Jet quenching from heavy to light ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper analyzes jet quenching in heavy and light ion collisions, comparing scenarios with and without quark-gluon plasma formation, and makes predictions for oxygen-oxygen collisions at high energies.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of jet quenching scenarios and offers predictions for O+O collisions based on fits to heavy ion data.

Findings

Results are similar for heavy ion collisions in both scenarios.

Predictions for O+O collisions at 0.2 and 7 TeV are provided.

Differences between scenarios become significant for light nuclei.

Abstract

We perform an analysis of jet quenching in heavy and light ion collisions for scenarios without and with quark-gluon plasma formation in $pp$ collisions. We find that the results for these scenarios are very similar, and both of them are in reasonable agreement with data for heavy ion collisions. However, their results become differ significantly for light nuclei. Using the parameters fitted to heavy ion data on the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$, we make predictions for 0.2 and 7 TeV O+O collisions that can be verified by future experiments at RHIC and the LHC.