertainties, suggesting a flow driven background scenario dominating the measurement. We obtain an upper limit on the deviation from a flow driven background scenario at the 95\% confidence level. This work opens up a possible road map towards future CME search with the high statistics data from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Phase-II.
Aboona, Bassam ; Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Aggarwal, Ishu ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Atchison, J. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Baker, W. ; Ball Cap, Jonathan Gonzalo ; Barish, Kenneth ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhagat, Pratibha ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhatta, Somadutta ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Cai, X.Z. ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Češka, Jakub ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B.K. ; Chang, Z. ; Chen, D. ; Chen, J. ; Chen, J.H. ; Chen, Z. ; Cheng, J. ; Cheng, Y. ; Choudhury, Subikash ; Christie, William ; Chu, Xiaoxuan ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Dale-Gau, Gabriel ; Das, A. ; Daugherity, M. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Dhamija, A. ; Di Carlo, L. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dixit, Prabhupada ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Duckworth, Emilie ; Dunlop, James C. ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, A. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Feng, C.J. ; Feng, Yicheng ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Flor, Fernando Antonio ; Fu, C. ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Ghimire, Navagyan ; Gibson, Adam ; Gopal, Krishan ; Gou, X. ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Han, Y. ; Harabasz, Szymon ; Harasty, Matthew D. ; Harris, John W. ; Harrison, Hannah ; He, W. ; He, Xionghong ; He, Y. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hu, C. ; Hu, Q. ; Hu, Yu ; Huang, H. ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Huang, Y. ; Huang, Y. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Isenhower, D. ; Isshiki, M. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jalotra, Ashish ; Jena, Chitrasen ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Ji, Yuanjing ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jin, C. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kabir, M.L. ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Khyzhniak, Yevheniia V. ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kimelman, B. ; Kincses, D. ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kiselev, A. ; Knospe, Anders Garritt ; Ko, H.S. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kumar, Shyam ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lee, J.H. ; Leung, Yue Hang ; Lewis, N. ; Li, C. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Y. ; Li, Z. ; Liang, X. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, C. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, L. ; Liu, Tong ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, Z. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomicky, O. ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Loyd, E. ; Lu, T. ; Lukow, N.S. ; Luo, X.F. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; McNamara, Grant ; Mi, K. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Mukherjee, A. ; Nagy, M.I. ; Nain, A.S. ; Nam, J.D. ; Nasim, Md. ; Neff, D. ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nishitani, R. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Nunes, A.S. ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okubo, K. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Pan, Jinjin ; Pandav, Ashish ; Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar ; Pani, Tanmay ; Paul, A. ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pawłowska, Diana ; Perkins, Chris ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Pokhrel, B.R. ; Posik, Matthew ; Protzman, Tristan ; Prozorova, V. ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Qin, Z. ; Qiu, H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Racz, Cameron ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Raha, N. ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Robertson, C.W. ; Robotkova, Monika ; Rosales Aguilar, M.A. ; Roy, D. ; Roy Chowdhury, P. ; Ruan, L. ; Sahoo, Aswini Kumar ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sako, H. ; Salur, Sevil ; Sato, Susumu ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Seck, F.-J. ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shao, Tianhao ; Sharma, Monika ; Sharma, Natasha ; Sharma, R. ; Sharma, S.R. ; Sheikh, Ashik Ikbal ; Shen, D.Y. ; Shen, K. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shi, Y. ; Shou, Q.Y. ; Si, F. ; Singh, J. ; Singha, Subhash ; Sinha, P. ; Skoby, Michael J. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Söhngen, Yannick ; Song, Y. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stefaniak, Maria ; Stewart, David J. ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Su, Y. ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Šumbera, Michal ; Sun, C. ; Sun, X. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Sweger, Z.W. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tamis, A. ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Tlusty, David ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tomkiel, C.A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Truhlar, Tomas ; Trzeciak, Barbara Antonina ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tsang, C.Y. ; Tu, Zhoudunming ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Verkest, Veronica ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, J.S. ; Wang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Z. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Weidenkaff, Philipp ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wielanek, Daniel ; Wieman, Howard ; Wilks, G. ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, J. ; Wu, J. ; Wu, Xiao ; Wu, Y. ; Xi, B. ; Xiao, Z.G. ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Y. ; Xu, Z. ; Xu, Z. ; Yan, G. ; Yan, Z. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Y. ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yu, Y. ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, C. ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, X. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z.J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, F. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhao, M. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhou, J. ; Zhou, S. ; Zhou, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
A decisive experimental test of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is considered one of the major scientific goals at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) towards understanding the nontrivial topological fluctuations of the Quantum Chromodynamics vacuum. In heavy-ion collisions, the CME is expected to result in a charge separation phenomenon across the reaction plane, whose strength could be strongly energy dependent. The previous CME searches have been focused on top RHIC energy collisions. In this Letter, we present a low energy search for the CME in Au+Au collisions at sNN−−−√=27 GeV. We measure elliptic flow scaled charge-dependent correlators relative to the event planes that are defined at both mid-rapidity |η|<1.0 and at forward rapidity 2.1<|η|<5.1. We compare the results based on the directed flow plane (Ψ1) at forward rapidity and the elliptic flow plane (Ψ2) at both central and forward rapidity. The CME scenario is expected to result in a larger correlation relative to Ψ1 than to Ψ2, while a flow driven background scenario would lead to a consistent result for both event planes. In 10-50\% centrality, results using three different event planes are found to be consistent within experimental uncertainties, suggesting a flow driven background scenario dominating the measurement. We obtain an upper limit on the deviation from a flow driven background scenario at the 95\% confidence level. This work opens up a possible road map towards future CME search with the high statistics data from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Phase-II.
