Probing transverse momentum broadening in heavy ion collisions
Abstract
We study the dijet azimuthal de-correlation in relativistic heavy ion collisions as an important probe of the transverse momentum broadening effects of a high energy jet traversing the quark–gluon plasma. We take into account both the soft gluon radiation in vacuum associated with the Sudakov logarithms and the jet P T-broadening effects in the QCD medium. We find that the Sudakov effects are dominant at the LHC, while the medium effects can play an important role at RHIC energies. This explains why the LHC experiments have not yet observed sizable P T-broadening effects in the measurement of dijet azimuthal correlations in heavy ion collisions. Future investigations at RHIC will provide a unique opportunity to study the -broadening effects and help to pin down the underlying mechanism for jet energy loss in a hot and dense medium.
- Authors:
-
[3];
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States); Institute de Physique Theorique, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Central China Normal Univ., Wuhan (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1329721
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1393093
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; SC0004286
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 763; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Mueller, A. H., Wu, Bin, Xiao, Bo -Wen, and Yuan, Feng. Probing transverse momentum broadening in heavy ion collisions. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.037.
Mueller, A. H., Wu, Bin, Xiao, Bo -Wen, & Yuan, Feng. Probing transverse momentum broadening in heavy ion collisions. United States. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.037.
Mueller, A. H., Wu, Bin, Xiao, Bo -Wen, and Yuan, Feng. Thu .
"Probing transverse momentum broadening in heavy ion collisions". United States. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.037.
@article{osti_1329721,
title = {Probing transverse momentum broadening in heavy ion collisions},
author = {Mueller, A. H. and Wu, Bin and Xiao, Bo -Wen and Yuan, Feng},
abstractNote = {We study the dijet azimuthal de-correlation in relativistic heavy ion collisions as an important probe of the transverse momentum broadening effects of a high energy jet traversing the quark–gluon plasma. We take into account both the soft gluon radiation in vacuum associated with the Sudakov logarithms and the jet PT-broadening effects in the QCD medium. We find that the Sudakov effects are dominant at the LHC, while the medium effects can play an important role at RHIC energies. This explains why the LHC experiments have not yet observed sizable PT-broadening effects in the measurement of dijet azimuthal correlations in heavy ion collisions. Future investigations at RHIC will provide a unique opportunity to study the -broadening effects and help to pin down the underlying mechanism for jet energy loss in a hot and dense medium.},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.037},
journal = {Physics Letters. Section B},
number = C,
volume = 763,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {10}
}
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.037
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