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arxiv: 1404.0384 · v3 · pith:KH6ZA6DFnew · submitted 2014-04-01 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

The tricky azimuthal dependence of jet quenching at RHIC and LHC via CUJET2.0

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keywords cujet2couplingdatahighrhicalphaaverageazimuthal
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High transverse momentum neutral pion and charged hadron suppression pattern with respect to reaction plane at RHIC and LHC energies in central and semi-peripheral AA collisions are studied in a perturbative QCD based model, CUJET2.0. CUJET2.0 has dynamical DGLV radiation kernel and Thoma-Gyulassy elastic energy loss, with both being generalized to including multi-scale running strong coupling as well as energy loss probability fluctuations, and the full jet path integration is performed in a low $p_T$ flow data constrained medium which has 2+1D viscous hydrodynamical expanding profile. We find that in CUJET2.0, with only one control parameter, $\alpha_{max}$, the maximum coupling strength, fixed to be 0.26, the computed nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ in central and semi-peripheral AA collisions are consistent with RHIC and LHC data at average $\chi^2/d.o.f.<1.5$ level. Simultaneous agreements with high $p_T$ azimuthal anisotropy $v_2$ data are acquired given average $\alpha_{max}$ over in-plane and out-of-plane paths varying as little as 10\%, suggesting a non-trivial dependence of the high $p_T$ single particle $v_2$ on the azimuthally varied strong coupling.

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