Hard dihadron correlations in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC

Abstract

High transverse momentum (P_T) processes are considered to be an important tool to probe and understand the medium produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions via the interaction of hard, perturbatively produced partons with the medium. In this context, triggered hard dihadron correlations constitute a class of observables set between hard single inclusive hadrons (dominated by the leading jet fragments) and fully reconstructed jets - while they probe some features of the perturbative QCD evolution of a parton shower in the medium, they do not suffer from the problem of finding a suitable separation between soft perturbative (jet-like) and soft non-perturbative (medium-like) physics as the identification of full jets does. On the other hand, the trigger requirement introduces non-trivial complications to the process, which makes the medium-modification of the correlation pattern difficult and non-intuitive to understand. In this work, we review the basic physics underlying triggered dihadron correlations and make a systematic comparison of several combinations of medium evolution and parton-medium interaction models with the available data from 200 AGeV Au-Au collisions at RHIC. We also discuss the expected results for 2.76 ATeV Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC.

13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRC

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