Mach cone shock waves at RHIC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-01-16 v1
Abstract
Energy and momentum lost by hard jets propagating through hot and dense nuclear matter have to be redistributed in the medium. It has been conjectured that collective sound modes are excited. Those lead to Mach cone nuclear shock waves in the nuclear medium that are shown to account for three and four particle angular correlation structures of hadrons with a (semi-)hard trigger hadron in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.4124,
title = {Mach cone shock waves at RHIC},
author = {Jorg Ruppert and Thorsten Renk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.4124},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Contribution to the International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, ISMD 2007, August 4. - 9., LBNL, CA, USA. 4 pages, 2 figures