Resolving the $R_{AA}$ to $v_n$ puzzle

Abstract

After 10 years of struggling to simultaneously describe the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ and flow harmonics $v_n$'s at high $p_T$, now theoretical models are able to reproduce experimental data well. The necessary theoretical developments such as event-by-event fluctuations, choice of initial conditions, and the scalar product method to calculate flow harmonics at high $p_T$ are reviewed. Additionally, a discussion of new proposed experimental observables known as Soft Hard Event Engineering (SHEE) that are sensitive to the path length dependence of the energy loss is included.

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, proceedings for the 8th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2016)