The Momentum Kick Model Description of the Near-Side Ridge and Jet Quenching

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dc.creatorWong, Cheuk-Yin
dc.date2008-06-12
dc.date2008-12-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:21:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:21:34Z
dc.descriptionIn the momentum kick model, a near-side jet emerges near the surface, kicks medium partons, loses energy, and fragments into the trigger particle and fragmentation products. The kicked medium partons subsequently materialize as the observed ridge particles, which carry direct information on the magnitude of the momentum kick and the initial parton momentum distribution at the moment of jet-(medium parton) collisions. The initial parton momentum distribution extracted from the STAR ridge data for central AuAu collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV has a thermal-like transverse momentum distribution and a rapidity plateau structure with a relatively flat distribution at mid-rapidity and sharp kinematic boundaries at large rapidities. Such a rapidity plateau structure may arise from particle production in flux tubes, as color charges and anti-color charges separate at high energies. The centrality dependence of the ridge yield and the degree of jet quenching can be consistently described by the momentum kick model.
dc.description28 pages, 10 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2154
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2154
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.C78:064905,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevC.78.064905
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/213375
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleThe Momentum Kick Model Description of the Near-Side Ridge and Jet Quenching
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