Equation of states and charmonium suppression in Heavy ion collisions
Indrani Nilima, Vineet Kumar Agotiya

TL;DR
This paper extends a quasi-particle model to study charmonium suppression in heavy ion collisions, incorporating medium modifications and comparing results with experimental data from LHC to understand quark-gluon plasma properties.
Contribution
It introduces a novel application of the quasi-particle model to charmonium suppression, including medium effects and comparison with experimental data.
Findings
Thermodynamic observables fit lattice QCD results.
Charmonium suppression patterns match experimental data.
Model successfully describes medium modifications in QGP.
Abstract
The present article is the follow-up of our work Bottomonium suppression in quasi-particle model, where we have extended the study for charmonium states using quasi-particle model in terms of quasi-gluons and quasi quarks/antiquarks as a equation of state. By employing medium modification to a heavy quark potential thermodynamic observables {\em viz.} pressure, energy density, speed of sound etc. have been calculated which nicely fit with the lattice equation of state for gluon, massless and as well {\em massive} flavored plasma. For obtaining the thermodynamic observables we employed the debye mass in the quasi particle picture. We extended the quasi-particle model to calculate charmonium suppression in an expanding, dissipative strongly interacting QGP medium (SIQGP). We obtained the suppression pattern for charmonium states with respect to the number of participants at mid-rapidity…
| State | (SIQGP) | (Id) | (SIQGP) | (Id) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.89 | 1.60 | 0.330 | 1/3 | 9.94 | 9.84 | |
| 1.50 | 1.29 | 0.302 | 1/3 | 4.10 | 4.09 | |
| 2.00 | 1.40 | 0.320 | 1/3 | 5.63 | 5.61 |
| State | (SIQGP) | (Id) | (SIQGP) | (Id) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.89 | 1.64 | 0.331 | 1/3 | 11.05 | 10.93 | |
| 1.50 | 1.36 | 0.316 | 1/3 | 4.99 | 4.98 | |
| 2.00 | 1.46 | 0.322 | 1/3 | 6.75 | 6.72 |
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Equation of states and charmonium suppression in Heavy ion collisions
Indrani Nilima a
Vineet Kumar Agotiyaa
aDepartment of Physics, Central University of Jharkhand Ranchi, India, 835 205
Abstract
The present article is the follow-up of our work Bottomonium suppression in quasi-particle model, where we have extended the study for charmonium states using quasi-particle model in terms of quasi-gluons and quasi quarks/antiquarks as a equation of state. By employing medium modification to a heavy quark potential thermodynamic observables viz. pressure, energy density, speed of sound etc. have been calculated which nicely fit with the lattice equation of state for gluon, massless and as well massive flavored plasma. For obtaining the thermodynamic observables we employed the debye mass in the quasi particle picture. We extended the quasi-particle model to calculate charmonium suppression in an expanding, dissipative strongly interacting QGP medium (SIQGP). We obtained the suppression pattern for charmonium states with respect to the number of participants at mid-rapidity and compared it with the experimental data (CMS JHEP) and (CMS PAS) at LHC energy (Pb+Pb collisions, = TeV).
KEYWORDS: Equation of State, Strongly Coupled Plasma, Heavy Quark Potential, Dissociation Temperature, quasi particle debye mass.
PACS numbers: 25.75.-q; 24.85.+p; 12.38.Mh ; 12.38.Gc, 05.70.Ce, 25.75.+r, 52.25.Kn
I Introduction
The primary goal of heavy-ion experiment at the RHIC and the LHC is to search a new state of matter, i.e. the Quark Gluon Plasma. To study the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP)heavy quarks are considered to be a suitable tool. Initially, the heavy quarks can be calculated in pQCD, which are produced in primary hard N N collisions nason .The charmonia is a bound states of charm () and anti-charm (), which is an extremely broad and interesting field of investigation Bra11 . Charmonium states can have smaller sizes than hadrons (down to a few tenths of a fm) and large binding energies ( MeV) Eic80 . In ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, it has been realized that early ideas associating with charmonium suppression with the deconfinement transition tmatsui are less direct than originally hoped for zhao ; blaschk ; kulberg ; stachel .
