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Relating $\hat{q}$, $\eta/s$ and $\Delta E$ in an expanding Quark-Gluon Plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-31 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We use linear viscous hydrodynamics to describe the energy and momentum deposited by a fast moving parton in a quark gluon plasma. This energy-momentum is in turn used to compute the probability density for the production of soft partons by means of the Cooper-Frye formula. We use this probability density to render manifest a relation between the average transverse momentum given to the fast moving parton from the medium q^\hat{q}, the entropy density to shear viscosity ratio η/s\eta/s and the energy lost by the fast moving parton ΔE\Delta E in an expanding medium under similar conditions to those generated in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. We find that q^\hat{q} increases linearly with ΔE\Delta E for both trigger and away side partons that have been produced throughout the medium. On the other hand, η/s\eta/s is more stable with ΔE\Delta E. We also study how these transport coefficients vary with the geometrical location of the hard scattering that produces the fast moving partons. The behavior of q^\hat{q}, with ΔE\Delta E is understood as arising from the length of medium the parton traverses from the point where it is produced. However, since η/s\eta/s is proportional to the ratio of the length of medium traversed by the fast parton and the average number of scatterings it experiences, it has a milder dependence on the energy it loses. This study represents a tool to obtain a direct connection between transport coefficients and the description of in-medium energy loss within a linear viscous hydrodynamical evolution of the bulk.

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@article{arxiv.1603.09296,
  title  = {Relating $\hat{q}$, $\eta/s$ and $\Delta E$ in an expanding Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {Alejandro Ayala and Isabel Dominguez and Jamal Jalilian-Marian and Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09296},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures