Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1835839 | Nuclear Physics A | 2014 | 5 Pages |
In this article we investigate how the energy and momentum deposited by partonic dijets in the quark–gluon plasma may perturb the geometry-induced hydrodynamic expansion of the bulk nuclear matter created in heavy ion collisions at the RHIC. The coupling between the jets and the medium is done through a source term in the energy–momentum conservation equations for ideal hydrodynamics. We concentrate our attention at mid-rapidity and solve the equations event-by-event imposing boost-invariance. For pT≳1 GeVpT≳1 GeV the anisotropic flow is found to be considerably enhanced, if the dijets deposit on average more than 12 GeV in the medium (or equivalently 6 GeV for each jet of the pair), which corresponds, in our model, to an average suppression greater than 65%65% of the initial jet transverse energy.