Universal flow-driven conical emission in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Barbara Betz, Jorge Noronha, Giorgio Torrieri, Miklos Gyulassy, Dirk H. Rischke

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Abstract

The double-peak structure observed in soft-hard hadron correlations is commonly interpreted as a signature for a Mach cone generated by a supersonic jet interacting with the hot and dense medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We show that it can also arise due to averaging over many jet events in a transversally expanding background. We find that the jet-induced away-side yield does not depend on the details of the energy-momentum deposition in the plasma, the jet velocity, or the system size. Our claim can be experimentally tested by comparing soft-hard correlations induced by heavy-flavor jets with those generated by light-flavor jets.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number222301
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume105
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 24 2010
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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