Manifestation of Jet Quenching in the Total Transverse Energy Distributions in the Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

Abstract

In the framework of the HIJING model global characteristics of nucleus- nucleus collisions are studied for a Large Hadron Collider energy scale. An interesting model prediction is the presence of a central bump over a pseudorapidity plateau of a total transverse energy distribution. The bump is induced by a jet quenching effect in a dense nuclear matter. It is shown that on a wide acceptance calorimeter with a pseudorapidity coverage -5 < η< 5 allow to obtain experimental confirmation of such an effect.

9 pages, 5 figures