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Refraction of Gluon jet in QGP

Nuclear Theory 2008-05-28 v1

Abstract

We introduce photon-like refraction for gluon jet in quark gluon plasma created in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. A quark jet goes straightly while a gluon jet is assumed to bend in the non-homogeneous medium. Combining refraction and energy loss, we calculate the away-side dihadron Δϕ\Delta\phi distribution in central Au+AuAu+Au collisions at RHIC energy. The dihadrons from quark-quark pair center around Δϕ=π\Delta\phi=\pi, while the dihadrons from quark-gluon and gluon-gluon pair are deflected from Δϕ=π\Delta\phi=\pi. The resulting distribution shows three peaks at intermediate pTp_T since both quark-quark and quark-gluon are important. However we only observe one center peak at high pTp_T, where the quark-quark contribution dominates. These observation qualitatively agrees with the experiment data.

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@article{arxiv.0805.4058,
  title  = {Refraction of Gluon jet in QGP},
  author = {Hanzhong Zhang and Enke Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4058},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures

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