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Azimuthal correlations of electrons from heavy-flavor decay with hadrons in p plus p and Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200GeV

Measurements of electrons from the decay of open-heavy-flavor mesons have shown that the yields are suppressed in Au+Au collisions compared to expectations from binary-scaled p+p collisions. These measurements indicate that charm and bottom quarks interact with the hot dense matter produced in heavy-ion collisions much more than expected. Here we extend these studies to two-particle correlations where one particle is an electron from the decay of a heavy-flavor meson and the other is a charged hadron from either the decay of the heavy meson or from jet fragmentation. These measurements provide more detailed information about the interactions between heavy quarks and the matter, such as whether the modification of the away-side-jet shape seen in hadron-hadron correlations is present when the trigger particle is from heavy-meson decay and whether the overall level of away-side-jet suppression is consistent. We statistically subtract correlations of electrons arising from background sources from the inclusive electron-hadron correlations and obtain two-particle azimuthal correlations at {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV between electrons from heavy-flavor decay with charged hadrons in p+p and also first results in Au+Au collisions. We find the away-side-jet shape and yield to be modified in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p collisions.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

ALICE is one of four large experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, specially designed to study particle production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Located 52 meters underground with 28 meters of overburden rock, it has also been used to detect muons produced by cosmic ray interactions in the upper atmosphere. Here, we present the multiplicity distribution of these atmospheric muons and its comparison with Monte Carlo simulations. Our analysis exploits the large size and excellent tracking capability of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber. A special emphasis is given to the study of high multiplicity events containing more than 100 reconstructed muons and corresponding to a muon areal density rho(mu) > 5.9 m(-2). Similar events have been studied in previous underground experiments such as ALEPH and DELPHI at LEP. While these experiments were able to reproduce the measured muon multiplicity distribution with Monte Carlo simulations at low and intermediate multiplicities, their simulations failed to describe the frequency of the highest multiplicity events. In this work we show that the high multiplicity events observed in ALICE stem from primary cosmic rays with energies above 10(16) eV and that the frequency of these events can be successfully described by assuming a heavy mass composition of primary cosmic rays in this energy range. Furthermore, the development of the resulting air showers was simulated using the latest version of QGSJET to model hadronic interactions. This observation places significant constraints on alternative, more exotic, production mechanisms for these events.

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Observable T{sub 7} Lepton Flavor Symmetry at the Large Hadron Collider

More often than not, models of flavor symmetry rely on the use of nonrenormalizable operators (in the guise of flavons) to accomplish the phenomenologically successful tribimaximal mixing of neutrinos. We show instead how a simple renormalizable two-parameter neutrino mass model of tribimaximal mixing can be constructed with the non-Abelian discrete symmetry T{sub 7} and the gauging of B-L. This is also achieved without the addition of auxiliary symmetries and particles present in almost all other proposals. Most importantly, it is verifiable at the Large Hadron Collider.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Measurement of b Hadron Lifetimes in Exclusive Decays Containing a J/{psi} in pp Collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV

We report on a measurement of b-hadron lifetimes in the fully reconstructed decay modes B{sup +}{yields}J/{psi}K{sup +}, B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}K{sup *}(892){sup 0}, B{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}K{sub s}{sup 0}, and {Lambda}{sub b}{sup 0}{yields}J/{psi}{Lambda}{sup 0} using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb{sup -1}, collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The measured lifetimes are {tau}(B{sup +})=[1.639{+-}0.009(stat){+-}0.009(syst)] ps, {tau}(B{sup 0})=[1.507{+-}0.010(stat){+-}0.008(syst)] ps, and {tau}({Lambda}{sub b}{sup 0})=[1.537{+-}0.045(stat){+-}0.014(syst)] ps. The lifetime ratios are {tau}(B{sup +})/{tau}(B{sup 0})=[1.088{+-}0.009(stat){+-}0.004(syst)] and {tau}({Lambda}{sub b}{sup 0})/{tau}(B{sup 0})=[1.020{+-}0.030(stat){+-}0.008(syst)]. These are the most precise determinations of these quantities from a single experiment.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Identified charged hadron production in p + p collisions at root sNN = 200 and 62.4 GeV

Transverse momentum distributions and yields for {pi}{sup {+-}}, K{sup {+-}}, p, and p' in p+p collisions at {radical}s = 200 and 62.4 GeV at midrapidity are measured by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). These data provide important baseline spectra for comparisons with identified particle spectra in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We present the inverse slope parameter T{sub inv}, mean transverse momentum p{sub T}, and yield per unit rapidity dN/dy at each energy, and compare them to other measurements at different {radical}s in p+p and p+p' collisions. We also present the scaling properties such as m{sub T} scaling and x{sub T} scaling on the p{sub T} spectra between different energies. To discuss the mechanism of the particle production in p+p collisions, the measured spectra are compared to next-to-leading-order or next-to-leading-logarithmic perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

A study of the material in the ATLAS inner detector using secondary hadronic interactions

The ATLAS inner detector is used to reconstruct secondary vertices due to hadronic interactions of primary collision products, so probing the location and amount of material in the inner region of ATLAS. Data collected in 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC, with a minimum bias trigger, are used for comparisons with simulated events. The reconstructed secondary vertices have spatial resolutions ranging from ~ 200μm to 1 mm. The overall material description in the simulation is validated to within an experimental uncertainty of about 7%. This will lead to a better understanding of the reconstruction of various objects such as tracks, leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum.

47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION↗

Process Dependent Sivers Function and Implication for Single Spin Asymmetry in Inclusive Hadron Production

We study the single transverse spin asymmetries in the single inclusive particle production within the framework of the generalized parton model (GPM). By carefully analyzing the initial- and final-state interactions, we include the process-dependence of the Sivers functions into the GPM formalism. The modified GPM formalism has a close connection with the collinear twist-3 approach. Within the new formalism, we make predictions for inclusive {pi}{sup 0} and direct photon productions at RHIC energies. We find the predictions are opposite to those in the conventional GPM approach.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Suppression of Back-to-Back Pairs at Forward Rapidity in d + Au Collisions sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

Back-to-back hadron pair yields in d+Au and p+p collisions at {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV were measured with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Rapidity separated hadron pairs were detected with the trigger hadron at pseudorapidity |{eta}| < 0.35 and the associated hadron at forward rapidity (deuteron direction, 3.0 < {eta} < 3.8). Pairs were also detected with both hadrons measured at forward rapidity; in this case, the yield of back-to-back hadron pairs in d+Au collisions with small impact parameters is observed to be suppressed by a factor of 10 relative to p+p collisions. The kinematics of these pairs is expected to probe partons in the Au nucleus with a low fraction x of the nucleon momenta, where the gluon densities rise sharply. The observed suppression as a function of nuclear thickness, p{sub T}, and {eta} points to cold nuclear matter effects arising at high parton densities.

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