Parton shower evolution in a 3-d hydrodynamical medium

Abstract

We present a Monte Carlo simulation of the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) shower developing after a hard process embedded in a heavy-ion collision. The main assumption is that the cascade of branching partons traverses a medium which (consistent with standard radiative energy loss pictures) is characterized by a local transport coefficient qhat which measures the virtuality per unit length transferred to a parton which propagates in this medium. This increase in parton virtuality alters the development of the shower and in essence leads to extra induced radiation and hence a softening of the momentum distribution in the shower. After hadronization, this leads to the concept of a medium-modified fragmentation function. On the level of observables, this is manifest as the suppression of high transverse momentum (PT) hadron spectra. We simulate the soft medium created in heavy-ion collisions by a 3-d hydrodynamical evolution and average the medium-modified fragmentation function over this evolution in order to compare with data on single inclusive hadron suppression and extract the qhat which characterizes the medium. Finally, we discuss possible uncertainties of the model formulation and argue that the data in a soft momentum show evidence of qualitatively different physics which presumably cannot be described by a medium-modified parton shower.

11 pages, 8 figures

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