A Theoretical Approach to Study J/Ψ Suppression in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions with Ellipsoidal Evolution

With a view to understanding J/Ψ suppression in relativistic heavy ion collisions, we compute the suppression rate within the framework of hy-drodynamical evolution model. For this, we consider an ellipsoidal flow and use an ansatz for temperature profile function which accounts for time and the three dimensional space evolution of the quark-gluon plas-ma. We have calculated the survival probability separately as the func-tion of transverse and longitudinal momentum. We have shown that previous calculations are special cases of this model.

Hadronic rapidity spectra in heavy ion collisions at SPS and AGS energies in a quark combination model

The quark combination mechanism of hadron production is applied to nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron （SPS） and the BNL Alternating Gradient Synchrotron （AGS）.The rapidity spectra of identified hadrons and their spectrum widths are studied.The data of π -,K±,φ,Λ,Λ,Ξ - and Ξ＋ at 80 and 40 A GeV,and in particular at 30 and 20 A GeV where the onset of deconfinement is suggested to happen,are consistently described by the quark combination model.However,at AGS 11.6 A GeV below the onset,the π±,K±and Λ spectra cannot be simultaneously explained,indicating the disappearance of the intrinsic correlation of their production in the constituent quark level.The collision-energy dependence of the rapidity spectrum widths of the constituent quarks,and the strangeness of the hot and dense quark matter produced in heavy ion collisions,are obtained and discussed.

Energy dependence of resonance production in relativistic heavy ion collisions

The production of the hadronic resonances K^＊0（892）,φ（1020）,∑^＊（1385）,and Ξ^＊（1530） in central AA collisions at √SNN=17.3,200,and 2760 GeV is systematically studied.The direct production of these resonances at system hadronization is described by the quark combination model and the effects of hadron multiple-scattering stage are dealt with by a ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics model（UrQMD）.We study the contribution of these two production sources to final observation and compare the final spectra with the available experimental data.The pT spectra of K^＊0（892） calculated directly by quark combination model are explicitly higher than the data at low pT≤1.5 GeV,and taking into account the modification of rescattering effects,the resulting final spectra well agree with the data at all three collision energies.The rescattering effect on φ（1020） production is weak and including it can slightly improve our description at low p_T on the basis of overall agreement with the data.We also predict the pT spectra of ∑^＊（1385） and Ξ^＊（1530）,to be tested by the future experimental data.

Photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions with equilibrium and non-equilibrium QGP

We consider the production sources of prompt and thermal photons which include the contribution of gluons in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Considering in our calculation the shadowing and iso-spin effects of the nucleus we can properly estimate the prompt photon production. We develop a new thermal jet-photon conversion mechanism which plays a vital role in the low transverse momentum region. The effect of the non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma enhances the contribution of thermal photons.

Critical phenomena in a disc-percolation model and their application to relativistic heavy ion collisions

By studying the critical phenomena in continuum-percolation of discs, we find a new approach to locate the critical point, i.e. using the inflection point of P∞ as an evaluation of the percolation threshold. The susceptibility, defined as the derivative of P∞, possesses a finite-size scaling property, where the scaling exponent is the reciprocal of v, the critical exponent of the correlation length. A possible application of this approach to the study of the critical phenomena in relativistic heavy ion collisions is discussed. The critical point for deconfinement can be extracted by the inflection point of PQGP -- the probability for the event with QGP formation. The finite-size scaling of its derivative can give the critical exponent v, which is a rare case that can provide an experimental measure of a critical exponent in heavy ion collisions.

Model investigation on the mechanism of QGP formation in relativistic heavy ion collisions

On the basis of the nontopological soliton bag model, it is proposed that the quark decon-finement may be indicated by the unstability and disappearance of solition solutions at finite-temperature and finite-density. The thermal effects on the vacuum structure of strongly interacting matter are investigated, and the soliton field equation of the model is solved directly in the whole range of temperature via a numerical method. The phase structure of the system and the features of deconfining phase transition are analysed in detail. In addition, the collective excitations in the vacuum caused by thermal effects are investigated by making use of an order parameter which is given to describe the vacuum condensation at finite temperature. A physical mechanism and an intuitive picture are presented for the formation of QGP from both deconfined hardon matter and the vacuum excitation in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Novel quantum phenomena induced by strong magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions

The relativistic heavy-ion collisions create both hot quark–gluon matter and strong magnetic fields, and provide an arena to study the interplay between quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics. In recent years, it has been shown that such an interplay can generate a number of interesting quantum phenomena in hadronic and quark–gluon matter. In this short review, we first discuss some properties of the magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions and then give an overview of the magnetic fieldinduced novel quantum effects. In particular, we focus on the magnetic effect on the heavy flavor mesons, the heavyquark transports, and the phenomena closely related to chiral anomaly.

