Payal Mohanty

Drag of heavy quarks in quark gluon plasma at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

The drag and diffusion coefficients of charm and bottom quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma (QGP) have been evaluated for conditions relevant to nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The dead cone and Landau-Pomeronchuk-Migdal (LPM) effects on radiative energy loss of heavy quarks have been considered. Both radiative and collisional processes of energy loss are included in the effective drag and diffusion coefficients. With these effective transport coefficients we solve the Fokker Plank (FP) equation for the heavy quarks executing Brownian motion in the QGP. The solution of the FP equation has been used to evaluate the nuclear suppression factor, RAA for the non-photonic single electron spectra resulting from the semi-leptonic decays of hadrons containing charm and bottom quarks. The effects of mass on RAA has also been highlighted.

Radial flow from electromagnetic probes and signal of quark gluon plasma

An attempt has been made to extract the evolution of radial flow from the analysis of the experimental data on electromagnetic probes measured at the energies available at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The transverse momentum (

Elliptic flow of thermal dileptons as a probe of QCD matter

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Evolution of collectivity as a signal of quark gluon plasma formation in heavy ion collisions

) spectra of photons and dileptons measured by the WA98 and NA60 Collaborations, respectively, at the SPS and the photon and dilepton spectra obtained by the PHENIX Collaboration at the RHIC have been used to constrain the theoretical models. We use the ratio of photon to dilepton spectra to extract the flow, where some model dependence is canceled out. Within the ambit of the present analysis we argue that the variation of the radial velocity with invariant mass is indicative of a phase transition from the initially produced partons to hadrons at SPS and RHIC energies.

Equilibration in quark gluon plasma

We study the variation of elliptic flow of thermal dileptons with transverse momentum and invariant mass of the pairs for Pb+Pb collisions at

Characterizing quark gluon plasma by dilepton interferometry

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Nuclear suppression at low energy in relativistic heavy ion collisions

= 2.76 TeV. The dilepton productions from quark gluon plasma (QGP) and hot hadrons have been considered including the spectral change of light vector mesons in the thermal bath. The space time evolution has been carried out within the frame work of 2+1 dimensional ideal hydrodynamics with lattice+hadron resonance gas equation of state. We find that a judicious selection of invariant mass(M) and transverse momentum (p_T) windows can be used to extract the collective properties of quark matter, hadronic matter and also get a distinct signature of medium effects on vector mesons. Our results indicate a reduction of elliptic flow (v_2) for M beyond phi mass, which if observed experimentally would give the measure of v_2 of the partonic phase.

THERMAL RADIATION FROM AN EVOLVING VISCOUS QUARK GLUON PLASMA

A measurement for studying the mass dependence of dilepton interferometry in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments as a tool to characterize the quark gluon phase is proposed. In calculations involving dileptons, we show that the mass dependence of radii extracted from the virtual photon (dilepton) interferometry provide access to the development of collective flow with time. It is argued that the nonmonotonic variation of Hanbury Brown-Twiss radii with invariant mass of the lepton pairs signals the formation of quark gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions. Our proposal of experimentally measuring the ratio, R{sub out}/R{sub side} for dileptons can be used to estimate the average lifetimes of the partonic as well as the hadronic phases.

Two Photon Correlation in Anisotropic Quark-gluon plasma (aQGP).

The hydrodynamic expansion rate of quark gluon plasma (QGP) is evaluated and compared with the scattering rate of quarks and gluons within the system. Partonic scattering rates evaluated within the ambit of perturbative Quantum Choromodynamics (pQCD) are found to be smaller than the expansion rate evaluated with ideal equation of state (EoS) for the QGP. This indicate that during the space-time evolution the system remains out of equilibrium. Enhancement of pQCD cross sections and a more realistic EoS keep the partons closer to the equilibrium.

Electromagnetic Radiations from Heavy Ion Collision

Abstract The Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) radii have been calculated from the two particle correlation functions with virtual photons produced in the collisions of two nuclei at ultra-relativistic energies. We show that the variation of the HBT radii with the invariant mass of the virtual photon can be used to characterize and distinguish the hadronic as well as the partonic phase that might have produced initially in the collisions. It has been illustrated that the non-monotonic variation of the HBT radii with invariant mass provides an access to the development of collective flow in the system.