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The "perfect" fluid quenches jets almost perfectly

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Müller, B
Published in: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
April 1, 2009
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The QCD matter produced in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been found to have a very low shear viscosity, which is close to the lower bound allowed by unitarity. The matter has also been found to strongly suppress the emission of energetic hadrons. This phenomenon, called "jet quenching" is interpreted to be the result of a large energy loss by the precursor parton on its path through the dense matter, primarily due to gluon radiation. I discuss how the two phenomena are related. The RHIC data suggest, in some scenarios of jet quenching, that the quark-gluon plasma created in nuclear collisions is characterized by strong coupling, but still admits a quasi-particle description. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Berndt Mueller
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Published In

Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

DOI

10.1016/j.ppnp.2008.12.028

ISSN

0146-6410

Publication Date

April 1, 2009

Volume

62

Issue

2

Start / End Page

551 / 555

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
 

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Müller, B. (2009). The "perfect" fluid quenches jets almost perfectly. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 62(2), 551–555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppnp.2008.12.028
Müller, B. “The "perfect" fluid quenches jets almost perfectly.” Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 62, no. 2 (April 1, 2009): 551–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppnp.2008.12.028.
Müller B. The "perfect" fluid quenches jets almost perfectly. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 2009 Apr 1;62(2):551–5.
Müller, B. “The "perfect" fluid quenches jets almost perfectly.” Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, vol. 62, no. 2, Apr. 2009, pp. 551–55. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2008.12.028.
Müller B. The "perfect" fluid quenches jets almost perfectly. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 2009 Apr 1;62(2):551–555.
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Published In

Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

DOI

10.1016/j.ppnp.2008.12.028

ISSN

0146-6410

Publication Date

April 1, 2009

Volume

62

Issue

2

Start / End Page

551 / 555

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences