How do quarks and gluons lose energy in the QGP?
Abstract
At RHIC, a suppression, relative to binary-scaling, for with GeV/c was discovered in central Au+Au collisions at GeV, and surprisingly also for single-electrons from the decay of heavy quarks. Both these results have been confirmed in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC at TeV. In this range, the LHC results for pions nearly overlap the RHIC results but the flatter spectrum at LHC implies that the energy loss in the medium must be % larger than at RHIC. At LHC, the unique and beautiful measurement of the fractional transverse momentum imbalance of di-jets in Pb+Pb collisions relative to p-p collisions, shows for jets with GeV/c. This is a much smaller fractional jet imbalance than the derived from two-particle correlations of di-jet fragments at RHIC corresponding to jet GeV/c. This presents a challenge to both theory and experiment for improved understanding. There are many other such unresolved issues, for instance, the absence of evidence for a effect by observation of momentum transferred to the medium by outgoing partons. An implied hard scattering component for the soft physics multiplicity distributions in A+A collisions based on a popular formula, , seems to be an unphysical way to understand the deviation from scaling. Based on recent p-p and d+A measurements, a more physical way is presented along with several other stimulating results and ideas from recent d+Au (p+Pb) measurements.
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@article{arxiv.1404.6232,
title = {How do quarks and gluons lose energy in the QGP?},
author = {M. J. Tannenbaum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.6232},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
16 pages, 20 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on High-pT physics at LHC (25th-28th September, 2013,LPSC, Grenoble, France)