Precision Dijet Acoplanarity Tomography of the Chromo Structure of Perfect QCD Fluids
Abstract
Dijet acoplanarity is dominated by vacuum (Sudakov) pQCD radiation even in Pb+Pb collisions, but future higher precision measurements of the tails of the acoplanarity distributions can help to resolve separately the medium opacity, =L/λ, and the color screening scale μ2 from the path averaged BDMS saturation scale Qs2[,μ]=∫ dL\; q(E,T(L)) μ2 L/λ , that is already well constrained by nuclear modification factor data on RAA(pT). We compare Gaussian (BDMS) and non-Gaussian (GLV) models of medium broadening of vacuum (Sudakov) induced acoplanarity distributions in A+A. With few percent accuracy on the ratio of A+A to p+p distributions, experiments can easily identify non-Gaussian Landau and Rutherford tails due to multiple collisions. However, we find that sub-percent precision will be required to constrain and μ separately from Qs.
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