Jet quenching effects on the anisotropic flow at RHIC

R. P.G. Andrade, J. Noronha, Gabriel S. Denicol

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Abstract

In this article we investigate how the energy and momentum deposited by partonic dijets in the quark-gluon plasma may perturb the geometry-induced hydrodynamic expansion of the bulk nuclear matter created in heavy ion collisions at the RHIC. The coupling between the jets and the medium is done through a source term in the energy-momentum conservation equations for ideal hydrodynamics. We concentrate our attention at mid-rapidity and solve the equations event-by-event imposing boost-invariance. For pT≳1GeV the anisotropic flow is found to be considerably enhanced, if the dijets deposit on average more than 12 GeV in the medium (or equivalently 6 GeV for each jet of the pair), which corresponds, in our model, to an average suppression greater than 65% of the initial jet transverse energy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)432-436
Number of pages5
JournalNuclear Physics A
Volume932
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Fourier coefficients of the flow
  • Jet quenching
  • Relativistic hydrodynamics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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