Published March 8, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Jet quenching in the strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma

  • 1. Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex (France)
  • 2. Helsinki Institute of Physics, PO Box 64, 00014 University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • 3. Department of Physics, PO Box 35, 40014 University of Jyvaeskylae (Finland)

Description

We propose a hybrid model for medium-induced parton energy loss, in which the hard scales in the process are treated perturbatively, while the soft scales which involve strong coupling dynamics are modeled by AdS/CFT calculations. After fitting a single parameter on RAA for central Au+Au collisions, we are able to predict different observables like RAA and IAA as a function of centrality and reaction plane. We obtain a consistent picture of how jet quenching is modified if the quark-gluon plasma is strongly interacting, and we provide quantitative predictions.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.01.076

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2010.01.076;
arXiv
arXiv:0908.0880v2;
PII
S0370-2693(10)00163-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
685
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 270-276
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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