{
  "id": "1106.2401",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-06-13T08:49:33.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-06-13T08:49:33.000Z",
  "title": "Monte Carlo Simulation for Elastic Energy Loss of High-Energy Partons in Quark-Gluon Plasma",
  "authors": [
    "Jussi Auvinen",
    "Kari J. Eskola",
    "Hannu Holopainen",
    "Thorsten Renk"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at 6th International Workshop on High-pT physics at LHC, 4-7 April 2011, Utrecht, Netherlands",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We examine the significance of $2 \\rightarrow 2$ partonic collisions as the suppression mechanism of high-energy partons in the strongly interacting medium formed in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. For this purpose, we have developed a Monte Carlo simulation describing the interactions of perturbatively produced, non-eikonally propagating high-energy partons with the quarks and gluons from the expanding QCD medium. The partonic collision rates are computed in leading-order perturbative QCD (pQCD), while three different hydrodynamical scenarios are used to model the medium. We compare our results with the suppression observed in $\\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Au+Au collisions at the BNL-RHIC. We find the incoherent nature of elastic energy loss incompatible with the measured data and the effect of the initial state fluctuations small.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-06-13T08:49:33.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "monte carlo simulation",
      "elastic energy loss",
      "high-energy partons",
      "quark-gluon plasma",
      "initial state fluctuations small"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 913444,
      "adsabs": "2011arXiv1106.2401A"
    }
  }
}