Mach cone induced by -triggered jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Jun, 2010
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Abstract: (arXiv)
MMedium excitation by jet shower propagation inside a quark-gluon plasma is studied within a linear Boltzmann transport and a multiphase transport model. Contrary to the naive expectation, it is the deflection of both the jet shower and the Mach-cone-like excitation in an expanding medium that is found to gives rise to a double-peak azimuthal particle distribution with respect to the initial jet direction. Such deflection is the strongest for hadron-triggered jets which are often produced close to the surface of dense medium due to trigger-bias and travel against or tangential to the radial flow. Without such trigger bias, the effect of deflection on -jet showers and their medium excitation is weaker. Comparative study of hadron and -triggered particle correlations can therefore reveal the dynamics of jet-induced medium excitation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.- 25.75.Cj
- 25.75.Bh
- 25.75.Ld
- 25.75.-q
- quark gluon: plasma
- flow: transverse
- heavy ion: scattering
- dihadron: angular correlation
- parton: multiple scattering
- Boltzmann equation
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