Constraints on the Jet-Medium Coupling from Measurements at RHIC and LHC
Abstract
The measured data on the nuclear modification factor for pions and reconstructed jets as well as on the high-pT elliptic flow at RHIC and LHC energies are compared to results from a linear pQCD and a highly non-linear hybrid AdS holographic model of jet-energy loss. We find that the high-pT ellitic flow requires to include realistic medium transverse flow fields and a jet-medium coupling including the effects of the energy of the jet, the temperature of the bulk medium, and non-equilibrium effects close to the phase transition. We extend our jet-energy loss model that is coupled to state-of-the-art hydrodynamic prescriptions to backgrounds generated by the parton cascade BAMPS. We demonstrate that the results for the hydrodynamic and the parton-cascade backgrounds show a remarkable similarity. Unfortunately, the results for both the pion and a parton-jet nuclear modification factor are insensitive to the jet-path dependence of the models considered.
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@article{arxiv.1509.00965,
title = {Constraints on the Jet-Medium Coupling from Measurements at RHIC and LHC},
author = {Barbara Betz and Florian Senzel and Carsten Greiner and Miklos Gyulassy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00965},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the Hard Probes 2015 Conference