Refraction of Gluon jet in QGP
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 distribution in central collisions at RHIC energy. The dihadrons from quark-quark pair center around , while the dihadrons from quark-gluon and gluon-gluon pair are deflected from . The resulting distribution shows three peaks at intermediate since both quark-quark and quark-gluon are important. However we only observe one center peak at high , where the quark-quark contribution dominates. These observation qualitatively agrees with the experiment data.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures