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The progress over the 30 years since the first high-energy heavy-ion collisions at the BNL-AGS and CERN-SPS has been truly remarkable. Rigorous experimental and theoretical studies have revealed a new state of the matter in heavy-ion collisions, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Many signatures supporting the formation of the QGP have been reported. Among them are jet quenching, the non-viscous flow, direct photons, and Debye screening effects. In this article, selected signatures of the QGP observed at RHIC and the LHC are reviewed.
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The Color String Percolation Model (CSPM) is used to determine the shear viscosity to entropy ratio ($eta/s$) of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in Au-Au collisions at $sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV at RHIC and Pb-Pb at $sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV at LHC. The relativistic kinetic theory relation for $eta/s$ is evaluated using CSPM values for the temperature and the mean free path of the QGP constituents. The experimental charged hadron transverse momentum spectrum is used to determine the percolation density parameter $xi$ in Au-Au collisions (STAR). For Pb-Pb at $sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV $xi$ values are obtained from the extrapolation at RHIC energy. The value of $eta/s$ is 0.204$pm$0.020 and 0.262$pm$0.026 at the CSPM initial temperatures of 193.6$pm$3 MeV (RHIC) and 262.2 $pm$13 MeV (LHC) respectively. These values are 2.5 and 3.3 times the AdS/CFT conjectured lower bound $1/4pi$. We compare the CSPM $eta/s$ analytic expression with weak coupling (wQGP) and strong coupling (sQGP) calculations. This indicates that the QGP is a strongly coupled fluid in the phase transition region.
The study of heavy-ion collisions has currently unprecedented opportunities with two first class facilities, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and five large experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, PHENIX and STAR producing a wealth of high quality data. Selected results recently obtained are presented on the study of flow, energy loss and direct photons.
The past decade has seen huge advances in experimental measurements made in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and more recently at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These new data, in combination with theoretical advances from calculations made in a variety of frameworks, have led to a broad and deep knowledge of the properties of thermal QCD matter. Increasingly quantitative descriptions of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in these collisions have established that the QGP is a strongly coupled liquid with the lowest value of specific viscosity ever measured. However, much remains to be learned about the precise nature of the initial state from which this liquid forms, how its properties vary across its phase diagram and how, at a microscopic level, the collective properties of this liquid emerge from the interactions among the individual quarks and gluons that must be visible if the liquid is probed with sufficiently high resolution. This white paper, prepared by the Hot QCD Writing Group as part of the U.S. Long Range Plan for Nuclear Physics, reviews the recent progress in the field of hot QCD and outlines the scientific opportunities in the next decade for resolving the outstanding issues in the field.
The initial temperature $T_{i}$, energy density $varepsilon_{i}$, and formation time $tau_{i}$ of the initial state of the QGP formed in the heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies are determined using the data driven Color String Percolation Model (CSPM). Multiparticle production by interacting strings stretched between projectile and target form a spanning cluster at the percolation threshold. The relativistic kinetic theory relation for $eta/s$ is evaluated as a function of $it T$ and the mean free path ($lambda_{mfp}$) using data and CSPM. $eta/s$($T_{i}$, $lambda_{mfp}$) describes the transition from a strongly interacting QGP at $T/T_{c} sim 1$ to a weakly coupled QGP at $T/T_{c} ge 6$. We find that the reciprocal of $eta/s$ is equal to the trace anomaly $Delta = varepsilon-3P/T^{4}$ which also describes the transition. We couple this initial state of the QGP to a 1D Bjorken expansion to determine the sound velocity $c_{s}^{2}$ of the QGP for 0.85 $le T/T_{c} leq 3$. The bulk thermodynamic quantities and the equation of state are in excellent agreement with LQCD results.
Direct photon spectra and elliptic flow v2 in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies are investigated within a relativistic transport approach incorporating both hadronic and partonic phases - the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD). The results suggest that a large v2 of the direct photons - as observed by the PHENIX Collaboration - signals a significant contribution of photons produced in interactions of secondary mesons and baryons in the late stages of the collision. In order to further differentiate the origin of the direct photon azimuthal asymmetry, we compare our predictions for the centrality dependence of the direct photon yield to the recent measurements by the PHENIX Collaboration and provide predictions for Pb+Pb collisions at LHC energies with respect to the direct photon spectra and v2(pT) for 0-40% centrality.
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