{
  "id": "1101.0290",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-12-31T19:18:43.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-06-29T17:29:19.000Z",
  "title": "A study of the correlations between jet quenching observables at RHIC",
  "authors": [
    "Jiangyong Jia",
    "W. A. Horowitz",
    "Jinfeng Liao"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 6 figures",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevC.84.034904",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "hep-ph",
    "nucl-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "Focusing on four types of correlation plots, $R_{\\rm AA}$ vs. $v_2$, $R_{\\rm AA}$ vs. $I_{\\rm AA}$, $I_{\\rm AA}$ vs. $v_2^{I_{\\rm AA}}$ and $v_2$ vs.\\ $v_2^{I_{\\rm AA}}$, we demonstrate how the centrality dependence of \\emph{correlations} between multiple jet quenching observables provide valuable insight into the energy loss mechanism in a quark-gluon plasma. In particular we find that a qualitative energy loss model gives a good description of $R_{\\rm AA}$ vs.\\ $v_2$ only when we take $\\Delta E\\sim l^3$ and a medium geometry generated by a model of the Color Glass Condensate. This same $\\Delta E\\sim l^3$ model also qualitatively describes the trigger $p_T$ dependence of $R_{\\rm AA}$ vs.\\ $I_{\\rm AA}$ data and makes novel predictions for the centrality dependence for this $R_{\\rm AA}$ vs.\\ $I_{\\rm AA}$ correlation. Current data suggests, albeit with extremely large uncertainty, that $v_2^{I_{\\rm AA}}\\gg v_2$, a correlation that is difficult to reproduce in current energy loss models.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-06-29T17:29:19.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "25.75.-q"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "correlation",
      "current energy loss models",
      "centrality dependence",
      "multiple jet quenching observables",
      "energy loss mechanism"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review C",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 84,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": "034904"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 883272,
      "adsabs": "2011PhRvC..84c4904J"
    }
  }
}