How does the quark-gluon plasma know the collision energy?

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.01.005zbMATH Open1380.81447arXiv1703.10768OpenAlexW2604761930MaRDI QIDQ1701147FDOQ1701147

Authors: Brett McInnes 

Publication date: 22 February 2018

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Heavy ion collisions at the LHC facility generate a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) which, for central collisions, has a higher energy density and temperature than the plasma generated in central collisions at the RHIC. But sufficiently peripheral LHC collisions give rise to plasmas which have the emph{same} energy density and temperature as the "central" RHIC plasmas. One might assume that the two versions of the QGP would have very similar properties (for example, with regard to jet quenching), but recent investigations have suggested that emph{they do not}: the plasma "knows" that the overall collision energy is different in the two cases. We argue, using a gauge-gravity analysis, that the strong magnetic fields arising in one case (peripheral collisions), but not the other, may be relevant here. If the residual magnetic field in peripheral LHC plasmas is of the order of at least $eB,approx,5,m_{pi}^2$, then the model predicts modifications of the relevant quenching parameter which approach those recently reported.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10768

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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