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Extracting $\hat{q}$ from single inclusive data at RHIC and at the LHC for different centralities: a new puzzle?

Nuclear Theory 2016-12-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We present here an extraction of the jet transport coefficient, q^\hat{q}, using RHIC and LHC single-inclusive high-pTp_T data for different centralities. We fit a KK-factor that determines the deviation of this coefficient from an ideal estimate, Kq^/(2ϵ3/4)K \equiv \hat{q}/(2\epsilon^{3/4}), where ϵ\epsilon is given by hydrodynamic simulations. As obtained already in previous studies, this KK-factor is found to be larger at RHIC than at the LHC. However it is, unexpectedly, basically no-dependent on the centrality of the collision. Taken at face value this result, the KK-factor would not depend on local properties of the QGP as temperature, but on global collision variables such as the center of mass energy.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06781,
  title  = {Extracting $\hat{q}$ from single inclusive data at RHIC and at the LHC for different centralities: a new puzzle?},
  author = {Carlota Andres and Nestor Amesto and Matthew Luzum and Carlos A. Salgado and Pia Zurita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06781},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings for the 8th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2016)