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J. G. Contreras CTEQ School 2005
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Small x Physics
in Deep Inelastic Scattering
Puebla
May 20, 2005
J. G. Contreras ● Cinvestav Mérida
►Motivation:
Limits of pQCD,
High density pQCD
►The proton at small x:
F2, FL, F2c
►Looking for saturation:
Forward Jets
Geometric Scaling
Heavy ion physics
►Summary: Very exciting field
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Motivation
What are we made of ?
What is the most fundamental structure of matter ?
What is the structure of the proton in terms of quark and gluons?
Long time ago …
Today …
Homework 1: and tomorrow?
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DIS: The basic idea
Need a microscope to see inside the proton
High energy:
►Good resolution (Deep)
►Proton breaks (Inelastic)
An accelerated electron …
… produces light to see
inside a proton
Microscope components:
► Accelerators: Fixed Target, HERA
► Detectors: H1, Zeus, …
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HERA: the only ep collider
► Asymmetric accelerator using superconducting technology► Operating since 1992► 300 GeV CMS energy ► 6.3 Km of circumference ► At DESY in Hamburg
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H1 and Zeus
►Both big universal detectors with excellent tracking and calorimetry ►Built and maintained by large collaborations, each of ~ 350 scientists and around 40 institutes from around the world ►Each with more than 100 articles and several thousand citations ►Taking new data as we speak!
Open detectors
Note the scale
Note the cables
….
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DIS in pQCD and Experiment
incoming electron
outgoing electron
struck quark
collision
proton remnant
incoming proton
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Description of DIS in pQCD
► Proton “=“ Σ free partons (careful with the frame)
► Two variables to describe the process to be choosen from:
x: parton energy (0<x<1)Q2: resolutions: energy of CMSy: inelasticity (0<y<1) W: energy of γ*p process
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The structure of the proton according to DIS/pQCD
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Experiment
pQCD:
General theory requirements
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The limits of pQCD
Perturbative solution: ►Needs small parameter ►Not all terms considered ►Free partons?
Expansion parameter: ►αs (only QCD parameter) ►Its value depends on a scale (asymptotic freedom) ►In inclusive DIS scale is Q2
Resummation of ►(αs)mlogn(Q2/Qo) (DGLAP)
or ►(αs)mlogn(1/x) (BFKL)
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The Nobel Prizes in DIS and pQCD
DIS: ►1990 to Friedman, Kendall and Taylor Experiments at the end of 60s, early 70s ►Their results motivated the development of the quark model of the strong interaction
pQCD: ►2004 to Gross, Politzer and Wilczek Theoretical work (1973), foundation of pQCD ►Discovery of asymptotic freedom (btw: read Politzer Nobel lecture!)
Homework 2: You are next …
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Where are we? Where are we going? (I)
Where are we? ►Basic idea of DIS and pQCD understood ►Want to explore limits of pQCD, specifically high density of partons and αs small
Where are we going? ►A first look at data ►A closer look at the theory ►A second look at data the data
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Experiment: phase space in x and Q2
Huge phase space covered: ►x from almost 1 to ≈ 10-6
►Q2 from less than 0.1 to almost 105 GeV2
Several overlapping regions permit cross checks between different accelerators different experiments
Note the correlation between x and Q2 at small x …
… smallest x outside pQCD?
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The first HERA F2 at small x
Before HERA no data at small x
… but many predictions based onextrapolations of existing data
In 1992 the first HERA databecame available:
F2 rises at small x …
… and rises quite fast …
lets look at it in some detail …
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Describing F2 behavior with partons
Lots of partons at small x!
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F2(x,Q2) today
Impressive amount of data
Precision better than few %
Perfect agreement between ►Hera and Fix target experiments ►Between Hera experiments
Dramatic violation of Bjorken scaling
Data described by fits based on DGLAP pQCD
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From F2 to pQCD partons
See Stump’s talk!
H1 and Zeus fits agree: ► independent data ► same theory ► different implementation …
Different physics at ► large x: valence quarks ► small x: gluons and sea (note the scale factor!)
Small x: ► rise dominated by gluons ► x small → log(1/x big) …
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pQCD evolution of F2: The basic idea
In pQCD, F2 is computed from perturbative expansion in αs subject to constraints (RGE) → linear integro-differencial equations PDFs:
►DGLAP: log(Q2), but not log(1/x) ►BFKL: log(1/x), but ‘fixed’ Q2
Need a boundary condition to be taken from data.
Given F2 in one point, one gets it at another point in phase space
Both are pQCD, i.e. weak coupling needed, so none of them should work at very small Q2 …
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pQCD evolution of F2 in pictures
Initial structure ← exp
One emission … … and another … and …
BFKL: big steps in x diffusion in Q2
DGLAP: small steps in x big steps in Q2
Structure after emissions
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We are interested in this region … but there is no scale in plot …
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High gluon density and saturation
Small x, means high gluon density.
