Consistency of Perfect Fluidity and Jet Quenching in semi-Quark-Gluon Monopole Plasmas

TL;DR

This paper introduces CUJET3.0, a new framework that combines perturbative and nonperturbative physics to analyze jet quenching and fluidity in quark-gluon plasma, showing consistency between high-energy jet suppression and near-perfect fluid behavior.

Contribution

CUJET3.0 extends previous models by incorporating Polyakov loop suppression, magnetic monopole effects, and lattice QCD constraints, providing a unified description of jet quenching and fluidity near the QCD transition.

Findings

Enhanced jet transport parameter near T_c explains elliptic flow data.

Consistent values of η/s and three near T_c support perfect fluidity.

Model aligns high-energy jet suppression with bulk thermodynamic properties.

Abstract

We utilize a new framework, CUJET3.0, to deduce the energy and temperature dependence of jet transport parameter, $\hat{q}(E>10\; {\rm GeV},T)$, from a combined analysis of available data on nuclear modification factor and azimuthal asymmetries from RHIC/BNL and LHC/CERN on high energy nuclear collisions. Extending a previous perturbative-QCD based jet energy loss model (known as CUJET2.0) with (2+1)D viscous hydrodynamic bulk evolution, this new framework includes three novel features of nonperturbative physics origin: (1) the Polyakov loop suppression of color-electric scattering (aka "semi-QGP" of Pisarski et al) and (2) the enhancement of jet scattering due to emergent magnetic monopoles near $T_c$ (aka "magnetic scenario" of Liao and Shuryak) and (3) thermodynamic properties constrained by lattice QCD data. CUJET3.0 reduces to v2.0 at high temperatures $T > 400$ MeV, but greatly enhances $\hat{q}$ near the QCD deconfinement transition temperature range. This enhancement accounts well for the observed elliptic harmonics of jets with $p_T>10$ GeV. Extrapolating our data-constrained $\hat{q}$ down to thermal energy scales, $E \sim 2$ GeV, we find for the first time a remarkable consistency between high energy jet quenching and bulk perfect fluidity with $\eta/s\sim T^3/\hat{q} \sim 0.1$ near $T_c$.