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Quenching and Tomography from RHIC to LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v1

Abstract

We compare fully perturbative and fully nonperturbative pictures of high-pT energy loss calculations to the first results from LHC. While over-suppressed compared to published ALICE data, parameter-free pQCD predictions based on the WHDG energy loss model constrained to RHIC data simultaneously describe well the preliminary CMS hadron suppression, ATLAS charged hadron v2, and ALICE D meson suppression; we also provide for future reference WHDG predictions for B meson RAA. However, energy loss calculations based on AdS/CFT also qualitatively describe well the RHIC pion and non-photonic electron suppression and LHC charged hadron suppression. We propose the double ratio of charm to bottom quark RAA will qualitatively distinguish between these two energy loss pictures.

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@article{arxiv.1107.2136,
  title  = {Quenching and Tomography from RHIC to LHC},
  author = {W. A. Horowitz and Miklos Gyulassy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2136},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings for Quark Matter 2011

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