Published February 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Precision Dijet Acoplanarity Tomography of the Chromo Structure of Perfect QCD Fluids

  • 1. Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China)
  • 2. Pupin Lab MS-5202, Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 (United States)
  • 3. MTA Wigner Research Center for Physics, 1525 Budapest (Hungary)
  • 4. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 5. Physics Department and Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, Indiana University, 2401 N Milo B. Sampson Lane, Bloomington, IN 47408 (United States)

Description

Dijet acoplanarity is dominated by vacuum (Sudakov) pQCD radiation even in Pb+Pb collisions, but future higher precision measurements of the tails of the acoplanarity distributions can help to resolve separately the medium opacity, χ=L/λ, and the color screening scale μ2 from the path averaged BDMS saturation scale Qs2[χ,μ]=dLqˆ(E,T(L))μ2L/λ, that is already well constrained by nuclear modification factor data on RAA(pT). We compare Gaussian (BDMS) and non-Gaussian (GLV) models of medium broadening of vacuum (Sudakov) induced acoplanarity distributions in A+A. With few percent accuracy on the ratio of A+A to p+p distributions, experiments can easily identify non-Gaussian Landau and Rutherford tails due to multiple collisions. However, we find that sub-percent precision will be required to constrain χ and μ separately from Qs.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.08.038

Additional details

Additional titles

Augmented title (English)
KEYWORDS: QUARK GLUON PLASMAS SEP HEAVY ION COLLISION;JET QUENCHING;DIJET ACOPLANARITY

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.08.038;
arXiv
arXiv:1808.03238v2;
PII
S0375947418301829;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
982
Journal Page Range
p. 627-630
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51051637
Subject category
S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; ION COLLISIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARK MATTER; S QUARKS
Descriptors DEC
COLLISIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATTER; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARKS; STRANGE PARTICLES

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Notes
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.