Geometric Bias and Centrality Dependence of Jet Quenching in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

Jet quenching provides a valuable measure of the opacity of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. However, substantial suppression of charged hadron spectra is observed in highly peripheral collisions, despite the expectation of negligible jet-QGP interactions in this regime. To address this, we develop a HIJING-based initial condition model that accounts for the impact parameter dependence of both inelastic nucleon-nucleon (NN) collisions and the number of hard partonic scatterings per inelastic NN collision. This dependence introduces a geometric bias effect on the jet yield within a given centrality class of nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions, suppressing the high-transverse-momentum hadron spectrum in peripheral collisions due to dilute nucleon overlap at large AA impact parameters. By combining this improved initial condition model with a linear Boltzmann transport model for jet-QGP interactions, we obtain a satisfactory description of the centrality dependence of charged hadron suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV.

19 pages, 11 figures

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