HighAzimuthal Asymmetry in Noncentralat RHIC
- 19 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (12) , 2537-2540
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.2537
Abstract
The high azimuthal asymmetry, , in noncentral nuclear collisions at RHIC is shown to be a sensitive measure of the initial parton density distribution of the produced quark-gluon plasma. A generalization of the Gyulassy-Lévai-Vitev non-Abelian energy loss formalism including Bjorken expansion as well as important kinematic constraints is used.
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