Probing the Color Structure of the Perfect QCD Fluids via Soft-Hard-Event-by-Event Azimuthal Correlations

TL;DR

This paper introduces CIBJET, a dynamical framework combining hydrodynamics and jet quenching to analyze soft-hard azimuthal correlations, revealing insights into the color structure of QCD fluids near the confinement transition.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel event-by-event framework, CIBJET, integrating hydrodynamics and jet quenching to probe the color composition of QCD fluids.

Findings

Correlation data favor a temperature-dependent color composition.

Evidence supports the presence of chromo-electric and chromo-magnetic degrees of freedom.

Results align with non-perturbative lattice QCD in the confinement temperature range.

Abstract

We develop a comprehensive dynamical framework, CIBJET, to calculate on an event-by-event basis the dependence of correlations between soft ($p_T<2$ Gev) and hard ($p_T> 10$ Gev) azimuthal flow angle harmonics on the color composition of near-perfect QCD fluids produced in high energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. CIBJET combines consistently predictions of event-by-event VISHNU2+1 viscous hydrodynamic fluid fields with CUJET3.1 predictions of event-by-event jet quenching. We find that recent correlation data favor a temperature dependent color composition including bleached chromo-electric $q(T)+g(T)$ components and an emergent chromo-magnetic degrees of freedom $m(T)$ consistent with non-perturbative lattice QCD information in the confinement/deconfinement temperature range.