Conical Correlations, Bragg Peaks, and Transverse Flow Deflections in Jet Tomography

TL;DR

This paper uses (3+1)-D ideal hydrodynamics to analyze jet energy loss, conical correlations, Bragg peaks, and transverse flow deflections, comparing different theoretical models and explaining complex jet-medium interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive hydrodynamic framework to study jet quenching phenomena, including conical correlations and flow deflections, with comparisons to pQCD and AdS/CFT models.

Findings

Identification of Bragg peaks in fully stopped jets

Double-peaked away-side structures from jet trajectories

Differences in jet correlations across models

Abstract

We use (3+1)-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics to describe a variety of different jet energy loss scenarios for a jet propagating through an opaque medium. The conical correlations obtained for fully stopped jets, revealing a Bragg peak, are discussed as well as results from pQCD and AdS/CFT. Moreover, we investigate transverse flow deflection. It is demonstrated that a double-peaked away-side structure can be formed due to the different contributions of several possible jet trajectories through an expanding medium.