Consistency of perfect fluidity and jet quenching in semi-quark-gluon monopole plasmas

We utilize a new framework, CUJET3.0, to deduce the energy and temperature dependence of the jet transport parameter, q(E < 10 GeV, T), from a combined analysis of available data on nuclear modification factor and azimuthal asymmetries from high energy nuclear collisions at RHIC/BNL and LHC/CERN. Extending a previous perturbative-QCD based jet energy loss model (known as CUJET2.0) with (2 + 1)D viscous hydrodynamic bulk evolution, this new framework includes three novel features of nonperturbative physics origin: (i) the Polyakov loop suppression of color-electric scattering (aka 'semi-QGP' of Pisarski et al.), (ii) the enhancement of jet scattering due to emergent magnetic monopoles near T_c (aka 'magnetic scenario' of Liao and Shuryak), and (iii) thermodynamic properties constrained by lattice QCD data. CUJET3.0 reduces to v2.0 at high temperatures T > 400 MeV, while greatly enhances q near the QCD deconfinement transition temperature range. This enhancement accounts well for the observed elliptic harmonics of jets with p_T > 10 GeV. Extrapolating our data-constrained q down to thermal energy scales, E ∼ 2 GeV, we find for the first time a remarkable consistency between high energy jet quenching and bulk perfect fluidity with η/s ∼ T³/q ∼ 0.1 near T_c. (authors)