High p_T Azimuthal Asymmetry in Non-central A+A at RHIC

2000/12/31 by Miklos Gyulassy, Ivan Vitev, Xin-Nian Wang · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.86.2537

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.86:2537-2540,2001 · 4 pages, Revtex, bbox.sty, 4 eps figures, references added, minor corrections, Phys.Rev.Lett version

arxiv created 2001/03/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The high p_{\rm T}>3 GeV azimuthal asymmetry, v₂(p_{\rm T}), in non-central nuclear collisions at RHIC is shown to be a sensitive measure of the initial parton density distribution of the produced quark-gluon plasma. A generalization of the Gyulassy-Levai-Vitev (GLV) non-abelian energy loss formalism including Bjorken 1+1D expansion as well as important kinematic constraints is used.

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