Novel mechanism of high-p_T production from an opaque quark-gluon plasma

2005/03/17 by Dénes Molnár, Denes Molnar, Molnar, Denes · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0503051

3 pages, 3 EPS figs

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Abstract

We find that in an opaque quark-gluon plasma, significant particle production at high transverse momenta can occur via acceleration of (initially) lower-momentum partons. This new mechanism, which is the opposite of parton energy loss (jet quenching), has important implications for observables, such as elliptic flow, in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies and above.

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