12–18 Aug 2012
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Enhanced Jet Quenching in Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma

16 Aug 2012, 16:00
2h
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Speaker

Prof. Ricardo Rodriguez (Ave Maria University)

Description

We investigate the possibility of enhanced jet quenching in the vicinity of the critical temperature similar to the scenario proposed by Liao and Shuryak [PRL 102, 202302(2009)]. We discuss the consequences of the fact that the "shells" of such enhanced, critical quenching grow thinner as a function of the center-of-mass energy sqrt(s) of the collision. A systematic scan of jet quenching as a function of sqrt(s) can put constraints on such critical enhancement scenarios. Lastly we check existing constraints by comparing results from a numerical calculation using critical enhancement against high transverse momentum data from RHIC and LHC.

Primary author

Prof. Ricardo Rodriguez (Ave Maria University)

Co-authors

Ms Andrea Delgado (Texas A&M University) Prof. Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University)

Presentation materials