Mach cone induced by γ\gamma-triggered jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Jun, 2010
4 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 012301
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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 γ\gamma-jet showers and their medium excitation is weaker. Comparative study of hadron and γ\gamma-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