Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present here an extraction of the jet transport coefficient, q̂ , using RHIC and LHC single-inclusive high- p T data for different centralities. We fit a K -factor that determines the deviation of this coefficient from an ideal estimate, K≡q̂/(2ϵ3/4) , where ϵ is given by hydrodynamic simulations. As obtained already in previous studies, this K -factor is found to be larger at RHIC than at the LHC. However it is, unexpectedly, basically no-dependent on the centrality of the collision. Taken at face value this result, the K -factor would not depend on local properties of the QGP as temperature, but on global collision variables such as the center of mass energy.
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  • 4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings for the 8th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2016)
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • transverse momentum: high
  • inclusive reaction
  • Brookhaven RHIC Coll
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • transport theory
  • hydrodynamics
  • temperature
  • numerical calculations