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Constraint fitting of experimental data with a jet quenching model embedded in a hydrodynamical bulk medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-01-21 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a global fit to single- and double-inclusive suppression data of high-pTp_T particles in central Au+Au collisions at top RHIC energy. We also include in this analysis data on heavy quarks via their D and B meson semi-leptonic decays (i.e. non-photonic electrons). The analysis is based on the parton quenching weights for medium-induced gluon radiation computed in the BDMPS approximation then embedded in a hydrodynamical description of the bulk medium. Our results indicate that values of the transport coefficient q^\hat q more than four times larger than perturbative estimates are preferred by experimental data. This confirms previous calculations based on simpler implementations of the medium geometry or only the single-inclusive suppression. We also comment on the statistical compatibility of the heavy quark data within a radiative only energy loss scenario, and on the sensitivity of the results to nuclear modification of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) and to assumptions on the energy loss during times in the collision prior to the hydrodynamical behavior.}

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@article{arxiv.0907.0667,
  title  = {Constraint fitting of experimental data with a jet quenching model embedded in a hydrodynamical bulk medium},
  author = {Nestor Armesto and Matteo Cacciari and Tetsufumi Hirano and James L. Nagle and Carlos A. Salgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0667},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

21 pages, 11 eps figures. Experimental errors in figures 4-6 and minor misprints corrected

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