Adam, Jaroslav ; Adamczyk, Leszek ; Adams, Joseph R. ; Adkins, J. Kevin ; Agakishiev, Geydar ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan ; Ahammed, Zubayer ; Alekseev, Igor G. ; Anderson, Derek M. ; Aoyama, Ryo ; Aparin, Alexey ; Arkhipkin, Dmitry A. ; Aschenauer, Elke Caroline ; Ashraf, Muhammad Usman ; Atetalla, Fareha ; Attri, Anjali ; Averichev, Georgy S. ; Bairathi, Vipul ; Barish, Kenneth ; Bassill, Aaron J. ; Behera, Arabinda ; Bellwied, Rene ; Bhasin, Anju ; Bhati, Ashok Kumar ; Bielčík, Jaroslav ; Bielčíková, Jana ; Bland, Leslie C. ; Bordyuzhin, Igor G. ; Brandenburg, James D. ; Brandin, Andrei V. ; Bryslawskyj, Jason ; Bunzarov, Ivan ; Butterworth, Joseph ; Caines, Helen Louise ; Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Manuel ; Cebra, Daniel A. ; Chakaberia, Irakli ; Chaloupka, Petr ; Chan, B. K. ; Chang, F-H. ; Chang, Z. ; Chankova-Bunzarova, N. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chen, J. H. ; Chen, X. ; Cheng, J. ; Cherney, Michael Gerard ; Christie, William ; Crawford, Henry J. ; Csanád, Máté ; Das, Supriya ; Dedovich, T. G. ; Deppner, Ingo Martin ; Derevschikov, Anatoly A. ; Didenko, Lidia ; Dilks, Christopher ; Dong, X. ; Drachenberg, James Lucus ; Dunlop, James C. ; Edmonds, Terrence ; Elsey, Nicholas ; Engelage, Jon M. ; Eppley, Geary Wareham ; Esha, Roli ; Esumi, ShinIchi ; Evdokimov, Olga Y. ; Ewigleben, J. ; Eyser, Kjeld Oleg ; Fatemi, Renee H. ; Fazio, Salvatore ; Federič, Pavol ; Fedorišin, Jan ; Feng, Yicheng ; Filip, Peter ; Finch, Evan ; Fisyak, Yuri V. ; Fulek, Łukasz ; Gagliardi, Carl A. ; Galatyuk, Tetyana ; Geurts, Frank ; Gibson, Adam ; Grosnick, David P. ; Gupta, Anik ; Guryn, Włodzimierz ; Hamad, A. I. ; Hamed, Ahmed M. ; Harris, John W. ; He, L. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Heppelmann, S. ; Herrmann, Norbert ; Holub, Lukáš ; Hong, Y. ; Horvat, S. ; Huang, Bingchu ; Huang, Huan Zhong ; Huang, Shengli ; Huang, T. ; Huang, X. ; Humanic, Thomas J. ; Huo, P. ; Igo, George J. ; Jacobs, William W. ; Jentsch, Alexander ; Jia, Jiangyong ; Jiang, K. ; Jowzaee, S. ; Ju, Xin-Yue ; Judd, Eleanor G. ; Kabana, Sonia ; Kagamaster, Skipper ; Kalinkin, Dmitry ; Kang, K. ; Kapukchyan, David ; Kauder, Kolja ; Ke, Hongwei ; Keane, Declan ; Kechechyan, Armen ; Kelsey, Matthew ; Kikoła, Daniel P. ; Kim, C. ; Kinghorn, Todd Adler ; Kisel, Ivan ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard ; Kocan, Michal ; Kočenda, L. M. ; Kosarzewski, Leszek Krzysztof ; Kramarik, L. ; Kravtsov, Peter ; Krueger, Keith William ; Mudiyanselage, N. Kulathunga ; Kumar, Lokesh ; Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Raghav ; Kwasizur, Joseph H. ; Lacey, Roy Alphanso ; Landgraf, Jeffery M. ; Lauret, Jerome ; Lebedev, Alexei ; Lednicky, Richard ; Lee, J. H. ; Li, C. ; Li, W. ; Li, W. ; Li, X. ; Li, Y. ; Liang, Y. ; Licenik, Robert ; Lin, T. ; Lipiec, Andrzej ; Lisa, Michael A. ; Liu, F. ; Liu, H. ; Liu, P. ; Liu, P. ; Liu, X. ; Liu, Y. ; Liu, Z. ; Ljubicic, Tonko A. ; Llope, William Joseph ; Lomnitz, M. ; Longacre, Ronald S. ; Luo, S. ; Luo, X. ; Ma, G. L. ; Ma, L. ; Ma, R. ; Ma, Yu-Gang ; Magdy Abdelwahab Abdelrahman, Niseem ; Majka, Richard Daniel ; Mallick, Dukhishyam ; Margetis, Spyridon ; Markert, Christina ; Matis, Howard S. ; Matonoha, Oliver ; Mazer, Joel Anthony ; Meehan, K. ; Mei, J. C. ; Minaev, Nikolai G. ; Mioduszewski, Saskia ; Mishra, Debadeepti ; Mohanty, Bedangadas ; Mouli, Mriganka Mouli ; Mooney, Isaac A. ; Moravcova, Zuzana ; Morozov, Dmitry A. ; Nasim, Md. ; Nayak, Kishora ; Nelson, John M. ; Nemes, Daniel B. ; Nie, M. ; Nigmatkulov, Grigory A. ; Niida, Takafumi ; Nogach, Larisa V. ; Nonaka, Toshihiro ; Odyniec, Grazyna Janina ; Ogawa, Akio ; Oh, K. ; Oh, Saehanseul ; Okorokov, Vitaly A. ; Page, Brian S. ; Pak, Robert ; Panebratsev, Yuri ; Pawlik, Bogdan ; Pei, Hua ; Perkins, Chris ; Pinter, Roland Laszlo ; Pluta, Jan Marian ; Porter, Jeffrey Brent ; Posik, Matthew ; Pruthi, Navneet Kumar ; Przybycien, Mariusz ; Putschke, Jörn H. ; Quintero, Amilkar ; Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Krishnan ; Ramachandran, Suvarna ; Ray, Robert L. ; Reed, Rosi Jan ; Ritter, Hans Georg ; Roberts, Jabus B. ; Rogačevskij, Oleg V. ; Romero, Juan L. ; Ruan, L. ; Rusnak, Jan ; Rusnakova, O. ; Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan ; Sahu, Pradip Kumar ; Salur, Sevil ; Sandweiss, Jack H. ; Schambach, Joachim ; Schmidke, William B. ; Schmitz, Norbert ; Schweid, Benjamin R. ; Seck, Florian ; Seger, Janet Elizabeth ; Sergeeva, Maria ; Seto, Richard ; Seyboth, Peter ; Shah, N. ; Shahaliev, Ehtiram ; Shanmuganathan, Prashanth V. ; Shao, M. ; Shen, F. ; Shen, W. Q. ; Shi, Shusu ; Shou, Q. Y. ; Sichtermann, Ernst P. ; Siejka, Sebastian ; Sikora, Rafał ; Šimko, Miroslav ; JSingh ; Singha, Subhash ; Smirnov, Dmitri V. ; Smirnov, Nikolai ; Solyst, William ; Sorensen, Paul Richard ; Spinka, Harold. M. ; Srivastava, B. ; Stanislaus, T. D. Shirvel ; Stewart, David J. ; Strichanov, Michail Nikolaevič ; Stringfellow, Blair ; Suaide, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo ; Sugiura, Tetsuro ; Šumbera, Michal ; Summa, Branden ; Sun, X. M. ; Sun, Y. ; Sun, Y. ; Surrow, Bernd ; Svirida, Dmitry N. ; Szymański, Paweł ; Tang, Aihong ; Tang, Zebo ; Taranenko, Arkadiy ; Tarnowsky, Terence J. ; Thomas, James H. ; Timmins, Anthony Robert ; Todoroki, Takahito ; Tokarev, Mikhail V. ; Tomkiel, C. A. ; Trentalange, Stephen ; Tribble, Robert E. ; Tribedy, Prithwish ; Tripathy, Srikanta Kumar ; Tsai, Oleg D. ; Tu, B. ; Ullrich, Thomas ; Underwood, David G. ; Upsal, Isaac ; Van Buren, Gene ; Vanek, Jan ; Vasiliev, Alexander Nikolaevich ; Vassiliev, Iouri ; Videbæk, Flemming ; Vokal, Stanislav ; Voloshin, Sergei ; Wang, F. ; Wang, G. ; Wang, P. ; Wang, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Webb, Jason C. ; Wen, L. ; Westfall, Gary D. ; Wieman, Howard ; Wissink, Scott W. ; Witt, Richard ; Wu, Y. ; Xiao, Z. G. ; Xie, Guannan ; Xie, W. ; Xu, H. ; Xu, N. ; Xu, Qinghua ; Xu, Y. F. ; Xu, Z. ; Yang, C. ; Yang, Q. ; Yang, S. ; Yang, Yi ; Ye, Z. ; Ye, Z. ; Yi, L. ; Yip, K. ; Yoo, In-Kwon ; Zbroszczyk, Hanna Paulina ; Zha, Wangmei ; Zhang, Dingwei ; Zhang, L. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, S. ; Zhang, X. P. ; Zhang, Y. ; Zhang, Z. ; Zhao, J. ; Zhong, C. ; Zhou, C. ; Zhu, X. ; Zhu, Z. ; Żurek, Maria Katarzyna ; Zyzak, Maksym
We report on the first measurements of J/ψ production at very low transverse momentum (pT< 0.2 GeV/c) in hadronic Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV and U+U collisions at √sNN = 193 GeV. Remarkably, the inferred nuclear modification factor of J/ψ at mid-rapidity in Au+Au (U+U) collisions reaches about 24 (52) for pT< 0.05 GeV/c in the 60-80% collision centrality class. This noteworthy enhancement cannot be explained by hadronic production accompanied by cold and hot medium effects. In addition, the dN/dt distribution of J/ψ for the very low pT range is presented for the first time. The distribution is consistent with that expected from the Au nucleus and shows a hint of interference. Comparison of the measurements to theoretical calculations of coherent production shows that the excess yield can be described reasonably well and reveals a partial disruption of coherent production in semi-central collisions, perhaps due to the violent hadronic interactions. Incorporating theoretical calculations, the results strongly suggest that the dramatic enhancement of J/ψ yield observed at extremely low pT originates from coherent photon-nucleus interactions. In particular, coherently produced J/ψ's in violent hadronic collisions may provide a novel probe of the quark-gluon-plasma.