Jet absorption and the corona effect at RHIC: Extracting collision geometry from experimental data |
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Authors: | V S Pantuev |
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Institution: | (1) New York State University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA;(2) Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
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Abstract: | The possible existence of a finite formation time of strongly interacting plasma in nuclear collisions at RHIC is demonstrated
from recent experimental data. To show this, we use a simple model based on Monte Carlo simulation of nucleus-nucleus collisions
with realistic nuclear density distribution. The most striking feature of the experimental data—an absence of absorption of
high transverse momentum pions in the reaction plane direction for mid-peripheral collisions—points to the presence of a surface
zone with no absorption and strong suppression in the inner core. A natural interpretation of such a zone could be the plasma
formation time T ~ 2–3 fm/c. The existence of a formation time could dramatically change our understanding of many experimentally observed features.
With this assumption, we describe the angular anisotropy of high transverse momentum pions with respect to the reaction plane
and the centrality dependence of the nuclear modification factor in Au + Au and Cu + Cu collisions.
The text was submitted by the author in English. |
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