arXiv · 1808.03238
Precision Dijet Acoplanarity Tomography of the Chromo Structure of Perfect QCD Fluids
Abstract
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 {\em separately} the medium opacity, $\chi=L/\lambda$, and the color screening scale $\mu^2$ from the path averaged BDMS saturation scale $Q_s^2[\chi,\mu]=\int dL\; \hat{q}(E,T(L))\propto \mu^2 L/\lambda $, that is already well constrained by nuclear modification factor data on $R_{AA}(p_T)$. 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 $\chi$ and $\mu$ separately from $Q_s$.
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M. Gyulassy, P. Levai, J. Liao, S. Shi, F. Yuan, X. N. Wang. 2018-08-09. Precision Dijet Acoplanarity Tomography of the Chromo Structure of Perfect QCD Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.08.038
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