The gluons are inside the proton
At some point they start to overlap(the proton ‘saturates’)
When they overlap, they interact, ► they are not ‘free’ anymore ► F2 stops growing ► non linear equation needed
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Where are we? Where are we going? (II)
Where are we? ►free parton (DGLAP) pQCD works even at small x (where are BFKL effects?) ►Small x, means high gluon density and at some point (where?), saturation
Where are we going? ►A second look at data: behavior at small x and Q2
►Look ‘directly’ at the gluon: FL and F2
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The Q2 dependence of the rise of F2 At small x pQCD predicts F2~x-λ
... but λ varies from BFKL expectation to those from non-perturbative QCD
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F2 and the limit Q2 → 0
Remember: W2 is energy of γ*p system
At small x: W2~Q2/x → high energy
Remember x and Q2 correlated at HERA
At very small Q2: F2~Q2
But σ γ*p ~ F2/Q2 , so at small Q2:
σ γ*p ~ constant,
i.e. stops growing …
We look for something like this at high Q2
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Extraction of FL : the basic idea
Look at high y
Compare cross section to F2~x-λ
Assign difference to FL(<x>,Q2)
DGLAP pQCD describes data …
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F2c and the gluon
A small x gluon fluctuates intoa charm quark-antiquark
The virtual photon interactswith one of them
The struck charmed parton is kicked out of the proton
It fragments into a charmed hadron, which then decays
Reconstruct the hadron using specific signatures
Extract F2C ~ charm PDF
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F2c : the data
Lots of data
High precision
Big phase space
Strong rise
…
Described byDGLAP pQCD
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Where are we? Where are we going? (III)
Where are we? ►free parton pQCD works also for the gluon at small x ►no real need of BFKL up to now: where are the log(1/x)? ►No real need to go beyond free partons where is saturation?
Where are we going? ►looking for BFKL effects: Forward jets ►looking for high density effects: Geometric scaling
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Forward Jets: the basic idea
► Enhance BFKL: big step in x
► Suppress DGLAP: no step in Q2
► Experimentally look in small x for a jet at high x and with k2 jet =Q2
► i.e. Forward jets
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Forward Jets as seen by the detector
Initial electron and proton
Scattered electron
Emissions along the ladder
Forward Jet
Proton remnant
… very difficult measurement
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Forward Jets: the data
► DGLAP do not describe the measurement at small x
► ‘BFKL-like’ models describe the data, but …
► Other models also do … ► pure LL-BFKL too steep, but works with smaller ‘intercept’
Furthermore, extending BFKL beyond leading log(1/x) presents some problems …
► Anyway, strong hint of something beyond DGLAP
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Geometric Scaling
From 2 variables to 1 !
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Geometric Scaling and Saturation
Why is geometric scaling interesting?
► It is an impressive phenomena► It happens at small x► Collapse of data points at different scales in a single curve is known to happen in phase transitions at a critical point► Saturation may be thought as something like a phase transition: from free to strongly interacting partons from a low to a high density system► Some of the QCD based nonlinear equations proposed for saturation accept naturally solutions with geometric scaling behavior
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Where are we? Where are we going? (IV)
Where are we? ►Inclusive and exclusive observables point to a world beyond DGLAP ►Hints of BFKL and saturation? Need denser system, still with weak coupling!!
Where are we going?
BEYOND ►Small x physics with nuclei ►A few words on nonlinear equations ►A final look at data
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Small x Physics and Heavy Ions
Looking for a source of very dense (small x) gluons at a sizable Q2
There are many small x gluons in a proton, what about nuclei? (nuclei: lots of p’s and n’s compressed in a tight space)
► Naively expect gluon density to scale as A1/3 (high A=heavy ion) ► If energy high enough, it is possible to reach small x in the pQCD regime ► Need accelerator of ions► Need forward detectors► Need to disentangle all other effects
Is all this possible? … let’s try and see!
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Heavy ions facilities: today and tomorrowRich history of heavy ions accelerators and experiments: AGS and SPS
Today RHIC plus its detector produce beautiful data
PHENIXSTAR
BRAHMSpp2pp
In the near future, at even higher energy, LHC and ALICE
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Color Glass Condensate: The basic idea
It is a classical effective field theory of QCD with quantum evolution
Valence partons act as a static random source of dynamic sea partons(Born-Oppenheimer separation based on their time scales)
Static random source evolves in a time scale much larger than the natural scale like a spin glass. Lots of bosons together condensate. The new degree of freedom is the classical gluon. Gluons are colored, so call it CGC
Add the corresponding RGE:
Get the JIMWLK equations
Limits: DGLAP, BFKL, BK eqs
Phenomenology: F2, geometric scaling and …
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Small x in heavy ion collisions
deuteron gold
b
Centrality = impact parameter
High η = small x in Gold
Many handels:► Ion species► centrality► CMS energy► different x ranges
For each, measure asmany details as possible► Multiplicity► 4-momentum► Type of particle► Correlations► …
Here only a bit of dA
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x dependence of RdA
RdAu = d2N/dpTd (d+Au)
NColld2N/dpTd (p+p)
Relative measurement ↔ normalization
1 = no change in physics pp vs dAu
Concentrate in the higher pt values
There is a x dependence …
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Rcp: x and centrality dependence
4.0 > pT > 1.5 GeV/c4.0 > pT > 1.5 GeV/c
Rcp=
Normalize central against peripheral events
Study it as a function of rapidity
as a function of centrality at high pt
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Heavy Ion Physics
CGC ideas quantitatively compatible with dA Rcp data
Much more data (see Seto’s talk!)
CGC seems to be the right way to go, but …
► many other effects are expected to contribute► difficult to disentangle and them► some surprise also
A bright future at RHIC and then at LHC!
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Where are we? Where are we going? (V)
Where are we? (almost!) at the end of the talk ... ►Small x physics is a very active field of research accelerators producing tons of exciting data NOW theoreticians coming up with lots of attractive ideas ►Many interesting open questions both for theory and experiment alike
Where are we going? ►questions, answers… ►Next talk …
►Dinner … and beyond!
THANK YOU!
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