The effect of minijet on hadron spectra and azimuthal anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

Here I review the transverse momentum distributions of identified hadrons produced in Au-Au collisions at RHIC and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC in the framework of recombination model. Minijets play an important role in generating shower partons in the intermediate $p_T$ region. At LHC, the resultant soft shower partons are even found to dominate over the thermal partons in the non-strange sector. The azimuthal anisotropy of the produced hadrons could also be explained as the consequence of the effects of minijets. Harmonic analysis of the $\phi$ dependence leads to $v_n(p_T, b)$ that can be well produced without reference to flow.