报告人:何敏 教授 (南京理工大学) 报告时间:2023年11月17日 15:00 - 17:00 (Beijing time) 会议链接:点击链接 腾讯会议室ID: 940-251-982 摘要: The hadrochemistry of bottom (b) quarks produced in hadronic collisions encodes valuable information on the mechanism of color neutralization in these reactions. Since the b- quark mass is much larger than the typical hadronic scale of ~1 GeV, bb ̅ pair production is expected to be well separated from subsequent hadronization processes. A significantly larger fraction of b baryons has been observed in proton-proton (pp) and proton-antiproton (pp ̅) reactions relative to e+e-collisions, challenging theoretical descriptions. We address this problem by employing a statistical hadronization approach with an augmented set of b-hadron states beyond currently measured ones, guided by the relativistic quark model and lattice-QCD computations. Assuming relative chemical equilibrium between different b-hadron yields, thermal densities are used as fragmentation weights of b quarks into various hadron species. With quark model estimates of the decay patterns of excited states, the fragmentation fractions of weakly decaying b hadrons are computed and found to agree with measurements in pp ̅collisions at the Tevatron. By combining transverse- momentum (p_T) distributions of b quarks from perturbative QCD with thermal weights and independent fragmentation toward high p_T, a fair description of the pT-dependent B_s/B and Λ_b/B ratios measured in pp collisions at the LHC is obtained. The observed enhancement of Λ_b production is attributed to the feed down from thus far unobserved excited b baryons. Finally, we implement the hadrochemistry into a strongly coupled transport approach for b quarks in heavy-ion collisions, utilizing previously determined b-quark transport coefficients in the quark-gluon plasma, to highlight the modifications of hadrochemistry and collective behavior of b hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. [Reference: M. He and R. Rapp, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 012301 (2023)] 报告人简介: 何敏, 现任南京理工大学教授。2004年南京理工大学应用物理系学士,2009年南京大学物理系博士,2009年至2012年 美国德州农工大学博士后。从事高能核物理理论科研和教学工作,特别是在夸克-胶子等离子的重味夸克和重味夸克偶素 物理方面做出有代表性的工作,获邀于2022年4月在第29届国际相对论核核对撞大会 (Quark Matter 2022, 高能核 物理领域最权威的国际会议)做大会报告。
特别鸣谢:本届论坛由国家自然科学基金委创新群体“强子物理研究”(国科大)资金支持