Gradient tomography of jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

We illustrate with both a Boltzmann diffusion equation and full simulations of jet propagation in heavy-ion collisions within the Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model that the spatial gradient of the jet transport coefficient perpendicular to the propagation direction can lead to a drift and asymmetry in the transverse momentum distribution. Such an asymmetry depends on both the spatial position along the transverse gradience and the propagating length. It can be used to localize the initial jet production positions for more detailed studies of jet quenching and properties of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions.

Comments: 4 pages in Latex format for POS with 4 PDF figures, prepared for publication in the proceedings of Hard Probes 2020 conference, 1-6 June 2020, Austin, Texas