Measuring the collective flow with jets.
- Armesto N Department of Physics, CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Genève 23, Switzerland.
- Salgado CA
- Wiedemann UA
- 2005-02-09
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- Physical review letters. - 2004
English
In nucleus-nucleus collisions, high-p(T) partons interact with a dense medium, which possesses strong collective flow components. Here, we demonstrate that the resulting medium-induced gluon radiation does not depend solely on the energy density of the medium, but also on the collective flow. Both components can be disentangled by the measurement of particle production associated with high-p(T) trigger particles, jetlike correlations, and jets. In particular, we show that flow effects lead to a characteristic breaking of the rotational symmetry of the average jet energy and jet multiplicity distribution in the eta x phi plane. We argue that data on the medium-induced broadening of jetlike particle correlations in Au + Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider may provide evidence for a significant distortion of parton fragmentation due to the longitudinal collective flow.
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- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.242301
- PMID 15697796
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- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/210125
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