Dijet Acoplanarity in CUJET3 as a Probe of the Nonperturbative Color Structure of QCD Perfect Fluids

Abstract

Using the CUJET3=DGLV+VISHNU jet-medium interaction framework, we show that dijet azimuthal acoplanarity in high energy $A+A$ collisions is sensitive to possible non-perturbative enhancement of the jet transport coefficient, $\hat{q}(T,E)$, in the QCD crossover temperature $T\sim 150-300$ MeV range. With jet-medium couplings constrained by global RHIC\& LHC $\ddot{I}{‡}^2$ fits to nuclear modification data on $R_{AA}$, we compare predictions of the medium induced dijet transverse momentum squared, $Q_s^2\sim ⟨\hat{q}L⟩\sim \hat{I}”\ddot{I}{•}^2{E}^2$, in two models of the temperature, $T$, and jet energy $E$ dependence of the jet medium transport coefficient, $\hat{q}(T,E)$. In one model, wQGP, only perturbative quark and gluon dof are assumed. In the second model, sQGMP, nonperturbative three component semi-Quark-Gluon and Magnetic Monopole dof are asssumed. We show that the dijet path averaged medium induced azimuthal acoplanarity, $\hat{I}”\ddot{I}{•}^2$, in sQGMP is robustly a factor of $\sim 2$ larger than in perturbative wQGP while the radiative energy loss in both models is nearly identical as required to fit the same single jet nuclear modification $R_{AA}$ data. Future A+A dijet acoplanarity measurements correlated with $R_{AA}$ and azimuthal asymmetry $v_n$ measurements therefore appears to be a promising strategy to search for possible signatures of critical opalescence like phenomena in the QCD confinement temperature range.

4 pages, 5 figures, Published in the Proceedings of XXVIIIth International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2019)