Hydrodynamic evolution and jet energy loss in Cu+Cu collisions

Abstract

We present results from a hybrid description of Cu+Cu collisions using 3+1 dimensional hydrodynamics (MUSIC) for the bulk evolution and a Monte-Carlo simulation (MARTINI) for the evolution of high momentum partons in the hydrodynamical background. We explore the limits of this description by going to small system sizes and determine the dependence on different fractions of wounded nucleon and binary collisions scaling of the initial energy density. We find that Cu+Cu collisions are well described by the hybrid description at least up to 20% central collisions.