Tuesday·March 19, 2019

Shape of the quark gluon plasma droplet reflected in the high-p_T data

Magdalena Djordjevic🇷🇸 · Stefan Stojku🇷🇸 · Marko Djordjevic🇷🇸 · Pasi Huovinen🇷🇸

We show, through analytic arguments, numerical calculations, and comparison with experimental data, that the ratio of the high-p_T observables v_2/(1-R_AA) reaches a well-defined saturation value at high p_T, and that this ratio depends only on the spatial anisotropy of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. With expected future reduction of experimental errors, the anisotropy extracted from experimental data will further constrain the calculations of initial particle production in heavy-ion collisions and thus test our understanding of QGP physics.