Speaker
Florian Lindenbauer
(TU Wien)
Description
We study the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$ at the initial pre-equilibrium stages of heavy-ion collisions using the effective kinetic theory description of the anisotropic quark-gluon plasma. This allows us to smoothly close the gap in the literature between the early glasma stage of the collision and the onset of hydrodynamics. We find that the bottom-up evolution of $\hat q$ shows little sensitivity to the initial conditions, jet energies, and models of the transverse momentum cutoff. We also observe that, similarly to the glasma case, the jet quenching parameter is enhanced along the beam axis as compared to the transverse direction during most of the kinetic evolution.
| What kind of work does this abstract pertain to? | Theoretical |
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| Which experiment is this abstract related to? | Other |
Primary author
Florian Lindenbauer
(TU Wien)
Co-authors
Kirill Boguslavski
(Vienna University of Technology (AT))
Eero Aleksi Kurkela
(University of Stavanger (NO))
Tuomas Lappi
Jarkko Peuron
(University of Jyväskylä)
