Consistency of Perfect Fluidity and Jet Quenching in Semi-Quark-Gluon Monopole Plasmas

Xu, J. C. and Liao, J. F. and Gyulassy, Miklós Pál (2015) Consistency of Perfect Fluidity and Jet Quenching in Semi-Quark-Gluon Monopole Plasmas. CHINESE PHYSICS LETTERS, 32 (9). ISSN 0256-307X

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Abstract

We utilize a new framework, CUJET3.0, to deduce the energy and temperature dependence of jet transport parameter, ˆq(E > 10 GeV, T ), from a combined analysis of available data on nuclear modification factor and azimuthal asymmetries from RHIC/BNL and LHC/CERN on high energy nuclear collisions. Extending a previous perturbative-QCD based jet energy loss model (known as CUJET2.0) with (2+1)D viscous hydrodynamic bulk evolution, this new framework includes three novel features of nonperturbative physics origin: (1) the Polyakov loop suppression of color- electric scattering (aka “semi-QGP” of Pisarski et al) and (2) the enhancement of jet scattering due to emergent magnetic monopoles near Tc (aka “magnetic scenario” of Liao and Shuryak) and (3) thermodynamic properties constrained by lattice QCD data. CUJET3.0 reduces to v2.0 at high temperatures T > 400 MeV, but greatly enhances ˆq near the QCD deconfinement transition temperature range. This enhancement accounts well for the observed elliptic harmonics of jets with pT > 10 GeV. Extrapolating our data-constrained ˆq down to thermal energy scales, E ∼ 2 GeV, we find for the first time a remarkable consistency between high energy jet quenching and bulk perfect fluidity with η/s ∼ T 3/ˆq ∼ 0.1 near Tc.

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