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The Influence of Flow on the Jet Quenching Power in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Thorsten RenkThorsten Renksubject
PhysicsQuenchingNuclear and High Energy PhysicsRange (particle radiation)Particle physicsFlow (psychology)HadronFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomyPartonNuclear physicsHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyTransverse planeHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)ParticleNuclear ExperimentJet quenchingdescription
The flow pattern and evolution of the medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions can have significant influence on the energy loss of hard partons traversing the medium. We demonstrate that within a range of assumptions for longitudinal and transverse flow which are all compatible with the measured hadronic single particle distributions, the quenching power of the medium can vary within almost a factor five. Thus, the choice of the medium evolution is one of the biggest uncertainties in jet quenching calculations and needs to be addressed with some care.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-10-14 | Acta Physica Hungarica A) Heavy Ion Physics |