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Title: Jet tomography of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions at next-to-leading order

Journal Article · · Physical Review
OSTI ID:972066

We demonstrate that jet observables are highly sensitive to the characteristics of the vacuum and the in-medium QCD parton showers and propose techniques that exploit this sensitivity to constrain the mechanism of quark and gluon energy loss in strongly-interacting plasmas. As a first example, we calculate the inclusive jet cross section in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions to {Omicron}({alpha}{sub s}{sup 3}). Theoretical predictions for the medium-induced jet broadening and the suppression of the jet production rate due to cold and hot nuclear matter effects in Au+Au and Cu+Cu reactions at RHIC are presented.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
972066
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-09-06584; LA-UR-09-6584; TRN: US1001461
Journal Information:
Physical Review, Journal Name: Physical Review
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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