Jets and flow within a pQCD-based partonic transport model

✍ Scribed by Oliver Fochler; Zhe Xu; Carsten Greiner

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 244 KB
• Volume: 855
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.02.095

✦ Synopsis

We present fully dynamic simulations of heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies within the perturbative QCD-based partonic transport model BAMPS, focusing on the simultaneous investigation of jet-quenching and elliptic flow. The model consistently features elastic and inelastic 2 ↔ 3 processes, the latter being based on the Gunion-Bertsch matrix element. We discuss first attempts to extend the model to include light quark degrees of freedom and study the energy loss of high energy gluons and quarks in a static partonic medium. The difference between gluons and quarks in inelastic processes is found to be weaker than expected from color factors, due to a self-quenching effect associated with a cut-off modeling the LPM effect.