The production scale and internal structure of jets produced in high energy collisions were studied using Jetset and Herwig Monte Carlo generators. Two scales were found. One is the jet-development scale, which determines the size of the jet developed from a mother-parton. The other is the jet-production scale with which the jets produced are the most consistent with QCD jet-production dynamics and will provide the most reliable dynamical information about their mother-partons.
In order to trace azimuthal angle dependence of the initial interaction in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision, two azimuthal multiplicity-correlation patterns — neighboring and fixed-to-arbitrary angular- bin correlation patterns — are suggested. From the simulation of Au + Au collisions at SNN = 200 GeV by using the Monte Carlo models RQMD with hadron re-scattering and AMPT with and without string melting, we observe that the correlation patterns change gradually from out-of-plane preferential one to in- plane preferential one when the centrality of collision shifts from the central collision to peripheral collision, meanwhile the anisotropic collective flow v2 keeps positive in all cases. This regularity is found to be collision energy independent. The physics behind the two opposite trends of correlation patterns, in particular, the presence of out-of-plane correlation patterns at RHIC energy, are discussed.
The scaling and additivity properties of Rényi entropy in rapidity space of the instanton final state (IFS)and current jet identified by the r-sorting method from the QCDINS Monte Carlo event sample are studied.Asymptotic scaling of the Rényi entropy H_2 is observed for the IFS while H_2 for the current jet tends to saturation with decreasing phase space scale.Furthermore,it is found that the additivity of H_2 holds well for the IFS in narrow rapidity windows at different positions.These results indicate that the IFS produced in the instanton-induced process of deep inelastic scattering has reached local equilibrium.
The centrality, azimuthal and rapidity dependence of two-particle transverse-momentum correlations are studied for Au-Au collision at 200 GeV using RQMD (relativistic quantum molecular dynamics) with and without final hadron re-scattering models. The influences of the re-scattering effects on the measured correlations are discussed. The results are compared with those from current heavy ion experiments.
Making use of the maximum entropy method, we study the most probable source function in heavy ion collisions. An anisotropic Gaussian source is deduced by simply assuming that the particles are emitted within a finite proper-time. The general relations between the most probable source function and the minimal assumptions are discussed, which are instructive in constructing a self-consistent source function from observed Hanbury-Brown/Twiss(HBT) correlations.