Isoscalar-vector interaction and its influence on the hadron-quark phase transition

The hadron-quark phase transition is studied with the newly constructed Hadron-Poyakov-Nambu- Jona-Lasinio(PNJL) model.Particularly,in the description of quark matter,we include the isoscalar-vector interaction.With the constraints of neutron star observations,our calculation shows the isoscalar-vector interaction between quarks is indispensable if massive hybrids star exist in the universe.Its strength determines the onset density of quark matter,and the mass-radius relations of hybrid stars.Also,as a connection with heavy-ion-collision experiments,we discuss the strength of isoscalar-vector interaction and its effect on the signals of hadron-quark phase transition in heavy-ion collisions,such as NICA at JINR-Dubna and FAIR at GSI-Darmstadt.

Incident energy dependence of dilepton production in an expanding baryon-rich quark-gluon fireball

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Rapidity and Pseudorapidity Distributions of theVarious Hadron-Species Produced in High EnergyNuclear Collisions: A Systematic Approach

With the help of a phenomenological approach outlined in the text in some detail, we have dealt here with the description of the plots on rapidity and pseudorapidity spectra of some hadron-secondaries produced in various nucleus-nucleus interactions at high energies. The agreement between the measured data and the attempted fits are, on the whole, modestly satisfactory excepting a very narrow central region in the vicinity of y = η = 0. At last, hints to how the steps suggested in the main body of the text to proceed with the description of the measured data given in the plots could lead finally to a somewhat systematic methodology have also been made.

On the Nature of the Average Transverse Momenta of the Low-<i>pT</i>Secondaries in Some High Energy Nuclear Collisions

That the values of average transverse momenta ( ) of the secondaries produced in high energy collisions rise very slowly with energy is modestly well-known and accepted. We would like to probe into this aspect of the problem for production of the main variety of the 'soft' secondaries in two high energy symmetric nuclear collisions with the help of two non-QCD models. Our model-based results are found to be quite consistent with the anticipated behaviours and also with the observations.

Multiplicity fluctuation and correlation of mesons and baryons in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

We study the multiplicity fluctuation and correlation of identified mesons and baryons formed at hadronization by the quark combination mechanism in the context of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Based on the statistical method of free quark combination, we derive the two-hadron multiplicity correlations, including meson-meson and meson-baryon correlations, and take the effects of quark number fluctuation at hadronization into account by a Taylor expansion method. After including the decay contributions, we calculate the dynamical fluctuation observable ν_（dyn） for Kπ, pπ and Kp pairs and discuss what underlying physics can be obtained by comparing with data from Pb-Pb collisions at sNN^（1/2）=2.76 Te V and simulations from the HIJING and AMPT event generators.

Influence of α-clustering nuclear structure on the rotating collision system

In recent years, the collective motion properties of global rotation of the symmetric colliding system in relativistic energies have been investigated. In addition, the initial geometrical shape effects on the collective flows have been explored using a hydrodynamical model, a transport model, etc. In this work, we study the asymmetric ^(12)C+^(197)Au collision at 200 GeV/c and the effect of the exotic nuclear structure on the global rotation using a multi-phase transport model. The global angular momentum and averaged angular speed were calculated and discussed for the collision system at different evolution stages.

Different production sources of light nuclei in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions

We systematically study different production sources of light nuclei in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions with a new method, an exclusive quark combination model + an inclusive hadron recombination model. We take deuterons and ~3 He produced in Pb-Pb collisions at ■= 2.76 TeV as examples to show the contribution of different production sources by studying their rapidity densities dN/dy, yield ratios and transverse momentum(PT)spectra just after hadronization and at the final kinetic freeze-out. We find that about a half of d and a fourth of ~3 He created just after hadronization can survive after the hadronic evolution process. Nucleons from A resonance decays make a much larger contribution to the regeneration of light nuclei at the hadronic phase stage, and this contribution is about 77% and 90% for d and ~3 He, respectively, calculated at the final kinetic freeze-out. In addition, we give an explanation for the constant behaviors of yield ratios d/p and ~3 He/p as a function of the averaged charged multiplicity in Pb-Pb collisions and also provide a possible explanation for the observation that d/p in Pb-Pb collisions is larger by a factor of about two than in pp collisions at LHC energies.

