Initial-State Bremsstrahlung versus Final-State Hydrodynamic Sources of Azimuthal Harmonics at RHIC and LHC

ORAL

Abstract

Recent azimuthal correlation data from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) and d+Au runs at RHIC/BNL and, the surprising similarity of multiparticle cummulant azimuthal harmonics in p+Pb and Pb+Pb at LHC have challenged the uniqueness of local equilibrium ``perfect fluid'' interpretations of those data. We report results derived in arXiv:1405.7825 [hep-ph] on azimuthal harmonics arising from initial-state non-abelian ``wave interference'' effects predicted by perturbative QCD sourced by Color Scintillation Arrays (CSA) of color antennas associated with multiple projectile and target soft beam jets. We find a remarkable similarity between azimuthal harmonics sourced by initial state CSA and those predicted with final state perfect fluid models of high energy p+A reactions.

Authors

  • Miklos Gyulassy

    Columbia University, Columbia Univ

  • Peter Levai

    MTA WIGNER Research Centre for Physics Budapest

  • Ivan Vitev

    Los Alamos National Lab

  • Tamas Biro

    MTA WIGNER Research Centre for Physics Budapest