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Sensitivity of jet quenching to enhancement of the medium opacity near TC

2014

[Introduction] One of the main goals of the study of high transverse momentum ( P T ) observables in the context of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is the determination of properties of QCD matter. In particular, the transport coefficients ˆ q and ˆ e characterizing the interaction of the medium with a high p T parton are accessible via hard probes. However, a precision extraction of their temperature dependence from current data faces the problem that neither the space-time geometry of the evolving matter nor the link between thermodynamics and transport coefficients is unambiguously known. Thus, various conjectured scenarios exist for how thermodynamics and transport coefficients b…