At sufficiently large energy densities,lattice QCD calculations predict that hadronic matter undergoes a phase transition of deconfined quarks and gluons, called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). In order to reveal the existence and to analyze the properties of this phase transition several research in this direction has been done. In the high-energy heavy-ion collision field, the study of charmonium production and supression is the most interesting investigations, since, the charmonium yield would be suppressed in the presence of a QGP due to color Debye screening tmatsui .
In heavy-ion collisions, charmonium suppression study have been carried out first at the the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) by the NA38 NA38 ; NA50 ; NA51 , and NA60 NA60 then at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) by the PHENIX experiment at = 200 GeV adare . The suppression is defined by the ratio of the yield measured in heavy-ion collisions and a reference, called the nuclear modification factor expt1 and it is considered as a suitable probe to identify the nature of the matter created in heavy ion collisions. At high temperature, Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is believed to be in quark gluon plasma (QGP) phase, which is not an ideal gas of quarks and gluons, but rather a liquid having very low shear viscosity to entropy density () ratio star ; vis1 ; shur ; son .
This strongly suggest that QGP may lie in the non-perturbative domain of QCD which is very hard to address both analytically and computationally. Similar conclusion about QGP and perfect fludity of QGP have been reached from recent lattice studies and from the AdS/CFT studies son , spectral functions and transport coefficients in lattice QCD satz and studies based on classical strongly coupled plasmas shur1 ; shur2 , which predict that the equation of state (EoS) is interacting even at leos ; cheng ; karsch ; gavai .
The bag model, confinement models, quasi-particle models, are the several models for studying the EoS of strongly interacting quark gluon plasmasqgp ; banscqgp etc. Here in our analysis we are using quasi-particle debye mass pe.1 where equation of state was derived with temperature dependent parton masses and bag constantlh.1 ; pe.2 , with effective degrees of freedom s.1 , etc. All of them claim to explain lattice results, either by adjusting free parameters in the model or by taking lattice data on one of the thermodynamic quantity as an input and predicting other quantities. However, physical picture of quasi-particle model and the origin of various temperature dependent quantities are not clear yet rh.2 . In strongly interacting QGP sqgp1 ; sqgp2 ; sqgp3 , one considers all possible hadrons even at and try to explain non-ideal behavior of QGP near . Recently, an equation of state for strongly-coupled plasma has been inferred by utilizing the understanding from strongly coupled QED plasma ba_cor.1 which fits lattice data well. It is implicitly assumed that, once the charmonium dissociates,the heavy quarks hadronize by combining with light quarks only alberico . About of the observed ’s are directly produced in a hadronic collisions ,the remaining stemming from the decays of and the , excited charmonium states . Since each bound state dissociates at a different temperature, a model of sequential suppression was developed, with the aim of reproducing the charmonium suppression pattern in the heavy ion collision satz2 ; diga1 ; diga2 ; kar ; Kar97 . A suppressed yield of quarkonium in the dilepton spectrum, measured in experiments jpsi_sps ; exp was proposed as a signature of QGP formation. To determine quarkonium spectral functions at finite temperature there are mainly two theoretical lines of studies are potential models pnrqcd ; wong and lattice QCD satz ; lattice .
The central theme of our work is that the potential which we are considering in the deconfined phase could have a nonvanishing confining (string) term, in addition to the Coulomb term prc-vineet unlike Coulomb interaction alone in the aforesaid model banscqgp . By incorporating this potential we had calculated the thermodynamic variables viz pressure, energy density, speed of sound etc. Our results match nicely with the lattice results of gluon leos , 2-flavor (massless) as well as 3-flavor (massless) QGP ka.2 . There is also an agreement with (2+1) (two massless and one is massive) and 4 flavoured lattice results too. Motivated by the agreement with lattice results, we employ our equation of state (using quasi-particle Debye mass) to study the Charmonium suppression in an expanding plasma in the presence of viscous forces. Here in this work we are not considering the bulk viscosity. This issue will be taken in consideration in near future. The of prompt and nonprompt has been measured separately by CMS in bins of transverse momentum, rapidity and collision centrality expt1 . We have compared our results with the experimental data (CMS JHEP) expt1 and (CMS PAS) expt2 in Pb+Pb collision at LHC energy and found is closer to the the experimental results.
