Surface versus volume emissions in photon-hadron correlations
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Surface versus volume emissions in photon-hadron correlations
Han-Zhong Zhang
Institute of Particle Physics, Huazhong Normal University, China
Collaborators: J. Owens, E. Wang and X.-N. Wang
ATHIC 2008, Tsukuba Oct. 14, 2008
I. IntroductionII. Isolated photonIII. Gamma-tagged jet emissions in A+A collisionsIV. Conclusions
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I. Introduction
Jet quenching:
The hard jet loses a significant amount of its energy
via gluon radiation induced by multiple scattering.
hadrons
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N-N collision
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Leading particle suppressed
leading particle suppressed
A-A collision
X.-N.Wang and M.Gyulassy, Phys.Rev.Lett.68,1480(1992)
What happens for a jet propagating inside QGP?
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Three kinds of hard probes of QGP
1) Single jet Single hadron spectra
2) Dijet Hadron-triggered away-side hadron spectra
3) Gamma-jet Photon-triggered away-side hadron spectra
Single jet Dijet Gamma-jet
?H.Z. Zhang, J.F. Owens, E. Wang and X.-N. Wang , PRL 98(2007)212301
Motivation
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Gamma-jet by NLO pQCD parton model
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momentum larger than that of the photons
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FFs modification due to jet quenching
The jet energy loss in a 1D expanding system:
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The modified fragmentation functions:
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II. Isolated photon
Direct photon sources in p+p:
1) Prompt photon from hard scattering
Annihilation Compton 23 tree level 22 one-loop Annihilation Compton
LO NLO
22 tree level
2) Fragmentation or e. g.
bremsstrahlung contributions
7J. F. Owens, Rev. Mod. Phys. 59, 465(1987);
H. Baer, J. Ohnemus, and J. F. Owens, Phys. Rev. D. 42, 61(1990)
Most accompanying hadrons arewithin a cone of half-angle coneR
Isolation Cut (IC)
Generally, the bremsstrahlung photons are always accompanied by nearly collinear hadrons on the same side.
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GammaAn “isolation” cut (IC) are often applied on the electromagnetic signal to separate the prompt photons from other sources.
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NLO results for prompt photons in p+p
Because of IC selected at
RHIC, most fragmentation
contributions from parton
jets are taken out.
Data with IC:
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PHENIX, PRL 98 (2007) 012002
“the measured photon samples … are expected to be isolated from parton jet activity.”
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If we only consider the events where the photon has no nearly collinear hadrons accompanying on the same side, high p_T photon/photon-hadron will be dominated by annihilation and Compton processes.
Focus on isolated photons now
In order to give a simple and clear jet quenching picture in A+A, we will only consider such gamma-jet events in which the photons are isolated or only contributed by annihilation and Compton processes.
Theory prompt photons Ex. IC photons
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Turbide, Gale, Jeon, Moore, Phys. Rev. C. 72 (2005) 014906
High p_T prompt photon dominates in central Au+Au
Other sources in AA:conversion photons;induced photons;thermal photons
With isolation cut applied, the “clean” photons are separated from the “unclean” EM signals in A+A collisions.
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III. Gamma-tagged jet emissions
D_AA gives such a fragmentation function of the final parton jets, which is just weighted with the invariant cross sections of the correlated photons.
Sometimes we call D_AA as the photon-triggered hadron fragmentation functions
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The per-trigger photon-hadron spectra
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the triggered photon:
NLO pQCD results describe
the behavior of the data for
photon-hadron production
in p+p collisions.
Gamma-triggered hadrons in p+p:
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Gamma-triggered hadrons in A+A:
Data from “A. Hamed for STAR, talk at QM2008 and HP2008”
Within the same energy loss formalism as that in our previous studies on single/dihadron spectra in A+A collisions.
Simultaneous fit of single, dihadron and photon-hadron productions.----Another evidence of jet quenching!
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Qualitatively, Iaa in small z_Tregion is slightly more sensitiveto epsilon_0 than Iaa in large z_Tregion. LO
Per-trigger yield for photon-hadron in central Au+Au
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At large z_T:the contributions with energy loss vanish due to jet quenching,dominated by the contributions without energy loss.
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For LO, the jet’s energy can’t exceed the gamma’s energy, no contributions for z_T>1 region.
For NLO, because of 2->3 processes, have z_T>1 contributions.
However 2->2 (tree level + one loop) dominate.
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At small z_T: both contribute.The jets near the center with energy loss dominate.
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The averaged distance <L> for the gamma-triggered parton jets passing through the quark matter.
Surface versus Volume emission
Small zt probes the matter deeper than large zt, so more sensitive.
Surface emission
Volume emission
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Single hadron Dihadron Photon-hadron
More sensitive probe?
NLO
Comparing small-zt gamma-jets to single jets and dijets
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Comparing small-zt gamma-jets to single jets
Gamma-jet Single jetsmall zT
Gam-jets for small zt probes the matter deeper than single jets.
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Comparing small-zt gamma-jets to dijets
Gamma-jet Dijetsmall zT
Because of punch-through jets for dihadrons, it is not sure whether small-zt gam-jets are more sensitive than dijets.
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Hadron-triggered FFs are greater than gamma-triggered FFs
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p+p: Per trigger
Why hadron-triggered FFs are greater than gamma-triggered FFs in pp/AA?
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Au+Au: Per trigger
Volume emission
Tangential ~pp
Why hadron-triggered FFs is greater than gamma-triggered FFs in pp/AA?
Hadron-triggered FFs are greater than gamma-triggered FFs
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IV. Conclusions
1) With isolation cut applied, the “clean” photons are separated from the “unclean” EM signals in A+A collisions. With the “clean” photons tagged, the back-to-back jets are “clearly” stared for checking their energy loss.
2) Within the same energy loss formalism, our numerical results for photon-hadron fit data well, providing another evidence of jet quenching.
3) The suppression factor for hadrons with large z_T is controlled mainly by the surface emission of the gamma-jet events, while small z_T region will be volume emission bias.
4) Gamma-jets for small z_T region probe the dense matter deeper than those for large z_T region, so the gamma-jets for small z_T region are slightly more sensitive to the dense matter properties.
Thanks for your attention!