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Resolving the $R_{AA}$ to $v_n$ puzzle

Nuclear Theory 2016-12-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

After 10 years of struggling to simultaneously describe the nuclear modification factor RAAR_{AA} and flow harmonics vnv_n's at high pTp_T, now theoretical models are able to reproduce experimental data well. The necessary theoretical developments such as event-by-event fluctuations, choice of initial conditions, and the scalar product method to calculate flow harmonics at high pTp_T are reviewed. Additionally, a discussion of new proposed experimental observables known as Soft Hard Event Engineering (SHEE) that are sensitive to the path length dependence of the energy loss is included.

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@article{arxiv.1612.00892,
  title  = {Resolving the $R_{AA}$ to $v_n$ puzzle},
  author = {Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00892},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures, proceedings for the 8th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2016)

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