In our previous work aihep_nilima , we had calculated the plasma parameter, pressure, energy density and speed of sound for only 3-flavor QGP and finally studied the sequential suppression for bottomonium states at the LHC energy in a longitudinally expanding partonic system for only because the experimental data is available only for ADS/CFT case. In this present article we have extended our previous work for charmonium states for all 3-flavors by using quasi-particle model in terms of quasi-gluons and quasi quarks/antiquarks as a equation of state. Here, we had considered three values of the shear viscosity-to-entropy density ratio to see the effects of nonzero values of the shear viscosity on the expansion. The first one is from perturbative QCD calculations where is =0.3 near . The second one is from AdS/CFT studies where . Finally we consider =0 (for the ideal fluid) for the sake of comparison. These three ratios has been used only for the charmonium states for both EoS1 and EoS2.
The paper is organized as follows. In Sec.II., we briefly discuss our recent work on medium modified potential in isotropic medium. In the subsection II (A) we study the Effective fugacity quasi-particle model(EQPM). In section III we studied about binding energy and dissociation temperature of , and state considering isotropic medium. Using this effective potential and by incorporating quasi-particle debye mass, we have then developed the equation of state for strongly interacting matter and have shown our results on pressure,energy density and speed of sound etc. along with the lattice data in Sec.IV. In Sec.V, we have employed the aforesaid equation of state to study the suppression of charmonium in the presence of viscous forces and estimate the survival probability in a longitudinally expanding QGP. Results and discussion will be presented in Sec.VI and finally, we conclude in Sec.VII.
II Medium modified effective potential and fugacity quasi-particle model
The interaction potential between a heavy quark and antiquark gets modified in the presence of a medium. The static interquark potential plays vital role in understanding the fate of quark-antiquark bound states in the hot QCD/QGP medium. In the present analysis, we preferred to work with the Cornell potential Eichten:1978tg ; Eichten:1979ms , that contains the Coulombic as well as the string part given as,
[TABLE]
Here, is the effective radius of the corresponding quarkonia state, is the strong coupling constant and is the string tension. The in-medium modification can be obtained in the Fourier space by dividing the heavy-quark potential from the medium dielectric permittivity, as,
[TABLE]
where , is the Fourier transform of , shown in Eq. 1, given as,
[TABLE]
and is the dielectric permittivity which is obtained from the static limit of the longitudinal part of gluon self-energySchneider:prd66
[TABLE]
Next, substituting Eq.(3) and Eq.(4) into Eq.(1) and evaluating the inverse FT, we obtain r-dependence of the medium modified potential ldevi :
[TABLE]
In the limiting case , the dominant terms in the potential are the long range Coulombic tail and . The potential will look as,
[TABLE]
.
Now we employ the Debye mass computed from the effective fugacity quasi-particle model (EQPM) chandra1 ; chandra2 to determine the dissociation temperatures for the charmonium states in isotropic medium computed for EoS1 and EoS2 respectively and develop the equation of state for strongly interacting matter.
The Debye mass, is defined in terms of the equilibrium (isotropic) distribution function as,
[TABLE]
where, is taken to be a combination of ideal Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distribution functions as rebhan , and is given by:
[TABLE]
Here, and are the quasi-parton thermal distributions, denotes the number of colors and the number of flavors.
Now, we obtain quasi particle debye mass for full QCD/QGP medium by considering quasi parton distributions and EoS1 is the hot QCD zhai ; arnold and EoS2 is the hot QCD EoS kajantie in the quasi-particle description chandra1 ; chandra2 respectively.
III Binding energy and Dissociation Temperature
Binding energy is defined as the distance between peak position and continuum threshold at finite temperature. The medium modified potential have the similar appearance to the hydrogen atom problem matsui .Therefore to get the binding energies with medium modified potential we need to solve the Shrödinger equation numerically. The solution of the Schrödinger equation gives the eigenvalues for the ground states and the first excited states in charmonium (, etc.) and bottomonium (, etc.)spectra :
[TABLE]
where is the mass of the heavy quark.
In our analysis,the quark masses , as GeV, GeV and GeV, as calculated in Aulchenko:2003qq and the string tension () is taken as .
We are listed the values of dissociation temperature in Table I and II for the charmonium states , and for EoS1 and EoS2 respectively, and also seen that dissociates at lower temperatures as compared to and for both the EoS.
