arXiv · nucl-th/0301042
Back-to-back correlations of high p_T hadrons in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Abstract
We investigate the suppression factor and the azimuthal correlation function for high $p_T$ hadrons in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV by using a dynamical model in which hydrodynamics is combined with explicitly traveling jets. We study the effects of parton energy loss in a hot medium, intrinsic $k_T$ of partons in a nucleus, and $p_{\perp}$ broadening of jets on the back-to-back correlations of high $p_T$ hadrons. Parton energy loss is found to be a dominant effect on the reduction of the away-side peaks in the correlation function.
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Tetsufumi Hirano, Yasushi Nara. 2003-08-20. Back-to-back correlations of high p_T hadrons in relativistic heavy ion collisions. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.91.082301
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