Mach cones in Heavy Ion Collisions

TL;DR

This paper introduces MACE, a model for simulating Mach cone propagation in heavy ion collision environments, validated on analytical and realistic velocity fields from LHC and RHIC data.

Contribution

It presents a new model, MACE, for simulating Mach cones in heavy ion collisions and demonstrates its application to realistic velocity fields from hydrodynamical models.

Findings

MACE accurately models Mach cone propagation in static and dynamic media.

The model successfully applies to LHC and RHIC initial conditions.

Validation shows consistency with analytical test cases.

Abstract

MACE, a model for the propagation of mach cones in the velocity field of heavy ion collisions (as created by hydrodynamical models) is explained. It is tested on an analytical test case (static medium) and applied to velocity fields created by the Particle-in-Cell model from LHC and RHIC initial conditions.