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Mach Cones in Viscous Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-02-18 v2

Abstract

Employing a microscopic transport model we investigate the evolution of high energetic jets moving through a viscous medium. For the scenario of an unstoppable jet we observe a clearly strong collective behavior for a low dissipative system η/s0.005\eta/s \approx 0.005, leading to the observation of cone-like structures. Increasing the dissipation of the system to η/s0.32\eta/s \approx 0.32 the Mach Cone structure vanishes. Furthermore, we investigate jet-associated particle correlations. A double-peak structure, as observed in experimental data, is even for low-dissipative systems not supported, because of the large influence of the head shock.

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@article{arxiv.1008.4072,
  title  = {Mach Cones in Viscous Matter},
  author = {I. Bouras and A. El and O. Fochler and F. Lauciello and F. Reining and J. Uphoff and C. Wesp and E. Molnár and H. Niemi and Z. Xu and C. Greiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4072},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the conference proceedings of Hot Quarks 2010

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