A distinguishing observable of strongly- and weakly coupled plasmas: NLO momentum correlations of pairs in heavy ion collisions at

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 889; no. 1
• Main Authors: Hambrock, R, Horowitz, WA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2017
• Subjects: Correlation; Coupling; Energy dissipation; Heavy ions; Ionic collisions; Physics; Plasmas (physics); Strongly coupled plasmas; Transverse momentum

We use an energy loss model sensitive to thermal fluctuations [1] to compute the azimuthal and momentum correlations of \(b\bar{b}\) pairs traversing a strongly coupled plasma from Pb+Pb collisions at LHC \((\sqrt{s}=2.76{\rm{TeV}})\)). The azimuthal correlations are compared with those from perturb...