Conical Emission in Heavy Ion Collisions
Jason Glyndwr Ulery
TL;DR
This paper reviews conical emission phenomena observed in heavy ion collisions, exploring mechanisms like Mach cones and Cherenkov radiation, and discusses experimental evidence from RHIC and SPS to distinguish these effects.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive discussion of conical emission mechanisms and analyzes experimental data to identify signatures of Mach cones and Cherenkov gluon radiation.
Findings
Evidence for conical emission observed at RHIC and SPS
Three-particle correlations help distinguish emission mechanisms
Mach-cone shock waves and Cherenkov radiation are key explanations
Abstract
A broadened or double humped away-side structure was observed in 2-particle azimuthal jet-like correlations at RHIC and SPS. This modification can be explained by conical emission, from either Mach-cone shock waves or Cherenkov gluon radiation, and by other physics mechanisms, such as large angle gluon radiation, jets deflected by radial flow and path-length dependent energy loss. Three-particle jet-like correlations are studied for their power to distinguish conical emission from other mechanisms. This article discusses Mach-cone shock waves, Cherenkov gluon radiation and the experimental evidence for conical emission from RHIC and SPS.
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