We present fully dynamic simulations of heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies within the perturbative QCD-based partonic transport model BAMPS, focusing on the simultaneous investigation of jet-quenching and elliptic flow. The model consistently features elastic and inelastic 2 -> 3 processes, the latter being based on the Gunion-Bertsch matrix element. We discuss first attempts to extend the model to include light quark degrees of freedom and study the energy loss of high energy gluons and quarks in a static partonic medium. The difference between gluons and quarks in inelastic processes is found to be weaker than expected from color factors, due to a self-quenching effect associated with a cut-off modeling the LPM effect.
@article{arxiv.1012.1811,
title = {Jets and flow within a pQCD-based partonic transport model},
author = {Oliver Fochler and Zhe Xu and Carsten Greiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1811},
year = {2011}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of Hard Probes 2010