Probing quark gluon plasma with jets
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study multiple scatterings of jets on constituents of quark gluon plasma and introduce energy--energy correlations to quantify their effects. The effects from a longitudinally expanding plasma on medium as well as high energy jets are found to be significant at both RHIC and LHC energies. Because jets escape from the plasma long before the completion of mixed phase, these effects are free from complications of final state hadronic interactions and decays. These suggest that jets can be used to probe the plasma that might be created in future high energy heavy ion collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406208,
title = {Probing quark gluon plasma with jets},
author = {Jicai Pan and Charles Gale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406208},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures in 5 ps files included, McGill/94-16