IV Equation of States of different flavors in quasi-particle picture
An extensive study of strong-coupled plasma in QED with proper modifications to include colour degrees of freedom and the strong running coupling constant gives an expression for the energy density as a function of the plasma parameter can be written as:
[TABLE]
Now, the scaled-energy density is written as in terms of ideal contribution
[TABLE]
At sufficiently high temperature one must expect hadrons to “melt”, deconfining quarks and gluons. The exposure of new (color) degrees of freedom would then be manifested by a rapid increase in entropy density, hence in pressure, with increasing temperature, and by a consequent change in the equation of state (EOS) star . In this section we will find the pressure, energy density and speed of sound for pure gauge, 2-flavor , 3-flavor , (2+1)-flavor and 4-flavors QGP for EoS1 and EoS2. To begin with first of all, we will calculate the energy density from Eq. (11) and using the thermodynamic relation,
[TABLE]
we calculated the pressure as
[TABLE]
here is the pressure at some reference temperature . This temperature has been fixed with the values of pressure at critical temperature , , and for a particular system -pure gauge, 2-flavor, 3-flavor and 4-flavor QGP respectively. For the sake of comparison with the results of Bannur EoS we took the same value of critical temperature as used in Bannur Model. Now, the speed of sound can be calculated once we know the pressure and energy density . In Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, we have plotted the variation of pressure () with temperature () using EoS1 and EoS2 for pure gauge, 2-flavor and 3-flavor QGP along with Bannur EoS banscqgp and compared it with lattice results banscqgp ; boyd . For each flavor, and are adjusted to get a good fit to lattice results in Bannur Model. However, in our calculation we have fixed from the lattice data at the critical temperature for each system as mentioned above, and there is no quantity to be fitted for predicting lattice results as done in Bannur case. Now, energy density , speed of sound etc. can be derived since we had obtained the pressure, . In Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, we had plotted the energy density () with temperature () using EoS1 zhai ; arnold and EoS2 for pure gauge, 2-flavor and 3-flavor QGP along with Bannur EoS banscqgp and compared it with lattice result banscqgp ; boyd . We observe that reasonably good fit is obtained without any extra parameters for all three systems. As the flavor increases, the curves shifts to left. In Fig. 5 and Fig. 6, the speed of sound, is plotted for all three systems, using EoS1 and EoS2 for pure gauge, 2-flavor and 3-flavor QGP along with Bannur EoS banscqgp . Since lattice results are available for only pure gauge, therefore comparison has been checked for the above mentioned flavor only. Our flavored results matches excellent with the lattice results. We observe that as the flavor increases becomes larger for both EoS1 and EoS2. All three curves shows similar behaviour, i.e, sharp rise near and then flatten to the ideal value (). However, in the vicinity of critical temperature, fits or predictions may not be good, especially for energy density and which strongly depends on variations of pressure with respect to temperature . However, except for small region at , our results are very good for all regions of . It is interesting to note that Peshier and Cassing pe.3 also obtained similar results on the dependence of plasma parameter in quasi-particle model and concluded that QGP behaves like a liquid, not weakly-interacting gas. Now for the realistic case u and d quarks have very small masses (5-10 MeV), strange quarks are having masses 150-200 MeV and charm quark with mass 1.5 GeV. Let counts the effective number of degrees of freedom of a massive Fermi gas. For a massless gas we have, of course, . In Fig. 7-10, we have shown our results on (2+1)-flavors and 4-flavors QGP using EoS1 and EoS2 for pure gauge, 2-flavor and 3-flavor QGP and compared it with Bannur EoS along with lattice data ka.3 ; ka.4 and replotted the variation of and energy density with temperature for all systems. This has been concluded that in the massless limit the deviations of pressure from the ideal gas value is larger in the presence of a heavier quark. This is in qualitative agreement with the observations. We also calculate the thermodynamical quantities viz. pressure, screening energy density (), the speed of sound etc. to study the hydrodynamical expansion of plasma and finally, to estimate the suppression of in nuclear collisions.
V Survival probability of states
To obtain the charmonium survival probability for an expanding QGP/QCD medium in the presence of viscous forces, the solution of equation of motion gives the time , which is estimated when the energy density drops to the screening energy density as
[TABLE]
where and is . The critical radius , is seen to mark the boundary of the region where the quarkonium formation is suppressed, can be obtained by equating the duration of screening to the formation time for the quarkonium in the plasma frame and is given by:
[TABLE]
The quark-pair will escape the screening region (and form quarkonium) if its position and transverse momentum are such that
[TABLE]
Thus, if is the angle between the vectors and , then
[TABLE]
Here we choose in our calculation as used in Ref. chu . Therefore the survival probability for the charmonium in QGP medium can be expressed as mmish ; chu :
[TABLE]
where is the maximum positive angle suppr . In nuclear collisions, the -integrated inclusive survival probability of in the QGP/QCD medium becomes satz ; dpal .