Large transverse momentum dilepton production in heavy ion collisions with two-photon processes

The cold component of large transverse momentum dilepton production via semi-coherent two- photon interaction is calculated. The cold contribution is essential to the dilepton spectra in the soft region for different mass bins. The results are compared with the PHENIX experimental data at RHIC, and we find that the modification of semi-coherent two-photon processes is more evident with the rising dilepton mass bins.

Jet-photon conversion with energy loss in heavy ion collisions

The rate of high energy photons produced from energetic jets during their propagation through the QGP at RHIC and LHC is studied by taking into account the contribution of jet quenching in the medium. It is shown that the jet quenching effect reduces the rate of jet-photon conversion at large transverse momemtum by about 40% at RHIC with √8= 200 AGeV, and by about 80% at LHC with √8 = 5500 AGeV.

RHIC能区Au+Au碰撞中带电粒子直接流与超子整体极化的计算与分析

非对心的相对论重离子碰撞中,不参与碰撞的核子会对参与碰撞的核子产生纵向拖拽,形成一个相对于纵向倾斜的夸克胶子等离子体(QGP)火球.同时,对撞的原子核可将巨大的轨道角动量沉积于QGP中,使其中的部分子沿系统总角动量方向发生自旋极化.在光学Glauber模型基础上,本文构建了倾斜的三维QGP初态条件,并结合3+1维黏滞流体力学模型CL Visc,研究了重离子碰撞的末态带电粒子的直接流和Λ/Λ超子的整体极化.计算表明,倾斜的初态条件与流体力学模型的结合能够较好地描述RHIC-STAR实验上观测到的直接流与超子整体自旋极化的数据.这为人们利用这些观测量进一步约束重离子碰撞产生的核物质的初始几何与运动学状态提供了理论依据.

Flavor-dependent photoproduction in heavyion collisions

Strong electromagnetic fields produced in the non-central heavy-ion collisions can induce vector meson photoproduction.In this paper,we study the photoproduction J/ψandφmesons in the relativistic heavy-ion collision from ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions to peripheral hadronic heavy ion collisions.And then include both initial hadronic production and thermal production in quark-gluon plasma(QGP).We find,for the charm anti-charm bound state J/ψ,the photoproduced J/ψs are mainly in the very low momentum region and clearly exceed the hadronic production.However,considering the thermal production of strange quark anti-quark pairs in QGP produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions,the photoproducedφis usually smaller than the thermal production and only evident at very peripheral collisions as even their photoproduction is much larger than J/ψ.

相对论重离子碰撞中光子-光子相互作用的碰撞参数依赖性

在相对论重离子碰撞中,接近光速的重离子产生的超强电磁场,由于洛伦兹收缩效应可等效为线性极化的准实光子,进而诱发光子-光子相互作用产生正负轻子对.相对论重离子对撞机RHIC和大型强子对撞机LHC上的国际合作实验在非超周边重离子碰撞中观测到相干光致产生过程,发现正负轻子对的横动量分布相比于其在超周边碰撞发生显著的展宽,为研究解禁闭物质--夸克胶子等离子体的电磁性质提供了新途径.本文主要回顾相对论重离子碰撞中光子-光子相互作用对碰撞参数依赖的实验研究,并讨论其在侦测夸克胶子等离子体电磁性质方面的重要意义.

Relativistic correction to the dissociation temperature of B_(c) mesons in a hot medium

By solving two body Dirac equations with potentials at finite temperature,we calculate the dissociation temperature T_(d) of B_(c) mesons in quark-gluon plasma.It is found that T_(d) becomes higher with the relativistic correction than the T_(d) from the Schrodinger equation.Both the short range interaction and the constant term of the potential at the long-range scale have a contribution to the shift of T_(d),while the spin interaction is negligible.