[TABLE]
VI Results and Discussion
Now we will discuss the physical understanding of charmonium suppression due to screening in the deconfined medium produced in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. This involves a competition of various time-scales involved in an expanding plasma. From the table I and II we observe that the value of is different for different charmonium states and varies from one EoS to other. If , then there will be no suppression at all i.e., survival probability, is equal to 1. With this physical understanding we analyze our results, as a function of the number of participants in an expanding QGP. At RHIC energy, yields have been resulted from a balance between annihilation of ’s due to hard, thermal gluons xusat ; gluon1 along with colour screening mish ; chu and enhancement due to coalescence of uncorrelated pairs grand ; andro ; thews which are produced thermally at deconfined medium. A detailed investigation of the scaling properties of suppression as a function of several centrality variables would give valuable insights into the origin of the observed effect NA60 . However, recent CMS data do not show a fully confirmed indication of enhancement except for the fact that of the data and shape of rapidity-dependent nuclear modification factor expt1 ; expt2 ; adare ; martin show some characteristics of coalescence production.
In our analysis, we have employed the quasi-particle debye mass to determine the dissociation temperatures for the charmonium states (, , etc.) in isotropic medium computed in table I and II for EoS1 and EoS2 respectively. On that dissociation temperature we had calculated the screening energy densities, and the speed of sound which are also listed in the table I and II for both EoS1 and EoS2. These values will be used as inputs, to calculate .
We have shown the variation of -integrated survival probability in the range allowed by invariant spectrum of in CMS experiment with at mid-rapidity and compared with the experimental data (CMS JHEP) expt1 in Fig.11 and Fig.13 and (CMS PAS) expt2 in Fig.12 and Fig.14. For this we had used the values of ’s and related parameters from Table I and II using SIQGP equation of state for both EoS1 and EoS2 .
We find that the survival probability of sequentially produced is slightly higher compared to the directly produced and is closer to the experimental results. The smaller value of screening energy density causes an increase in the screening time and results in more suppression to match with the CMS results at LHC. We have also plotted the pressure, energy density and speed of sound for pure gauge, 2-flavor, 3-flavor,(2+1)-flavors and 4-flavors QGP for both EoS1 and EoS2 in fig.1-10 where we have employed QP EoS (QP EoS is the equation of state calculated by using quasi-particle debye mass) along with the Bannur EoS. Here we observe that the results of various equation of states coming by incorporating the quasi-particle Debye mass increases sharply.
VII Conclusion
We studied the equation of state for strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma in the framework of strongly coupled plasma with appropriate modifications to take account of color and flavor degrees of freedom and QCD running coupling constant. In addition, we incorporate the nonperturbative effects in terms of nonzero string tension in the deconfined phase, unlike the Coulomb interactions alone in the deconfined phase beyond the critical temperature. Our results on thermodynamic observables viz. pressure, energy density, speed of sound etc. nicely fit the results of lattice equation of state with gluon, massless and as well massive flavored plasma. In Fig.1-10 we see that the results coming out by using quasi-particle Debye mass increases sharply as the temperature increases. Now by using quasi-particle Debye mass we estimated the centrality dependence of charmonium suppression in an expanding dissipative strongly interacting QGP produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions as shown in Fig.11-14 for both EoS1 and Eos2. We find that the survival probability of sequentially produced is slightly higher compared to the directly produced and is closer to the experimental results. The smaller value of screening energy density causes an increase in the screening time and results in more suppression to match with the experimental results.
At LHC energies, the inclusive yield contains a significant non-prompt contribution from b-hadron decays lhcb ; cms . For the lower value of we observe that our predictions are closer to the experimental ones.
Acknowledgement
VKA acknowledge the Science and Engineering research Board (SERB) Project No. EEQ/2018/000181 New Delhi for financial support. We record our sincere gratitude to the people of India for their generous support for the research in basic sciences.
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